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The Relationship Between Reading & Writing
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The Five Essential Components of Reading
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What is Phonemic Awareness?
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Phonemic Awareness Versus Phonological Awareness
Find out the differences between the two as well as what they have in common -
Ditch Round Robin and Read More
explains why round robin is "outmoded" and gives alternative reading strategy suggestions -
The Case for Authentic Assessment
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Closing in on Close Reading
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5 Simple Close-read strategies
Great strategies for close reading -
Common core reading standards
Standards plus skills & strategies -
Common Core ELA standards
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One Page CC Fiction Reads & printable Scaffolds
This site is a FABULOUS resource for classroom instruction & RTI time -
Reading Sage
You have got to check this out! VERY COMPREHENSIVE site -
Grades 3-5 Student Center Activities Aligned to Common Core Standards
Great ideas fot centers - All aligned to CCS -
Effective Writing for all Students
This has great step by step procedures along with a great collection of student writing samples for K-12
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What is Authentic Assessment
definition and examples -
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
The what, the why, and the how of authentic assessment -
Authentic Assessment Overview
Easy to understand overview and examples you can use in your classroom -
Rubrics for Authentic Assessment
A bank of rubrics for a wide variety of authentic assessments - no need to reinvent the wheel -
Authentic Assessment
A helpful, informative and easy to read article to get you started and keep you going with Authentic Assessment -
List of Authentic Assessments
a super helpful list of over 100 Authentic Assessment ideas and products -
a Mini Course on Creating Authentic Assessments
A great step by step mini course on Authentic Assessment -
Classroom Management - 6 Authentic Assessment Tools
This resource has a lot of great ideas you can easily use in your classroom -
Understanding Authentic Classroom-Based Literacy Assessment
"The goal of assessment has to be, above all, to support the improvement of learning and teaching." - -
Ten Takeaway Tips for Using Authentic Assessment in Your School
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15 Classroom Literacy Ideas for Early Childhood
Authentic Learning and authentic assessment ideas
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stapleless books
Students LOVE to make these really cool stapleless books. Using this site, they can make books with paper, printer, & scissors. -
step books
Students can make these easy books with paper & staples. Great for vocab words, spelling words, story writing, etc -
flip flap books
Students can make these easy books with paper. GREAT for sequencing, beg/middle/end, story elements, vocab words, etc -
fact flipper
students (or teacher) uses power point to create these & then they print & put together. Great for vocabulary words, content ar -
accordion books
students make the by folding paper. Great for story writing, retells, vocab, story elements, etc -
tall tales
students (or teacher) type tales in word & follow directions to create TALL tales. -
shirt books
students can create cool shirt shaped books by folding paper -
poof book
the same book making technique as stapleless book but this is done without computer. Words need to be hand written for this one -
slit books
No staples required. Students make books by folding, cutting, & following directions. -
peekover books
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circle books
students need paper, scissors, & a brad fastener to make these books. Great for making word wheels, too! -
shapebooks
25 different templates for making shape books. -
twinkle books (stars)
students type in words to make these books. Great for beginning of year getting to know you books, character ed, etc -
writing paper templates
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more shape books through ABC teach
some are free/ some require membership -
popup books
The pop up makes the mouth/ students add rest of monster, person, animal, etc by drawing around mouths
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Buzzy Bee Riddles
Riddles are a wonderful way to work on inferencing skills. Use with a think aloud to teach skill. -
Cloze Activities
Cloze activities are vocabulary builders & when done in a guided manner with think alouds, they help build comprehension. -
Seven Strategies to Teach Comprehension
Great strategies that are easy to impement -
Comprehension Strategies
Great strategies, lessons, handouts, & more -
Comprehension Skills, Strategies & Best Practices
Great Comprehension Skills, Strategies & Best Practices -
Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
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Into the Book
designed to help improve elementary students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curr -
40 Graphic Organizers That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading
This is a great resource!
