The following links are to sites that will help you find appropriate news for your news reports. Please keep in mind that local news might be hard to find on these sites, and you may need to ask your family to help you look elsewhere!

News Sites

• Yahooligans News
  
  
• Time for Kids News
  
  
• Scholastic News
  
  
• Kids Newsroom
  
  
• Science News
  
  
• Washington Post KidsPost
  
  
• BBC Newsround (BBC news for kids)
  
  
• Student News Net
  
  
• New York Times Student Connections (note: this site is geared for students in grades 6-12, but much of what is there is content that is appropriate and at a level you will understand. Get your parent/guardian's permission to use it, though!)

Other Helpful Sites

• Dictionary.com (look up definitions and origins of words!)
  
  
• Idiom search
  
  
• More idioms and Still more idioms (these sites, designed for people learning English, list many idioms and what they mean, but not their origins)
  
  
• Phrase finder (a great reference, but a UK site and some of the idioms are distinctly British!)