Website/Description
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Reading Websites
Audio Books
Reading Comprension
Reading skills
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AESOP'S FABLES
Read Aesop's fables. The University of Massachusetts has provided a wonderful site created by their students, who illustrated and retold the fables. Some of the fables have audio or animation, most do not. | MG
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Robert Munsch Books
A great collection of Robert Munsch books. The books are read to the students. | MG
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CBeebies Story Circle
All types of stories with audio and animation. CBeebies is a wonderful site with many links. It would be wise to show your students how to navigate the site first before letting them navigate by themselves. | EL
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 Mighty Book
MightyBook makes reading fun, with animated talking books & animated story songs & animated jokes, games, puzzles and riddles. All with words that highlight in sync with the stories and songs.
| MG
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International Children's Digital Library
A wonderful resource for literature from all over the World. You can choose books by grade level, country, language. The books are not animated. The books are the complete digitally photographed book...pictures and all. Teachers need to navigate this site for their students at least once. It would be helpful to make a classroom account. | MG
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Fable Vision
Interactive stories with lesson plan ideas for teachers. Fable Vision also provides a nice newsletter with lesson ideas.
| MG
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KidzClub
Animated reading books for emergent readers. The books are also printable. | MG
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ABC Arts Winged Sandals
Learn about Greek Mythology through a very interactive and animated website. Awarded for animation.
| MG
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Mythic Journeys
What a great site! Creation myths from all over the world are retold through animation and audio. This would be a great site to view on a SmartBoard. | PR
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Bookpals Storyline
Complete unabridged children's stories read by someone for the S.A.G. My students love this site! | MG
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AESOP'S FABLES
Read Aesop's fables. The University of Massachusetts has provided a wonderful site created by their students, who illustrated and retold the fables. Some of the fables have audio or animation, most do not.
| MG
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Amazing Adventure Series
This site provides stories, poem, movies and more. I use the movies as writing prompts for my students. Excellent website!
| MG
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Childtopia Interactive Books
Classic FairyTales read to students. Childtopia has many reading and grammar lessons. Don't miss this website, I foresee it will be one of your favorites!
| MG
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Childtopia Reading Comprehension
Online books with comprehension tests.
| EL
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Make Believe Comix
Make comic strips. Site provides a lot of possibilities.
| MG
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Classic Grimm's Fairy Tales brought to life through animation
| MG
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Anderson Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson Tales brought to life through animation. Both this site, and Grimm's Fairy Tales site are very entertaining... even to adults.
| MG
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Into the Book
I know I say this a lot but, this is one of my favorite websites. This website teaches students what to look for when reading ie. summarizing, sythesizing, inferring etc.
| EL
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Roy the Zebra
Fantastic reading site from the UK. Interractive reading, guided reading and worksheets. You will love this site!
| PR/EL
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Grammar Websites
Parts of Speech
Vocabulary
Spelling
Alphabetical Order
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IVerb Project
The Iverb project helps students understand verbs by connecting verbs with action oriented pictures. The project is made with Weebly. | MG
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Learning Vocabulary
Crossword puzzles, hangman and more. There is two ads on the right of the screen. Once you click on you game options, there are no ads. Great site to improve vocabulary.
| MG
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Spelling City
Spelling City allows teachers to customize spelling lists then creates games using those spelling words. This site also allows students to practice their spelling words via quizes and word scrambles. This site is great for all ages. | MG
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| Alphabetical Order Practice | EL
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Wacky Web Tales
Students will create their own stories...but wait, it is not that easy! They will have to use specific parts of speech to create their stories.
| EL
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The Little Animals Activity Centre
A primary site from the UK with different Language Arts activities. Very interactive. | MG
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BBC's Words and Pictures *
This site provides many interactive phonics and reading games for various levels. | PR
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Starship English
Animated and interactive English grammar lessons. This is a UK site so the audio is in a wonderful British accent.
| MG
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Literacy Activities and Games
A wonderful site best navigated by a teacher first. This site covers many grade levels and offers interactive no advertising games to help learn grammar and reading.
| MG
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Learn English
Several interactive and fun learning games from the BBC.
| MG
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Knowledge Box
The Language Art section of the Knowledge Box website has a great phonics movie called "When two vowels go walking" and "Picture book," which allows students to choose the correct picture for a specific word. The rest of the Language Arts section is about folktales. The site was developed by Pearson Learning. The links are free demos of a much larger program for schools.
| MG
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Eats, shoots and leaves
A game about correct puctuation based the book by Lynn Truss. Great for all ages, including adults.
| MG
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Compound Word Puzzle
Great practice for students struggling with the concept of compound words. This site would also be very useful for ESL students. | MG
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Kerpoof
Kerpoof is a free resource through Scholastic. Students can write books, add correctors, print in coloring book mode and draw, send eCards and make movies. Check it out you will see endless possibilities for Language Arts using Kerpoof!
| MG
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E-Learning for Kids
Although E-Learning concentrates on many different content area, the language arts section is very good and spans many grade levels.
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