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Templates & interactive sites for TONS of things
TONS of templates for a wide variety of things...great to use in centers -
Organizing Literacy Centers
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Literacy Center Ideas
Tons of great, easy to implement, literacy center ideas. -
Carls Center City
tons of great center ideas/ Scroll past the ad for free ideas! -
Literacy Work Stations
Great info - Whys, how to, ideas, etc! -
Balanced literacy printables
Lots of great FREE printables you can use for centers - directions, etc! -
Teaching Heart's Learning Centers Page
pictures of centers, various links about centers, and printable centers that you may use in your classroom! -
ABC Centers
Great ideas & pictures for primary ABC centers -
Ready to Use Centers for Grades 3-5
Awesome ready to use centers - Check this out! -
FCRR Grades 3-5 Center Ideas
These awesome center ideas are all aligned to the common core standards -
Newspaper Knowledge (designed for K-1 as is, but can be easily modified for all grades)
a flexible center that is quick, easy, and inexpensive
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Third grade supplemental ORF probes
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4th grade supplemental ORF probes
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2nd grade supplemental ORF probes
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5th grade supplemental ORF probes
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Fluency - Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities
Great guidelines & activities to use to guide students to increased fluency -
Improving Fluency in Young Readers
Great info on the what, why, & how of fluency instruction & practice -
Start With a Book - Fluent Kids
Written for parents, but awesome stuff for teachers, too - Even has links to readers theater scripts! -
FREE Oral Reading Fluency Posters & Fluent Reader Checklist
This is fantastic & Free! Great visuals for helping students increase their fluency
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Leveled Book list
This will help you level your classroom library -
leveled books database
this will help you level the books in your classroom library -
criteria for leveling books
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Scholastic Book Wizard
allows you to choose which leveling system you want to use to help you level your classroom library -
Reading Rockets
This site is full of things for teachers, parents, and more. -
read write think
A ton of information, lessons, and more from IRA -
Free Printable Level I reader Mini Books
Print free mini-books for student use.
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bookmarks to help you decide if a book is "Just Right"
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The Goldilocks Rule
Great method for helping students choose the perfect level book for them
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assorted visual discrimination activities
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more prereading activities
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Shared Reading
The what, why, & how to of shared reading -
Garfield Alphabet Books
Scaffolded practice writing letters and practice with initial sounds while creating a book that students can use as additional s -
Alphabet Trains
GREAT for teaching first sounds! Could also make into a FSF intervention game -
How Now Brown Cow/ Phonemic Awareness Activities
brief research, instructional considerations, & P.A. ideas -
Phonemic Activities
Lots of great activity ideas
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Reading strategies & tools
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Become More Fluent with Phrased Reading
description, examples, tips, & videos -
Phrase Craze
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Five Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
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Sight Word Printables
pre-primer -3rd grade printables PLUS a sight word wordsearch generator for each level as well -
Printable sight word books
includes student books (in English, French, & Spanish), teacher books, and pocket chart pictures -
Fry Phrases
Great to use with sentence strip strategy -
1st 100 Fry Words
lists of first 100 Fry Words & printable flash cards of the words -
printable "TIGER" cards (like BINGO)
Print out these cards & practice sight words in a fun, engaging way! -
sight word flash cards
Fun printable flash cards with Garfield pictures -
Printable "FARM" game cards (like BINGO)
A fun, engaging way to practice sight words -
sight word flash cards
more fun flash cards with Garfield pictures -
printable "PARK" game cards (like BINGO)
A fun, engaging way to practice sight words -
Printable sight word cards
more fun Garfield themed flash cards -
printable "GYM" game (like BINGO)
Another fun, engaging way to practice sight words -
printable sight word flash cards corresponding to "GYM" game
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Article: AN ANALYSIS OF INITIAL ACQUISITION AND
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DOLCH Kit
tips, strategies, games, cards & so much more -
Sight Word ideas
A lot of ideas here -
Top 30 Fun Ways to Teach Sight Words
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Dolch Word Lists, Worksheets, & Activities
A host of resources to support the aquisition of sight word knowledge -
Fry Word Lists
"one Stop Shopping" for various levels of Fry Word lists -
Sight Words & Word family Spelling list Worksheets
Read & write these sight words & word family words
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Phonics, syllable, & accent rules reference
resource to review some of the basic rules -
Project Alphabet
Make your own alphabet cards, counting book, ABC book, calendars, etc for FREE - Use photos you take. -
graphic organizers
a wide variety of graphic organizers -
Common Core Standards
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Printable Reading Award Certificates
Great motivation tool!! -
Phonics worksheets
A variety of phonics worksheets
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Free Reading
High quality FREE activities, lessons, and even complete intervention programs. -
Intervention Central
Your source for RTI resources: academic & behavior interventions, assorted tools, & more -
Scientifically based research
Interventions and more -
Interventions for improving reading comprehension
A variety of activities for comprehension interventions -
Starfall
learn to read -
Picture match
Teacher can select letters to focus on - Student hears picture name & then matches pictures to letters or vowel sounds -
Elkonin Cards
Video modeling the use of Elkonin Cards, a WONDERFUL strategy for PSF -
Go Fish!
