Learning to Read
Children's Digital Library
-Books from many languages on line! Select a book category, or search. This site is free; an optional library account adds some extra functions (keep records, remember the last page read, remember preferences). The target audience is ages 3 to 13.
Index:
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The Kindergarten Page
-page link
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Language Skills
-spelling, vocabulary
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English Language Learners
-page link
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Learning to Read
Letter Sounds-beginning consonants (3 levels)
Letter Sounds 2-Blends-beginnings like cl, cr, bl
Letter Sounds-'S' Blends
-beginnings like st, sl, sp
Letter Sounds-Short Vowels
-beginning sounds are short vowel sounds
Letter Sounds-Long Vowels
-beginning sounds are long vowel sounds
Learn to Read at Starfall.com
-follow the steps to reading. This site is for pre-readers to early readers, with animated lessons and stories.
Reggie the Rhyming Rhino
-play this rhyming word game from Scholastic
Phonics Games and Activities
(from Sadlier-Oxford Publishing)-Graded phonics lessons in game form.
Stories from the BBC (Listen and read along):
The Little Animals Activity Centre-
Word and number games, puzzles, activities.
Read stories with Story Bear, or listen to them! For kindergarten to grade 2.
Blue Cow
& other stories (The Storymaker)
Hansel and Gretel
(Something Special Stories)
Stories and Rhymes
(CBeebies Stories Index)
Bailey's Book House
-The classic package is now online with nine activities that help you learn letter names and sounds, rhyming words, compound words, adjectives, and more. Click the GO button beside the Book House icon. For pre-Kindergarten to emergent readers. [Teacher's Guide and resources are available at
Learning Resources
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Printable books from Enchanted Learning-for early readers
Children's Digital Library
-Books from many languages on line! Select a book category, or search. This site is free; an optional library account adds some extra functions (keep records, remember the last page read, remember preferences). The target audience is ages 3 to 13.
National Geographic Kids online
-Stories (including the archives), activities, maps, and more. For grades 2 to 6.
Storyline Online
-NEW! Listen and read along on video to children's books read by members of the Screen Actor's Guild–maybe someone you know, like Elijah Wood! >>>>
TumbleBook Library-
(Access through Greater Victoria Public Library)-
•Click on the TumbleBooks link for animated picture book stories and non-fiction, with audio. These books are chosen for young readers, and rated for reading levels by grade range, such as K-2 or 1-4.
•The TumbleReadables link takes you to a read along collection-early readers, chapter books, Middle School, classics, more! Books are also rated for reading levels by grade range. (Books may be slow loading.)
TumbleBook Library
-(Access through Okanagan Regional Library)
Children's Short Stories
from eastoftheweb.com-collection of classic and contemporary short stories.
Classic Children's Stories
(and poems!)-click on Author for the list.
Mystery Stories
Kids Love a Mystery.Com
- Do you like mystery stories? Magic tricks? There are some stories and activities on this site, and links to well known authors and books, including Nancy Drew (Carolyn Keene), The Hardy Boys (Franklin W. Dixon), Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), Encyclopedia Brown (Donald J. Sobol), plus Hy Conrad, Rolf Heimann, Joan Lowery Nixon, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and more! (Also has lesson plans for teachers.) Grades 4-6.
The Mystery Spot
-looks like fun and mystery combined!
Stories for Special Days and Events
Enjoy reading and listening to
Christmas stories
at Northpole.com (for grades 1-3)
More Christmas stories
, from Apples4The Teacher.com
Short stories for kids
from Apples4the Teacher.com-This page is an index to online stories by theme (animals, special days, cultures, seasons). [Many of these are of American interest.]
Fun Easter Stories for Kids
-well known stories by Beatrix Potter and Annie Willis McCullough.
Poetry4Kids
by Ken Nesbitt-some very silly, some very clever, and lots to enjoy!
The Edward Lear Home Page
-The nonsense poems and limericks of Edward Lear are classics, and they're all here!
Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses For Children
by Maud Keary. The on-line text of a 1912 book.
Classic Children's Stories
(and poems!)-click on 'Author' for the list of poems.
Giggle Poetry
-a large collection by several poets, with ideas for writing, reading and performing poetry!
Riddles and other humour
-the AZKidsNet page
Do you still want more? Go to the
KidSpace Poetry and Rhymes
page of the Internet Public Library for more links.
Kinds of Poetry
(Mrs. Tondreault's class pages)-examples
Kinds of Poems
(Millcrest Academy)-descriptions, word lists, elements of poetry
The Reading Zone
(Internet Public Library)-Click on Authors listings (alphabetical order)
Biographies
(The Scoop)-Links and information on authors and illustrators, from Avi to Paul Zelinsky.
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Karen Autio
C
, Kelowna author. Ms. Autio visited our school in 2008. She wrote Second Watch for 8 to 13 year-olds. The sequel, Saara's Passage was published in 2009.
