Welcome to the Maddux Reading Portaportal!
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Choose from 15 different word endings, then find words that rhyme
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Help cross the river by choosing the rhyming word
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Listen to some sweet rhymes then play with Super Grover!
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Listen to some rhyming songs with the Muppets!
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Make a song that rhymes.
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Turn over the cards and make a match
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Play with the Sesame Street Bunch
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Click the pictures and listen for the 2 that rhyme.
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Click on a picture and find the rhyme.
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Drag and drop the rhyme
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Rhyme Time with Gus and Inky
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Find the rhyme with Orson
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Help Big Bird find objects that start with the letters he finds in his mailbox.
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Click on the letters and listen to the sounds
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Help Bear find a shirt to wear by listening to the syllable he says and finding a match.
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Help Gus and Inky with beginning sounds.
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Find the picture and beginning letter sound match.
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Find the picture that begins with the same sound as the word you hear
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Listen for the letter sound and then pop the bubble for the letter representing that sound.
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Play a game with Clifford by looking for pictures with the same sound as the picture in the box.
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Click on the digraph that begins with each picture.
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Listen to blended sounds and click on the picture that matches.
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Listen to the words and take away a sound. Choose the pumpkin that has the correct sounds left.
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Listen to the word and find the picture that has the same sounds.
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Changing sounds
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Several word games to practice reading sight words.
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Drag the words into the boxes to complete the sentences.
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Concentration with sight words.
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Drag the words into the boxes to complete the sentences.
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Click on different strategies to practice that skill.
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This link shows you some good ideas about using strategies!
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This site provides lessons, practice, and games for grades k-5.
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Read the story and answer the questions.
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Find a book, take a quiz! See how well you read your story.
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Lots of fun games for reading!
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Read some great articles that are just for kids!
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More great stories just for you!
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Interesting news articles for kids(click news tab,then there are topics on the right(Current Events, Science,Sports,...)
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Current events and news stories just for kids!
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Social Studies stories and other current events.
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Practice reading the stories with the computer. Click on a word if you want it read for you.
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Choose a story and read along!
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3 interactive stories that are read aloud to students.Read aloud 1st,then try to read story on own the 2nd time
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You can listen to stories read to you or you can read them yourself on the computer.
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Stories read aloud to you with expression by celebs!
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Stories you can read online yourself.
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Actors reading stories to you!
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Want to practice fluent reading? Click on a passage, print or just start a timer for 1 minute. Count how many you read. 1st g
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Want to practice fluent reading? Click on a passage, print or just start a timer for 1 minute. Count how many you read. 2nd g
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Want to practice fluent reading? Click on a passage, print or just start a timer for 1 minute. Count how many you read. 3rd g
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Want to practice fluent reading? Click on a passage, print or just start a timer for 1 minute. Count how many you read. 4th g
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Click on a link. Download, Print, and set the timer for 1 minute. 5th graders should read 143 wpm by the end of 5th.
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Click on a link. Download, Print, and set the timer for 1 minute. 6th graders should read 161 wpm by the end of 6th.
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Click on a link. Download, Print, and set the timer for 1 minute. 7th graders should read 171 wpm by the end of 7th.
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This is an article giving tips on how to be a more fluent reader!
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Pick a word from the word list.A video will be shown that explains the definition of the word chosen &an example using the word
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Fly through the air and collect words that will complete sentences.
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Students read a short sentence and choose the word that will complete it. There are 3 different levels to choose from
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Choose the word that goes in the sentence. There are 2 levels-Easy and Hard
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You can go here to learn a new word each day!
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Choose the correct verb tenses to complete sentences
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Flip cards over and make a match with the opposites
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Match the word on the left to the antonym on the right
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Connect the word on the left to the definition on the right.
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Connect the words to the sentences.
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Match the definition to the Word
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Word Game Show-Click the word that matches the definition or fits in the sentence.
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Choose the words in the right order to make a sentence
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Three different pictures are out of order,Students put them in the correct order & then the story is read aloud to them
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To play the games,SCROLL DOWN & click on a link.Type in numbers to put the events in the correct order.Click on CHECK ANSWERS
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Fun game that encourages thinking skills & observation.Kids put sequences of pictures in order using clues in the pictures
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In this online tool, students learn about & write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line
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n this online tool, elementary students can select shapes from four different themes: Nature, School, Sports, and Celebrations.
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Click on the lessons to learn how to make your own poems.
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Choose a game to play.
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Pounce on the word that matches the sounds.
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Help Molly choose the sounds that make up the words.
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Make CVC words and decide if it's real or not.
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Find the real CVC word!
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Select from a variety of topics including short and long vowels, beginning and ending consonants. When prompted to register cli
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Combine letters to make words.
