Reading Language/Arts

On-Line Activities & Books

Poetry Sites

Professional Reading Organizations/Resources

General Reading Sites
Author Sites

On-Line Reading Activities & Books

Alphabet Action

Click on a letter, hear the letter name and see a picture of an object that begins with the letter. Great for early emergent readers.

http://www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/aact.htm

Arthur On Line

Visit all the characters online, send Arthur postcards, visit D.W.'s art studio, or the Brain's Brain Game! You'll also find a teacher's corner and a teacher's guide. A great addition to a Marc Brown author study!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/

Children's Storybooks Online

This site allows children to read selected books, answer riddles about them, and color pages from the books. There are book reviews and related online links for the teacher.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

Create Your Own Adventure!

Create your own adventure story by using this madlib style activity. You can between five different story titles.

http://www.pbs.org/kratts/crazy/madlibs/index.html

Dr. Seuss's Seussville

From this site you can view some of Dr. Seuss' treasures and interact with some of his characters. You can answer trivia questions, enter contests that demonstrate your knowledge, and celebrate the Cat in the Hat's birthday.

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville

Enchanted Learning

A wonderful and stimulating site with loads of online, interactive activities involving letters, rhyming, and primary skills. A MUST SEE!!

http://www.EnchantedLearning.com

Fake Out!!

An online word definition game. Guess the meaning of the word and find out the correct answer. Organized by grade level K-2, 3-5, and 6 and above. Good for building vocabulary with fluent readers.

http://www.eduplace.com/dictionary/

The Internet Public Library StoryHour

The stories at this site are written in large bold type and illustrated with colorful graphics to attract young readers. Stories are arranged according to topic.

http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/

Internet Public Library Youth Division: Reading Zone

Read about your favorite author and submit questions to be answered online. Students are invited to submit their own writing, with winning entries being published.

http://www.ipl.org/youth/lapage.html

Just for Kids who Love Books

Child friendly site with author information, book reviews and information about how books are made. Updated monthly.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/alanbrown/kids.htm

The Letters of the Alphabet

Very basic on line ABC book with predictable, patterned text. Animated illustrations for each letter. Appropriate for early emergent readers.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/alphabet/index.htm

Monster Motel

Visit the monters staying at the monster motel or fill in the blanks to write your own monster story. This site is a great spring board for writing for children at all levels!

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/kotn/motel/welcome.html

NFB Kids: The Prince and I

An exciting and interesting place for children to spend time reading, writing, playing games and just having fun. The National Film Board (NFB) of Canada wants to help kids of all ages enjoy their WWW experience by learning while having fun. Be sure to check out the Reading Coach with its three kinds of fun: rhyme time (What word rhymes with the picture in the box?), scrambled words (As you drag letters into place, a picture of the word appears.), and magic squares (You rearrange squares to make a picture, then type the word.) Great for building spatial reasoning skills. Activities increase in difficulty for higher grade levels.

http://www.nfb.ca/kids

Simon Says Kids

Touted as the site with /the coolest books on the planet', the design is definitely for kids and is sure to lure them into reading. Teacher area has discussion questions and activities for several titles and authors. Also includes ordering information for books.

http://www.simonsays.com/kids/

Wacky Web Tales

Plug in verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc... and a wacky web tale will appear. This creative site is colorful and fun.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Whootie Owl's Stories to Grow By

This collection of stories and tales from around the world includes a lesson plan and simple questions for each story. You can search the stories or see a complete list with descriptions, age range, and time required to read the story. Children are invited to illustrate selected stories and share their answers to end-of-story questions on the web. Stories contain lots of text and would work best as read alouds or for very fluent readers.

http://hazel.forest.net/whootie/default.html

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 Professional Reading Organizations & Resources

America Reads- Early Literacy Development

Excellent early literacy resources from Bank Street College of Education. Includes descriptions of the stages of literacy, strategies good readers use and a discussion of cueing systems.

http://www.bnkst.edu/americareads/early.html

California Language Arts Page

This resource guide is not just for California teachers. It provides information and useful links for lesson plans,research, assessment, and resources in literature and literacy.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/resources/eng2.html

California Reading Initiative

This site provides on-line resources which will help teachers implement a balanced and comprehensive literacy program. This site includes teacher resources, hands on activities and assessment tools.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/promising/prreading/prreadin.html

Learning to Read

The purpose of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals and other publications. Links to developments in literacy, professional materials, research and critical issues, including: Balanced Literacy, Reading Models , Literature Circles, Teaching of Phonics, Teaching Skills in Context , Phonemic Awareness and much more!

http://www.toread.com/

Reading Online- Electronic Journal International Reading Association

This is an Internet journal which offers the latest developments in the reading field. It also facilitates communication among classroom teachers, college-level faculty, researchers, and policy makers. Instructions for submitting articles are posted as well.

http://www.readingonline.org

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Poetry Sites

Guess What

Read these very cool, very funny rhymes and then try to figure out what type of object is "speaking". Great activity for teaching comprehension and context clues to emergent and early fluent readers. Fun for kids, teachers & parents!

http://members.aol.com/Eleehart/guesswhat.html

Guess Who

Read these very funny rhymes and try to figure out who (what type of job) the poem is describing. Great activity for teaching about community workers, as well as comprehension and context clues for emergent and early fluent readers.

http://members.aol.com/Eleehart/GuessWho.html

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Poetry for Children

The ISLMC is a meta-site designed for elementary and middle teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected WWW curriculum related sites. Links to many poetry pages.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poechild.htm

Jack Prelutsky

5 poems from Jack Prelutsky's book The New Kid on the Block.

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/2957/prelutsky.html

Kidzpage: Poetry and Verse for Children of all Ages

Includes an Alphabet poem about animals, several poems by Ogden Nash, the words to several children's songs and many more humorous poems.

http://www.veeceet.com/

The Mother Goose Pages

Many rhymes arranged by category.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html

Nancy's Teacher Resources

Visit this site for poems arranged by theme including: holidays, seasons and butterflies. A great resource created by an MCPS teacher!

www.geocities.com/Heartland/1133/2teach.html

Nursery Rhymes

This site contains an extensive alphabetical index of nursery rhymes.

http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/index.html

Poetry 4 Kids

This site has a variety of fun poems about many different subjects. Links to other poetry sites.

http://www.poetry4kids.com

Poetry Corner

An original collection of lighthearted poems by Arden Davidson. Poems about a variety of topics of interest to children.

http://members.aol.com/Bvsangl/poetrycorner.html

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 General Reading Sites

CLWG Children's Literature Web Guide

This site is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. It contains book lists, author information, discussion boards and links to additional resources and articles.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown /

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature

A wonderful site which ties subject and curriculum with books. You will find professional resources, a free newsletter, and selections on different themes.

http://www.carolhurst.com/

Children's Book Guild Home

This site contains biographical information about many well-known children's authors. You can also order Children's Book Guild members' books online.

http://www.childrensbookguild.org/index.html

Kidbibs.com

This site provides teachers and parents with strategies to help children become good readers, writers, and learners. KidBibs includes learning tips updated weekly, age-appropriate book lists, links, a simple tool to create a personalized bookmark, and more.

http://www.kidbibs.com


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Last modified on: June 4, 2002