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  • ATTENTION KINDERGARTEN Bembo's Zoo is an animated alphabet book from A to Z. It uses Flash to animate the letters that reform into the animal that begins with the particular letter. Great way to build interest on Interactive White Boards, teach the letters, and build animal vocabulary.
  • Reading Games is a really fun site that students are sure to love.  Comprehension, sequencing, vocabulary,  phonics and phonemic awareness are all covered in these games which are designed for Primary (Elementary) aged students. There are nine free games and access to more if you are willing to pay
  • Reading Logs is a free website that makes reading, spelling, and vocabulary simplified.  Reading Logs is a great way to organize student reading, spelling, and vocabulary practice.  Learning material can be uploaded by teachers to be accessed by students online.  Here is a blog entry about this site.
  • Quotable Reading Quotes from Reading Rockets: Here are some of our favorite quotes about reading, learning, and teaching.
  • Great list of things to do before, during. and after reading!!
  • Podcasting resources and ideas for young readers/writers http://bit.ly/x62Tx
  • Poetry Task Cards 
  • Rachel Lamb's School Website with lots of reading ideas and projects plus links to other resources.  This great teacher won the NCAET  (now NCTIES)  award for best teacher website in 2007-2008  Some ideas on this page include monthly book projects, PROBE  projects, reading strategy/skill signs, lit circle, poetry, readers theater and readers journal.  I have gotten lots of ideas from her.  She is also very helpful if you have any questions.
  • When you go to the Reading Lady site, the menu on the left has links to COMPREHENSION, AUTHOR STUDIES, POETRY, ASSESSMENT, READER'S THEATER, AND DOCUMENTS.  The documents tab will take you to Word documents and PDF Files for reading comprehension strategy posters.
  • Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers that focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch our engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities.
  • The book activities at this site are indexed from two of the major book review and activity sites for fast and easy browsing

  • Reader's Theater brings characters to life in your classroom with words and gestures.

  • Jim Trelease on Reading  Since writing his million-copy bestseller, The Read-Aloud Handbook, in 1982, Jim Trelease has traveled to all 50 states and abroad, advocating the benefits of reading aloud to children.  IN doing so, he's won the applause of both teachers and parents for his pleas in behalf of literacy efforts that contain less "pain" and more focus on turning books into friends, not enemies.

  • Reading A to Z Reading Resource Center

  • 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, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric

  • The Children's Literature Web Guide Internet resources realted to books for children and young adults

  • Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development. 

  • Storynory s an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Storynory has grown and grown in popularity, and now around a quarter of a million mp3 files are downloaded every month from our servers.

  • Word Girl Games offers four vocabulary activities for students. Of the four activities one is a game called Synonym Toast. In Synonym Toast students have to place as many pieces of synonym toast as they can in three minutes. The "toaster" displays a word and students have to place the piece of toast displaying the matching synonym in the toaster.

  • If you have to teach kids how to pick out the main ideas of paragraphs or note taking skills, you may want to check out awesomehighlighter.com

  • 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports  Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading. 

  • The Children's Reading Connection       Reading is the fundamental basis for a lifetime of learning. Not only learning to read, but instilling a love of reading in children, is important in order for that child to develop maturity, critical thinking skills, and to help them discover new ideas and things. From nursery rhymes when we are very young to bedtime stories, reading to young children helps them to develop their own communication skills. As children reach middle and high school, reading helps them to learn more about the world they live in and about themselves.

 

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