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Read, click, and win with Book Adventure - a free, motivational reading program available to children in grades K-8.

This website allows students to develop a list of their favorite books that they can return to at anytime. After each book, there is a quiz to help students with their comprehension.

A collection of poetry for grade school students. There are poems by subject and a poetry theater. There is also a section to "read and rate" poems.

This is a post about a teacher's literacy centers in her second grade classroom. Click around her blog for more awesome ideas and resources.

This website provides news articles written for students in grades 2-8. Articles are about current events in news, entertainment, science technology-environment-animals-health, arts, sports and politics. These articles are great resources for students to read with educators in the classroom and parents at home.

Kids love reading graphic novels. Inspired by a previous post here about picture books. Could be very useful to upper grade teachers

Spellerz is an application in which users can practice their spelling and typing. Users must save the world from invading "spellerz" by using their typing skills to type the words that flash on the screen. The user can choose from eleven different word lists and select the number of words to be included in the game.

Free online phonics games for kids, phonics games for kindergarten, elementary, 1st grade and on. Alphabet games, reading games, spelling games and more!

Lesson Plan Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Students can use these printables to visualize how ideas fit together, and you can use them to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. The following learning tools can be used with any book and across all grade levels.

TEACHER RESOURCE for academic version of gameshow 'To Tell The Truth.' Gives the example of George Washington.

Okay, this is way more interesting! A good way to introduce terms character, setting, etc. to first graders.

I like how he goes through the text with them and he is explicitly teaching them ways to mark the text to go back and re-read or get clarification.