Reading

=Reading Websites.=

**1. Reading a-z:** [] Reading a-z offers downloadable materials to print and teach guided reading, phonics, and the alphabet. The site is filled with leveled materials to work on fluency, vocabulary, and poetry as well. This site does require a fee to become a member. **//Grade level: K-6, teacher//**


 * 2. Free Printable Flashcard Maker:** [] Free Printable flashcard maker is linked off of kitzkitz.com. This site offers free printable flash cards that the teacher can create. The flash cards can be printed in two different formats, one sided that can be cut and folded, or double sided for printers with that capability. **//Grade level: K-12, teacher, student//**


 * 3. Busy Teachers Café: [] Busy Teachers Café is a K-6 resource for the “busy teacher”. It offers ideas, lessons, units, free printables, and much more. Teachers can even create their own WebPages, and blogs. **//Grade level: K-12, teacher//


 * 4. 4 Teachers.org (Teach with Technology): [] 4 Teachers.org is a site to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms by offering a variety of online tools and resources. This site links teachers to ready-to-use Web lessons, rubrics, quizzes, and classroom calendars. Some of the tools are also for student use that the teacher can access. //Grade level: K-12, teacher, student// **


 * 5. Read-Write-Think: [] Read-Write-Think offers teachers and students a large variety of resources for reading and language arts instruction. For teachers there are free lessons and web resources. For students there are many student materials from games to organizers to help develop their reading and language arts skills. **//Grade level: K-12, teacher, student//


 * 6 . ABC Teach: [] ABC Teach is strictly a teacher resource site. You are able to generate worksheets, find lesson plans and units, take a look at powerpoints created by other teachers, and find monthly activities, to name a few. The organization of this website makes it user friendly. All of the different teacher resource topics are listed on the home page. After you click on a topic, it lists all of the resources available for the specific topic along with a short description. ABC Teach is a great site if you need to find a resource quickly. ABC Teach is not free of charge, although some of the worksheets are free to everyone, to use the site in its entirety, there is a fee. The more people to join, the cheaper the price! It's worth it! **
 * Grade Level: ** All educators, grades Pre-K-7


 * 7. Online Stopwatch: [] Online Stopwatch is a free stopwatch available online. It can be made bigger to cover the whole screen. The stopwatch will count up or down and has a variety of styles of stop watches from an egg timer to a split lap timer. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Grade level: K-12, teacher, student// **


 * 8. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Education Place: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://eduplace.com] Education Place is a site operated by Houghton Millin Harcourt Company. You do not need to be a user of their reading series or their math series. This site is open to all educators grades K-6 across the country. A huge plus on this website, is that the resources are state specific. The resources are aligned to the state standards. A user doesn't have to worry about the validity of the content. One of the most useful pieces on this site is the monthly themes. Education Place takes each month of the year and designates three or four themes that can be taught for that specific month. Most of the themes revolve around holidays, but it gives a teacher a nice month to month outline. For example, the month of October would be a great time to study explorers. If the user clicks on the explorers theme, a long list of teacher resources is brought up on the screen. This is a site that is full of great activities. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> All educators, grades K-6
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Game Classroom: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.gameclassroom.com] Game classroom is a site totally devoted to educational games. The games are broken down into grade level and then into concept. The games do a great job of keeping student interest. They are solid games that have a purpose. A few of the games on this site are multi-player and involve collaboration (higher order thinking games). This site is a great one to share with parents. It's a great site that can easily be accessed at home as well as in school. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Grade Level:// **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **//Educators, students, parents, grades K-6//**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. Internet 4 Classrooms: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://internet4classrooms.com] Internet 4 Classrooms is a site that keeps the not so tech savvy teacher in mind. The site offers technology help, technology ideas, and guides the user to fantastic free internet resources. While exploring the site, you'll be sure to see the wonderful icons the site uses. They use these handy icons for quicker navigation on site. This site also offers great technology tutorials. This is a perfect site for an educator who may fear the use of the internet in the classroom. //**Grade Level:**// //**All educators, grades Pre-K-12**//


 * 11. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storynory: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://storynory.com] Storynory is a unique site! This site offers free audio stories for children. All the student does is go to the site and pick a story that they would like to hear. While they listen, they can follow along with the words if they wish too. This site offers a wide range of stories, from fairytales to stories from classic authors. This site also allows teachers (or any user) to download stories to an MP3 player. Podcasting is also available on this site. Children love this site and they love picking their own story too. This site makes for a great listening center in the Pre-K-3 classroom! However, stories are available to middle school students too! **//Grade Level://** **//All educators, students, grades Pre-K-7

12.//** **Story Line Online:** @http://www.storylineonline.net This websites is where kids and teachers can go to listen to celebrities read books aloud. The celebrity's talk about what they learned when they learned to read and give hints to students. This video streaming downloads are available in several download sizes to accommodate to your school computers. I think that this website will get students loving reading as they see and hear actors reading books. **Grade levels: K-5**


 * 13. Florida Center of Reading Research:** [] This site provides student center activities geared towards the grade level curriculum. Some include phonological awareness, phonics, fluency and vocabulary and comprehension. The activities provide the materials and all are printable. There is also a professional development DVD for teachers at each grade level. I like this activity and use it all the time for RtI activities in Kindergarten. **Grade level: Teacher Resource, K-5**


 * 14. Intervention Center: http:www.interventioncentral.org/ ** // An informational website about RtI and tips on how to help students become more successful. This site addresses all situations that my lead to a student struggling in the classroom. The website also discusses topics to cover during RtI within the classroom (Tier I). I like this website because it addresses not only skills but how to address behaviors. **Grade Levels: Teacher Resource, K-12**


 * 15. Scholastic:** [] This site is an excellent tool for teachers to find lesson plans from scholastic and other teachers, tips and strategies from other teachers, mini books and printables. Tools that are available for teachers are lesson plan makers, rubric design, graphic organizers, flash cards and the spelling wizard. Use the interactive white board games to get students involved as a whole group. Have students play games independently on the computer. I like this site because the kids love the games and there are lots of teacher materials. **Grade levels: K-12**


 * 16. Starfall: @http://www.starfall.com **// This site motivates students to learn to read through interactive games. Have them play as a small group on the interactive white board or independently on the computer. Play games using short vowels, long vowels, sight words, chunks and learn to read fluently with the Starfall characters. Learn about poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays and fables with Starfall. I really like this site and use it on the whiteboard to play long vowel games and the kids always want to try new games. **Grade levels: K-6**


 * 17. Edhelper: @http://www.edhelper.com ** This website provides several printable for students. The activities are based on themes, holidays, grade, skills and units in reading and math. The website has puzzles, crosswords and games to use in reading and math. There are also high school prep materials, foreign language, science and social studies activities. I enjoy this site because of it has puzzle makers, printable books and other printable activities. **Grade levels: Teacher Resource, K-12**


 * 18. Promethean Planet:** [|http://www.prometheanplanet.com/] This website provides thousands of lesson plans created by users of interactive whiteboards. This site helps teachers find lessons to use with their class to match topics in reading, math, science and social studies. This site also offers support to teachers who are using ActivInspire. I use this site weekly to find flipcharts to use with my students in reading, vocabulary, sight words, and short and long vowels. **Grade levels: Teacher Resource, K-12**


 * 19. Fun Brain:** [] This is a fun site for kids to visit and play games. The games have characters from famous books that the kids will enjoy playing. The games are by grade level and by topic, reading, math, comics and arcade. I like this site and so do the kids as a place that they can learn about reading while playing a fun game. **Grade levels: K-8**