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| Starfall |
A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten , and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books. |
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| Raz Kids |
Raz-Kids is a teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands. |
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Sentence Structure
A variety of websites that let student practice manipulating words to create a proper sentence. Included some basic punctuation websites.
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Beginning, Middle and Ending Sounds
A list of interactive websites to help students with their reading skills by practicing Beginning, Middle and Ending Sounds. UPDATED JAN2017
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Blending Sounds / Phonemic Awareness
Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds (a.k.a phonemes).
Blending the separate sounds in a word to say the word ("/m/, /a/, /p/-- map.") is one way children can demonstrate phomenic awareness.
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Prefixes & Suffixes
These fun interactive games will help kids get started with prefixes and suffixes. Most of the games read text to students.
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Compound Words
A variety of websites that let students match given words to make compound words, divide compound words, etc.
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Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs, Prepositions, Etc.)
Entertaining ways to practice identifying nouns and verbs. Also includes websites that include other parts of speech including prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, common and proper nouns, etc.
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Language Arts - Grades 2 to 5
Explore a variety of language arts topics including compound words, spelling and word recognition, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, subject / verb agreement and parts of speech. Almost all of these interactive websites are competitive / timed games.
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Poetry & MadLibs
A variety of websites to help students create their own poems and mad libs.
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Biographies for Kids
A short list of websites that offer biographical information of famous people. On Mac computers at school (or home) students can use the "Text to Speech" feature to have the text of the pages read to them.
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| Tagxedo Creator |
Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud. |
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| Word It Out |
Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Discover, generate and share word clouds from any text. |
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| Wordle |
Wordle is an online site for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to print or save. |
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| My StoryMaker |
My Storymaker® was named one of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association. You have the power to decide -- choosing characters, taking them on adventures and creating your very own story along the way. my StoryMaker® lets you control characters and objects -- and it creates sentences for you! Or, you can enter your own words. Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. |
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Keyboarding Websites (Primary Students)
A few online games to help primary students find keys on the keyboard and practice using them. "Challenge" websites are for students already familiar with letter placement on the keyboard. UPDATED JAN2017
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