Loyalsock Township School District

• Brain Child(Grades 3-8 consisting of online assessment tools aligned with PA state standards)
• Spelling Time  (Play word games to build your spelling and vocabulary skills)
• Learn to Read (Online books and reading activities)
• Game Goo (Lots of great reading, math games and activities)
• Reading Adventures (Interactive books and reading adventures)
• Knowledge Adventure  (Fun reading, spelling, and word games as well as math and science games)
• Fun School Kaboose (Tons of reading activities and games as well as other fun learning activities)
• Word Family Sort  (Fun word family activities)
• Story Town Resources
• James V. Brown Library
• Study Island
• Star Fall (Designed for first grade, but is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade)
• ABCYA (Leader in educational computer games for kids, created by teachers and parents)
   

Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Exercises and Activities

• Scholastic Reading and Language Arts Content Index -provides a variety of lesson plans, reproducible, and activities in reading and language arts.
• Power Proofreading -students select their grade level and must proofread selections of text and correct the errors.
• Online Reading Skills -provides mini-stories with close exercises, speed reading exercises, and other reading passages with activities.
• CNN Interactive Reading Source– provides current and archived articles for students to read and then answer comprehension, vocabulary and sequence questions.
• New York Times Learning Network – provides students in grades 3-12 with news summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day, test prep question of the day, daily lesson plans, news snapshot, and more.
• Sadlier Oxford Phonics Activities – a great wealth of phonics activities for grades K-6.
• Scholastic Explorers – students read and interact with information about explorers such as Native American cultures, ocean life, endangered environments, and more.
• Language Arts WebQuests – WebQuests are Internet activities that promote critical thinking in students as they solve real world tasks in an inquiry based learning environment using reading, comprehension and problem solving skills.
• Book Adventure – a free reading motivation program similar to Accelerated Reader for children in grades K-8. The site allows students to create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles.  The students then take multiple-choice quizzes on the books they’ve read in print and are eligible to earn points and prizes. The students must register to use the site; however, registration is free.

Spelling and Grammar Activities

• Interesting Things for ESL Students -word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more.
• Prefix Skills – provides matching, concentration, word search and flash cards on prefixes.
• Grammar Gorillas – an activity to select the correct part of speech.
• Rooting Out Words -students must select the appropriate root of the words.
• Paint by Idioms -students practice selecting the correct idiom.
• Measuring Time -a close activity for children.

Authors and Thematic Units

• Tall Tales – provides numerous links with information and activities on tall tales
• Research Starters – allows students to read information to get ideas for starting research on a variety of topics.
• The First Thanksgiving – reading materials and activities about the first Thanksgiving.
• Immigration – reading materials and activities about immigration and Ellis Island

Writing Activities

• Writing Workshop – Scholastic provides interactive lessons for writing on oral history. It provides a mini lesson and information on pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, reviewing, and publishing.
• Poetry for Kids – provides numerous links with poetry information and activities.
• Poetry Express – provides tips and techniques and ideas for writing poetry.
• Young Writers Workshop – students can select a story, print out the graphic and story starter and finish the story on the lined paper.

Student Publishing and Activities

• Folktale Writers Workshop – students learn from two authors about writing folktales.  The students learn how to write folk tales, brainstorm ideas and can publish their folk tales on the web.
• Houghton Mifflin Current Events – provides a news article, quiz, word game, and a place for students to share their feelings on news topics

Tools

• Interactive Venn Diagram – students enter a title and information for the two circles and then can add words and drag them to the appropriate part of the Venn Diagram.  Students can print the Venn Diagram.
• Stapleless Book – allows students to select several format to create a simple book that can be printed.
• Interactive Timeline – allows students to create timelines.
  

The Title I Parent Resource Center at Schick Elementary has a variety of learning resources and activities for parents of Title I eligible students to check out to help you work with your child at home.

Activities available allow students to practice reading skills taught in the classroom. The activities reinforce letter identification, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension. All resources include ideas for use and many can be used independently. All games and activities include directions and are fun for the whole family.

• Reading Rockets -great resources for teaching children to read and helping struggling readers.
• PDE-SAS (Standards Aligned System) -for teachers
• Internet 4 Classrooms -online skill building activities for grades K through 8
• Storytown Resources
• No Child Left Behind, Help My Child Read
• Florida Center for Reading Research -great site for literacy centers.
  

• Just for Kids Who Love Books: a great site with links to many authors
• Jan Brett: a wonderful site by a wonderful author
• Robert Munsch: listen to him read his books
• Children’s Books Forever: Many Hans Wilhelm books to print out or use on SMART Board
  

• SpellingCity.com: great site to put your spelling words online for students to practice
• Read-write-think: standards-based resources for teaching reading and language arts
• Starfall: interactive books and word games for long and short vowels
• Mrs. Alphabet: alphabet ideas
• Handwriting for Kids: handwriting worksheets and lined paper to print out for manuscript and cursive
• Primary Success: free little books to download
• Between the Lions: show on PBS with games, stories, and video clips
• Words and Pictures: short and long vowel games and things to print out
• Reading Workshop: online examples, practice, and printable materials for phonemic awareness, phonics, word study skills, vocabulary, comprehension; integrated units available
• Writing Fix for Kids: kids create their own writing prompts; stories may be written on- or offline
• Story It Word Magnets: practice making sentences with short and long vowel words
• Kizclub: Go to Resources for flashcards story patterns to go with many popular children’s books, nursery rhymes, etc.
• Roy Tale of a Singing Zebra: free interactive literacy games and the story of Roy the Zebra with questions, activities, and worksheets
• Reading First: Click on Games for online alphabet and sound games
• Carl’s Corner: a fabulous resource for primary teachers
  

• Portland Public Schools Leveled Books Lists: trade books by grade level and Reading Recovery level
• Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard

• Nicky’s Nursery Rhymes: lots of nursery rhymes and other songs, many with coloring pages
• Land of Nursery Rhymes
• Rimes and Rhymes: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy
  

• Giggle Poetry
• Poetry Teacher: teaching poetry
• Poems and Songs
  

• Readers Theater Scripts and Plays (from Teaching Is a Work of Heart)
  

• Mighty Book: usually about 50 selections are free; access to all selections is by subscription; good for interactive whiteboard
• RobertMunsch.com: Robert Munsch tells many of his stories, including Love You Forever
• BookPals Storyline Online: books read by famous people–wonderful site!