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Reading
As you go down this page, each activity becomes more difficult. These links were verified in August 2008.

Read Aloud Sites
  1. Grimm's Fairytales.com - This site has a series of fairytales that are read aloud. Also includes followup games.
  2. Storylineonline.net - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). There are a series of popular books that are read aloud by actors.
  3. Mightybook.com - A series of Free Stories
  4. Sally The Magnificent Cow - A Children's Story by Duncan Wells
  5. Magickeys.com - List of a variety of Read Aloud Sites

Storytelling

  1. Storytelling with Gerald Fierst. Learn the magic of creating and telling stories with your voices and bodies.

Poetry
  1. Giggle Poetry
  2. Favorite Poem Project
  3. Yahooligans Directory of Poetry Sites

Fairy Tales and Fables
  1. Explore Fractured Fairy Tales with Jon Scieszka, author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and Squids Will Be Squids.
  2. Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults - Check out the John Henry. The folksong is an audio recording. Wonderful.
  3. Aesops Fables Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Grades 3-8

  4. Aesops Fables The online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 656+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.

Writing Sites
  1. Essaypunch.com takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay.
    Users develop an idea and write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a conclusion.

    The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing.

    Completed essays may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application.

  2. Paragraphpunch.com takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph.
    Users develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, body, and a conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing.

    The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing.

    Completed paragraphs may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application.

  3. Story Starters Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started. Grades 1-4

General Reading Sites
  1. Page by Page Books has many books available for free.
  2. Book Adventure is a free reading program for students in grades K-8. You can create their own book. Book Adventure is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc.
  3. Storyline Online Sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. This site features actors who read childrens books aloud. This site is great!
  4. International Children's Library This site has a wide variety of diverse books. The site cautions that although the collection is designed for children ages 3-13 that some materials may not be appropriate for sensitive readers.
  5. My Hero You can explore historical and contemporary heroes. You can also create web pages about the people who inspire you! Appropriate for grades 2-12
  6. ProverbsThis site includes free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets. Grades K-8
  7. Kidsread Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section. Grades K-5
  8. Children's Electronic Story Books allow the user to experience a book online.
  9. Meet an Author Meet some of the most popular children's authors. Three are from 'classic' times , the others are still writing today.

Reading Comprehension
Read a passage and answer questions to show comprehension.
3rd Grade
  1. Context Clues
  2. Main Idea Tutorial
  3. Get the Main Idea
  4. Online Interactive Practice Click on the Red ball to start the practice.
  5. Reading Exercises Read the story and then answer questions.
4th Grade
  1. Reading Comprehension - Read the story and answer the questions.
  2. Cows context clue - Build corrals for cows by reading and answering questions.
  3. Drawing Conclusions - Read the story and choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
  4. Brainchild Test - (This quiz opens in a new page. Close the page when finished to return to this list.) 12 questions - Students should use the summary page after finishing this test to practice their areas of weakness.
  5. Drawing Conclusions - Read the passage and choose the correct phrase.
  6. Drawing Conclusions - Read the story and answer the question.
  7. Get The Idea - read text to determine the main idea or essential message and identify relevant supporting details and facts (Author - Lois Davis)
  8. Fourth Grade Reading - Read the introduction and the passage that follows. Then read each question and mark the circle next to the correct answer.
  9. Looking for the Fine Print - students read advertisements to practice reading critically
  10. Practicing reading comprehension skills - Bees | The Happy Monkey
  11. What are They Selling - students critically evaluate six advertisements
5th Grade
  1. Wild Children - Do the Reading Exercise. You can continue down the page and finish all the exercises.
  2. Pulp Friction - Do the Reading Exercise. You can continue down the page and finish all the exercises.

Beginning consonants
  1. Beginning Consonant practice - all letters
  2. Beginning letter match - find words that begin with same letter sound.
  3. Consonant Blends - Find the blend that matches the picture.
  4. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - Select the correct digraph
  5. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
  6. Beginning letter sounds - select the ending family and add a beginning letter to create a word that matches the picture.

