Parents & Teachers

Reading Rockets
Learn how to encourage reading with your child(ren). Provides lists and videos to help caregivers learn about children's authors, find books with a specific theme, or find award winning books.

Starfall
Learn to read with phonics. Provides online interactive phonics activities for kids. Lesson plans for teachers, including a Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum.

United Disability Services Toy and Resource Center
The Toy & Resource Center is a toy lending library that loans developmental toys and resource materials to anyone working with a child from birth to six years of age, whether he or she has special needs or is typically developing.

Homeschool World
Official website of the Practical Homeschooling magazine. Offers a user forum, articles, and a list of homeschool organization by country and state.

¡Colorin Colorado!
Information on helping your child learn to read.

November Learning - Information Literacy
An information literacy resource that provides an information literacy quiz for classroom use. Also provides hands-on website exploration exercises for students to learn how to evaluate website information. Explains how to read a URL (and what it is!), how to find who the website publisher is, and how to see who is linking to a website.

The Literacy Web
The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies.

Kids Health
Website on children's health and development. This website features sections for parents, kids, and teens.

NetSmartz
Games and activities teach kids about internet safety and how to protect themselves. Parents and educators will also find resources and activities to share with children.

Akron Ohio Moms
A website dedicated to moms in the Akron area. Provides information on activities, food, parenting and more. Also allows parents to post articles to a variety of discussion topics.

Akron Public Schools
The Akron Public Schools website.

¡Colorin Colorado!
A free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and families of English as a second language learners.

Family History for Kids and Teens
A downloadable resource developed by the Special Collections department that provides information on helping kids get started in geneology. Covers popular topics such as oral history, family cookbooks, journals, and scrapbooking.

PBS Parents
PBS website offering information on education, activities for kids, child development, child health, and more.

United Disability Services Toy and Resource Center
The Toy & Resource Center is a toy lending library that loans developmental toys and resource materials to anyone working with a child from birth to six years of age, whether he or she has special needs or is typically developing.

¡Colorin Colorado!
A free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and families of English as a second language learners.

Culture Grams
Demographic details and cultural data for regions and cultures in the world. Offers a World edition, Kids edition, and provinces editions as well as information about famous people, recipes, photos and videos.

I’m Your Neighbor
I’m Your Neighbor is a project which promotes the use of children’s literature featuring “new arrival” cultures and groups to engage the entire community in a discussion of commonalities and differences.

One State Many Nations
One State Many Nations is a website devoted to Ohio American Indian History. It is aligned with the Ohio state standards for education and provides teachers a pdf guide with worksheets for classroom use.

United States Board on Books for Young People
USBBY promotes international understanding and good will through books for children and teenagers. Provides an annual Outstanding International Booklist and awards the Hans Christian Anderson biennial book award.

¡Colorin Colorado!
Information on helping your child learn to read.

Guys Read
A web-based literacy program for boys hosted by author Jon Scieszka . Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.

Read Kiddo Read
A website hosted by author James Patterson targeted at parents, teachers and librarians to help them get great books into the hands of children. Book suggestions are broken into age ranges, girl and boy lists, transitional learner lists, illustrated books, and more. A good resource to help select books that will make children want to read.

Reading Rockets
Learn how to encourage reading with your child(ren). Provides lists and videos to help caregivers learn about children's authors, find books with a specific theme, or find award winning books. Also information on helping your child learn to read.

Kulture City
Kulture City is a nonprofit group raising awareness and acceptance of those with sensory needs and other special needs. Their website includes information and special needs resources.

Wrong Planet
Wrong Planet is a web community designed for individuals (and parents of those) with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, PDDs, and other neurological differences. They provide a discussion forum, an article section, and a blogging feature.

Books in Boxes
A wonderful resource brought to you by the Children's Library. Books in Boxes ensures that everyone in your group or classroom has a copy of the book being read. Books in Boxes provides 35 copies of one book for use in your classroom, or reading group. Lists of titles are arranged by author, title, grade level, and subject. Reservations are required, please call the Children's Library to reserve sets.

Resources for Early Childhood Educators
The Early Childhood Resource Lab is housed in the Children’s Library at the Main Library of the Akron-Summit County Public Library system. The lab is open during all library hours unless the space is needed for a library program. The Lab houses equipment for use by early childhood educators (preschool—grade 3) to create learning materials and other items for their classrooms. Equipment includes Ellison die cut machines, laminating machines, a binding machine, and more. A library card and initial orientation on equipment use and registration are required. Call 330-643-9050 to schedule an orientation.

Family History for Kids and Teens
A resource developed by the Special Collections department that provides information on helping kids get started in geneology. Covers popular topics such as oral history, family cookbooks, journals, and scrapbooking.

Tumblebooks Database
Online access to hundreds of children's ebooks-digitized or animated books, audiobooks, puzzles and games, and language learning books. Share new children's books wherever you have internet access, play games, and listen to favorite books. Parents and educators have access to a wide array of educational resources and activities.

Storyline Online
An online streaming video program featuring Screen Actors’ Guild members reading children’s books aloud.

TumbleBooks
The link will take you to the library's database list, then scroll down to Books and Literature. TumbleBooks provides online access to hundreds of children's ebooks-digitized or animated books, audiobooks, puzzles and games, and language learning books. Share new children's books wherever you have internet access, play games, and listen to favorite books. Parents and educators have access to a wide array of educational resources and activities.

¡Colorin Colorado!
A free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and families of English as a second language learners.

Adventures of Cyberbee
Provides teachers assistance with integrating internet resources and technology into their curriculum.

Books in Boxes
A wonderful resource brought to you by the Children's Library. Books in Boxes ensures that everyone in your group or classroom has a copy of the book being read. Books in Boxes provides 35 copies of one book for use in your classroom, or reading group. Lists of titles are arranged by author, title, and subject. Reservations are required, please call the Children's Reading Room to reserve sets.

Discovery Education Teacher Resources
Provides an online puzzlemaker and lesson plan library.

EDSITEment
Provides a database of lesson plans searchable by grade level, subject, keyword, and subcategory.

Family History for Kids and Teens
A downloadable resource developed by the Special Collections department that provides information on helping kids get started in geneology. Covers popular topics such as oral history, family cookbooks, journals, and scrapbooking.

Kathy Schrock's Internet Guide Resources for Educators
Provides downloadable series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels to help students learn how to critically evaluate web information.

KIDiddles
A children's music database that provides printable sheet music, lyrics, and audio. Searchable by keyword, subject, or browsing the index.

One State Many Nations
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian website offers knowledge on the culture, being past, present and future of the American Indian.

PBS Teachers
Provides a database of lesson plans searchable by grade level, subject, and keyword. Lesson plans incorporate online interactive activities, video, and audio.

Pics4Learning
Pics4Learning is an image library for teachers and students. Free and copyright-friendly images for any project in an educational setting.

Preschool Education.com
Provides activities, music, and ideas for the preschool teacher. Offers a music database to find songs and fingerplays by subject.

Resources for Early Childhood Educators
The Early Childhood Resource Lab is housed in the Children’s Library at the Main Library of the Akron-Summit County Public Library system. The lab is open during all library hours unless the space is needed for a library program. The Lab houses equipment for use by early childhood educators (preschool—grade 3) to create learning materials and other items for their classrooms. Equipment includes Ellison die cut machines, laminating machines, a binding machine, and more. A library card and initial orientation on equipment use and registration are required. Call 330-643-9050 to schedule an orientation.

United Disability Services Toy and Resource Center
The Toy & Resource Center is a toy lending library that loans developmental toys and resource materials to anyone working with a child from birth to six years of age, whether he or she has special needs or is typically developing.