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My Hero: An Interactive Series

http://myhero.com/home.asp

My Hero is a non-profit educational project that brings information to a global audience. From peacemakers such as Nelson Mandela to scientific visionaries such as Albert Einstein, visitors can explore historical and contemporary heroes. Visitors are also invited to create web pages about the people who inspire them, providing thousands of children and their parents a chance to tell their stories. Grades 2-12

Room 108 Don't Wet The Bear

http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/bear/bearintro.html

Play this fun interactive game which is just like Hangman but instead you throw a bucket of water over a bear. The word lists include: Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Colour Words, Dolch action words, Number Words 1-16.

Room 108 Original Hangman

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/hangori.htm

Play this fun interactive game which is like the regular Hangman. The word lists is the Common, Number, Animal, Bible and Colour Words.

K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons

http://www.dositey.com/

Free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets. 

KidsRead

http://www.kidsreads.com/
Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section.  Grades K-5

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com
Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive books available here have sound – so please turn your speakers on. Teacher may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book.  Grades Pre-K-1

Cyberchase

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/how_started.html

Follow the online adventures as you travel through the three webisodes. Grades 2-3.

Nursery Rhymes 4 You
http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com
A collection of nursery rhymes and songs to share and enjoy, with pictures to print off and color.  Grades PreK-1

Interactive Books allow the user to experience a book online.  Two good examples:  Children's Electronic Picture Books (http://www.antelope-ebooks.com/childpix.html) and Children's Electronic Story Books (http://www.antelope-ebooks.com/child.html) Primary Grades

Primary Games - reading

Phonics Games

Fuzzy Lion Ears
Gawain's Word
Jim's Whirly Word Game
Alphabet Action
Building prefixes
Prefix Catch
Constructing Prefixes
Suffix and base word match
Match the contraction
Using Suffixes
Contraction Match
BBC Words and Pictures

Vocabulary

Kid's Place: Houghton Mifflin Reading - Vocabulary games for each story
Dolch noun lists - Pre-Primer through grade 2
Synonyms and antonyms
Antonym Matching Game
Antonyms
Antonym Matching
Word Builder Harcourt Spelling
Multiple meaning words Manatee
Homographs Quia
Berenstain Bears Story Time

Comprehension

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales - stories, poems and songs for kids and families
Lil' Fingers Storybooks
Lil' Fingers Holidays
The Story Place The Children's Digital Library
Fact or Opinion - Teaching and Learning Resources
Fact or Opinion - Quia
Point of View New York State Elementary Test Prep
Drawing conclusions New York State
Main Idea New York State
The Main Idea Practice page
The Literacy Center
StoryPlace: a Pre-School Library
BBC CBeebies Story Circle
Interactive Storybooks Clifford
Make similes
Reading Games for ages 3-6
Reading Games for ages 6 and up

Meet An Author

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm

Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website.  Grades 1-4

Poetry Splatter Create a poem (Ages 3-14)

Story Starters

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm

Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started.  Grades 1-4

Online Reading

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/psmain.htm

A collection of stories with comprehension and main idea questions.  Grades 3-5

Between the Lions

http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html

Stories with adventure games.  Grades 1-3

The Reading Matrix

http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/

Online interactive reading resources that cover: Analyzing Text, Audio and Text, Proofreading, Reading Comprehension Advanced, Reading Comprehension Beginner, Reading Comprehension Intermediate, Short Stories, Vocabulary  Grades 3+

BBC - Schools - Words and Pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/

Know your basic letters and sounds, now what? Well it's off to words and further phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes and Consonant Clusters. Here you can find great online interactive games and activities for each of these areas along with printable activities for further reinforcement. How many of the High Frequency Words do your students already know? There is also a Gallery section with student submitted writings and suggestions for getting your students' work posted. Maybe your students will enjoy this site so much that they will even access it from home. Grades 1-3

Reading Games for Younger Kids

http://kidsdomain.com/games/read1.html

Reading Games for Older Kids

http://kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html

Funschool Games
http://www.funschool.com/games.php
Choose from 194 Flash, Java and Shockwave games.  Grades K-8

Aesop's Fables

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/

Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst  Grades 3-8

Online Collection of 656+ Aesop's Fables

Reading Comprehension Tests

http://users.erols.com/interlac/testdir.htm

A collection of 7 reading passages with comprehension questions and answer key.  Grades 5-12

More Reading Resources

PowerPoint Resources

Grade 6-9 Language Arts Interactive Resources