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Starfall: Make a Word: Control Ar
Become a better reader. This interactive game can motivate readers. Create controlled AR words. Use picture cues by identify beginning and ending sounds to make a word.
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Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Starfall: Folk Tales
Five traditional folk tales for early readers to listen to online. The vocabulary for each story is posted below it.
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Starfall: Pick a Pumpkin
Create a pumpkin. Select the pumpkin's eyes, nose, and mouth as you read along with the short U story.
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Starfall: Make a Calendar
Create a calendar. Use calendar skills to identify dates of the week. Interactive game with printable options.
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Starfall: Learn to Read: Surfer Girl
Surfer Girl is an interactive story that allows you to practice reading words with the er, ur, and ir sounds.
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Starfall: Greek Myths: The Wooden Horse
The story of the how men hid inside a wooden horse in order to get into the city of Troy. Look at the illustrations and read the text, or click on a button to hear the story read aloud.
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Starfall: Make a Match: Long Vowels
Concentration matching game that match pictures with words. Word list for level 1: dice, mole, five, bee, rose, cake. Word list for level 2: rope, game, bike, sheep, tree, whale. Word list for level 3: flute, slide, three, feet, snake,...
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Starfall: Vowels Save the Day
A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.
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Starfall: Make a Snowman
Build a snowman and read a story about ten little snowmen. This book engages the reader in an animated story. Other links provide emergent reading skills.
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Starfall: Hundredth Day of School
Early readers can practice their counting skills with this short online storybook based on the hundredth day of school.
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Starfall: Dorothy Strait
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Dorothy Strait. Two paintings about powwows are presented and the story vocabulary is posted below the book. A link also takes you to a short biography.
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Starfall: Marc Chagall
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Marc Chagall. Two of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.
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Starfall: Georges Seurat
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Georges Seurat. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.
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Starfall: Paul Gauguin
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Paul Gauguin. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.
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Starfall: Peter Tchaikovsky
An online story for beginning readers about Peter Tchaikovsky, and two ballet dances that are based on his music. A short biography of Tchaikovsky is also found here.
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Starfall: Word Hunt
Help write a story about a rabbit in a garden by choosing words to describe the rabbit and to tell what action the rabbit likes to do. Then watch these choices come to life in the cartoon illustrations.
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Starfall: It's Fun to Read: Poetry
Read along and listen to four different poems including "If I Could Touch the Sky" and "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti.
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Starfall: Chunk That Word
A short but clever animation that helps early readers learn to pronounce words by chunking them into letter groups and syllables.
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Starfall: Short I Song
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short i sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [0:43]
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Starfall: Scott Joplin
A short online storybook about Scott Joplin for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.
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Starfall: Ludwig Van Beethoven
A short online storybook about Beethoven for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.
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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.
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Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.