ONLINE LEARNING
MOTHER GOOSE CLUB - Created by a mother of four and former teacher, Mother Goose Club makes classic nursery rhymes accessible to a modern, global audience. Designed with current curricula and recent research in mind, the live action and animated videos and songs feature six colorful characters and engaging content that promotes pre-literacy in a fun way. Airing on local PBS stations since 2009, Mother Goose Club has grown to become a multimedia resource, with a website that delivers learning tools and entertaining videos, and a YouTube Channel that's garnered more than 300 million views.
STARFALL - Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, home school, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
In May of 2009, they also released the Starfall Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum, a method of instruction that motivates children in an atmosphere of imagination and enthusiasm, providing opportunities for child-directed instruction, and supports for English language learners and struggling readers learning alongside their peers. Please visit The Starfall Store for other low-cost phonics journals and books paralleling this website.
Grammaropolis - Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as a Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st Century, Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters starring in books, songs, videos, and interactive games. Our innovative, classroom-proven approach blends character-based content with more traditional quiz-based assessment and is designed to address students' varied learning styles. Because the parts of speech are personified based on their roles in the sentence, the characterization provides students with a more effective way to visualize and internalize the roles of the parts of speech and to identify how a sentence is put together. Grammaropolis was created and refined in the ultimate proving grounds: the classroom. Our advisors include standards-compliant curriculum experts, elementary and middle school teachers and administrators, and publishing and entertainment industry professionals.
http://www.grammaropolis.com
SQUIDOO- Large collection of Free Printables, worksheets, coloring pages and more!
http://www.squidoo.com
Good Sites for Kids - Huge collection of websites to promote literacy and language arts skills
http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacy.htm#.UMDNOYdX0TY
Leading to Reading - Literacy support for all ages
http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/leadingtoreading.htm
Literacy Center - offers free educational materials to pre-school aged children in 4 different languages . The Parents and Teachers section provides lessons that are divided into 6 subject areas: Colors, Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Writing, and Words. The Play and Learn section provides activities for learning uppercase letters, lowercase letters, shapes, writing, keyboarding, etc. No registration is required.
http://literacycenter.net
Literactive - provides interactive and downloadable reading material for children in pre-school to first grade. The website offers guided leveled readers, learning activities, worksheets, and also electronic poetry and picture books. Many of the activities are also available in Spanish. The most impressive feature is the Road to Reading phonics program that teaches children letter shapes/sounds and CVC vowels/revisions. In order to access or download any of the materials, you must first complete the free registration.
http://www.literactive.com
Kindergarten Links - Large list of literacy links specifically geared towards early readers
http://www.teachers.cr.k12.de.us/~galgano/klinkslit.htm
PBS Kids - excellent resource for Literacy Games
http://pbskids.org/games/literacy.html
Literacy Center Education Network - Multiple Language options (Requires Flash)
http://www.literacycenter.net/play_learn/index.php
Free Technology for Teachers - Great site for media resources and good alternative to YouTube
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/alternatives-to-youtube.html?m=1
STARFALL - Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, home school, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
In May of 2009, they also released the Starfall Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum, a method of instruction that motivates children in an atmosphere of imagination and enthusiasm, providing opportunities for child-directed instruction, and supports for English language learners and struggling readers learning alongside their peers. Please visit The Starfall Store for other low-cost phonics journals and books paralleling this website.
Grammaropolis - Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as a Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st Century, Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters starring in books, songs, videos, and interactive games. Our innovative, classroom-proven approach blends character-based content with more traditional quiz-based assessment and is designed to address students' varied learning styles. Because the parts of speech are personified based on their roles in the sentence, the characterization provides students with a more effective way to visualize and internalize the roles of the parts of speech and to identify how a sentence is put together. Grammaropolis was created and refined in the ultimate proving grounds: the classroom. Our advisors include standards-compliant curriculum experts, elementary and middle school teachers and administrators, and publishing and entertainment industry professionals.
http://www.grammaropolis.com
SQUIDOO- Large collection of Free Printables, worksheets, coloring pages and more!
http://www.squidoo.com
Good Sites for Kids - Huge collection of websites to promote literacy and language arts skills
http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacy.htm#.UMDNOYdX0TY
Leading to Reading - Literacy support for all ages
http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/leadingtoreading.htm
Literacy Center - offers free educational materials to pre-school aged children in 4 different languages . The Parents and Teachers section provides lessons that are divided into 6 subject areas: Colors, Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Writing, and Words. The Play and Learn section provides activities for learning uppercase letters, lowercase letters, shapes, writing, keyboarding, etc. No registration is required.
http://literacycenter.net
Literactive - provides interactive and downloadable reading material for children in pre-school to first grade. The website offers guided leveled readers, learning activities, worksheets, and also electronic poetry and picture books. Many of the activities are also available in Spanish. The most impressive feature is the Road to Reading phonics program that teaches children letter shapes/sounds and CVC vowels/revisions. In order to access or download any of the materials, you must first complete the free registration.
http://www.literactive.com
Kindergarten Links - Large list of literacy links specifically geared towards early readers
http://www.teachers.cr.k12.de.us/~galgano/klinkslit.htm
PBS Kids - excellent resource for Literacy Games
http://pbskids.org/games/literacy.html
Literacy Center Education Network - Multiple Language options (Requires Flash)
http://www.literacycenter.net/play_learn/index.php
Free Technology for Teachers - Great site for media resources and good alternative to YouTube
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/alternatives-to-youtube.html?m=1
