In this section, you can find some great resources and extra practice materials that the students should already be familiar with. The teacher for this course in previous years (Mrs. White) has made these resources available.
For Students- Great Site to Practice Reading Skills
Ticket to Read -Ticket to Read is an online component of our classroom reading curriculum covering phonics, fluency and comprehension. Your child knows their password. They may not be as interested in it as other sites, since we work on it at school. But if they like it, feel free to let them use this site.
Below are online stories with a large selection of books and activities to go with the stories-provided by CSISD. Your child knows the username/passwords, if not they can always request them from me.
Kids A to Z -A new student-learning environment designed to keep kids motivated and engaged with reading stories, activities and quizzes.
Raz-Kids- 400+ eBooks and open-book eQuizzes, with new books added every month, even in Spanish! Also has mobile apps for your child's devices
Reading A-Z- Basic Reading skills with online stories, and quizzes.
More online reading- books that are free!!
Project Gutenberg-offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. Contains a special area for audio books, groupings of related books, make your own library, mobile reading devices and the top 100 downloaded books. Plus, much more!
Storybird - Read online books and create your own book with your own art.
Book Adventure -A fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline,come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success.
Story Online -pick a great book from this site and they will read you a wonderful story.
Oxford Owl- An award-winning website to help support children’s learning, both at home and at school. It is a free site but youmust register. Over 250 ebooks and much, much more.
Games to Make Reading Fun
http://www.gsc.amdsb.ca/- This site provides links to many other sites-have your child select grade level then English or Reading. Great site for all school subjects.
ABCYa.com - a leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for students. Offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities.