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Online Resources For Students
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- Online stories for ages 3-7 with audio animated stories read by the authors, complete with printable stories to keep and read.
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- Check here for online fairy tales
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- educational games to develop early reading skills
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- Choose a story to practice reading comprehension.
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- Explore the colorful online world of book activities and literacy games. Write and illustrate your own stories, play reading games, express yourself through poetry.
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- This is a website that enhances beginning reading skills.
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- 5th-12th grade only. A web-based, individualized reading program that uses technology to help each student progress towards reading and writing proficiency. Students must have a login and password.
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- Fun games to learn letter and sound combinations. Click on the green collections button to view all of the games available.
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- Contains 5 activity areas with literacy games and print-offs for early readers.
Resources For Students, Parents And Teachers
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- Reading Websites for preschool aged students up to high school aged students. A lot of resources for helping your student to read.
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- Teachers can use the standard and advanced book searches to find books by Lexile range, title, author, keyword or ISBN. Parents and students can build a reading list by Lexile range and personal interests—and check the availability of the books at the local library.
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- Online stories for all levels of readers.
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- Reading links that are leveled. Each color is a set of skills for progressing levels that can be reinforced by playing the games linked to each page. Teachers click on the link " A Note to Parents and Teachers " to find out how the teacher uses this website for guided reading groups.
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- Listen to stories and traditions read aloud by Native Americans. Students can also participate by submitting their own stories online.
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- Listen to favorite children's stories as they are read online with text and pictures/video.
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- READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web easier for students distracted by the clutter around what they are reading. Font size can be enlarged as well making reading less daunting for students needing to read for information. Follow the steps on the web page to install the bookmarklet on your toolbar. When reading web pages that need "Readability" simply click on the tool and the web page will transform.
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- reading research, family activities, reading comprehension strategies for kids
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- The Robert Munsch official website that that includes a Virtual Story Room. Some of Robert Munsch's books are available for listening to.
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- Offical website for the King County library kids page. Kids can search for books in the system and reserve them. They can also find AR books by their reading level, visit websites of childrens' book authors and illustrators, read online stories, get homework help, and much more.
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- Free audio books, including classic fairy tales, and original stories for children. Can be downloaded as an mp3 or subscribe to kids' podcasts.
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- This is a storytelling webiste.
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- Here is a website to view book reviews written by kids!
Resources For Teachers
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- Log on to input scores and for progress monitoring.
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- This is a website to find the Lexile level for books you are reading.
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- Increase fluency and literacy skills with easy scripts of favorite books. Plus other resources!
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- Here are literacy ideas for students in K-3
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- Definitions of Literary Elements in the areas of Plot, Characterization, Point of View, Conflict, Foreshadowing, Irony, Tone/Mood, Symbolism, Theme, Imagery, Figurative Language. Links to downloadable PDFs
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- Great resources for teachers on language arts and reading.
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- A large resource of reading websites for information, lessons and organizations.
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- A fantastic online resource for teachers with a lot of lesson plans and ideas for teaching reading and language arts.
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- SRI is a tool to measure reading progress.
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- Originally set up as a help page for teachers of ELL students this resource page has some great links for Teaching and Learning Strategies for reading and writing. Included are anticipatory reading guides, suggested teaching strategies for before during and after reading, details on how to lead guided reading, vocabulary resources, writing checklists and much more.
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- Here is the Time for Kids website
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- This article outlines the subject of readability, and its relevance to school books.
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