Ending consonants

  1. Ending consonant practice - for all letters.
  2. Ending Digraphs - Select the correct digraph ending.

Vowels
  1. Roy the Zebra
  2. Short E
  3. Short I
  4. Short O
  5. Short U
  6. Which Vowel makes a word -
  7. Short Vowel Practice - Select correct spelling of word
  8. Short Vowel Words - Scroll down near the bottom and select the vowel. Use the phonics and sight words to make sentences

    9. WARNING! This site seems to bring a lot of pop ups! If it wasn't such a great site - I wouldn't have it on here. But, we will no longer be using this site in the school.
  9. Online Stories - per vowel sound to practice reading

  10. Make a word using a particular vowel sound - Click on the Game Section in the left column on the vowel you want to practice.

Vowel Blends

  1. Words and Pictures - Activities with vowel blends: oo, ee, ay, igh, and silent e with long vowels. Audio, poems, activities and worksheets

Phonics knowledge
    WARNING! This site seems to bring a lot of pop ups! If it wasn't such a great site - I wouldn't have it on here. But, we will no longer be using this site in the school.Learn to Read - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
  1. SpellBound - Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.
  2. Sound it out - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning-British accent may confuse some students)
  3. Which Bird is Correct? - pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to the word.
  4. Missing Word - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
  5. Word Families - create new words from word endings
  6. Beginning and ending sounds, plus digraphs - concentration style games
  7. Blend Matching Sounds - Digraph matching..
  8. Word Maker - Select an ending, then combine letters to create words.

Sight Words
  1. Sight Words - read and copy sight words.
  2. Dolch List Practice - online activities to practice sight words.
  3. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type in the missing letters.
  4. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences.
  5. Sight Words - Match the word with the picture. Many, many selections
  6. Sight Words - Dolch Words, if you don't know the word, move your mouse over it and it will tell you what it is. Practice the words, then take the quiz.

Vocabulary Building
  1. Homophones - PBS Video
  2. What's the Word - Build vocabulary by matching words with pictures.
  3. Crossword Puzzles for Young Children - Each week a new puzzle with Dolch words. Clues and hints included. Excellent first start for children learning to work crossword puzzles!
  4. Word Jungle What a fun game. This helps build a students vocabulary!

Sentence Structure
  1. Build a Sentence - Drag scrambled words to create a sentence.
  2. Scrambled Sentences - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence.
  3. Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order.
  4. Wall of Words - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence.

Comprehension
  1. Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.

Ending consonants
  1. S or ES - choose correct spelling
  2. ED or ING - choose correct word.
  3. Suffix practice - more practice on s/es and ed/ing.

Main Idea
  1.  Main Idea practice

Capitalization and Punctuation

  1. Find the correct sentence - Choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.
  2. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
  3. Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.
  4. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation.

Sequencing
  1. Monkey Business: Rain Forest Run Around - Click on the words to put them in correct order. (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
  2. Sequence the Story - drag the pictures in the correct order. Students can have the story read to them if necessary.
  3. Sequencing - Number the pictures in the correct order.

Contractions
  1. Contraction Practice - Interactive contraction practice.
  2. Contractions - Type in the contraction beside the two words.

Irregular Plurals
  1. Irregular Plurals - Match the related words, singular to plural.

Opposites
  1. Opposites/Antonyms - Matching game, concentration style.
  2. Opposites - Drag the words on the right to where they belong.
  3. Quiet Quest for Opposites by Spanky the Tooth Taker - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)

Spelling

  1. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  2. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  3. Fearless Frieda - use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
  4. Spell Check - TCAP format, select word that is spelled incorrectly.
  5. Spell words - drag letters to create word.
  6. Spelling - put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud.
  7. Spelling - Click on the misspelled word and then fix it. For different words and spelling activities, check here
  8. Spell Bound - Choose Spellbound from the list
  9. Spell Bee.org- Try your hand at an online, multi-player spelling bee. Grade 3+
    Must be registered first!
  10. FunBrain Spell A Roo - Click on the word that is spelled wrong.
  11. FunBrain SpellCheck - Which word is spelled wrong? Place a check next to that word with your mouse. Type the correct spelling in the box at the bottom. Click the Check It button.

Rhyming
  1. Rhyming - several practice activities
  2. Rhyming Match - Select a location to visit, and find the rhyming words.
  3. Rhyming Practice - match game

Online Stories
  1. Clifford's Big Dig
  2. Here, Clifford
  3. Emily Goes to School
  4. Stories to read - Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
Copyright 2008, Jo Belyea-Doerrman. All Rights Reserved.Last | Updated August, 2008