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Click on the magnets to make words.
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Choose a player and blend beginning and ending sounds to make words.
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Catch the letters that make up the word that is spoken.
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Match the picture with the vowel sounds.
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Drag the words over to match the correct word family.
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Match the long vowel sounds to the picture.
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Click on the vowel sound that matches the picture.
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Help teach the parrot new words by choosing or writing the right letters to fill in the gaps
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Find as many small words as you can from the scrambled letters given.Longer words earn more points.Try & guess the defined word
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Drag a vowel sound(ee/ea/ay/ai/y/igh/oa/oo)into slot to spell word correctly.Use the slow/fast slider to increase challenge
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Choose grade level & unit. Unscramble letters to spell a word; Word is said aloud each time.
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hoose 8 words to work on spelling(by category,level,or create own list) using the Look,Cover,Write,Check study method
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lick on the letters to spell the missing word & answer the jokes
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Build homes for pigs by unscrambling words
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Make at least 3 letter words by clicking on the letters next to each other.
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Unscramble the word before your time is up!
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Make words with the letters given before the time runs out.
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Fill in the puzzle using clues.
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Click on Common Noun, Proper Noun, or Not a Noun for the given word, it shoots a basket when correct
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Choose the adjective in each sentence, then Check to see if you are correct
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Rewrite the sentence correctly using a transition word from the word bank.
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Choose the adverb from the sentence.
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Choose your grade level and pick a topic. This site explains what it is and gives examples.
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Choose your grade level and test your grammar skills.
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Need help understanding grammar? Click on a topic for an explanation!
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Help by choosing or typing the correct pronoun to complete the sentences
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Use your knowledge of pronouns to help build a clubhouse in this fun game (Correct use of capitals counts)
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Help on the balloon trip by choosing the right joining word to fill in the gap
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Choose the correct type of noun.
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Help in the golf game by choosing a word that has a similar meaning
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Connect the word to the synonym on the right
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Decide if it's a synonym or antonym.
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Choose the answer that best completes the analogy.
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Need to know more about analogies? Watch this!
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Learn more about analogies.
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Choose the correct meaning of the idiom.
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Choose the correct meaning.
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Choose the correct meaning.
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Choose the correct meaning.
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Click on a game to practice contractions.
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Click & drag the contraction to the words that match, then click check & fix if needed
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Click on the plane with the words that match the given contraction, then click the Go button to continue
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Click on the cards to find the picture & beginning letter that match
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Listen to a rap for the alphabet
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Use the Keyboard to touch a letter and Big Bird will tell you the name and what starts with that letter.
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Identify different styles of letters as you fly in a hot air balloon.
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Click on the letter that comes next when they stop singing the alphabet
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Match Upper and lower case letters.
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Click on one of the games to practice your ABC's.
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Click the cards to match letter and sounds/pictures
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Match upper and lower case letters.
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Choose an icon to practice letters.
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Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.
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Children practice alphabetical order while connecting the dots to reveal a picture of the alphabet.
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A fun game putting the bears in ABC order.
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Play a tune by jumping on the keys in ABC order.
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Put words in ABC order by dragging with the mouse.
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Organize the out of order books. Click on the books in alphabetical order.
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Practice saying and writing the alphabet with the computer.
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Practice finding the letter that comes next in order.
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Look at the possibilities and try to make compound words.
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Choose the correct word to complete the list of compound words given
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Use the Lessons to get ideas,watch How-to-Videos,& then create your own comic!
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The Comic Creator allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts(prewriting,pre- &postreading...)
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Students can create, save, & print their own comic book online (challenging)
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Sudents can create & print their own comic;Also check out the printables-just need to fill in the talk bubbles!
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This site has videos and articles to help parents know how to help their children.
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Gives some wonderful ideas for parents to help their children.
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Article for parents about fluency
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Article just for parents on how to help your child read.
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Standards are listed with sites underneath
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tandards are listed with sites underneath
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Standards are listed with sites underneath
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Organized by grade, definitions of standards and sites connected
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Create your own Classroom Jeopardy Review game,Speed Match Quiz,or Who Wants to be a Millionaire,also check out other COOL tools
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An easy to use website that allows you to create your own rubrics
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A free website that allows you to create customized checklists to print for student use
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A free website that allows you to create puzzles of various types to print for students
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Another place with more teacher forms, letters, and templates than you will ever need
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heck out the Featuring links at the bottom,Find Activities,&Tools & Resources sections!
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Activities/Ideas/Themes
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A few freebies
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Teacher Tools, book club, etc.
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Articles, research, videos on instruction
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RTI (Response to Intervention) resources - Academic & Behavioral intervention strategies