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Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.The reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

I have gotten really great reading strategies from this website.

This site has a ton of reading tips, strategies, lessons, technological resources, and activities geared to help parents, teacher, and all involved with teaching/learning reading! There are author interviews here as well!

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

Raz-Kids is an online and print reading program. All their books you can print, show on the big screen, or read online. Each book comes with activity sheets and other extension activities. The online program allows kids to listen to a book be read to them or they can read it themselves. They are also able to take a comprehension quiz in the end. The program has levels A-Z and the teacher is able to place the student at the appropriate reading level. My students love the program, and they are in 5th grade. The readers for the online book read with such great expression, some of the images move and there is sometimes background noise to help students connect to what they are reading.

I also began using this program this year when I got a free year of it! It is great and I really want our school to get it for everyone next year. I love pulling up books on the smart board and letting students come up to point and read the books to us! So useful!

Thanks Amanda! I have added this to my DIIGO and plan to share it with my team.

This site explains what reading literacy is (the ability to read and write), why reading is important, how to encourage reading, and skills that are essential to be able to read. The site also has links to other sites with activities and ideas for reading

Six areas of research supporting reading as an activity in different ways.

Whether you use a reading workshop approach or not, guided reading is a component of literacy that many K-5 teachers use in their classroom. I want our sessions to have a comfortable feeling where students can ask questions, try new strategies, and work together to become more strategic readers.

Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can find a book, take quizzes on what they've read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Start your reading adventure below or explore the site.

Free interactive reading games, perfect for using with your interactive whiteboard or on a computer. Words that rhyme, full stops, capital letters, high frequency words and much more... Nine part online guided reading story, comes with literacy worksheets and discussion sheets. You can use it in the classroom on your smartboard or computers.

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

Lexia Reading is a technology-based system of differentiated practice, embedded assessment, and targeted reading instruction. It's designed to advance foundational reading skills for students in prekindergarten through grade 4 and accelerate reading development forat-risk students in grades 4-12.

Here's a cool idea for using reading to connect students around the world.

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) was created by Congress and charged with the task of evaluating different approaches used to teach children to read and assessing the effectiveness of each.

See what your friends are reading. Create virtual bookshelves for your books to keep track of what you've read. Discuss your favorite books in a book club. Share quotes and book summaries with your friends. A fun way to find great books!

This is an awesome site for personal and classroom use! Create a virtual bookshelf to share what you've read, what you are reading, and what you want to read. Students can join book clubs, review books, and discuss with classmates.

i love this and have shared it with my friends, co-workers and students.

Not pushing this learning system. Don't know a thing about it. However, CAR is a great interaction pattern for parents/teachers of developing readers during storybook reading and there are other dialogic reading and reading resources linked at this site.

Reading games that can be used on smartboards.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy.

I have used this in my class!

Creative way to teach reading and writing especially to the emergent, early/beginning readers. Through reading and writing poetry your children will be able to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination about silly to serious topics. We read and write lots of different poetry in first grade. Here you'll find poems for each month of the year.

This site gives before, during and after reading ideas. I like the "thinkmark" idea... I had never heard of it before. Sounds like a neat way to have students respond to reading.

This is a remarkable site. Access to free, great books for your students and an opportunity to earn free books for your classroom or others through the "Read for My School" campaign.

If you haven't registered an account and started using this site with your kids, the question becomes, "WHY NOT?!"

I use this site with my students and it really is great!

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!