a video of a wonderful letter names & sounds strategy -
Post Office
A video of a great strategy for reinforcing letter names & sounds & initial sounds -
FREE one page Stories for K & 1st
Great scaffolded stories for developing readers. Start off with rebus & go through various levels. -
RTI in a Nutshell
Easy to read - Explains RTI -
(Early Literacy Skills) Phonological Awareness Interventions
This is WONDERFUL!! - background, emergent literacy continuum, & GREAT interventions -
8 Great Ideas for Segmenting & Blending
Great ideas for small group instruction -
Intervention strategies & stories for vowel teams
A wonderful & complete source for five days of interventions focussing on vowel teams -
interventions focussed on ar (phonics)
5 complete days of interventions! -
Reading Interventions that work
This is a great source for reading interventions -
First Grade (level) Reading Comprehension worksheets
These are great resources for RTI to work on reading comprehension! Although it says first grade, they can be used at any grade -
2nd grade (level) Reading Comprehension worksheets
These are great resources for RTI to work on reading comprehension! Although it says 2nd grade, they can be used at any grade - -
3rd grade (Level) Reading Comprehension worksheets
These are great resources for RTI to work on reading comprehension! Although it says 3rd grade, they can be used at any grade - -
4th Grade (Level) Reading Comprehension Worksheets
These are great resources for RTI to work on reading comprehension! Although it says 4th grade, they can be used at any grade - -
5th Grade (Level) Reading Comprehension Worksheets
These are GREAT RTI resources to work on reading comprehension! Although it says 5th grade, think of it as more of a level than -
6th Grade (Level) Reading Comprehension Worksheets
These are GREAT RTI resources to work on reading comprehension! Although it says 6th grade, think of it as more of a level than -
Context Clues Worksheets
Good resources for working on reading comprehension at various levels -
Drawing Conclusions Worksheets
Good resource for working on reading comprehension skills at various levels -
Fact/Opinion Worksheets & games
Great resource for working on reading comprehension skills at various levels -
Main Idea Worksheets
Good resources for working on reading comprehension skills at various levels -
Inference Worksheets
Good resources for working on reading comprehension skills at various levels -
Homograph Worksheets
Good resources to use during reading comprehension interventions -
Homophone Worksheets
Good resources for reading comprehension interventions -
Prefix Worksheets
Resources to use with reading comprehension interventions -
Suffix Worksheets
Resources for reading comprehension interventions -
One Page CC Readings & Printable Scaffolds
This is a FABULOUS resource - Remember to think in terms of student's reading levels NOT grade level -
Say it and Move it strategy
Step by step directions and reproducable workmats for this strategy - great for PSF support -
teachnology Cloze activities
These are great Cloze activities to work on to intervene with comprehension (Great if students are low on DAZE) -
Decodable short & long vowel stories
20 decodable stories, suggested uses, & more! -
Scaffolded inference skill building storiers & questions
Great resource for helping students learn to cite evidence from the text to use when responding to questions -
Readworks
Free common core aligned texts, questions, lessons and more - shows grade levels and lexiles -
Research based RTI strategies
Most of these are strategies you can use - There are only a few electronic resources, which we do not have. This list also cont -
repeated reading with comprehension strategy
user friendly and easily adaptable by using different levels of text -
repeated reading with question generation strategy
easily adaptable by using various text levels -
research based intervention strategies
a bank of interventions for reading (and even math) -
repeated readings and oral/written retellings strategies
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growth mindset
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The Savvy Teacher's Guide: Reading Interventions that Work
A fabulous resource jam packed with interventions -
Interventions
a HUGE bank of interventions by skills, grade level, subject and more -
vocabulary graphic organizers
a big bank of various vocabulary development graphic organizers - perfect for scaffolding instruction!
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Reading Fluency Strategies
step by step directions for repeated reading, paired reading, choral reading, and echo reading, plus words per minute graphs -
Reading Fluency Activities
FREE printable downloads and other resources to increase reading fluency -
Reading self check poster
A great self check poster - Enlarge it and add illustrations such as ears, eyes, and question marks - It makes a great visual to -
Fry Phrases and short sentences for repeated reading
Repeated reading of a few phrases per week gives students practice reading high-frequency words and developing fluency and gener -
Fluency: Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities
guidelines for instruction, pointers on deciding what students should be reading for interventions, and assorted, effective stra -
Pre-primer sight words
the computer will read the words to the student as needed -
Primer sight words
the computer will read the words to the student as needed -
second grade Dolch Words
The computer will read the words to student as needed -
Third grade Dolch Words
the computer will read the words to student as needed -
Printable Dolch lists
print these out for flash cards, individual word lists, partner work, etc -
Sandcastle game
practice vowel phoneme spelling patterns to increase reading fluency and automaticity -
Write a postcard
Interactive "other vowel spelling pattern" practice - Computer reads/ students select words with given phoneme. Then students in -
Printable phonics games
Print these out & teach them to students. Then they can play to practice phonics skills.
