List of Literacy Based Websites for Teachers, Students, and Parents

Literacy Component
Website & Description
All five components
http://www.readingrockets.org/ - This site provides information for teachers and
parents. Teachers -make sure to check out the classroom strategies (gives you
ideas for all five components and when to use them). Parents- make sure to check
out the how to find the just right book, set up a home library, and find ways to
hook a struggling reader.
Comprehension/ Fluency
http://www.storylineonline.net - Screen actor guild award winners read aloud
childhood favorite picture books. Activities to go along with stories included. This is
a great site to use in the classroom but sometimes I have difficulties loading the
videos. Make sure to try it out ahead of time to be prepared for any technology
questions.
Overview of all literacy components
http://www.pbs.org/parents/fungames/ - Explore dozens of fun games and activities
for kids designed to foster early learning and child development. This site seems to
be for younger students (pre-school through third grade). It has a book finder
feature, which allows for parents/ students to choose an age and genre of book and
it will list books with their descriptions.
Comprehension
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/index.asp - Includes book and author
suggestions and interactive games.
Comprehension
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm - Poetry CreatorCreate your own poem. Students can put into practice their knowledge of different
poetry such as; haiku, limerick, cinquain, and free verse. This site is interactive
whiteboard ready.
Comprehension/Writing
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comiccreator-30021.html - Create your own comic strip!
Comprehension /Writing
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/charactertrading-cards-a-30181.html - Make your own trading cards for your favorite
character from a story! Teachers- make sure to check out the more ideas to try
section (scroll down to the bottom before starting trading cards).

Comprehension/ Fluency
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/fracturedfairy-tales-a-30186.html - Practice reading or writing a fractured fairy tale. Teachersmake sure to check out the more ideas to try section (scroll down to the bottom
before starting trading cards).
Comprehension
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html - Funbrain.com
allows you to read certain books right online (Example: Diary of a Wimpy Kid). It
also has math games.
Comprehension
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ Analyzes the characters in a
book.
Vocabulary/ Phonics
http://www.gudli.com/ This site seems to be for younger students (Pre-school- 2nd
grade). It contains activities for math, language, and science.
Grammar
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.ht
ml - Students in grades 3-5 can use this site for grammar practice.
Phonics/ Vocabulary
http://www.spellingcity.com Practice spelling patterns and play game! Input your
own spelling words/ vocabulary words and have students practice in school or at
home.
Vocabulary
http://www.wordcentral.com/ - Unsure of a word- Let WordCenral help you out. This
is an online dictionary to help you find the meaning of those unfamiliar words.
Overview of all literacy components
http://www.readingresource.net/websitesforkids.html - This site seems to be for
younger students. They can practice letter knowledge, phonemic awareness,
alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Phonic/ Phonemic Awareness/ Vocabulary/ Comprehension
http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/index.html - This is a site where you can
explore different reading strategy games.

Phonemic Awareness
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/ -This site helps emerging readers
identifying letter sounds and words using media- Pre K to K.

Vocabulary/ Comprehension
http://resources.kaboose.com/games/read2.html Students can practice vocabulary,
comprehension, and grammar activities on this site.
Smartboard Interactive Websites for Teaching
Step 1: Click on Smart Notebook on your desktop
Step 2: Name Smart Notebook (Example: ELA: Summarizing lesson)
Step 3: Click on the tab on the left hand side (it looks like a picture frame) then click
on smart exchange
Step 4: In smart exchange window, click search
Step 5: Here you can search for any type of lesson you are looking for by typing in a
key phrase in the search all resources area. You can also look up ideas based on
standards-correlated lessons (note that these are not the updated standards of
2010). You can choose the state, grade, and subject to find lessons that correlate
with standards you want to meet for a particular lesson. Click on view resources.
Once you find a lesson that you want to use- click download then open. Then save
file under desired name.