Websites with interactive activities to develop reading & writing skills
This fabulous website has hundreds of audio stories for students to listen to and there's a new one added every week! There's a mixture of traditional tales as well as original stories. My students loved having these loaded onto their MP3 players to listen to in the cushioned covered listening corner.
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A gorgeous website that features a huge library of free ebooks. Many of the books also have activities that can be completed after reading the book. Choose to have the book read to you or turn the audio off. Also great to use on the IWB with a zoom feature included for focussing on specific text or illustrations.
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This site has a stack of resources for all KLAs. The language arts area has interactives for use on the IWB as well as printable resources and downloadables. be sure to also check out the Computer Lab favourites page for more activities for students to use independently on the computer.
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Beautiful online magazines on topics such as bees, polar bears, frogs, bugs and lifecycles. Great for reading on the IWB.
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A great website for K-2. Stacks of phonics based activities complete with little stories to support the sound being taught. Literacy based activites abound with poems, tongue twisters and riddles and then finally some longer stories for those independent readers.
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All of the books available for online reading on this site are children's picture books appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers. New books are added monthly. Read a book and a book gets donated to a needy community. Win, win!
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This website is primarily focused on developing reading comprehension skills from students from K - 4. There are lesson plans, interactive activities, videos and audio clips. They focus on the following strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.
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A website jam packed with ebooks and online readers for students. Each ebook is accompanied by a grade level guide, length of reading and a preview of the cover. The eBooks have animations, sound, music and narration as well as a game to play when you're done. The readables can be downloaded for offline viewing and come with lesson plan notes and follow up quizzes.
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Over 30 free online narrated stories, organised into 3 series. The stories allow for word by word or paragraph by paragraph text highlighting. The illustrations are also animated and gorgeous.
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A great collection of story and song videos. There's 36 free stories and 10 free songs. Plus there's games for students to play as well as over 100 prtinable activities.
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