READWORKS
This website is designed with teachers in mind. However, if you are looking for reading practice along with comprehension questions, etc., this site will do that for you. There are many stories/selections available along with questions for follow-up.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS
National Geographic KIDS is a great resource at a kid level! Your budding scientist will love the many topics that are covered online. Other stories from around the world are included. There are ads on the tops and bottoms of the pages, asking you to subscribe to one of their magazines, but a subscription is not necessary to view some of the great stories online.
SCHOLASTIC, INC. SITE
This site has lots of links for all things Scholastic–parents, teachers, kids. There are activities, suggested reading lists, etc.
IXL–LANGUAGE ARTS
IXL also has a Language Arts component for which the school has paid. We utilize it for skills practice at school. Students can practice phonics, main idea, vocabulary, and grammar skills at home as well!
EPIC BOOKS ONLINE
Epic is a free resource during the school day. There are 40,000+ books to read online, both fiction and non-fiction. If students wish to continue reading at home after school, parents have the option to purchase/utilize an individual family membership for their children at home. The family plan is good for up to 4 users.
BASIC Plan: Students may read one book per day from the LIMITED library for free.
UNLIMITED Plan: Students have unlimited access to all of the books.
Cost of the Unlimited Plan: $13.99/month or $84.99/year. (Prices as of August 2024)
I may be able to provide a 25% discount code (as I am typing this, there is one available ;) ), so contact me if you are
interested!
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s two-time Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Viola Davis, Terry Crews, Connie Britton, John Lithgow, Jennifer Garner, Betty White and dozens more. Sub-titles are included so students can read along, if they wish to do so. Supplemental activities and questions are also provided with each story.
This site has printable reading worksheets that reinforce comprehension skills. There are lesson activities across a variety of skill areas including cause and effect, context clues, literature, drawing conclusions, fact and opinion, main ideas, inference and more. These printable worksheets can be used in the classroom or at home. You'll find activities for most k12 grades.
Use these worksheets to practice and improve reading skills and reading comprehension. Included are fiction and non-fiction stories and fables at a grade 3 level, all followed by exercises. In addition to the stories, the phonics and reading comprehension worksheets provide exercises focused on specific reading skills. Other grade levels are also available from the side menu.
Reading Rockets provides free resources about teaching children to read and helping kids who struggle. On this website, you’ll find a hundreds of articles on teaching reading, classroom strategies, in-classroom video, parent tips in multiple languages, video interviews with top children’s book authors, a daily news service, and more. There are so many helpful resources here....for home and for the classroom!