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Word surgery strategy
step by step directions, materials, and a video to demonstrate the strategy -
turtle talk
step by step directions, materials, and a video to demonstrate the strategy - with the initial scaffolding of student orally ble -
snatch a match
progression in skill development - after learning to orally segment sounds, students can compare/contrast medial vowel sounds wi -
hop stop and drop
a progression in the skill of segmenting - comparing and contrasting segmented words - step by step directions, materials, and a -
hop stop and drop
progression of the skill - comparing and contrasting number of phonemes in words - step by step directions, materials, and a vid -
sorting sacks
progression of the segmenting skill to comparing and contrasting placement of sounds in words -
snap it on
a progression in skill by adding a new sound to already segmented word - to step by step directions, materials, and even a vide -
say it and move it
step by step directions and materials -
Elkonin Boxes
step by step directions for this strategy -
Finger Phonemes
step by step directions for this easy to use strategy -
Stretchy the Word Snake phonics song video
multiple modalities of instruction - visual and musical reinforcement of phoneme segmenting
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Connect the sounds
step by step directions, materials, and even a video to demonstrate the strategy -
whirly word game
interactive - students decode words in a word family & determine if they are real or not.
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short vowel sounds
step by step directions, materials, and even a video to demonstrate the strategy
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Free Reading Fluency activities
A wide variety of fluency activities - Be sure to check this out! There are links on Free Reading for the texts to use as well.
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FREE DAZE practice download
FREE texts written in DAZE format along with answer keys -
CLOZE readings
a huge bank of CLOZE readings at various grade levels, some are online only and others have printable versions. Watch the video -
CLOZE Text creator
Type in the text you would like to be put in CLOZE format then hit next to create CLOZE text. -
CLOZE texts
an assortment of CLOZE texts -
CLOZE text creator
create CLOZE texts by typing in desired text -
Science related CLOZE paragraphs with word banks
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All about Bones CLOZE text with answer key
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Free Reading Comprehension activities
A wide variety of comprehension activities - Be sure to check this out!
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Blending & Segmenting games
Many wonderful Strategies -
teaching strategies & examples - phonemic awareness
GREAT resource complete with videos! -
•phonemic awareness activities
a wide variety of PA activities you can do. -
•Phonemic awareness activities
Information & activities for each stage of the hierarchy of PA -
•Free Reading/ phonological awareness
Phonological Awareness Activities -
Elkonin Boxes
GREAT strategy for PSF practice & intervention! -
Elkonin boxes
Explains the strategy, gives multiple examples & implementation tips & has links for videos & printable template- Wonderful! -
Sound Boxes aka Elkonin Boxes
Explains adaptations to move toward teaching spelling PLUS a FREE template -
Elkonin Boxes
Be sure to check this out! Info, how-to & FREE templates! -
Effective Strategies for teaching phonemic awareness
Great bank of strategies for use in Tier I (all students) & Tiers II & III (interventions) -
Free Reading Phonological Awareness activities
A wide assortment of PA activities - Be sure to check this out!
