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The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be used at school or at home. It's one of the most comprehensive interactive literacy resources on the net that is freely accessible... no area of the site is password protected. RTZ also aims to make life easier for educators who teach reading skills. You'll never be more than 3 clicks (...if that!) away from what you need. Recently over 360 educators assessed the effectiveness of the resources on www.roythezebra.com - 100% of the respondents agreed that RTZ had helped their pupils become better readers, 100% agreed that the site made reading fun and 100% said that they would use RTZ in the future. You can view the survey results at the about page. What can I find on this website? 1. Fun Interactive Reading Games that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or computers. The games focus on all aspects of teaching early literacy covering the following subject areas: * Capital letters * Full stops * Words that rhyme * High frequency words * Alphabetical order * Question marks * Singular or plural * Long vowel phonemes * Does it make sense? * Words within words * Double consonants 2. The Original RTZ Guided Reading Story A delightful nine part story about Roy the zebra's daring escape from the worst zoo in the world and his search for his herd. The story comes complete with: * Literacy worksheets * Before reading discussion sheets * After reading discussion sheets 3. Lesson Plans Each interactive literacy game comes complete with a lesson plan that gives practical step-by-step guidance on how to use the games in the classroom and in computer suites. The lesson plans are packed full of literacy resources that can be printed. Each resource is designed to support the teaching of literacy and to make the educator's life easier (no more late nights creating

From one place, you can search for literacy-related content across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Explore the power of language! This collection of video segments, activities and lesson plans from public television focuses on literacy skills for early childhood readers through high school students.

Scott Foresman Reading Street Grade Level Websites

A free Website that allows teachers (or students and parents) to enter their own spelling words. The students can then learn the words, play games with the words, and take a test on the words. Now, the site has added a gradebook feature. The site works great with the SMART Board or other interactive whiteboards.