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LoveToKnow: Kids
You'll find tons of useful resources on this channel to help you
with all aspects of reading for kids. You'll find articles such as
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons,
Preschool and Literacy and
Reading Games for Kids. You'll also want to take some time to
peruse the interview with reading expert Michael Maloney. He shares
tips about how to get your child to develop better reading habits,
what to do about reluctant readers and what you can do to encourage
a love of reading in your child that will last years to come. |
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Roy the Zebra
This fun site follows the adventures of a singing zebra named Roy.
You'll find reading games by grade level, so even the earliest
readers can enjoy this entertaining site. Another nice feature of
this site lies in the guided reading stories. These stories have
discussions that help with reading comprehension. You'll also find
matching worksheets that focus on things like capitalization,
punctuation and other good English skills. Roy is pretty
entertaining and they add new material from time to time. Your child
is sure to fall in love with this black and white striped mammal. |
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Book Adventure
This free reading program is brought to you by Sylvan Learning. It
is aimed at kids from kindergarten through eighth grade. Children
create a reading list from around 7,000 titles and read to earn
prizes. The
kids area offers contests, games, awards and tools. Tools
include things like links to other reading sites around the web.
Check out the
Prize Library to discover the types of prizes kids can work
toward earning. The site even offers a book finding wizard where
kids can put in their grade level and subjects that interest them
and get back a list of possible books to read. |
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Between the Lions
This site wants kids to "get wild about reading". You'll find a
ton of great resources for kids who love to read. The best place to
start is on the
Stories page. You'll find books on video in this section. Click
on the title and a video will load. As the video plays the book will
unfold for you. The words are up on the screen and highlighted as
they are read and the illustrations come to life for the reader.
Other areas on this site include topics such as reading games, video
clips and a special section to help parents and teachers with
reading activities. |
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Reading Lady
This is a nice resource for parents to use with their children who
are of reading age. In addition to a regular blog by the Reading Lady,
which gives hints and tips about comprehension and developing a love
of reading, you'll also find a section called
Readers' Theater. You'll find a nice collection of scripts to
use with kids. Theater based on children's stories can help bring
books to life for youngsters. You'll also find a nice collection of
strategies to help teach your child
reading comprehension. |
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Succeed to Read
This site encourages people to teach a child to read. There are
many children who need to learn better reading skills, so this site
focuses on resources that can help with that. You'll find tips about
auditory skills,
teaching new readers and even a
list of good books for children to read. If you want to delve
even deeper into the topic, you'll be able to compare different
systems of learning to read like phonics versus whole language. If
you have a budding writer on your hands, you may want to check out
the directions on how to
make your own book. |
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Kids Book Shelf
Dedicated to information on children's books. You'll find reviews
and discover new books through the featured books selection. Want to
learn a little more about your favorite authors? The Author
Spotlight area has in depth information on authors like Kathryn
Lasky and Jane Yolen. You'll also find poems and short stories
written by kids or be able to submit your own work. Learn more
about e-books and discover a few new ones. You'll also be able to
contact some authors, read a newsletter with updates and find out
what happened today in history. |
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Storynory
A huge collection of free audio stories for kids. You'll find
stories for every occasion and special, seasonal stories. For
example, your child may enjoy audio books such as The White Seal
and then spend some time listening to various Halloween stories.
There are stories for nearly every holiday and these will be
featured as that date nears. You'll want to check out the
original stories the site started with, spend a little time with
the Brothers Grimm and other
fairy tales and then listen to some
classic books for kids. |
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Clifford Interactive Storybooks
Many parents remember learning to read with Clifford, the big red
dog that wiggled his way into young readers' hearts. This site
offers some free resources that parents will appreciate. Read books
online like
Emily Elizabeth Goes to School. The books are highly
interactive, so even the most tech savvy early reader can enjoy
flipping through the electronic pages. The way the books work is
that the illustration from the book appears along with a few
sentences. The child can click an icon to have each sentence read.
The last sentence is a fill-in-the-blank and the child can choose to
change the story to whatever she wants by changing the word. |
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Starfall
The site was started as a public service site to help children
learn to read or to read better through the use of phonics. You'll
find two main sections related to actual reading. Those two sections
are
Learn to Read and
It's Fun to Read. In each section, you'll find books, games and
other activities to enhance various reading skills. Other areas of
the site support early and advanced skills. Preschool kids can learn
ABCs or letter sounds. Older students will appreciate delving into
more advanced books and reading nonfiction. |
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