1. ABC's Let's Get Ready to Read Center A Thematic Unit for Kindergartners (A CCSD standards-based unit) Reading Activities
2. Aesops Fables From Mighty Books New! 2011
3. Aesops Fables New! 2011
4. AesopSITE Animated fables, beautiful illustrations, read alouds
   New! 2011
5. Alpha Bricks Identify letters with Alpha Pig. Uses only lower case, only upper case, or mixed depending on your choice.
6. Arthur's Website Hosted by PBS, this is the homepage of Marc Brown's Arthur, the aardvark.
7. Authors and Illustrators From the Children's Literature Web Guide, information about children's authors and illustrators and their books.
8. Binky's Facts and Opinions Decide if Francine and Buster are saying facts or opinions New! 2011
9. Binky's Story Scramble Help Binky put the story in the right order.
10. Character Scrapbook Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.
11. Comic Creator Interactive site that allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). New! 2011
12. Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending and then adding a beginning letter or blend.
13. Cookie's Letter of the Day Help Cookie Monster find words that start with the Letter of the Day.
14. Dog's Letter Pit Practice spelling words by matching letters to their sound.
15. Dr. Stripp Sequencing with comics
16. Fairy Tales BBC Story Time New! 2011
17. Folk Tales and Fables From Between the Lions w/ Mini movies
    New! 2011
18. Fuzzy Lion Ears Finish the word by matching the letter to its' sound.
19. Jan Brett A Thematic Unit for First Graders (A CCSD standards-based unit)
    Activities to explore stories written by Jan Brett.
20. Jan Brett's Home Page Projects for teachers, activities for kids
21. Kids Authors & Illustrators: Websites New! 2011
22. Letters to Big Bird Identify what letter each object's word starts with.
23. Let's Meet Jan Brett A WebQuest designed for Second or third Grade Language Arts Teacher recommended!
24. Phonics Fun For Early Readers - Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at. Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture.
25. Picture Match is designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowels sounds through a simple, fun game. New!
26. Plot Diagram Interactive organizational tool to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories. New! 2011
27. Pounce Choose the correct word based on the sound.
28. Rhyming BBC Literacy A fun and interactive animated game to help children at KS1 with rhyming words.
29. Sadler Phonics Use your knowledge of letters, sounds, and words as you try out the games and activities Teacher recommended!
30. SpeakaBoo Short read-alouds, stories go full screen, many stories are free of charge New! 2011
31. Storybook Creator This game is about creating a storybook and learning about sentences and what words mean New! 2011
32. Story Map The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.New! 2011
33. Timeline Creating timelines with this tool becomes an engaging activity for students as they choose from five different units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other) and add specific descriptions of each entry. New! 2011
34. SEUSSVILLE Based on popular Dr. Seuss books. Fun activities. Games require Shockwave
35. TES Literacy: Traditional Tales Retell tales: fairy, folk and fables New! 2011
36. TES Literacy: Narrative Text New! 2011
37. Word Wheel 1 a multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in CVC words.
38. What's the Story? Help decide the who, what, where, when of your story New! 2011
39. Word Wheel 2 a multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters.

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1. Arcademic Skill Builders Choose Language Arts for games about Antonyms, Synonyms, Vowels, Spelling, Parts of Speech, Verb tense and more. New! 2011
2. Book Cover Guide Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers.
3. Character Scrapbook Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.
4. Comic Creator Interactive site that allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). New! 2011
5. Different Types of Poem for Kids Here are some different types of poems to try in your classroom. This site has great definitions and examples of poetry for kids.
6. Fractured Fairy Tales Students turn familiar fairy tales upside down and inside out—and to have fun. New! 2011
7. Haiku
8. Instant Poetry Forms Choose your form of poetry then add words to make your own poem.
9. Kerpoof Use the Kerpoof Picture Maker to allow students to create a picture to write a story about or create Kerpoof scenes for students to use as the basis to write a letter about. Use the Kerpoof Movie Maker to allow students to write and produce their own eMovie. (Free Registration Required) New! 2011
10. Letter Generator tool is designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and then generate letters by typing information into letter templates.
11. Little Bird Tales is a good way for younger students to create fiction and non-fiction digital stories: students can upload their own artwork, record their voice, and add text. Web 2.0. Free registration required. New! 2011
12. The Magic Key Fun literacy activities
13. Pattern Sentences Drag the words around to make the pattern sentence. Whiteboard friendly! New! 2011
14. PicLits creative writing website that generates words to match the picture. Excellent resource for focusing on using more descriptive words. You do not need an account to use. New! 2011
15. Plot Diagram Interactive organizational tool to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories. New! 2011
16. Poems: Acrostic In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems.
17. Poems: Diamante In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems.
18. Poems: Shape A shape poem is a poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.
19. Scholastic Story Starter First generate a creative story starter, pick a format, and print your story!!. New! 2011
20. See 'N Spell Have fun with magnetic letters.
21. Spell a Picture from Kerpoof
22. Spelling City Input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help. Teacher Recommended
23. Storybird Someone starts a Storybird by writing a few words or grabbing a few images. Then the other person takes a turn, adding more words and pictures. In as little as one or two turns they can finish and share a Storybird. They can do it sitting side-by-side or across the country from each other. Web 2.0, Free registration required. New! 2011
24. Story Map The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.New! 2011
25. Timeline Creating timelines with this tool becomes an engaging activity for students as they choose from five different units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other) and add specific descriptions of each entry. New! 2011
26. Word Tamer Creative writing help. Interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories”. IWB friendly Grades 2-6 New! 2011
27. Writing with Writers: Poetry Scholastic offers this poetry resource for grades 1–8. There are tips from authors of children’s poetry, a teacher’s guide, step-by-step workshops, and more.

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1. StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library StoryPlace, presented in both English and Spanish, offers children the opportunity to view online stories, participate in interactive activities, and print activity pages. Requires Flash plug-in. K-2

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BBC Interactives for Reading, Writing and Spelling & Grammar

Interactive White Board Games: Language Arts A collection of interactive whiteboard games from PBS KIDS. Works well on White Boards and for individual students.

Read Write Think offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom.

Starfall Make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing.

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