HNU Reading

A website with all kinds of learning games for grades kindergarten through eighth grade. This could be a free choice option on the computer.

An online community of art sharing, art lessons, and art conversation. This is a great site for students to share their work and get feedback from a large audience.

An online library for people with print disabilities. Membership required. Access is free for qualifying students and schools in the United States.

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 can help differentiate reading levels of curriculum texts. It will reword/translate complex text into a text that is more accessible for decoding and comprehension purposes. This is an outstanding site for differentiating reading levels of curriculum text!!!! Make sure you do the demo and look at their new YouTube video. Easy to use!

Daily news articles written at multiple levels of complexity in order to provide a text that is accessible to students with ranges of abilities. Just click the appropriate Lexile on the right side of the page. There is an optional quiz for each article, and an ability to assign articles and track activity for groups of students.

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.

A website to learn and practice keyboard typing. There are four levels with twelve stages to complete!

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.

Find great books for your children or the children you teach. The #1 bestselling author James Pattersons site guides you through titles, reviews, and exclusive content on the books children will love, and readies you when they ask for more.

Official site of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat featuring games, printable activities, the complete illustrated character guide, information about creator Theodor Geisel and his books for kids, parent and teacher resources, and a photo gallery of his artwork.

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

Random House Kids is a hub for literature for children from toddlers to young adults. The site includes books in all formats including picture books, novels, comics, eBooks and apps.

Sponsored by the ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN a division of the American Library Association

ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. For kids age 2 to Kindergarten.

Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you can make and share on any device.

great book reviews, suggestions, reading lists, and monthly newletters.

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.