Principal Denise Schwartz welcomes you aboard the H.R.R. Downes: Honesty, Respect, Responsibility


Activities & Events Calendar
Classrooms
Counselor's Corner
Digital Library
News & Announcements
Photo Album
PTA
Reading Resources
School Closings
School Nurse's Corner
Shark Bites Newsletter
Staff Directory
Volunteer / Donate


Outside Links:

Christina School District

DE School Profiles

National PTA

Vision 2015

Reading Resources

Janet Salacki
Janet Salacki, Reading/Literacy Coach

Please use the following links to help support your child at home. You can also check out additional links on the Downes Digital Library!

Phonics

  1. BBC-Words & Pictures Games
  2. Christina School District: Literacy Links
  3. Kiddonet: Phonics- Beginning Sounds
  4. Fun Brain: Words
  5. PBS Kids
  6. PBS: Between the Lions
  7. Primary Games: Language Arts
  8. ReadWriteThink: Picture Match (Letter/Vowel Sound Practice)
  9. ReadWriteThink: Word Family Sort
  10. Read Write and Think: Construct-a-Word
  11. ReadWriteThink: Word Wizard (Making Words Online!)
  12. Scholastic: Clifford Interactive Story Books
  13. Scholastic: Sound Match
  14. Scholastic: Make a Word
  15. Starfall.com: Learn to Read 
  16. DLTK: Alpha Buddies Activities
  17. Mrs. Alphabet: Word Families with Poems
  18. Songs for Teaching Spelling

back to top

Vocabulary

  1. A Game a Day: Language Arts
  2. BBC: Root Words
  3. BBC: Prefixes
  4. BBC: Suffixes
  5. Dictionary.com: A Word A Day
  6. English Zone: Contractions
  7. FunBrain: Words
  8. Merriam Webster Word Central
  9. Read Write and Think: Construct-a-Word>
  10. Scott Foresman Word Wise
  11. Dolch Word List (PP through 3rd)
  12. Dolch Word Bingo Cards
  13. Puzzlemaker

back to top

Spelling

  1. BBC: Homophones
  2. funbrain: Homonyms
  3. Harcourt: Spelling Word Builders
  4. Harcourt: Spelling Practice
  5. Harcourt: Spelling Practice for Word Endings
  6. Many Things: (-os and -oes)
  7. Primary Games: See N' Spell
  8. Songs for Teaching Spelling

back to top

Comprehension Skills

  1. BookPALS
  2. Christina School District: Literacy Links
  3. Classic Fairy Tales
  4. Cyberkids: Adventures of Sydney
  5. English Language Center (choose a level)
  6. English Zone: Comprehension Skills
  7. English Zone: Guessing Vocabulary in Context
  8. English Zone: More Guessing Vocabulary in Context
  9. Sebastian Swan
  10. PBS: Online Stories
  11. Reading Comprehension Connection
  12. ReadWriteThink: Flip A Chip Comprehension Building Game
  13. ReadWriteThink: What Is In the Bag Game (descriptive words)
  14. Story Place
  15. DLTK: Book Breaks Activities
  16. DLTK: Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhyme Activities
  17. Reading Comprehension Practice Sheets
  18. AdLit: All About Adolescent Literacy

back to top

Thanks to Gallaher Elementary for sharing their resources!

John R. Downes Elementary School • 220 Casho Mill Road • Newark, DE 19711 • Tel. (302) 454-2133