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Linda Bailey
C
-visited our school in June, 2008. She has written many books for Primary students (grades 1 to 3), including Stanley's Party (and other Stanley books), The Farm Team, Goodnight Sweet Pig, the Stevie Diamond Mystery Series, and the Good Times Travel Agency Series.
•Judy Blume-
Judy Blume Official Site
•David Bouchard
C
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David Bouchard's website
. Click on the portrait to access his biography, list of books (If You're Not From the Prairie, The Colours of British Columbia, My Little Pigs), speeches and schedule.
•Jan Brett-
Jan Brett's Home Page
. Visit Hedgie and friends, enjoy simple games and other activities, or print colouring pages from this site.
•Beverly Cleary-
The World of Beverly Cleary
- Official Site of the creator of Ramona, Henry, and Ralph
•Roald Dahl-author of The Twits, BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...-
Roald Dahl Biographical Sketch
(short, easy to read);
The Roald Dahl Fan Club
-Dahl's life, books; classroom ideas;
The Official Roald Dahl Web Site
-There is a complicated entry to this site, but you can click to skip the movie and get right to the index page. There is a lot of advertising, but some interesting activities; teacher ideas, too.
•James Howe-author of the Bunnicula series and many other books.
Baltimore County Public Library James Howe page
(biography and book list),
Scholastic Books James Howe page
(biography and book descriptions),
•Jean Little
C
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Jean Little Official Site
- author of From Anna, Little By Little, Moma's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird, Hey World, Here I Am! and many more.
•The Official
Robert Munsch
C
Website-books, poems, photos; listen to Mr. Munsch read your favorite story!
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Kenneth Oppel
C
-author of the Silverwing series, Airborn, Barnes amd the Brains, and many other books.
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Gary Paulsen
-author of Hatchet and other adventures. Mr. Paulsen is a true-life adventurer himself!
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Sheri Radford
C
-author of the Penelope series. Find 2 of her books on the TumbleBooks Library web site (see link in More Stories section, above). Ms. Radford visited our school in October, 2011.
•J K Rowling (Harry Potter series)-
A Page on J K Rowling
-consists of a short introduction and a selection of links (intermediate to advanced levels);
Harry Central
(Book Magazine)
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Eric Wilson
C
writes mysteries for kids-Canadian mysteries! Starting with Murder on the Canadian and Vancouver Nightmare, to Terror in Winnipeg and The Emily Carr Mystery. You can read about him and his books, even read a chapter from some. There are other great activities here also. Many of his books are in our library.
News and Current Events
Teaching Kids the News
-Timely, relevant news articles for kids, teachers, and parents at home (a Canadian site).
National Geographic Kids-News Bites
-a news "blog" updated daily, with news about animals and places
Writing Ideas and Helpers
The Story Starter
helps you write a story, and print it (from Scholastic).
Oranges and Apples
-This page guides you through some steps for writing sentences and paragraphs, including topic sentences and details, combining simple sentences to make them more interesting, and making your sentences show pictures to the reader.
Topic Sentences and Controlling Ideas
-brief instructions and lots of examples.
English Homework Help
(Discovery Education)-Find help here about the writing process; for all grade levels.
Write 0n Reader
-This ThinkQuest site has ideas to help you be a better writer and reader. Check out the
Story Starter
list.
Story Prompts
-Another ThinkQuest with a selection of story starter lines and other prompts to help you think and write.
RhymeZone
-The Rhyming Dictionary-find words that rhyme (great for writing poetry).
CanSpell
-access all the help and info so you can prepare yourself for this year's CanWest CanSpell competition-or just to improve your spelling!
Great Vocabulary Games
from Gamequarium-synomyms, homonyms, antonyms, analogies, prefixes, suffixes, root words, and more!
AAASpell.com
- Use your assigned spelling list, or practise with graded lists provided on this site. A variety of learning and practice activities can help you master your spelling. (From the producers of AAAMath.com)
Spelling City.com
-use the games and activities on this site to master sight words (Dolch Word Lists), or new vocabulary, even type in your own list.
FunBrain.com Kids Centre
-scroll down to the Words section to find activities to help you learn spelling, words, parts of speech (N-V-Adj-Adv etc.), and grammar.
Awesome Library
-K-12 Education Directory
DiscoveryLearning Homework Help
-click on the subject headings across the top
Children's Literature Web Guide
- The University of Calgary provides this site listing books online (full text), authors, and other resources
Collections Canada Learning Centre
-Use the Toolkit link or browse the Students section
Kids Search
-Search the EBSCO database of articles specifically selected for students in grades K to 8.
Okanagan Regional Library-browse the site, search the catalog
Quoteworld.org
-find that 'just right' quotation! Browse by topic or author; search by keyword from thousands of quotes.
The Reading Zone
(Internet Public Library)-This is a guide to picture books, short stories, poetry, advanced reading, myths and fables, authors (alphabetical order), and more.