Curated OER
Introduce: Fact and Opinion
Build reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills as learners focus on discerning fact from opinion. First, introduce the two terms as you test prior knowledge and explain their meanings (there is a scripted explanation here for...
Curated OER
Saxon Phonics: Kindergarten
Here is an interesting twist on the old spelling test. Kindergartners will enjoy the sounds and animation that accompany the images which represent the words they must identify and spell. Note: While some of these words would be more...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Between the Lions: Letter Songs
This a collection of music videos focused on teaching the ABCs, upper and lower case, and sounds such as AR, ING, PH, etc. QuickTime is required.
University of Virginia
Webbing Into Literacy: A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy
This site offers a ready-to-use rhyme a week program for early literacy; the program offers dated units for weekly download to use throughout the entire year. It provides four different types of downloadable items each week for use with...
Other
Stuart Stories: Bad Bat Stories
This is a collection of short stories, each focusing on a specific phoneme. The focus phoneme is underlined throughout the story. They are offered in PDF (requires Adobe Reader) or Word format.
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...
Other
Stories From the Web
Reading skills development program for children from 1 to 14 years old. Children can find short stories, poems, art work, games, pictures, everything divided by age range. Also are useful links for parents and teachers.
Starfall
Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This is an online story for early readers about things that can go into motion, and things that can't. It offers help for readers as they can click on a words and it will say the word aloud. It also provides a list of words used in the...
Starfall
Starfall: A House in a Tree
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
Starfall
Starfall: Happy Mother's Day, Dear Dragon
In this online storybook for early readers, students have the option of listening to the story as they read. The site provides a word list from the story.
Starfall
Starfall: Dragon Goes to the Farm
Dragon Goes to the Farm is an online storybook for the early reader. The site also provides a list of all of the words in the story.