Starfall
Starfall: Zac the Rat
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
Starfall
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.
Auburn University
Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding
How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
Starfall
Starfall: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This is an interactive ebook of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." It allows children to read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
Starfall
Starfall: Dolphins Are Not Fish Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin
This is the nonfiction interactive ebook "Dolphins Are Not Fish - Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin." Children can read-along, listen to, or read this story independently.
Starfall
Starfall: Dinosaurs!
This is the interactive ebook "Dinosaurs!" Children can read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
Starfall
Starfall: Apple
This lesson focuses on the short-vowel letter A sound. It includes a poem about apples, how to from the letter A caps and lower case, and pictures of other things beginning with an A.
Virginia Tech
Pixel: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading and Organizing
Short summary of different skills involved in reading fiction vs. non-fiction. Includes study tips and an organizational guide to use when reading.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Using Decodable Text
How can you use decodable text in your classroom? This site offers insight into this necessary part of the reading process. Come and learn more.
Other
Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Reading and Understanding
Tips on how to check understanding of text for adult learnings.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing
Children go through certain phases of reading development from preschool through third grade- from exploration of books to independent reading. Find out what children at the first-grade phase should be able to do, and what teachers and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Finding Theme
The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Synthesis
One of the question types you'll see on the SAT Reading Test is called synthesis: these questions ask you to draw conclusions and make connections between two related passages or between passages and informational graphics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Rhetoric
Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Information and Ideas
The Information and Ideas category of the SAT Reading Test includes questions that focus on what the passage says (directly or indirectly). To interpret the author's message, you'll need to consider both what's stated and what's implied...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Timeline: Making High School Count
This Khan Academy resource is an article that discusses the activities you can pursue to make the most of your high school experience in preparation for college.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Use Precise Language and Domain Specific Vocabulary
This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 11: Summer Learning
Adventures in Summer Learning offers practical suggestions for parents about how to create a literacy-rich summer, as well as profiles of effective formal programs for at-risk youth and children with learning disabilities. Video excerpts...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 10: Toddling Toward Reading
Hosted by Reba McEntire, "Toddling Toward Reading" examines what it takes to give preschoolers the early literacy skills they need to become successful readers. Features children's book author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, whose...