Reading

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IXL-Provides reading support in all areas! (for grades 2-8)

Starfall is a wonderful site where your child can practice letter-sounds and read engaging stories. Click here for Starfall's resources.
Practice Rhyming words.
Want some fun games for practicing phonics? Click here.
Want to meet the Reading Buddies and sing the "Strategee-zee Song"? Click here.
For older children, check out the Student Activities at the Florida Center for Research site. Look under the phonics section for downloadable word sorts and games.
For kindergarten, learning letters and sounds, check out ABC Match, Alphazoo, Alphabet Organizer, and Letter Planet
For kindergarten, ABCYA has some great links for home practice here: ABCYA/Kindergarten
The following are some additional phonics, early literacy links: Word Machine, PBS Kids - Match Word, PBS Kids - Between the Lions, Puzzle Me Words, and Construct A Word
For older kids, word study and word play continue to help develop ongoing encoding and decoding skills. Word Games on Slimekids is great link to some word games and Slimekids - Spelling is a great link to encoding games.

Use poetry to make fluency practice fun. Click here for the Giggle Poetry site - a fun resource for reading, writing, and performing poetry.
Sight Words are high-frequency words that appear throughout the books and stories your child is reading. Click here and here for flashcards and other resources.
"ABCya" is a wonderful site that features engaging games for extra practice in reading and math. Click here for a fun way to reinforce sight word recognition!
The Busy Teacher's Cafe site offers ideas for improving fluency along with poems and much more. Click here for fluency fun!
Readers Theatre is a fun way to practice adding expression. Click here for ready-made scripts to download - all based on engaging children's literature!
Listening to and reading along with books is a great way to develop and practice reading. Got to Highlights for stories and books!

For older students, check out the Florida Center for Reading Research site for downloadable lessons and activities for improving decoding, fluency, and comprehension. It's all here!
The Florida Center for Reading Research site also has lessons and activities for 2nd and 3rd graders! Scroll down to the Vocabulary and Comprehension sections.
Click here for a site that offers extra practice in reading comprehension skills and strategies.
Here's a site where your child can work on comprehension skills and strategies that are aligned to the MAP test.
Click here for Park Ridge Library Reading websites.
Kindergarten sequencing activities can be found here.
Picture sequencing is fun with the help of Clifford!
Help your child figure out the difference between Real or Imaginary!
Online Stories connects fantastic picture books with famous actors who provide wonderful interactive read alouds!