Language Arts Online Resources
for Students and Teachers


Interactive Reading Practice Games/Activities
 Harcourt Reading
 Starfall
NOGGIN Story Time
 Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
 RIF Reading Planet

ReadingRockets
 Launching Young Readers
 A wonderful resource that provides information about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle.  In the Teaching Kids to Read section of this site you can learn the basics about reading, and what homes and schools can do to ensure that every child learns to read
 
 Starfall is a wonderful site that provides online stories and interactive literacy activities for beginning readers.
 Owen School District Internet Reading Activities This site has resource links for each theme in the Harcourt Trophies series for each grade level. Some of the links might be helpful to use to build background knowledge before you begin each theme or story.

Using Word Maker, students generate words by adding a beginning letter or blend to a word ending. This engaging tool helps students with letter-sound correspondence.		 ReadWriteThink, International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, MarcoPolo
This site is an incredible resource for  literacy lessons and interactive activities that support student acquisition of literacy skills.
go to DLTK's Home page
 Children's Book Breaks
Find lots of great ideas to go along with some favorite children's books.  You will find supporting resources and activities that your students can do to reinforce what was learned in reading some of their favorite stories. There is also a great nursery rhymes section with lots of great craft ideas and activities.


Digital 6 Trait Writing Activities and Resources

The Write Source Site  provides writing topics and grade level writing samples that can be used when teaching about a particular writing genre.
Student Writing Models

Owen County Public Schools District has created a wonderful resource for teachers to use with their students to support literacy.  Below are links to grade level pages where you will find links to interactive games for students to practice a variety of literacy skills.
Kindergarten          1st Grade      2nd Grade    

Great site for Pre-K to K-1 students!  Noggin provides games and activities that help students construct richer understandings of academic concepts and skills.  Check out   Oobi Rhyme and Story Time.  These are just two examples of the incredible activities you can find at this site

Hillside Elementary School Literacy Support Pages Here you will find links to online literacy activities for various reading skills that your students can visit  to reinforce their literacy learning. Below are links to grade level pages.
Kindergarten        1st Grade      2nd Grade    



February 14th is Valentine's  Day and Clifford's Birthday!  Have your students visit the Clifford Centers below for many interactive Valentine's Day activities.
Clifford's Seasonal Fun Center
Clifford's Read and Write Center
Clifford's Play and Learn Center
You can also find Valentine's day activities and lessons you can use with your students in the Parent and Teachers section called Teaching with Clifford Section
DIBELS Interventions Electrified!
This site provides links to interactive games that students can play to help practice literacy skills that are assessed through the DIBELS measurements.		 Let your students visit PBS Sesame Street site to play interactive games that reinforce reading and math skills. 
Cookie Monster - Letter of the Day
Elmo's World - Elmo Rhymes

Harcourt Trophies Site
Locate electronic resources to support the newly adopted reading curriculum. Here you will find interactive games and tools to help support each book and theme in the series.
 ECTLP-Electronic Books
Find teacher and student created leveled electronic books created in PowerPoint that your students can use to practice their reading skills.
 Education World - Use the Web to Enhance the K-2 Reading Curriculum
Great article with lots of examples of how teachers are using web resources to support student learning in reading.



Super3 is a primary version of The Big6  information literacy model. Developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is a widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills. To learn more about implementing the Super3 with your students read this article.

 

Read Across America March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America Day. Have your students celebrate the joy of reading by visiting some of the reading sites below.
 Seussville
Starfall
NOGGIN Story Time
Clifford's Road to Reading
 Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
Lil' Fingers Storybooks
RIF Reading Planet

This site has tons of links to resources you can use as independent skill activities during centers time.  Below are links to for each grade level. On these pages you will find interactive math and language arts activities for a variety of skills at your grade level.
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade

Use author sites to help develop your students love of reading and writing.
 Reading Rockets Author Video Interviews
American Library  Association Authors & Illustrators
America Write for Kids
 


Through the interactive literacy activities found at this site students can practice distinguishing between different word sounds, recognizing letter shapes and sounds, and developing vocabulary skills.

Nursery Rhymes Sites
Here are some great nursery rhymes resources that you can use to help support your phonemic awareness and phonics instruction.
Enchanted Learning Rebus Rhymes     
Word Families in Nursery Rhymes

 Have you students visit Clifford's Road to Reading to practice reading some simple stories and play some interactive reading reinforcement games. Students can print out their own reading road map. When they complete each part, they get a souvenir to print, color and paste to their Road Map. When they have  collected all eight souvenirs, they earn their License to Read!

This is an incredible poetry resource that can be used to help introduce your students to poetry.  At this site students can read all forms of poetry and can also hear the poem being read to them.  Many of the poems are recorded by the actual poet who wrote the poem.


This interactive game allows students to manipulate letters to make words from a shared story.   Here are some directions from the Read Write Think website for how to use this site with your students. "Read aloud one of the books listed on the opening page of the interactive Word Wizard game. After reading the book together as a class, have students access the interactive game and begin making words related to the book that they just read. You can conduct the lesson as a group and walk students through the exercises or allow them to work in pairs or individually at the computer." You can find the complete lesson at http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=150

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