Reading & Writing

Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes (Ages 1-6)
In these Mother Goose rhymes, some words are shown as icons, encouraging young children to "read" along!

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Teachers and librarians will appreciate this rich collection of reviews, curriculum ideas, and activities. Reviews are organized by title, author, type of book, and grade level, and educators can also look for ideas based on curriculum areas or themes. There's plenty here to help educators integrate literature into their curriculum.

The Compact for Reading
A School-Home Links containing activities for K-3 to improve early reading skills.

Book Adventure
Once they've started reading, keep them motivated. Use the Book Adventure to search for appropriate books (K-6 level). Students read and take a quiz to accumulate points to redeem for prizes.

ABC Teach
This is a great site for teachers of young children with many ideas for classroom use.The site includes a reading chart that encourages students to read different types of books as well as signs, cereal boxes, and a variety of different types of material. For creating books, there are shapes that can be printed, copied, and cut out for shape books where students can write a story. Printable research cards are available for students to use when they are learning basic research skills.

Syvum technologies Online Educational Activities
Language Arts skills can be honed using the online games and activities on this site. When a child completes a quiz or activity, an e-mail can be sent to a parent or teachers spreading the good news.

Reading Improvement
A number of publications are listed here to help parents and teachers improve the reading achievement and reading skills of all children.

TeacherViews
Written by grade K-8 teachers, TeacherViews describe favorite classroom books and related classroom activities.

KidBibs.com
This site provides teachers and parents with strategies to help children become good readers, writers and learners. KidBibs includes learning tips updated weekly, age-appropriate book lists, links, a simple tool to create a personalized bookmark and more.

Vocabulary University
This site offers "free vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. Exercises are endorsed by teachers to enrich classroom curriculum and to help prepare for the SSAT, GED, SAT, and ACT."

LearningPlanet
A website containing very appropriate activities for letter and number skill building for grades K-1. Simple to use.

The Reading Village
Reading and language arts teachers will fin lessons, resources, discussion groups and Cyberguides to frequently studied books. Based on California Elementary Reading Initiatives.

Absolute Whootie: Stories to Grow By
This collection of stories and tales from around the world includes a lesson plan and simple questions for each story. You can search the stories or see a complete list with descriptions, age range, and time required to read the story. Children are invited to illustrate stories and share their answers to end-of-story questions.

Theodore Tugboat
On the Theodore Tugboat web site, children choose from two interactive stories that allow them to decide the story's plot. The site is nicely illustrated and includes links to other Tugboat activities, as well as a collectible page.

Wild World of Words
This site offers a set of Web-based word puzzles for a variety of skills and levels.

Phonics Link
Phonics Link was created to help elementary educators stay informed about the newest research, resources, and classroom ideas in phoneme awareness and phonics. Teachers are invited to respond with lesson plans, questions and comments about book club selections.