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Looking for some reading remediation? Search here for games, phonics activities, online stories, and poetry resources. Maybe you just need some helpful hints for the classroom. Please check out the literacy center links and printable posters!

Spin and Spell
A site which provides an enjoyable way to spell for children everywhere!

Storyline Online
The screen actors guild association provides you with an online streaming video program of books read aloud.

Magic Keys
Online children's stories for kids of all ages.

Giggle Poetry
Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.

Starfall
A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.

Reading Matrix
This database includes interactive online reading activities from around the Web.

Kaboose
Fun for Kids! Online Games with Reading.

Gamequarium
Phonics and phoneme activities.

Reading A-Z
Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach guided reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments.

PBS
Activities based on popular children's shows.

Poetry4Kids
This is Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry Playground. You can find funny poems, games, contests, lessons, a rhyming dictionary, and links to other poetry sites.

The Poem Machine
There are blanks that allow a person to type in various parts of speech and then choose a type of poem to be created. Similar to Madlibs.

Hubbards Cupboard
A website for early childhood educators and parents! This site includes printable books, assessment tools, alphabet centers, etc.

Busy Teacher's Cafe
Here you will find a wealth of information on how to create mini-offices for your students as well as downloadable sheets and links to other teachers' sites.

Runners
Racing Towards Reading Success
Reading comprehension visual clue

Authors Pie
Visual cue for the purposes of writing

Literacy Centers
A variety of pictures and descriptions of literacy center ideas

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