Read, Write, Think
ReadWriteThink, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Literacy Web Resource
This site is a classroom literacy web resource. Within these pages, you'll find easy access to a wide assortment of literacy ideas customized for use by students and teachers in the primary grades. Your early elementary students can visit websites appropriate for their grade level, try a webquest, visit other K-2 classrooms around the world, see how other students are applying their early literacy skills
and learn more about their favorite books and authors. As a classroom teacher, you can access online lesson plans, resources for professional development, information on literacy standards and ideas for integrating technology to enhance literacy learning in your classroom.
School Home Links
This site has more than 100 School-Home Links activities for grades K, 1, 2, and 3. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to each grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write.
Pooh Connect The Letters Activity
Children connect the letters using the mouse to create animals associated with Pooh.
Clifford Storybooks
Clifford interactive storybooks.
Storybear's Stories
Offered by the BBC, this site has three very entertaining interactive storybooks. Students must listen carefully and participate for the story to continue.
Children's Storybooks
This site contains a number of illustrated online stories written for kids of all ages. Two of the stories include printable activities including a coloring book and a maze.
Building Language for Literacy
This web page brought to you by Scholastic uses three characters. Each character leads children on a language adventure to different places in the community, helping children not only develop language skills, but a sense of the
world around them, as well.
Clifford Phonics Fun
Clifford The Big Red Dog. Phonics Fun for Early Readers.
Virtual Library
The Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County sponsors StoryPlace, an interactive web site. It provides children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. Available in Spanish.
Graphic Organizers
More graphic organizers for students to use, this site is presented by Houghton Mifflin and contains many including KWL charts and Five W's charts.
Binky's Story Scramble
Interactive practice of story sequence. Students read three sentence
panels and then put the story in order.
What's the Word?
Students click on the word that best describes the picture. Six topics at various levels.
Rhyme Practice
Three levels of interactive rhyme practice.
Rhyme Sequencing
For the teacher. Print out rhyme sequencing cards for five popular nursery rhymes.
Rhyme Match
For the teacher. Print out rhyme match pictorial worksheets for student use.
Interactive Activities
Shockwave plug-in needed. This page contains an index of Kindergarten Language Arts interactive programs including Missing Alphabets, Letters and Pictures, Letter Blends, and more.
Blends
Click on the blend that begins or ends the picture name.