Reading Resources

• GameGoo
  • GameGoo is home for fun, stick with you games that help students develop early reading skills and language skills.
• D'Nealian Flashcards
  • Letter and number flashcards in the D'Nealian style of writing. You may need to scroll down the page before you see the list of flashcards.
• Book Adventure
  • Book Adventure, sponsored by Sylvan Learning Centers, is a free, Web-based program that encourages children to read books by awarding prizes for reading.
• A Compact For Reading & School-Home Links
  • A Compact for Reading is "a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children."
• Kristine O'Connell George's Children's Poetry Corner
  • Children's writer Kristine George presents useful activities for teachers and librarians to engage children in poetry.
• Weekly Reader
  • This site basis its information on the Weekly Reader magazine and uses the articles as starting points for further classroom discussions. The website has topics for discussion as well as activities, games, advice and problems categorized by grade level (from Pre-K to 10).
• On-Line Lessons - Reading Skills
  • Has a set of reading stories and quizzes to test comprehension.
• Cyber Guides: Grades K-3
  • CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed.
• Cyber Guides: Grades 4-5
  • CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed.

Writing

• Handwriting For Kids
  • This is a super website that allows you to create worksheet to practice print and cursive handwriting. Worksheets can be customized for short words and phrases. It's a very nice handwriting site.
• Amazing Handwriting Creator
  • This is a nice website that allows you to create worksheet to practice print, D'Nelian print and cursive handwriting. Worksheets can be customized for short words and phrases (No Numbers). The worksheets on this site have guiding dots to help learners stay within the lines.
• Early Writing Skills
  • These are worksheets that will help with early writing skills. They include definitions on such topics as alliteration, metaphore and more. You may have to scroll down the page before you see the list.
• On-Line Lessons - Writing Skills
  • This lesson will help improve your writing skills.
• The ABCs of the Writing Process
  • Created and maintained by teachers A. E. Lipkewich and R. S. Mazurenko of Westmount School in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, this site offers support for teachers and students through each step of the writing process.
• KidAuthors
  • KidAuthors is a creative place for kids like you. Here you can share your stories and poems with people around the world.
• Kidnews.com
  • This site features the writing of kids from all over the world. There is a page for posting pen-pal requests, a parent-teacher connection, and a list of links to cool Web hangouts for kids.
• KidPub
  • Kidpub, the largest collection of stories by children on the Internet (and maybe in the real world, too). We've been on the web since 1995, and our database holds just over 43,000 stories written by and for children.
• Poetry Express
  • This is a great resource while looking for ideas to interest people in poetry writing.
• So you have to do a Research Project?
  • This site gives students in grades 4-8 tips and resources for completing research projects.
• Writers Window
  • On this website you can write their own poems, stories, or reviews, or you can join an ongoing story and write what will happen next. There is also an archive of finished stories.
• Writing With Writers
  • Writing With Writers provides an excellent resource for teaching writing. Students work with authors, editors and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in developing their skills.

Vocabulary / Phonics

• Illustrated Vocabulary
  • Practice learning words by looking at pictures.
• Matching Words
  • Have fun and improve your English by playing our matching games online. You will need Shockwave to play the Word Builder Game.
• Vocabulary Pinball
  • Have fun and improve your vocabulary. You will need Flash to play the Pinball Game.
• On-Line Lessons - Vocabulary
  • This lesson will help improve your vocabulary skills.
• Phonics
  • These activities focus on the common spelling patterns for the nine vowel phonemes from BBC. You need shockwave to play the games.

Spelling

• Hartcourt School Spelling
  • Hartcourt School Publishers has designed these interactive spelling games.
• Spelling Match
  • Choose your grade level and enjoy a quick spelling game.

Online Stories

• Childhood Reading
  • Childhood Reading is a collection of online fairy tales, poetry, and fables.
• Children's Storybooks Online
  • This site is a collection of online storybooks for children of all ages.
• Web-Pop On-Line Books
  • Web-Pop Books, created by author Stephen Cosgrove, offers a variety of online and printable books for elementary students.
• Between the Lions Online Stories
  • This site has a collection of over 70 stories that coinside with the t.v. show between the lions.
• FableVision's TeleFables
  • This site has a a modest collection of stories for your amusement, that live on your computer desktop, which you can download from their site and read anytime you like. No plug-ins or special software required!
• Bedtime-Story
  • This site has a wide variety of whimsical online stories. Bedtime-Story has LOTS of story categories but you have to scroll down through the webpage to see all the stories.
• Online Stories and Resources
  • This site has a small variety of online stories as well as resources for kids.
• Internet Public Library Storyhour
  • This site has a small variety of online stories. The website has both a text and graphics version of the stories to allow for faster download.
• Sunshine Library
  • This site has a variety of colorful and engaging online stories. To view the stories you will need Macromedia Shockwave.
• Starfall.com
  • The Starfall reading program is designed specifically for the emergent reader. It makes use of interactive books and rhyming word family games that teach phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary building and spelling skills.
• Learning Activities
  • This website is really cute. It has a ton of online stories and it even has homework sheet to go with some. The stories do not read the words however the graphics are really neat. The books are under the learning activities section.