Websites
to Visit
Beginning
readers will enjoy using Wordmaker to create a list
of rhyming words by matching consonants and blends to common word endings
such as at. A suggestion: Children will gain
more from this activity with an experienced reader present to ensure
they select words that are meaningful to them. For example, the program
will accept fig and jig as real words. If children do not know what
fig and jig mean, they won’t understand why the Wordmaker accepted
them as real words and vig was rejected. Then the activity could simply
become random letter selection without meaning.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordmaker/
This
website is such fun! Delightful stories, reading games, songs,
and more. Parents will enjoy this site as much as their children
will. Ms. Scheu’s favorite is the song, "Fun With Chicken
Jane." Check it out and let her know which is your favorite.
http://www.pbskids.org/lions
Learn
about new books to read and review your old favorites. Enjoy stories
written by children in grades K-3 from across the United States. This
wonderful website presents the winning entries from Reading
Rainbow’s 9th Annual Young Writers and Illustrators Contest,
book reviews, activity pages and more.
http://www.pbskids.org/readingrainbow
These five sites are designed for 9- to 12- year-old kids. It’s
My Life addresses social, emotional, and physical issues, Don’t
Buy It challenges kids to become smart consumers. Backyard
Jungle deals with ecology. The Plastic Fork Diaries
follows six middle school characters as they explore what and how they
eat and food’s effect on their bodies. 3D & I
allows kids to test their eye at design and become active participants
in their three-dimensional world.
http://www.cpb.org/ed/5sites/
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. provides excellent suggestions
for sharing books with children of all ages.
http://www.rif.org/parents/
Jim
Trelease provides information and tips on reading books to
children.h
http://trelease-on-reading.com
An excellent site! Audio stories and a variety of literacy
activities. Also provides links to other great websites.
http://www.candlelightstories.com
An
excellent site about the web. An elementary school computer teacher
and a mom herself has created an excellent web site designed for parents
and students interested in everything you want to know about the web.
http://www.tekmom.com
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