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Girl Reading
Reading

Practice Your Reading Skills!

 

Type of Activity

Name of Activity

URL of Website

Phonics

Letter sounds, letter identification

 

ABCs

www.starfall.com/

 

Alphabet skills

ABCow

pbskids.org/lions/games/

 

Upper and lower case letter identification

Kangaroo Confusion

www.cogcon.com

 

Identifying beginning sounds (drag upper and lower case, beginning letters)

Leo the Letter Loving Lobster

teacher.scholastic.com/

 

Matching pictures with same beginning sounds

Clifford’s Sound Match

teacher.scholastic.com

 

Type missing short vowel

 

Kidport -  Missing letters

www.kidport.com/

 

Blending sounds into words; reading short stories

Starfall - Learn to Read

www.starfall.com/

 

Matching written to spoken word

Pounce

pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html

 

Short Vowel sounds in words

Chicken Stacker

pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html

 

Short Vowel sounds in words

Name the Picture

www.sadlier-oxford.com/

 

Consonant Blends

Gawain’s Word

pbskids.org/lions/games/gawain.html

Extension activities

Reading Resources – correlates with Reading text book

Eduplace

eduplace.com/kids/hmr/

 

Rhyming words

Gus and Inky

www.getreadytoread.org

Literature

Listen to and read online stories

 

Reading Planet

www.rif.org

 

Read online stories

Book Pop

www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html

 

Online magazines

BCPL  E-Zines

www.bcpl.info/kidspage/ezines.html

 

Poetry activities

Giggle Poetry

www.gigglepoetry.com/

 

Read Fairy Tales online

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/

Identfying Main Idea

Tutorial and practice activities for identifying the main idea

Kids’ Lab -  Main Idea

www.manatee.k12.fl.us

Vocabulary

Find rhymes, antonyms, synonyms, definitions, etc. for a word

Rhyme Zone

www.rhymezone.com/

 

Play crossword, word find, hangman, etc.

Learning Vocabulary can be Fun

www.vocabulary.co.il/

 
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