School Resources

SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities. The full-text articles database consists of articles reprinted with permission, from approximately 1,200 newspapers, magazines and U.S. government documents. Other features include: The World Almanac for Kids, The Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.

This encyclopedia is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. World Book Online offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other print articles.

This online resource offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 182 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials and exciting programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library media center, and home.

Primary Grades (K-2) and Intermediate Grades (3-5) - Here you will find information about what your child will learn at each grade level, the writing units covered during the year, Common Core writing standards, high frequency/sight words, strategies for choosing a book, reading strategy tools, sample discussion questions, and a variety of websites that review and provide practice with reading and/or writing skills. In grades 3-5, here you will find information about what your child will learn at each grade level, the writing units covered during the year, strategies for choosing a book, sample discussion questions, and a variety of websites that review and provide practice with reading, vocabulary, and/or writing skills.

HCPSS promotes the mental health and wellness of each of our students to develop their unique strengths, abilities, and characteristics towards success and well-being.

Every school in the Howard County Public School System has at least one staff member who serves as a Rainbow Representative.

Every school in the Howard County Public School System has at least one staff member who serves as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Liaison.

HCPSS is committed to creating a welcoming and supportive environment and fostering strong bonds between schools, military service members and community organizations to support military-connected children and enhance the success of all students.