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Amazing Adventure-The Amazing Adventure Series features online read-along stories for primary students.

Antbee-Read-along online stories. There is a “Story of the Month.”  For more stories, click on “More Stories” (Primary).

Book Adventure-Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc.

Brainchild-This site offers Web-based assessment and multimedia instruction on each of your state standards. Click on "Choose your state." Under New York there are a list of assessments for grades 3-12 for math and reading.

Brainconnection-This site includes interesting research on how young children learn.  The site also contains interactive brainteasers that address letter names, phonemic awareness and other language and reading skills.  Make sure you check out Reading Rover: A FREE tool for teachers! Created by leaders in brain research, Brain Connection’s Reading Rover is a set of useful measuring tools to help educators and parents evaluate phonemic awareness and language and reading skills in children (Pre-K-3).

Children's Storybooks Online-This Web site has numerous animated and interactive stories online (Grades Pre-K-5).

Funbrain Reading-This portion of the site offers an online Mad Libs game and online books (Grades 3-6).

Get Ready To Read–This site has resources for educators to help prepare children to read.  The site also contains online books, games, cards, and literacy checklists (K-2).

International Children’s Digital Library –This site offers numerous full story children’s books digitally. The books are interactive and are great to use on a SMART Board (Grades Pre-K-6).

Interactive Reading Pages-On TV411’s interactive Reading pages, students get practical practice in Finding Faulty Logic, Reading Charts and Graphs, Reading Maps, Scanning for Specifics, Summarizing and Using Context Clues.

Jayzeebear-The Web site has online stories, and math problems (K-5).

Kids Lab –This site offers online interactive practice on finding the main idea in a short paragraph.  Great with a SMART Board! Choose the appropriate grade level in the upper right hand corner of the site (Grades K-3).

Online Talking Stories–This site offers numerous links to a variety of online stories for grades Pre-K-5.

PBS Kids Between the Lions–This PBS show gets wild about reading.  Students may click on stories on the tabs at the top of the web page.  This site also offers games, songs, and printable pages (Pre-K-3).

PBS Kids–This site contains stories about Clifford, Arthur and other PBS characters.  There are games; activities; crafts; printable sheets; meet the cast of the TV show; visit the studios; learn to draw the characters; and more (K-3).

Reading is Fundamental–Poetry Splatter-Writing poems has never been so much fun. Using Poetry Splatter is easy. Students simply choose a poem title from a list. When they see their poem frame, they fill in the blanks with words that are spattered onto the screen.

Reading Quest–This site has strategies for reading comprehension and a list of graphic organizers that are printable with instructions (K-12).

Sesame Workshop-This site has quite a selection of games. Cookie Monster has a great pattern game that requires you to add food items to continue a pattern or to insert items in the middle of a pattern.  Burt asks you to help him sort his bottle caps into a double Venn Diagram (K-2).

SCORE–This site offers teacher ELA resources, including novel cyber guides (also Foreign Language), graphic organizers, and more (K-12). 

Starfall-The Starfall learn-to-read site is an excellent way to inspire students with a love of reading and writing.  The Web site features phonics activities, online interactive stories, and much more (K-2).

Story Place-This site has stories grouped by theme.  These stories read themselves to the children.  After reading the stories you can do on-line activities, print out take home sheets and look at reading lists that can steer you toward related stories. This site is also available in Spanish (K-3).

Teachers at Random House-This site contains activities for novels they publish, and teacher’s guides (K-12).

Web English Teacher–This site offers numerous ELA activities, including novel activities, grammar/mechanics, and ESL activities (K-12).

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