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50
Fun Ways to Improve Reading
Strengthen your child's reading skills
by turning ordinary events into adventures.
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Alphabet Activity Book
Learning activities for each letter of the alphabet
with printable coloring sheets.
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AlphaBites
Activities for all letters of the alphabet.
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Alphabet
Soup Games
Puzzle games and word searches for letters of the alphabet.
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BBC
Words and Pictures
Interactive games listed by skill (vowels,
consonants,
frequent words, etc.) plus worksheets.
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Counting
Syllables
Learn what a syllable is
and practice figuring out how
many syllables there are in a particular word.
Free program to download.
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FableVision Place
A group of stories that can
be read online or downloaded.
Contains some reading games.
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Home Reading Log
Template for creating a student home-reading log with space for student
summaries or reading reflections.
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Internet
Anagram Server
Reorder the letters of another word or
phrase
with the click of a button.
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K-12 English/Language Arts Lesson Plans
Collection of reading, English, and language arts
lesson plans for teachers from bigchalk.com.
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KidsTown
An interactive experience with stories,
puzzles, and games,
focusing on enhancing literacy.
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Kindergarten
Web Page for Letters and Sounds
Links to activities, songs, and stories
for each letter of the alphabet.
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Learning Train - Building Blocks to Reading
Activities based on the letters of the
alphabet. |
The
Living Letters
Interactive site
introducing letters with personality. |
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Mrs.
Alphabet
Challenging games, activities, and
poems
to learn the alphabet.
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Newspaper
Book Project
Develop a creative book report by creating
a newspaper
based on various aspects of their book.
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Phonemic & Phonetic Activities with Kid Pix
Templates for developing phonics skills with using Kid Pix software.
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Read
Write Now
Fun activities developed by leading
national reading experts
for stimulating children to read and write.
Sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education.
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Reading and Poetry
Poems about reading and
books
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Print and Read Books
A collection of
booklets to print, cut out, and
assemble for kindergarten and 1st grade.
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Reading Bingo
A bingo game for learning different book
genres
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Reading Blaster: 3rd Grade
A free demo featuring word and
vocabulary games.
The inclusion of this link does not imply endorsement by
Richmond Public Schools.
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Reading Blaster:
4th Grade
A free demo featuring word and
vocabulary games.
The inclusion of this link does not imply endorsement by
Richmond Public Schools.
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Reading Blaster:
5th Grade
A free demo featuring word and
vocabulary games.
The inclusion of this link does not imply endorsement by
Richmond Public Schools.
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Reading Interest Survey
A survey for gathering baseline data of your
students' reading interests and habits.
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Reading Journal Topics
Suggestions to inspire creative responses
for reading logs and journals.
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Reading
Workshop
Online examples, practice, tutorials and printable
materials to teach phonetic awareness.
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ReadWriteThink
A collection of lesson plans, web resources, and classroom
materials provided through a partnership of NCTE,
the International Reading Association,
and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
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Roxie's ABC Fish
A 3D animated game to learn
ABCs and numbers.
Free download.
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Roxie's
Reading Fish
A 3D animated game to learn basic, high-frequency
words from the pre-school age to late-second
grade level. Free download to sample.
This site is for information only and does
not
constitute an endorsement by Richmond Public Schools.
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Tampa
Reads
Free reading support materials with hundreds
of free worksheets including the alphabet, vocabulary,
and phonics as well as online books by grade level (K-4).
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Tips & Ideas Using Technology to
Create Literacy Centers & Activities
Use the classroom computer, Kid Pix,
and Print Shop to create
early literacy activities including rhyming cards, word wall
exercises,
and phonemic Venn diagrams. |
Virtual
Alphabet
Each letter has
an animal character associated
with it, an original song with a familiar melody,
and links to other pages about that animal.
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WizzKidz.Com
A fun alphabet game that challenges the
player to
match an object with the letter it represents.
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Bookmarks |
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Arthur: Sue Ellen's Bookmarks
Print and color eight bookmarks of Arthur and his
friends.
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Bookmarks
Bookmarks with blank lines for writing down
unfamiliar words as the child is reading.
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Daisies Bookmark
Make a daisy bookmark with your computer.
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Free Bookmarks
Six colorful bookmarks to print out.
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Happy Summer Reading
Bookmarks designed by children's picture author Jan Brett.
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Reading Bookmarks
Six different free bookmarks to use with students who have
perceptual, focusing and other special needs.
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Reading Bookmarks
Bookmarks created by 8th grade students using Claris draw and paint.
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