Literacy+Websites

[] ** Other Literacy Sites ** · __[|Book Adventure]__ – Search for books in your interests and at your reading level. · [|Lexile Analyzer] – Find out the reading lexile level of books you want to read. · __[|Read, Write, Think]__ – Use these interactive tools to improve reading and writing. · __[|PBS Kids]__ – Learn more about your favorite PBS shows. · __[|Fables from Aesop]__ – Watch these fable stories as they come to life! [|Houghton Mifflin Online Vocabulary Game] Above is the link to the Houghton Mifflin Online Vocabulary Game. Once you are on the site you need to select what story you want to study and then click the "eWord game" button on the left side. This will open up the game. Enjoy :-)

**Parts of Speech** [] <-- synonyms game [] <- inflected endings [] <- inflected endings word search [] <- prefix and suffix create new words [] <- prefix and suffix definition match [] <- prefix meaning match [] <- prefix and suffix spelling game [] <- suffiz "full" and dropping the last "l"
 * [|Parts of Speech] - Website that practices the different parts of speech.
 * [|Antonyms, Synonyms, and Homonyms] - try to catch the flies to feed the frog but you must know which word the frog is looking for,.. soemthing that means the same, something that is the opposite, or something that sounds the same.
 * [] Word Familes sort with short vowels a, e, i, o, and u[[image:mcdonnellfirstgrade/letter cards.jpg width="204" height="152" align="right"]]

**PHONICS** [] clifford short vowel make a word [] short a story with sounds [] short a chicken stacker [] short a (and more vowels) matching [] Zac the Rat story short a [] -at word family [] at words in alphabetical order [] chicken stacker short i [] short i story [] short i make a word [] short i chicken stacker [] make long i words [] drag long i words into box [] choose long vowels to complete words [] word family sort (short vowel word families) [] word family sort [] drag magnetic letters to create short vowe l words [] short vowel picture match (put word in correct vowel box) [] make words out of short vowels [|http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/sounds/index.html#OI] <--Amazing phonics website that contains activities for all vowel combinations [] <-- digraphs [] <-- blends memory game [] <-- inital blends spelling game [] <-- initial and final blends spelling game [] <-- final blends spelling game [] <-- long and short e chicken stacker [] <-- long and short vowel match [] <-- flash activities (scroll down to oi, oy) [] vowel + r [] vowel + r [] vowel + r

Web sites with information and free literacy activities Education Place [|www.eduplace.com] A wealth of worksheets and online activities

PBS Teacher Source and PBS Kids [|www.pbs.org]

Resources for teachers, kids and parents, connected to your child’s favorite PBS shows. Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Reading Planet [|www.rifreadingplanet.org/rif/] Games, articles, booklists and activities to keep you busy all summer.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement [|www.ed.gov/pubs/parents] Print and Learn for Kids

[|www.brobstsystems.com/kids/] Offers downloadable and printable worksheets, sorted by grade level.

Learning Disabilities Online [|www.ldonline.org] Many resources for parents whose children struggle with learning or learning disabilities. Search with keyword, “reading.”

Reading Adventure [|www.bookadventure.com/] A free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.

Get Ready To Read [|www.getreadytoread.org/] Information and resources on early child literacy, including a screening tool and skill-building activities for children.