Literacy

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Learning Activities and websites

• After a reading session, use this list of questions to check if you understand the text.

• Reading Eggs – www.readingeggs.com.au Used regularly in your child’s classroom at school.

• Read Theory – www.readtheory.org

• Read Works – www.readworks.org

• Writing Legends –https://www.writinglegends.com/ This program is free to use until the end of Term 2 but contains many writing activities for children. Although it is geared towards children in years 3-6, many writing prompts will be suitable for younger students.

• Pobble – www.pobble365.com Provides children with some great visual writing prompts

• The Literacy Shed – www.theliteracyshed.com.au Great literacy resources

• Kids News – www.kidsnews.com.au Provides levelled articles for children to read with activities to go with them.

• Into the Book – www.reading.ecb.org Go ‘into the book’ to play games that practice reading strategies.

• Suessville – www.seussville.com Read, play games that practice reading strategies.

• Star Fall – www.starfall.com Practise your phonics skills with these read-along stories!

• Storyline Online – www.storylineonline.net Have some of your favourite stories read to you by movie stars.

• Epic (Highly recommended) – www.getepic.com Leading digital library for kids 12 and under. Great website for accessing books to read, videos, quizzes and more. Provides a free 30-day trial for children and parents.

Click on the links below to go to any of these webpages