Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Vocabulary Activities Find Activities
A fantastic reading skills site emphasizing vocabulary activities. This site contains 54 individual vocabulary activities to click on, and provides teaching tips as well. It is still in the building phase, and more activities, tips, and...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games
Simple interactive games to help young students build reading skills.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Free Reading: Sounding Out Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Times of the Day
Watch as children do different activities at various times of the day. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: I See Colors
Look at all the colors in the world around us. Includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Friends: We Can Do Anything!
Look at all the fun these young children can have when they play outside. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Friends: The Playground
Two children show all the things they can do at the playground. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Senses
Read about the wonderful changes that take place when spring arrives. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Trees
See how different trees can look. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Up in a Tree
See what might be hiding up in the branches of a tree. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Everyone Reads
Shows children reading with others at school. Includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Comprehension Instruction
A major goal of reading comprehension is to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to become competent and enthusiastic readers. Download the Comprehension Instruction booklet, which details important ideas...
Starfall
Starfall: Jake's Tale (Long a Listening Practice)
A fun read-along story for practicing and listening to the long a sound. Great graphics and animation.
Read Works
Readworks: Read Aloud Lesson: Stellaluna
Compare Stellaluna's experience of living like a bird with her experience of living like a bat. Included in this lesson are a detailed lesson plan, a graphic organizer, and a student worksheet.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literacy
Multiple resources such as videos and interactive games from Sesame Street that can be used to build literacy skills.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
Other
Castle Technology: Compare and Contrast: A Web Quest for Grade Two
This activity for young readers includes step-by-step teacher directions, student directions, resources, and rubrics. Students read or listen to two or more versions of a fairy tale and then work in groups to update the fairy tale to a...
Other
Audiblox: Foundational Reading Skills
What types of reading skills do students need to be successful? This informative site focuses on students with learning disabilities. Explore!