Websites

• Story Place offers preschoolers a virtual library experience. Kids can participate in story time, watch videos, and play games. The bilingual site also provides early literacy information and a guide to children’s books for parents and caregivers.

• The Reading League’s Reading Buddies is an engaging foundational television series that cleverly teaches phonics and phonological awareness. The show features a hilarious talking dog named Dusty who, with the help of his best human friend Dott, is learning a new trick – how to read! They are joined by a kazoo-talking, robot assistant named Alphabott, and an adorable cast of human Alphabotteers. Together, they form an after-school reading club where Dusty explores letters and their sounds, social-emotional learning, and whatever else sparks his curiosity or desire for snacks! Each episode features a new “Alphabadge” for Dusty to earn, marking the progress of his reading journey. Together, along with the viewers, they are the “Reading Buddies!”

• Starfall provides opportunities for young children to have fun while learning their ABCs and reading skills through positive reinforcement in a brightly colored environment full of activities, games, and songs.

• Between the Lions is a virtual library where lion librarians host fun-filled activities with characters like singing vowels and dancing puppets. Children can entertain themselves or involve a grown-up in the educational video games, stories, and songs.

• Seussville-This area of Seussville is dedicated to the parents of small ones. These activities, crafts, and printables provide hours of Seussian ideas to engage your child in playful learning. Add a snack based on favorite books or characters from our tasty recipes, or search our themes for a curated collection of all of the above. So team up with your kid and get creative…there is fun to be done!

• Reading Rocket- has lots of games and activities for kids’ pleasure and learning. Parents, teachers, and other adults can access instructional videos, a blog, PBS TV programs, and videos to guide them in helping children learn to read.

• Reading is Fundamental-is long known for providing (free) books to families, presents games, interactive stories, songs, and book recommendations for kids up to age 12 and their families, including bilingual activities.

• Kidsreads- offers book reviews, features, contests, excerpts from new releases, a blog, and author profiles and interviews for young readers and their parents. (Check out Teenreads for older youth, too.)

• Scholastic Kids (ages 8-12)-lets kids 8-12 play games, test skills and knowledge about books, work on writing activities, and express opinions. They can connect with other readers on books and authors on this well-moderated site.

• Scholastic: Writing with Writers-allows students of all ages to collaborate with authors, editors, and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in many forms of writing to develop their skills.

• Teach your monster to read-With the help of friendly monsters, playful design and out-of-this-world storytelling, help your children learn to read. 

• https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ -Phonics Bloom create interactive online phonics games to help teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write. All our resources are designed by an experienced team of teachers and parents.