My
Hero: An Interactive Series
http://myhero.com/home.asp
My Hero is a non-profit educational project that brings information to a global
audience. From peacemakers such as Nelson Mandela to scientific visionaries
such as Albert Einstein, visitors can explore historical and contemporary
heroes. Visitors are also invited to create web pages about the people who
inspire them, providing thousands of children and their parents a chance to
tell their stories. Grades 2-12
K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons
http://www.dositey.com/index.html
Free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills,
Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets. Grades K-8
Storybook Station
http://www.searsportrait.com/StoryBook/StoryBook_StoryIndex.asp
Sears created this interactive site to use with elementary school children.
Just choose your favorite holiday story and answer a few short questions.
When you click "submit", your personalized story will be complete.
You can also print the story. Grades 1-4
KidsRead
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies.
Visit the Trivia and Games section. Grades K-5
Starfall
http://www.starfall.com
Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive
books available here have sound – so please turn your speakers on. Teacher
may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential
phonics lessons of each interactive book. Grades Pre-K-1
Nursery Rhymes 4 You
http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com
A collection of nursery rhymes and songs to share and enjoy, with pictures
to print off and color. Grades PreK-1
Interactive Books allow the user to experience
a book online. Two good examples: Children's Electronic Picture
Books (http://www.antelope-ebooks.com/childpix.html)
and Children's Electronic Story Books (http://www.antelope-ebooks.com/child.html)
Primary Grades
Building Language for Literacy
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bll/
Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product
advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice
activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts
of print Grades K-3
Meet An Author
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm
Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this
website. Grades 1-4
Story Starters
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm
Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story
started. Grades 1-4
Online Reading
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/psmain.htm
A collection of stories with comprehension and main idea questions.
Grades 3-5
Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html
Stories with adventure games. Grades 1-3
The Reading Matrix
http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/
Online interactive reading resources that cover: Analyzing Text, Audio and
Text, Proofreading, Reading Comprehension Advanced, Reading Comprehension
Beginner, Reading Comprehension Intermediate, Short Stories, Vocabulary
Grades 3+
BBC - Schools - Words and Pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/
Know your basic letters and sounds, now what? Well it's off to words and further
phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes and Consonant Clusters. Here you can
find great online interactive games and activities for each of these areas
along with printable activities for further reinforcement. How many of the
High Frequency Words do your students already know? There is also a Gallery
section with student submitted writings and suggestions for getting your students'
work posted. Maybe your students will enjoy this site so much that they will
even access it from home. Grades 1-3
Funschool Games
http://www.funschool.com/games.php
Choose from 194 Flash, Java and Shockwave games. Grades K-8
