Sunday, January 19, 2014

Reading Education Websites



Reading Rockets has information on teaching reading, helping struggling readers and children’s books and authors. There is also a reading topics list. You can search topics from A- Z. Information can be found on Dyslexia, STEM literacy, oral language and more.


Raz Kids is an award winning website where K-5 students can go to read anywhere and anytime. The books on Raz Kids are leveled and teachers can track and monitor student progress. Students will take comprehension quizzes after reading each story.


Starfall teaches children to read with phonics. It is perfect for Kindergarten through 2nd grade as well as special education and English language learners.


Kids, teachers, librarians and parents use Funbrain. Funbrain has games, online books, and comics. Funbrain was created for kids ages Pre-K through 8th grade and it offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Kids can read popular books and comics on the site including, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.


JumpStart is a groundbreaking evolution in children’s learning games and the first learning game delivered in a browser with high-quality 3D graphics and advanced play. It is a completely secure and safe online environment where kids can interact, explore and learn.



Book Adventure is a free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists, take multiple-choice quizzes on the books they’ve read, and earn points and prizes for their literary success. Book Adventured was created and is maintained by Sylvan Learning Centers.


Clifford the Big Red Dog is interactive on this fun website. This website has phonics fun, games, and stories for early readers.


Storynory has published a new audio story every week since 2005.


Teacher’s Corner has lesson plans for multiple subjects, bulletin boards, thematic units and many other teacher resources.


Read, Write, Think has lesson plans that you can narrow down by theme, grade level, lesson plan type and learning objective.


Scholastic has lesson plans for grades Pre-K through 12th grade. This website allows you to search for a lesson plan or to view all featured lesson plans. Scholastic also has sections on resources and tools, strategies and ideas, student activities, books and authors and more.


JumpStart offers free reading lesson plans as well as reading activities and worksheets for kids that teachers can use to add fun to any reading lesson plan. JumpStart has games for children to play to enhance the reading skills they are learning in the classroom.


Lakeshore has great lesson plans and the best part is, they update their lessons every month! They have lesson plans for Preschool to 5th grade. The lessons are also aligned to Common Core, it doesn’t get better than that.









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