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Roy the Zebra Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. K-8 This site provides an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud.
Bembo's Zoo Watch how the letters of the alphabet re-form into animals. Preschool - K
Scribble How many words can you make in five minutes?
Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories from Sesame Street. Grades PreK-1
My Hero: An Interactive Series My Hero is a non-profit educational project that brings information to a global audience. From peacemakers such as Nelson Mandela to scientific visionaries such as Albert Einstein, visitors can explore historical and contemporary heroes. Visitors are also invited to create web pages about the people who inspire them, providing thousands of children and their parents a chance to tell their stories. Grades 2-12
http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/bear/bearintro.html Play this fun interactive game which is just like Hangman but instead you throw a bucket of water over a bear. The word lists include: Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Colour Words, Dolch action words, Number Words 1-16.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/hangori.htm Play this fun interactive game which is like the regular Hangman. The word lists is the Common, Number, Animal, Bible and Colour Words.
K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons Free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets.
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Building Language for Literacy helps emerging readers identify letters, sounds, and words using interactive multimedia.PreK-K
Starfall
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/how_started.html Follow the online adventures as you travel through the three webisodes. Grades 2-3.
Nursery Rhymes 4 You
Zoom Playhouse40+ complete play scripts - short and sweet! Grades 2-4
Make a Word Make as many words as you can from the given word Grades 2-5
Road Hog Spelling Form 3 letter words. Grades K-2
Primary Games- reading
Phonics Games
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts of print Grades K-3
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website. Grades 1-4
Poetry Splatter Create a poem (Ages 3-14)
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started. Grades 1-4
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html Stories with adventure games. Grades 1-3
http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/ Online interactive reading resources that cover: Analyzing Text, Audio and Text, Proofreading, Reading Comprehension Advanced, Reading Comprehension Beginner, Reading Comprehension Intermediate, Short Stories, Vocabulary Grades 3+
BBC - Schools - Words and Pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Know your basic letters and sounds, now what? Well it's off to words and further phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes and Consonant Clusters. Here you can find great online interactive games and activities for each of these areas along with printable activities for further reinforcement. How many of the High Frequency Words do your students already know? There is also a Gallery section with student submitted writings and suggestions for getting your students' work posted. Maybe your students will enjoy this site so much that they will even access it from home. Grades 1-3
Reading Games for Younger Kids http://kidsdomain.com/games/read1.html
http://kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html
Funschool Games
Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Grades 3-8 Online Collection of 656+ Aesop's Fables
Reading Comprehension Tests http://users.erols.com/interlac/testdir.htm A collection of 7 reading passages with comprehension questions and answer key. Grades 5-12
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