Sight words are important to boost the speed of children’s reading.
Let’s learn the Dolch sight words together!
Reading with children!
Children learn to love the sound of language before they even notice the existence of printed words on a page. Reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world.
Types of Books
Thinking of varying the types of book for your children?
Here might be a great help!
- Animal books
- Books about everyday events
- Folktales and fantasy books
- Books about everyday problems
- Books that describe feelings
- Adventure stories
- Silly books
- Books that invite participation
- Rhyming books
- ABC books
- Books made by family members
Free Reading Websites
Teachers and parents have limited time when it comes to finding FREE, high-quality online resources for their children.
Below are links to few reading websites which are FREE!
Storyline Online
Since 1993, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation has been committed to championing children’s literacy. ‘Storyline Online’ features professional actors reading notable children’s books and extending supplemental activities for each book co-developed by an early literacy specialist. Content is available online 24/7 free of charge — and ultimately is intended to ensure that every child with Internet access can be read (and enjoy the benefits of) a bedtime story.
Click here to the website 🙂
Read To Me
A Pearson Foundation Initiative, We Give Books offers students a unique opportunity to read for social good. Each book that is read results in a book that is donated to a charity for children. While the books are not read aloud, they allow students to practice “Read to Self” with a good fit book during center time. There are books for children in preschool through fourth grade.
Click here to the website 🙂
Starfall
Some areas of Starfall are part of their premium service, they have many early reader stories available for free. Students can follow along as the story is read to them and can, in some instances, help create their own story. The website is highly engaging and a favorite of young readers.
Click here to the website 🙂
International Children’s Digital Library
Discover books from around the world at the International Children’s Digital Library. The free site does not read the books aloud, but students can read them independently during Read to Self or free time. This is a great site for extension activities when learning about different regions of the world and can be used effectively into the middle school grades.
Click here to the website 🙂
ABCya!
Children can listen to short stories read aloud to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. ABCya! has a variety of educational games in addition to the featured stories. Free resources and materials are available for grades K through 5.
Click here to the website 🙂
Storynory
Storynory features a collection of original, fairytale, and classic children’s audio stories. Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site. There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more.
Online Reading Games
http://www.educationworld.com
Here is a list of online games which you can play for the purpose of teaching reading 🙂
Do you have your favourite sites?
Feel free to share in the links.
Thanks!
Teaching of Phonics
Phonics is nothings new 🙂
Its just that many teachers are still having doubts whether this method  can do wonders to their struggling readers.
Now, what is Phonics??
Phonics is one of the many ways to teach beginner readers. It makes children learn the relationships between letters and sounds. For example, the letter b represents the sound /b/ such as in ball, boy and big.
Want to know more on Phonics?
Try to jump in to Reading Rockets. Its one of the best websites to assist everyone in understanding more on Phonics. Happy reading!
This Blog?
Hi there!
Are you wondering what this blog is about?
#takenfromtheinternet
Well, let me share with you some of the materials which will be uploaded in this blog and yes, feel free to share.
Here is the list:
- Learning Difficulties
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics Games
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