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Effective Writing for all Students
Effective, step by step procedures for teaching coupled with student work samples for each grade level -
How to Teach Children to Write Letters & Numbers with Correct Form and Positioning
Great, easy to use research-based strategies to help students overcome difficulties in correct letter formation and even letter
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Sentence Play
Teaching tips, games and printables -
Seven Sentence Building Activites to Develop Advanced Writers grades 2-10
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Roll a Sentence
Great literacy center activity for sentence building - Activity and FREE printable -
Sentence Sequencing (K-1)
Free Printables for sentence sequencing cards and two activities to use them -
Popping Sight Words and Sentence Building Game
A fun literacy center idea that can easily be modified for any grade - This has FREE downloadable templates for making the piece -
Fun Sentence Cards
literacy center idea for sentence building with nouns and verbs -
Sentence Construction (primarily 2-3)
Fun worksheet that supports children as they build who did what how when or where sentences - Allows for a wide variety of respo -
Kinesthetic activities on sentence structure
Fun ways to actively engage students in sentence structure using their whole bodies - Multiple modalities -
Teaching Sentence Structure to Kinesthetic Learners using hand motions
a brief video to teach hand motions to use to help kinesthetic learners learn sentence structure -
Kinesthetic Clause Building
help students identifyclauses, choose subordinating conjunctions, notice the reversibility of clauses in a sentence, and underst -
Sentence Building Activities
Several literacy center ideas for building sentences
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Pounce game
Match the written word to the word the computer says - FUN! -
assorted alphabet activities
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assorted phonics activities
initial letters & sounds, CVC words, sight words, and more -
assorted activities
abc order, ending letters, rhyme, sight words, and more -
Starfall
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Fishing for Phonics with Garfield
Fun way to practice phonics - ID initial or ending sounds & find corresponding letter -
Construct a word
Student chooses word family ending then selects initial letters to create real words. A word list is generated which students c -
Digraph Beginning
Interactive practice matching correct digraph with pictures -
Sites for Letter Sound Practice
TONS of great sites to practice letter sounds - Try them all! -
Beginning Digraph Practice
interactive - computer will say picture name - Student chooses correct beg digraphs -
Deep Sea Phonics
Choose level - Listen to word & choose letters that match sounds to form word - FUN! -
phoneme pop
listen to the letter sound then click on the bubbles of the letters that match sound -
reading machine
practice reading words - choose word that matches picture
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pre-primer words
Practice these w/ the computer. Read the word, then click on it to hear the computer read it to see if you were correct. -
primer words
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second grade words
The computer will read sight words when they are clicked on -
third grade words
The computer will read sight words when they are clicked on -
Star Words
fun, interactive game - match sight words to box shapes after they are delivered by the spaceship. -
Tiger flash cards
print out these fun flash cards to practice the words at home. -
Farm flash cards
More sight word flash cards. Print these out & practice the words at home. -
Interactive Sight Word Bingo
Listen to computer say word/ Click on word on BINGO board - Fun and can be adjusted for various levels
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Interactive Clifford books
Books are available in English & Spanish, plus there are phonics games for early readers -
Storyline Online
Actors read stories aloud. You choose captions or no captions. There arecorresponding lessons & activities as well. -
Book Builder
create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, int -
Clifford Stories
The computer reads text/ Click & red words to make things happen. There are games & other act. too. -
Storyplace
Stories in English or Spanish
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Children's Storybooks Online
Wonderfully illustrated books for young children, older children, & even young adults -
Tumble Books
Read Along books - text is highlighted as computer reads. -
Free Online Children's Books
The computer reads & highlights text...gorgeous illustrations that move! -
Listen And Read
54 non-fiction listen & read along stories -
Mighty Books
listen & follow along
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Sites for letter recognition
Tons of great sites for letter recognition - Try them all!
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A Collection of Sites for Rhyming Activities
A TON of sites to practice rhyming - Try them all! -
•Clifford's initial sounds
Computer will read directions & say picture names. Student chooses pictures that match the initial sound of a given picture. -
first sound isolation
Fun practice for ID first sounds within words -
Blending
fun way to practice blending sounds into a word (sounds & words are given orally)
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I Can Read!
Listen as computer reads & highlights words, then click on specified word. -
It's Fun to Read: All About Me!
Read, listen, play, & answer questions on the computer -
Reading Activities
Several fun reading activities to choose from - Try them all! -
Word Work
a TON of great links for working on words (NWF, real, sight, etc) -
Interactive Sites for Reading
A variety of interactive reading games - Check them all out! -
Interactive Language Arts Sites
HUGE variety of sites focussing on a variety of language arts skills - Check them all out & choose your favorites! -
Online Reading Games for Kids
A host of reading games to choose from/ different ages & skills covered - Check them all out! -
Free Reading Lessons (Games to practice essential skills)
A variety of fun, interactive reading activities for various reading skills at different grade levels - Check out all the activi
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Mr. Nussbaum
Reading comporehension passages & questions at various grade levels. Choose a level that matches your reading level, not necess -
Reading Fun (grades 4+)
Wonderful descriptions of & activities for a wide variety of critical reading skils: context clues, main idea & details, making -
Interactive reading comprehension resopurces for grades 4-6
valuable practice & information on a wide variety of critical comprehension skills & more -
multiple meaning words
Read along as you listen to riddles/ Choose the multiple meaning word that answers the riddle -
sequencing
read or listen and follow along as story is read & then sequence the events -
Into the Book
Great practice of various comprehension strategies - You will LOVE this!
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Sentence Structure Computer Games
a bank of interactive games for all grades K-5 -
Simple Sentences
A fun sentence building game for K-2 level (and others who need a lower level) - words are read aloud as you are building senten -
Forming Sentences
Three different levels of play, so it is easy to differentiate - Students must be able to read the words - it does not read to t
