Resources for Parents and Kids…..

Where can I find reading and literacy sites on the web for my child? Now that I have found reading and literacy resources on the web, how do I know if they are appropriate for my child and what is the best way to bookmark or access these sites? It’s a great big World Wide Web out there! Come and see some favorite reading and literacy websites, learn how to evaluate them and organize them in a way your child can be safe, successful, and learn while on the World Wide Web.

International Reading Association reccommends
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/

• Providing educators, teachers, and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction

Read Write Think Student Materials
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

• ReadWriteThink’s Student Materials use free browser plug-ins to provide high-quality, interactive resources for the K–12 classroom

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com

• Starfall focuses on simple, fun interactivity and the sounding out of almost every word. All your child has to do is click on the screen, watch and listen! Since children learn to read at different developmental stages, stories and games are meant to foster your child’s exploration and curiosity with the written word. This site provides a great opportunity to interact with your child, ask them to read to you, or play the activities with them.
• The books and activities are listed in sequential order by developmental stages.
• Free downloadable materials to accompany games and activities for all levels

Story Line Online
http://www.storylineonline.net/

• Storyline Online is an online streaming video program featuring Screen Actor’s Guild members reading children’s books aloud. Activities and extension lessons provided

Kindergarten Internet 4 Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm
First Grade Internet 4 Classrooms  - Choose next grade level arrow
|http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm

• Portal of many different links that provide reinforcement activities for grade-specific skill building benchmarks. These links and resources integrate technology skills into the Math and Language Arts curricula. Links are regularly updated.

PBS Kids – Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/

• Stories, Games, Things to Print, Parent/Teacher section

Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com

• Enchanted Learning creates children’s educational web sites and games designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination. Printable books and activities with Username/Password

 

Student Resources

Interactive Reading Websites
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interact-read.htm

Kaboose Reading Games

http://resources.kaboose.com/games/read2.html

Internet for Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm

Educational Apps Review
http://www.iear.org/

i-Apps for Kids
http://www.iphoneandkids.com/

 

Cognitive Concepts - integrates technology with scientific prinicpals and reserach proven instructional methods that build fundamental reading skills. From the company that cr

eated Earobics.

PBS Kids – Timeless, interactive, literacy based, kids love it!

Lil’ Fingers Storybooks - Aninmated storybooks

Choose Your Own Adventure – Which button students choose to click will determine the end of the story. Different each time.

Book Adventure - A free reading motivation program for K-8. 6,000 recommended titles, reading off line, earn points for their literacy success. Sponsered by Sylvan Learning Foundation.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks – Phonics fun for Early Readers from Scholastic

MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries – Online mysteries to read and solve.

Literacy Center Play and Learn – Literacy Center Education Network

play and learn activities – abc’s shapes, words, colors, numbers, writing and keyboarding.

Kidspace Story hour – Internet Public Library

Starfall – Based on research and educational research starfall.com was created so that studnets can easily navigate and engages student’s attention as the interact with computers and learn to read.

Book-Pop – Virtual literature

E-books for Young Readers – Teacher and student developed ebooks and print books for your classroom or home reading program. Each book is leveled.

Sound/Letter Recognition (in alphabetical order)

ABC Match (match picture to beginning letter)
ABCD Watermelon (students have to click on the next letter in the alphabet)
Alphabet Action
Leo loves to spell (Scholastic – basic vocabulary)
Learning the Alphabet (students click the missing letter on the keyboard)
Mommy and Me ABCs (when clicked on, capital letter has “mom” saying it, lower case has “child” saying it)
Name the animal
Picture Match (letter sounds)
Starfall: Alphabet
Starfall: Learn to Read

Working with Words (in alphabetical order)

Chicken Stacker (click on words with specific letter sounds)
Clifford Makes Words (students drag one letter to create words)
Fuzzy Lion ears (adding letters after hearing words)
Pounce (students click on the word that is said)
Rhyme and Roll – PBS (click on Games, then Red’s Rhyme and Roll; rollerblade over rhyming words)
Word Family Sort (drag 25 words under correct heading…not as “kiddie”)

Literacy

Leveled Books Database
(Plug in your book title, author, reading strand, and/or key-word to search for the appropriate reading level for your books.)
Teaching and Learning Strategies for Reading
(Here is a great resource for tips and strategies on instructional reading approaches. Help prepare your students to learn to read effectively, or read for comprehension and response. Ideas for reading journals, guided
reading, and group reading are also included. Find sample guides, assessments, and questions as well.)
Literactive
(This site offers a variety of read aloud stories for students along with activities for the stories. There are nursery rhymes as well as leveled reading books up to Level 5. The audio can be turned on or off, depending on your needs. Teachers do need to create a free account to use the site.)
Phonemic Awareness Games & Activities
(This site includes game and activities and worksheets designed to help students practice elements of phonemic awareness.)
Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction
Rhyming Word Activities
(Activities on rhyming words, syllable segmentation, beginnin sound substitution, sounds isolation, and phonemic awareness.)
Get Ready To Read
(An early literacy program that contains a screener as well as skill-building activities, games and literacy checklists)
Phonics Skills Chart
(A chart outlining the progression of phonics competencies.)
The Nonsense Word Test
(A quick and easy to use assessment that helps teachers determine students’ strengths and weaknesses in phonics.)
Phonics Assessment
(Develop and individualized phonics program for students)
Reading Game Rooms
(Features online games and reproducibles.)
Readers Theater
(Offers downloadable scripts for children of various ages.)
Poetry 4 Kids
(thousands of poems for all grade levels that are searchable. It also features a rhyming dictionary to help children write poems.)

How will I know if a website will benefit my child?
Think….Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Some suggested ways to bookmark or organize these sites?

1. 

http://www.delicious.com/technology_education

2.         

http://weblist.me/friday-tech-breakfast-march-11

3.   Bookmark through your internet browser

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Family Read Night