City of Georgetown, Texas

For Parents

Parenting

Learning Disabilities:
--Resources for identifying and helping children with learning disabilities

Family Focus:
--Arts and crafts, news about entertainment, and parenting advice

Help with Homework:
--Helping your child with homework, for parents of elementary and junior high school-aged children

Find a Good Book
:
--Suggestions of books for young readers

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children:
--Provides assistance to parents and the community in recovering missing children and raises public awareness about ways to help prevent child exploitation.

Education and Home Schooling

Boggle's World:
--Flash cards with great graphics for elementary through middle school kids; also for TEFL and ESL teachers.
 
Suggestions from the Discover Channel:
--About curriculum resources, homework helpers, and more.

Curriculum Advice:
--Lesson plans, resource guides, and the archive of questions answered by the AskERIC service between 1992-2003.

The Gateway:
--Lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.

Books for Guys:
--A literacy initiative to connect boys with books they will read. Presented by Jon Sciezska, author of the Time Warp trio series, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Math Curse

Library of Congress Resources:
--Teacher’s eye view of the online collections at the Library of Congress

CyberBee:
--Reference and curriculum links for kids, parents, and teachers

Reading is Fundamental:
--Children’s literacy site

The Rosetta Project:
--Possibly the world’s largest collection of antique illustrated children’s books online

Horn Book Magazine:
--Publications about books for children and young adults

Texas Home School Coalition

The Well-Trained Mind:
--A guide to classical education at home



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