Reading Activities

Between the Lions: Games
Can you scoop letters from your soup to make a word? There are lots of phonics games to play using Shockwave. (primary)

 

Online Practice Reading Tests
These reading tests for grades 1-8 use multiple choice, short-answer, and long-answer questions. Test tips for students and how to score are included.

 

Starfall Reading Activities

http://www.starfall.com/

Click All About Me for some interactive reading about Who Am I? What Is My Pet? And Where Do I Sleep? Have some fun with Bird Riddles and Tongue Twisters. (primary)
Reading Comprehension
These stories and follow-up questions teach main idea, inference, and word meanings from context. (intermediate)

 

The Reading Zone (For ELL Students)
The glasses icon indicates easy, intermediate, and advanced reading comprehension activities available to guests. Use the Dolch Word List, or try Reading a Map, Candy Labels, Reading Envelopes, Learn About Dolphins, Aesop's Fables, and U.S. Presidents Chart Study.

Web Popper's Tales
http://www.webpop.com/bookpopchooser.html

Online stories that students can read and listen to as read by the authors.

Online Magazines

A number of links to kid versions of Time, Sports Illustrated, Scholastic, and others

Children's Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
Find a few short illustrated stories here. Some stories include sound, animation or even fun activities to do.

Andersen Fairy Tales
http://www.andersenfairytales.com/en/main
What better method to induce students to read than to supply a colorful, magical fantasy book right on the computer.

Visiting Authors Series
http://teacher.scholastic.com/
Scholastic provide this rich portal for students to interact with their favorite authors, chat online, ask questions and find out a rich array of information and resources about their author.

Wired for Books
http://wiredforbooks.org/
Wired for Books provides a collection of audio recordings featuring authors reading their own works, videos of selected plays, and an archive of author interviews from radio host Don Swaim that were recorded during the l970s and 1980s.
KidZone of this site with Beatrix Potter books. http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm

Every Poet
http://www.everypoet.net/links/
This site is dedicated to the art of poetry, the site offers the opportunity to (1) read classic poems by any of some 40 poets, from Bellau to Wordsworth; (2) read contemporary poetry submitted by readers to the "PFFA" or Poetry Free For All; (3) browse a portal page that links to hundreds of poetry-related sites under headings such as "What's New," "What's Cool," "What's Popular".

Indigenous People's Literature
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html
Indigenous People's Literature site is a compilation of writings and information about indigenous peoples from around the world. The collection includes legends, poetry, quotes, biographies, important documents, and much more.

Book Adventure
http://www.bookadventure.com/
After reading a book, students can take an online quiz to earn points for prizes. They can create their own book lists from over 6,000 titles. There's a great search engine to access the list of titles to ensure that a quiz will be provided. Simply enter grade level and type of book desired ro access a list.

Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/

An interactive site with online tools for creating comic strips, drama maps, timelines, "staple-less" books, picture maps and much more.
 

L.A. Times: Kids' Reading Room
http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/

L.A.  Times Literature section for kids and teachers offers a variety of interesting subjects, such as a five-part profile of Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong or a five-part re-telling of the legend of the chocolate tree. Then there's the Question Corner featuring young peoples' answers to questions such as "How would you stop traffic jams?" "The Kids' Reading Room" offers brief stories about topics of interest, such as a best friend who moves away, and "Book Reviews by Kids" offers just that, plus the chance for students There's also a "hear-the-story-read" feature but it may not work with all computers.

 

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March 17, 2006