HNU Reading

Your children will love these free kindergarten reading lessons! Feel free to use them for individual reading units in any of the reading sub-skills, including Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary, Sight Words, and Reading Comprehension, or plan your entire reading day around these 5 freebies. Phonics Beginning Consonants Vol.

Latest Audio Stories Children's Stories that Adults Can Enjoy Too Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. All our stories are beautifully read by professional actors. We have books and poems by classic authors. We have fairytales from around the world. We have myths and legends. This is a great home resource for kids that are struggling at school.

Site offers lots of free reading games and online resources for kids and parents.

Collection of clips set to music showcasing frogs and toads

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world. This site is an incredible resource for free professional development, instructional videos, etc. Teachers can use it in the classroom, and parents and students can use it at home as well.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards. This is an incredible website for teachers, parents and students alike. I have utilized it numerous times in various capacities. It has lots of great features, but the monthly subscription is also very affordable.

This site offers lots of great advice, tips on how to utilize your smartboard in the classroom, and also free lesson plans for your smartboard.

Searchable online literature. Books by famous authors. Author Biography's. Literature Quotes

This site has an updated list of popular nonfiction that teachers or students could browse by category. You can also search the site for nonfiction books by title or author.

This website contains sources for teachers as well as podcasts about teaching reading. Sources include information about authors, experts and effective strategies that teachers could use.

This article is about teachers using technology to assist their students in learning to read.

Book clubs, meetings where adults get together in person or online to discuss books that they have read, have gained popularity in recent years. Book clubs for kids and their parents, including mother-daughter book clubs, father-son book clubs, and parent-child book clubs, have also become popular.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Find poems, poets, poetry news, articles, and book reviews. Browse for poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, John Keats, or search through 100 years of Poetry magazine in the archive.

Books shelved as multicultural: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Henry's Freedom Bo...

Children's Literature Network connects, informs, and educates those who have an interest in children's and teen books, authors, and illustrators. Our community includes people who are passionate about encouraging young people to read.

A book list from the National Association for Multicultural Education of award winning multicultural books for children and educators.

This site has a lot of reading passages that are leveled. Also comprehension and Novel Study units

5 characteristics of a story in rap!!! Plot, character, conflict, theme, setting

This is another resource for teachers seeking out high quality multicultural/global children's literature.

Interactive, multiple-modality tool for a figurative language lesson. After viewing, students may write their own rap, song, or poem integrating figurative language.