Reading & Writing

Authors

1. Random House
2. Blume, Judy (Double Fudge)
3. Borden, Louise
4. Brett, Jan
5. Brett, Jan (Online Games)
6. Creech, Sharon
7. Dahl, Roald
8. Fletcher, Ralph
9. George, Jean Craighead
10. Gibbons, Gail
11. Gutman, Dan
12. Hurst, Carol
13. Kids Read
14. Lemony Snicket’s Author Site
15. Pilkey, Dav
16. Reading Rockets
17. Scholastic Author and Illustrator
18. VanAllsburg, Chris
19. Yolen, Jane

Books

1. Project Gutenberg
2. Aesop Fables
3. BookFlix
4. Buckeye Children’s Book Award
5. Children’s Storybooks Online
6. Kids Reads
7. Stone Soup
8. Tumblebooks
9. Unite for Literacy
10. World Reading

English Language Learners (ELL)

1. Pearson SuccessNet
2. Starfall Learning to Read
3. Activities for ESL Students
4. Audio Concentration Game
5. Spelling City

Reference

1. Imagine Learning (NEW Student Login)

   Login page for Imagine Learning (works from school or home). First time users will need to enter the Site Code: 3904701 before entering their username and password.

2. Thinglink
3. Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI)
4. Anagram Maker

   Put in text and this site will give you a list of other words that can be made with the letters

5. FactMonster’s Dictionary
6. Gamequarium

   An education portal to learning games and activities. This sites has reading, math, social studies and science for pre-school through 6th grade

7. Goodreads (formerly Shelfari)

   Create a virtual library for your classroom.

8. Internet Public Library
9. Language Arts SMARTboard activities
10. Mad Libs

    Help your child with learning the parts of speech while creating stories.

11. Picture Dictionary
12. Rhyming Dictionary
13. Starfall

    Great site for early readers

14. Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus

    A collegiate dictionary

15. WordCentral Dictionary
16. Wordsmyth

    Wordsmyth allows students to choose between a beginning, children or advanced dictionary and pronounces the word for kids.

Writing Tools

1. fan.school
2. iMovie Trailer PDF’s

   iMovie trailer planners

3. Interactive Persuasion Map
4. Time Graphics

   Make your own timeline.

5. Powtoon

   Students can create animated slides and movies.

6. Timeline Maker

   Create a simple timeline with up to 12 events

7. Dance Mat Typing

   Online program to learn good keyboarding skills

8. Nitro Type

   Improve your keyboarding skills while competing in fast-paced races with typers from around the world.

9. Typing Club

   Learn to touch type using this free program

10. Animoto Login
11. Digital Literacy
12. AAASpell

    practice spelling words – unique to the child’s spelling list

13. Citation Maker-Elementary Version
14. Grammer Bytes

    Terms, exercises, presentations, etc.

15. Handwriting Worksheets

    Basic Handwriting for manuscript and cursive

16. Poetry Pages

    Lots of great poems by theme

17. Prefixes and Suffixes

    requires Shockwave plugins

18. Prezi

    create zooming presentations

19. Spelling Games

    Practice spelling words unique to a child’s spelling list

20. Story Jumper!

    Write an online story and add cool pictures!

21. Story Starters

    Create your own stories using the story starting machine. You can then chose a format to publish your story.

22. Typing Club

    Learn to touch type using this free program

23. Voki
24. Zimmer Twins

    Create your stories from scratch and make your own movie. So put on your director’s hat and you might just be our next featured movie maker!