Websites

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Welcome to my WIKI! This site will show you some of the tools I have gathered that will help teach reading comprehension strategies by using web 2.0 tools, web sites, low tech tools and high tech tools!

__Websites that I have found to promote reading comprehension skills:__

 * [|Great source for specific skill practice]
 * [|Reading Comprehension]
 * __[|Great source for discovering mysteries]__
 * [|StarFall] - Pre-K - 2nd grade online activities that promote literacy, see [|Learn To Read]
 * [|Literactive]- interactive primary reading activities
 * [|IPL Kidspace Reading Zone] Many stories to choose from-be sure to get the Firefox add-on for audio if desired.
 * [|StoryPlace] - children's digital library
 * [|Primary Games] - Language arts
 * [|Between the Lions] - from PBS
 * [|Scholastic] - large website with many activities
 * [|KidPort] - by grade level
 * [|Learning Planet] - by grade level, subject or category
 * [|Grammar Blast]- by grade level
 * [|Story Line On]line - Listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members - follow along with the text
 * [|Browser Books] - "This website was created to allow **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">beginning readers ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them. The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum." (from the website)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Into the Book] - Excellent reading comprehension resource - Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. K-4
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Children's Library.org] has books in many languages, text that can be enlarged, and many can be used in many activities such as digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Wacky Web Tales] - create your own story by adding in the parts of speech
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Internet 4 Classrooms]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Sesame Street] - browse by subject or theme
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Cast UDL Book Builder]- Free online tool for creating digital books with embedded prompts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Aesop's Fables] are audio enabled. [|Aesop's Fables] Some have animations, sound & interactivity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Poetry Foundation] - free resource to find poetry by category, by name, by title, by author, or by first line. It's digital, attach a voice and it's now accessible.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|AndersenFairyTales] has folk and fairy tales with flash animation and narrations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|I'm Hans Christian Andersen Song] to introduce him.
 * [|Wordsift]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Grimm's Fairy Tales] - some have audio.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|SurLaLaune Fairy Tales] has annotations with definitions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Norwegian Folk Tales] - be sure to get the Firefox add-on for audio if desired.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Online Publishing & Lessons for Fairy Tales, Myths, Etc. from Scholastic]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Whootie Owl's Stories to Grow by] - choose by country, type of story, theme and age.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|FreeReading] is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Reading Rockets] has videos, podcasts, interviews with author and much more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Kidsreads.com] has videos, podcasts and much more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Primary Reading Games]

<span style="background-color: #c400ff; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; text-align: center;"> = = = = = = =__Just plain cool stuff to check out:__= [|Tactual Books]