Reading

Learning Links

Language Arts Resources

Check out this website: Hoagies for Gifted Learners to find books on specific interests and the top 100 books in your age range!

More book websites below:

ALA Award Winners

The Best Children's Books A team of teachers who love children's books created this site of the best children's books to help you quickly and easily find the ideal book for any topic and reading level.

Kidsreads.com Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties.

Kids and Teens Series and Sequels From the Mid-Continent Public Library (Independence, MO). This extensive database lists every series you can think of (and more). Look up series by series title, book title, author, and subject.

Click here to fill out the main idea chart: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/FactsChart.pdf

Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the jounrey, there are placemarks that contain a variety of resources.

Read to Me includes a collection of online streaming videos of children's books read aloud by celebrities

Youngzine is a website where children can learn about current news and events shaping their world -- in a simple, engaging and interactive manner. New stories are written with children in mind.

Kids.gov is the official kids' portal for the U.S. government.

Tramline Virtual Field trips is a website with annotated, virtual field trips that enable students to experience a variety of "trips", including the rain forest, salt marshes, Shakespeare, etc.

Virtual Tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized shale, and visit ball parks.

Khan Academy allows students to make use of their extensive library of content, including interactive challenges, assessments, and videos.

Student Interactives is a creation of the Utah Education Network, providing fun, interactive, online games targeted for grades 3-6.

Storyline Online is a literacy program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. SAG Foundation’s Storyline Online inspires a love of reading in children around the world.

Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.

THE STACKS is Scholastic's site about books and reading for kids, where you can create profiles and interact with other kids about books, authors, etc. in a safe environment.

Kidsreads is dedicated to book lovers, providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. The site includes book reviews, reading lists, and author interviews.

Merriam-Webster's Word Central offers kids a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games.

Into the Book

Into the Book is a website that helps you practice the following skills:

Summarizing (tell what's important)
Inferring (figure out what it really means from clues in the text)
Making Connections (connect text to other texts, to yourself, and the world)
Synthesizing (put the pieces together to see them in a new way)
Prior Knowledge (use what you already know to understand something new)
Evaluating (make judgments about what you read and explain why)
Questioning (ask questions to understand what you are reading)
Visualizing (create a movie in your mind while reading)
Strategies Together (use strategies together to reveal more meaning in the text)