LANGUAGE ARTS WEBSITES

ABC ya!
Interactive activities by grade, K-5

The Best Children's Books.org
Helps teachers find children's literature that supports various language arts skills and concepts

Between the Lions
Show on PBS (replaced The Letter People)

Billybear
This site offers games, clipart, storybooks, and lots of safe links for children and parents.

BookPals Storyline Online
Books read by famous people--wonderful site!

Cando's Helper Page
Reading activities for primary grades 

Carl's Corner
A fabulous resource for primary teachers

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
A collection of reviews of great books for kids, and activities for teachers about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes, and professional topics.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks
Fun Clifford site.

Dolch Word
Dolch word resources including free printable Dolch word lists, flashcards, and online games. There are bright, colorful printables and fun interactive games to help children practice the Dolch words to help with early reading skills. There are different games for each Dolch list from pre-primer to third grade

Enchanted Learning
Great sites to visit for children.

Forever Young Readers Theatre Scripts
Collection of readers theater scripts

Handwriting for Kids
Handwriting worksheets and lined paper to print out for manuscript and cursive

Into the Book
Great site for teachers and students to teach comprehension skills

Kizclub
Go to Resources for flashcards story patterns to go with many popular children's books, nursery rhymes, etc.

Land of Nursery Rhymes
Collection of nursery rhymes

Leveled Books Database
Leveled books database from A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lil Fingers-Toddler & Preschool Kids
Toddler stories, Original educational Lil' Fingers Storybooks online.

MightyBook
Usually, about 50 selections are free; access to all selections is by subscription; good for the interactive whiteboard

Nicky's Nursery Rhymes
Lots of nursery rhymes and other songs, many with coloring pages

NiteOwl's Coloring Pages for Nursery Rhymes
Coloring pages of Nursery Rhymes

PBS Kids
Educational games and videos from Curious George, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!

Poems and songs
Collection of poems and songs

Primary Success
Free little books to download

Printing and writing practice
Printing and writing practice pages

Puzzles
This site allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments.read-write-think: standards-based resources for teaching reading and language arts

Reading First
Click on Games for online alphabet and sound games

Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays (from Teaching Is a Work of Heart)
Readers Theater

Reading Resources
Interactive Reading Games for Young Children that teach Letter Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle (Basic & Advanced Code), Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension!

RIF Reading Planet
Read-Along Stories & Songs. Enjoy reading and singing along to these fun, animated stories!

Rimes and Rhymes
Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy

Roomrecess.com
Free educational online games for children that reinforce the skills that are vital to elementary students.

Roy Tale of a Singing Zebra
Free interactive literacy games and the story of Roy the Zebra with questions, activities, and worksheets

Scholastic Family Playground
Kids and parents can explore and play learning games, read stories, and get printables for Clifford, I SPY, Magic School Bus, and more.

Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard
Leveling book resource

Slime Kids
SlimeKids is a user-friendly website where students can research, watch book trailers, play games, and access literacy-related resource

Spellcheck|
Improve your spelling skills. Fun game teaches spelling. For kids and children of all ages and grades.

SpellingCity.com
Great site to put your spelling words online for students to practice

Starfall
Starfall has interactive books and word games for long and short vowels.

Story It Word Magnets
Practice making sentences with short and long vowel words

Storyline Online
Great site for listening to stories. Children can follow along as it is closed captioned.

Storynory
Free audio stories for kids (can download to computer or iPod)

World of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
Click on Meet the Characters and then Story Time to have abbreviated versions of three Potter classics read

Woodlands Literacy Zone
Interactive literacy activities

WritingFix for Kids
Kids create their own writing prompts; stories may be written on- or offline

AUTHORS

Jan Brett
Fantastic home page of Jan Brett, children's book author and illustrator. Lots of postcards, activities, coloring pages, videos, and more.

The Official Berenstain Bears Website
Activities, story videos, email the bears

Marc Brown
Developed with the help and advice of Arthur creator Marc Brown, the ARTHUR site is organized into pages hosted by the series' characters, each with features that encourage kids to read and write.

Children's Books Forever
Many Hans Wilhelm books to print out or use on SMART Board
Steven Kellogg
Learn more about this wonderful author and illustrator.

Tomie dePaola
This is a web site "devoted" to Tomie dePaola.

RobertMunsch.com
Robert Munsch tells many of his stories, including Love You Forever

Dav Pilkey
Award-winning children book author/illustrator Dav Pilkey offers his Web Site O-Fun as silly fun for kids of all ages. It includes interactive games, fun things to print and many other wonderfully goofy things.

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit and Friends
At this site learn about Beatrix Potter and her wonderful books.

SeussvilleWelcome to Seussville, brought to you by Random House, Inc. Lots of fun information and activities.