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Reading Resources

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
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 Vocabulary

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


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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

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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

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Thanks to Gallaher Elementary for sharing their resources!

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