Other
Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
Other
Play Magnetic Poetry: First Words Magnetic Poetry Kit
Students click and drag the words on magnetic tiles to write poetry. Their are options to add words, start over, and/or save and share their poems.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
EL Education
El Education: Kids Book of Poetry
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.
Other
Jl Resource: The Reading Room
Find creative ways to help students learn to read. Links to online stories and activities.
TES Global
Tes: Onomatopoeia: Poetic Devices Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point presentation provides thorough definitions and examples of onomatopoeia.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poem Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a BBC site supporting poem reading and writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poems Acrostic & Diamonte
[Free Registration/Login Required] Created by Robin Doggins - Acrostic and Diamonte Poems introduced through graphic organizers, examples and partner activities.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Summarizing 5 K With Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Poetry with Young Writers: This flipchart is a poetry unit for the Early Childhood classroom that reviews the 5K year. Students are introduced to writing poetry, both from the heart and through...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Green Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] An introductory flipchart of images that can be used as a stimulus for writing poetry about the environment. The images could be used for discussion to gather ideas on what can be done to save the planet.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dolphins
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Other
Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
PBS
Pbs Teacher Source: Reading and Language Arts
PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Writing Development
Tour a portfolio of writing samples by one child from babyhood to third grade that help illustrate how writing develops naturally as well as the relationship between reading and writing. Consider literacy signposts at each level.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Getting Started With Poetry
Great ideas for introducting poetry to first grade or kindergarden students! These real teachers share what they do in their classrooms.
Starfall
Starfall: If I Could Touch the Sky
Read and listen to this illustrated children's poem about what could happen if I could touch the sky.
Starfall
Starfall: Who Has Seen the Wind?
The illustrated poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti tells about how we know the wind is there even if we can't see the wind itself.
Starfall
Starfall: Robert Louis Stevenson: My Shadow
An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.
Starfall
Starfall: My Hiding Place
Listen and read along with the illustrated poem "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, about a little girl who makes a hiding place with a blanket where she be anything she wants to be.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Teach Poetry in Less Than 10 Minutes Per Day
This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...