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Phonics and Phonemic Awareness

Word Build Bank
Word Build and Bank from ReadWriteThink gives students practice with onset and rhyme. Students choose an ending (an, at, ed, ig…
Word Sort
Helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.
Picture Match
Reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short/long-vowel sounds.
Starfall
Starfall.com features many activities for beginning readers to practice phonemic awareness and phonics.
ABC Match
ABC Match has students practice letter-recognition fluency.
Alphabet Organizer
Alphabet Organizer from ReadWriteThink. Children can create their own alphabet book or chart.
Superwhy
PBS site, provides several games designed to help build letter and word skills. This page describes the activities for teachers.
ABC Teach
Coloring Pages, Consonant Sounds, Flashcards, Vowel Sounds, Wordsearchs, Worksheets
Whomp
Can you make the most words and earn the title "King of the Monsters?"

Fluency

Storyline Online
Sponsored by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, an on-line streaming video program featuring actors reading children's books.
Between the Lions
Stories from Between the Lions, features illustrated stories which are read to students, with text.
Tumblebooks
There is a cost for this one, but sign up for the free trial! It's an online collection of animated, talking picture books.
BookHive
Looking for a book to fit a certain theme when lesson planning? BookHive is your guide to children’s literature and books.
International Children's Digital Library : Books, Books and More Books!
Designed to help children value & respect diverse cultures/lang/ideas by making the best in children's lit. availiable online.
Super Sorter - Book Recommender
Answer questions so the robot's Super Sorter can give you a list of books and activities you might like to try.

Vocabulary

Synonym Sam's Lab
Synonym Sam’s Lab gives students practice choosing words that mean the same as a given word.
Word Girl
Designed by PBS to promote a love of language and words. Activities involve choosing or identifying words in context.
ABC Teach Word Wall Cards
These vocabulary building word strips with pictures are great for word walls, sentence strips, spelling and vocabulary practice.

Comprehension

Into the Book
Focuses on 8 research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning...Highly Rec. for Rdg Spec
Binky's Story Sequence
Kids put together some of their favorite Arthur stories as they help Binky set the story straight - will read to if needed.
ABC Teach
Reading comprehensions for fictional and informational reading practice. Useful for teaching test-taking skills.

Graphic Organizers : Interactive/Print

The Story Map Interactive
Interactive graphic organizers: Focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
The Mystery Cube
Helps students identify and summarize story elements in a mystery. Postreading or prewriting organizer.

Graphic Organizers Printables

Thinking Maps
Graphic Organizers that support specific thinking skills - great to print or use with a projector.
Graphic Organizers
30+ graphic organizers - great to print or use with a projector.
Houghton Mifflin Graphic Organizers
Over 25 graphic organizers - great to print or use with a projector.
More Graphic Organizers
English or Spanish - Landscape or Portrait - PDF or Word
Skills Continuum
Graphic Organizers that support certain thinking skills.
Reading Quest
Strategies for reading comprehension - graphic organizers with instructions/examples.
Education Oasis
Here you will find 58 graphic organizers.

Other Resources

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Treasures
Online activities to match each story within the K-6 Treasures Series.
free-reading.net
Site is designed to contain a scope and sequence of activities that can support & supplement a typical “core” or “basal” program
RubiStar
Make reading and/or other exemplary rubrics quickly. Free registration allows users to save and edit rubrics online.
Puzzlemaker
A puzzle generation tool. Create/print customized word searches, crosswords, wordscrambless, and more using your own word lists.
Put Reading First K-3 : The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read
This publication was developed by the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA).

Worksheets and Flashcards

ABC Directory
Decoding & Word Recognition, Easy Reading Booklets, Phonemic Awareness, Word Sorts, Sequencing.....

Powerpoints

Writing

Authors and Illustrators