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| Carl's Corner http://www.carlscorner.us.com/ |
This website has been created to provide resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents and students in the area of language arts. Please feel free to download and print anything that catches your eye, but please make sure to leave site's name on the poetry and worksheets! |
| Guided Reading and Literacy Centers http://www.fisd.us/Primary/teachers/ldowns/gr&lc.htm |
This page is a list of links to assist teachers in the area of Guided Reading. I've also included links to help develop literacy centers to use with Guided Reading. |
Spelling City
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A fabulous website that allows students to learn and practice spelling words in a fun, interactive way. Students, teachers, and parents will love it! |
| Electronic Books and
Online Reading http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm#1 |
Links for online books for primary grades through adulthood. |
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Nicky's Nursery Rhymes
http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/ |
A collection of nursery rhymes and songs to share and enjoy, with pictures to print off and color in. Also has games, parent's page, numbers, letters, shapes and matching activities. Has songs and rhymes to go with holidays, birthdays, and seasons as well as various early childhood themes. |
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Teach A Child To Read
http://www.succeedtoread.com/ |
(http://www.succeedtoread.com/resources.html)
Literacy web sites for parents and teachers. (http://www.succeedtoread.com/resources2.html)-Education and family information websites Websites that deal with helping children become better readers, information on reading disabilities, brain research, Between the Lions website, PALS website (phonological awareness activities), home schooling, worksheets, pre-school education programs. |
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Word Central |
Wonderful site for acquiring new, impressive words to add to your vocabulary, includes student online dictionary, rhyming dictionary, verse composer, and much more. . Designed by Merriam Webster, Inc. |
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Learn to Read at Starfall
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Developed for K-3, this website provides interactive
books and phonics games to promote alphabetic principal, phonemic
awareness, reading comprehension, and fluency. |
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Book Adventure
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Book Adventure is a free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. |
| Book Adventure: Teacher's Lounge http://www.bookadventure.org/te/index.asp | Teachers Lounge is a FREE service provided by Book Adventure. Here you can get tools and tips to motivate your class, plan lessons, learn to spot reading challenges, and assign, monitor and quiz your students reading activities. The goal is to empower you with fun ideas, informative articles and Internet tools that will help you enhance your students education. |
| E-learning for
Kids http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses.html#langarts |
Interactive online learning: Learning Letters, About Printed Books, Word Recognition, Putting Words Together, Welcome To the Jungle, Pronouns, Similar & Opposite Words, Welcome to the Fair, Prefixes and Suffixes |
| Reading
Workshop http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/ elementary/samoset/resources/rcompindex.htm |
Reading Workshop. Explanation of and activities for phonemic awareness, phonics, word study skills, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and integrated units. Online interactive practice for students. |
| Online
Children's e-books http://kids.nypl.org/reading/Childrensebooks.cfm |
Various sites with free children's e-books. |
| Silly Books.Net http://www.sillybooks.net/ |
Welcome to SillyBooks.net, an animated world of free reading, writing and learning fun for kids. Children can even have their own stories published, free here.. Literacy is contagious. Catch it here. You'll find animated books, cartoons, jokes, children's music, puzzles and games that entertain kids while promoting child literacy. You'll need “Flash” to play our books (free download). |
| Story It http://www.storyit.com/ |
Story-It contains Kid's Classics, Seasonal Themes, Word Games, Poems Online, Story Starters, Aesop's Fables, Nursery Rhymes, Alphabet Resources, Write On Shapes |
| Phonics Interactivities http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm |
Phonics Interactivities has games and activities for PreK-6th grade. Students use knowledge of letters, sounds, and words as they try out the games and activities. Each activity comes with parent and teacher notes to assist in best using the activity. |
| ProTeacher! Reading and
Language http://www.proteacher.com/070000.shtml |
ProTeacher is a directory for websites that have lesson plans for primary through high school in various content areas. Each link will direct you to a site with great lessons for the particular area you are looking at. Explore a few and look at the ideas. The site also contains blogs and discussions on the content area, including Book Boards, Writing and Language Arts, and Reading Corners/Classroom Libraries. |
| Teaching Books.net http://www.teachingbooks.net/home/ |
TeachingBooks' mission is to generate enthusiasm for books
and reading by bringing authors, illustrators and engaging resources about
books for children and teens to every school, library and home.
From one easy-to-use website, TeachingBooks makes instantly available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. Our hope is that by utilizing TeachingBooks' multimedia resources, educators will better understand the spirit and personality behind books and discover exciting ways to share these insights with children and teens. |
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School-Home Links Reading Kit: First Grade
Activities Table http://ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/table1.html |
Listed on this site are 100 School-Home Links activities for
the first grade. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills
appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill there are varying
numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and
write. For the categories that have multiple activities, you can download
the entire section or the individual activities within that section by
selecting from a pull-down menu. |