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Last updated: 3/6/08

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Encyclopaedias

  1. http://schools-wikipedia.org The moderated school version of Wikipedia.
  2. http://www.britannica.com (Encyclopaedia Britannica - free)
  3. http://www.surfnetkids.com/encyclopedia.htm (recommended encyclopaedias from 'Surf the Net with Kids' )
  4. http://www.internetoracle.com/encyclop.htm (A large list of Encyclopaedias and search boxes for them)
  5. http://www.encyclopedia.com/ (Encyclopaedia)
  6. http://encarta.msn.com/ (Encarta On-line)

Dictionaries

  1. http://www.yourdictionary.com/ (Links to a dictionary for anything)
  2. http://www.dictionary.com/ (Dictionary.com)
  3. http://kids.yahoo.com/learn (Links to Yahoo Kids learning zone)
  4. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ (Cambridge Dictionary)
  5. http://www.m-w.com/ (Webster's dictionary & thesaurus)
  6. http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html Visual Thesaurus
  7. http://www.askoxford.com/ Oxford dictionary, word of the day, quotes and more
  8. http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/ Oxford Primary Funzone dictionary and games to help learning to spell and maths easier - aimed at Foundation Stage and KS1

Reference

  1. http://www.vlib.org.uk/ (The Virtual Library)
  2. http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/ (Famous quotations)
  3. http://www.bartleby.com/ (Literature, reference and verse)
  4. http://howstuffworks.com (How things work)
  5. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (National Geographic)
  6. http://ericir.syr.edu/ (Ask Eric)
  7. http://www.infoplease.com/ (Millions of facts)
  8. http://www.uselessknowledge.com/ (Trivia facts)
  9. http://www.ukphonebook.com/ (Find a UK telephone number, address and it adds a map)
  10. http://www.yell.com/ (Yellow pages - finds places and provides a map)

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