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Books Online Ever read a book on the computer? Here's some great stories on the Internet

Read Me a Story ----These books have sound
Clifford Online interactive books for beginning readers featuring our favorite big, red dog. Stories are read aloud and you help complete the story.

Lil-Fingers interactive stories read aloud for young children (kindergarten)

Alfy's Storyville Choose from 10 different stories about Alfy the dog and his adventures. You even get to help him along the way!

From the Tales of Edge River Woods hear grandpa's stories of Edge River Woods. stories are long so they are best for intermediate to upper grade students. Click on the page number on the right hand side to change pages.

For You to Read-----Read these on your own or with a parent

Animal Alphabet Book

What Do I Say? An animal letter and sound book

Primary Games Bookshelf Great books for primary students including A-Z, I Spy and Even or Odd

Sesame Street Stories ten stories featuring Sesame St. characters--written for primary grade students

Candlelight Stories lots of great stories for 2nd-4th graders. Click on "Storybooks" when you get to the webpage

Children's Storybooks Online lots of online books for kids in grades K-5

The Adventurous Bunny & Easter Island

Beatrix Potter Stories read many of your favorite Beatrix Potter stories online

The North Star a story about a little girl trying to find her way home. wonderful illustrations

Story Hour Lots of stories about animals

Aesop's Fables many famous fables told as they were traditionally and as modern stories

Blue Bear read a story about Blue Bear's adventures. for primary and intermediate grade students

You Help Write It----Stories that you help write!

Clifford Online interactive books for beginning readers featuring our favorite big, red dog. Stories are read aloud and you help complete the story.

The Riddle Quest interactive story for 3rd-5th graders. You help write the story!

Create Your Own Adventure

Sticker Stories create a picture that fits the story

President for a Day write a story about being president for a day and read about what our president does everyday

Create Your Scenario create your own story to fit the picture

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Magazines & Newspapers Online magazines & newspapers for kids

Magazines:
National Geographic for Kids

Sports Illustrated for Kids

Time for Kids

Newspapers:

Washington Post for Kids

MSNBC Pencil News for Kids

New York Times Learning for Kids

Yahooligans News

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Reading Activities

Arthur's Story Scramble

Sesame Street Make a Story

American Girls Online play reading games featuring the American Girls books characters

Seussville Games play these reading games featuring your favorite Dr. Seuss characters

Alphabet:

Rats! Alphabet Game sort the upper and lower case letters into your baskets

Alphabet Action letters and pictures with sound

ABC Order you tell what letter comes next in the alphabet

ABC Game pick the picture that starts with the letter shown on the screen

ABC Zoo put the animals in the zoo in ABC order

Paw Park put the animals in ABC order

Phonics:

Letter Bugs catch the letter bugs to create the word that you hear

Sight Words: (Words we use everyday. Knowing these words helps you be a fluent reader)

Matching Game 1

Matching Game 2

Matching Game 3

Matching Game 4

Matching Game 5

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Grammar Activities

Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs and More
Maggie's Earth Adventures Enter the Kids Zone, click on Games, then click Language Arts. Click on "Clean Up Your Grammar" to practice nouns and verbs.

Rats! Nouns & Verbs put the nouns and verbs into the basket

Grammar Gorilla match words in a sentence with their part of speech and the gorilla gets a banana

2Bee or Nottoobee pick the right verb to fit each sentence

Harry Potter Spellmaker write new spells for Harry by filling in words for each part of speech

Plurals

Maggie's Earth Adventures Enter the Kids Zone, click on Games, then click Language Arts. Click on "Fish Em Up" to practice making words plural.

Plural Girls help the girls find their friends by making words plural

Idioms

Paint by Idiom help Salvabear Dali paint his picture by figuring out the meaning of everyday phrases

Contractions

Treasure Trove make a new word out of the words in the treasure chest

Homonyms (words that are spelled different but sound the same)

Word Confusion pick the right word to complete the sentence..but be careful... they sound the same but have different meanings

A Feast of Homonyms play these matching and concentration games to learn the different meanings of words that sound the same

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Writing Activities

Arthur's Poetry Club read poems other kids have written and submit some of your own

Online Picture Dictionary

Spelling:

Spell Check check the misspelled words...get all 20 correct and you can add your name to leader board

Spellaroo hop on the misspelled word

Months of the Year Word Search

Colors Word Search

See N' Spell see the picture and spell the word by dragging the letters into the word box

Missing Letters fill in the missing letters to complete the word so it matches one of the words at the bottom of the screen

 

Word Choice:

Word of the Day learn a new word and its meaning everyday!

What's My Meaning? play this game to learn new words to use in your writing.

Wacky Webtales help pick good words to complete the story

Word Game of the Day learn new words to add to your collection playing the word game of the day

Writing Beginnings & Endings start and end your stories with a bang!

Planning Your Story learn and practice ways to organize yourself before you write

Writing Letters practice writing all kinds of letters--including email

 

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Updated 2/23/04