Welcome to the Parent Literacy Page!
Thanks for joining me on the journey of literacy! I hope you find the links and information helpful as you read and write with your child.
Please click on the monthly publication, Reading Connection, for additional literacy activities and ideas.
Links to sites and resources...
Interactive Literacy Websites
Website | URL | Description | |
Gamequarium | http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Phonics_and_Phonemes/ | Phonics games for beginning sounds, short vowels, word families, and more (K-2) | |
Caboose Reading Games for Young Children | Phonics and spelling games divided for young children (ages 3 to 6) and older children (ages 6 and up) | ||
Adrian Bruce's Educational Teaching Resources | Phonics games based on blends, digraphs, and common spelling patterns, and comprehension strategies (K-2) | ||
Between the Lions Word Girl | http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
| Word games for young children based on the PBS show Between the Lions (K-2) | |
Live Search Club Games | http://club.live.com/Pages/games/gamelist.aspx?tab=all%20games | Word, vocabulary, and strategy games for older children (3-5) | |
I Know That! | Games and puzzles about sounds, words, and sentences. $49.95 a year if you want it without ads. Free if you don't mind ads and cannot save games (Click maybe later when asks to register) | ||
Reading -n- Phonics | www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/4678/indexpublish.html | Links to games for letters, sounds, phonics, and spelling | |
Primary Games | Phonics, spelling, and writing games and puzzles. | ||
Story online |
| Celebrity storytelling | |
Reading is Fundamental |
| Parent Resources | |
PBS Parents | www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/first/reading-milestone-first.html
| Reading Milestones | |
U.S. Department of Education | www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/reader/part4.html
| Reading Milestones | |
Florida Center for Reading Research |
| Tons of literacy resources across all grade levels. | |
Playhouse Disney Preschool | Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online -Free 7 day trial -$49.95 a year or $9.95 monthly. New activities every 2 weeks. Difficulty increases as your child becomes successful. | ||
RAZ Kids | Online stories that are read to the student. Has a free 30 day trial | ||
Game Goo | http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
| Game Goo - Learning That Sticks. Reading and language practice - has different levels | |
Mrs. Perkins | Dolch Sight Word Lists - Help increase your student's vocabulary with these word lists. (K-2) | ||
Tumble Books | http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=aapld&P=libra | Students can see and listen to a book online | |
Starfall Reading | Excellent site for beginning readers. | ||
Leveled Texts | Great resource for finding additional leveled books at your child's instructional reading level, just click on your child's grade level | ||
AOL School Primary | Website portal of activities for K-2 | ||
Nursery Rhymes | Great site for fluency practice |
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