Interactive Reading Links
Reading
Roy the Zebra Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. K-3
Reading Rainbow is designed to encourage a love of books and reading among children ages 4-8.
Book Adventure Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. K-8
BookPals This site provides an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud.
Bembo's Zoo Watch how the letters of the alphabet re-form into animals. Preschool - K
Scribble How many words can you make in five minutes?
Sesame Street Games Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories from Sesame Street. Grades PreK-1
My Hero: An Interactive Series My Hero is a non-profit educational project that brings information to a global audience. From peacemakers such as Nelson Mandela to scientific visionaries such as Albert Einstein, visitors can explore historical and contemporary heroes. Visitors are also invited to create web pages about the people who inspire them, providing thousands of children and their parents a chance to tell their stories. Grades 2-12
Room 108 Original Hangman Play this fun interactive game which is like the regular Hangman. The word lists is the Common, Number, Animal, Bible and Colour Words.
K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons Free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets.
KidsRead Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section. Grades K-5
Building Language for Literacy helps emerging readers identify letters, sounds, and words using interactive multimedia. PreK-K
Starfall Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive books available here have sound – so please turn your speakers on. Teacher may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book. Grades Pre-K-1
Cyberchase Follow the online adventures as you travel through the three webisodes. Grades 2-3.
Nursery Rhymes 4 You A collection of nursery rhymes and songs to share and enjoy, with pictures to print off and color. Grades PreK-1
Zoom Playhouse 40+ complete play scripts - short and sweet! Grades 2-4
Make a Word Make as many words as you can from the given word Grades 2-5
Road Hog Spelling Form 3 letter words. Grades K-2
Primary Games - reading
Phonics Games
Fuzzy Lion Ears
Jim's Whirly Word Game
Alphabet Action
BBC Words and Pictures
Magnetic Poetry Tiles Move the tiles - or make your own tiles!!
Word Magnets Create sentences using phonics & sight words
Vocabulary
Kid's Place: Houghton Mifflin Reading - Vocabulary games for each story
Synonyms and antonyms
Word Builder Harcourt Spelling
Homographs Quia
Berenstain Bears Story Time
VoyCabulary Free online web Dictionary and Thesaurus linking reference tool.
Visual Dictionary Online From Merriam Webster
Learning Vocabulary Fun Build vocabulary Skills, includes SAT vocabulary
Quiz Tree Call out a word and have students click on it. Grades K-3
Word Ahead High school vocabulary videos, includes SAT vocabulary
Comprehension
Lil' Fingers Storybooks
Lil' Fingers Holidays
The Story Place The Children's Digital Library
Fact or Opinion - Teaching and Learning Resources
Point of View New York State Elementary Test Prep
Drawing conclusions New York State
Main Idea New York State
The Literacy Center
StoryPlace: a Pre-School Library
Interactive Storybooks Clifford
Building Language for Literacy
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts of print Grades K-3
Meet An Author
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website. Grades 1-4
Story Starters
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started. Grades 1-4
Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/ Stories with adventure games. Grades 1-3
The Reading Matrix
http://www.readingmatrix.com/ Online interactive reading resources that cover: Analyzing Text, Audio and Text, Proofreading, Reading Comprehension Advanced, Reading Comprehension Beginner, Reading Comprehension Intermediate, Short Stories, Vocabulary Grades 3+
BBC - Schools - Words and Pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Know your basic letters and sounds, now what? Well it's off to words and further phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes and Consonant Clusters. Here you can find great online interactive games and activities for each of these areas along with printable activities for further reinforcement. How many of the High Frequency Words do your students already know? There is also a Gallery section with student submitted writings and suggestions for getting your students' work posted. Maybe your students will enjoy this site so much that they will even access it from home. Grades 1-3
Aesop's Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/ Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Grades 3-8
Reading Comprehension Tests