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Starfall: We Saw a Hawk
This interactive focuses a family seeing a hawk while camping. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Starfall: Pale Male, the Red Tailed Hawk
This is a story of a the Pale Male, a Red-Tailed Hawk who lived in the city. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Starfall: My First Flight
This is a story of a young girl who rides in an airplane for the first time. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Starfall: Tam's Secret
This is a story of a family truck that broke down and everyone sacrificed to pay for the repairs. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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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: 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.
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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.
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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: 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.
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Starfall: Puzzle Shapes
In this interactive, students click and drag words to form simple sentences. The words are on the puzzle pieces and on the puzzle spaces.
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Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.