Online Resources
Databases
Explore thousands of on-demand classes in 22 creative categories, from painting and knitting to baking and quilting. Expert instructors guide you step-by-step, making it easy to learn at your own pace. Perfect for beginners and experienced makers alike. Get inspired and start creating anytime.
Educate Station. The Educate Station team is committed to inspiring joyful learning and supporting kids, teachers, and parents. Their content is created by a team of experienced and passionate educators from across the United States. Their educators bring vast subject-matter expertise, teaching credentials, and many years of experience as classroom teachers and curriculum developers. Through the content they create, they aim to provide ready-to-use, hands-on activities for kids to do at home or at school.
NoveList K-8 PLUS. NoveList has been helping readers find their next favorite book for more than 25 years and continues to develop innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries. By helping libraries help readers, NoveList empowers libraries to engage and inspire their communities.
researchIt CT. Articles from magazines, journals, news wire services; newspapers, including Hartford Courant, New York Times; health and science, including consumer and alternative health; business, including company information, Wall Street Journal; history and genealogy, including HeritageQuest; Informe!, articles in Spanish.
Recommended Parenting Sites
These sites present information on the importance of reading early and often to little ones:
Try this learning to read website with your beginning reader:
- Starfall is a free public service to help teach children to read using phonics.
The following are a sampling of sites with special interest to parents:
- Birth to Three is Connecticut’s website for parents of children who have concerns about how a child sees, talks, hears, moves, eats or plays.
- LD Online is a website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences.
- HealthyChildren.org is a parenting website with information on children’s physical, mental and social health and specific guidance on a multitude of parenting issues. It is backed by 60,000 pediatricians.
Kids Internet Safety
- For information about our Public Computer Use Policy, click here.
- Netsmartz.org explores a variety of internet safety topics for parents.