Reading

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By far the best site I’ve seen on teaching reading comprehension skills.

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

Shmoop.com has got it going on.  Amazing literary guides for free!  Other teacher resources for purchase.

http://www.shmoop.com/

Flocabulary* offers educational hip-hop.  They have amazing writers at this site.  Site requires subscription, but they do have a FREE TRIAL!

http://flocabulary.com/

Check out these free scripts for Reader’s Theater.  Even your most reluctant readers will be excited by these.

http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html

Tumblebooks* has hundreds of animated stories and comprehension quizzes.  Great quality illustrations and reading voices.  Includes popular children’s book titles.

http://tumblebooks.com/

Does your school have iPad’s or e-readers?  Need free eBooks?  Project Gutenberg has a large selection of titles.  The best part is it is all free!

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Reading A-Z* has fluency practice, vocabulary and phonics.

http://www.readinga-z.com/

Starfall has so many resources for early readers.

http://www.starfall.com/

 

Animated Stories

Love the Big Red Dog?  Check out Clifford tails (ha!) here.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

A selection of song, stories, and rhymes for your young reader.

http://www.mightybook.com/story_songs.html

Enchanted by story tellers?  They are the mothers of modern literacy.  Donna Washington is amazing, these tales– classics!

http://www.cmlibrary.org/bookhive/zingertales/zingertales.asp#Donna Washington

From the creators of Between the Lions, PBS has created this wonderful list of animated/video stories.

http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/