Helpful Internet Sites for Teachers to Use in the Classroom

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Activities:

Game type activities with listening to beginning sounds to identifying sounds within a word and much more
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

Games to help reinforce letters.  Good to use with the SmartBoard
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm#

Mother Goose pages
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html

Reading songs under the title of Between the Lions reinforce phonics.  The Clifford stories are read to children on this same site under
www.pbskids.org/clifford/stories
http://www.pbskids.com

Reading activities International Reading Association and the Marco Polo site.
http://www.readwritethink.org

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Starfall has on-line stories and songs which focus on different phonics skills.  Teachers can identify which skill a student needs and students practice the skill with entertaining reinforcement.
http://www.starfall.com

Check out author Jan Brett’s extensive website
http://www.janbrett.com

Stories that teach concepts for young children
http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/bookshelf.htm

Teach the students their letters through pictures
http://www.abcd-book.com/

Practice sight words
http://www.msrossbec.com/sightwords.shtml

Fluency:

Readers’ Theaters for younger children by Rick Swallow
http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/

Aaron Shepard's Readers' Theatre page
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/

“Reader’s Theatre Scripts of the Month” are archived and available for free downloads.
www.lisablau.com

Free scripts based on popular books through the Reading Lady
www.readinglady.com

A handful of stories read by the authors
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/ 

Vocabulary:

Four Block Literacy Center has word wall templates and other teacher resources.
www.teachers.net/4block

Website will help teachers find the little words within a big word.
http://www.wordplays.com

Comprehension:

Title Wave is a data base website.  This site will help teacher identify books according to reading level and interests.  You are asked to register, but the service is free.  It may take a day or two to receive your confirmation.
www.titlewave.com

Edmond Fry has developed his Fry Readability formula.  This formula helps teacher estimate the reading level of a piece of writing.  This application is helpful for student readers 7 years of age on up.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html

Authors and illustrators on the web
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

Read*Write*Now!

This website contains ideas for families, teacher, and librarians to help children read independently by the end of third grade.
www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97

Grandpa Tucker’s website has poetry and songs to be enjoyed by all grade levels.
http://www.night.net/tucker/

Assessment:

This website provides free rubrics under the title of RubiStar.  It is funded by a federal grant so when they ask for your name it is used only as a method of counting how many are using the side.
http://hprtec.org/

There are a variety of materials here for teachers from reading instruction through assessment.
www.abcteach.com

Ideas for teacher for themes, books suggestions and activities
www.scholasticinstructor.com