Literacy

Spelling activities for practice\
[|Reading Comprehension links] - [|Running Record Calculator] - This free online tool makes it quick and easy for teachers and other educators to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. ===[|Ideas to Inspire]- is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world. === [|Stories for sharing]- junior [|Free Resources for Writing] - Punctuation, Grammar, Common Errors, Better Writing, Copyright etc [|Readquarium -] Comprehension strategieshttp://www.teacherled.com/resources/vowels/vowelsload.html [|Word Drop]- make words from letters [|Making Connections] - Ideas to use in the classroom [|Making Connections] - A lesson plan [|Online books to read] - animals, birds and insects [|Kids CBC - Play]- Choose an activity and follow the instruction. Good junior activity [|Text Twist] - An interactive game umjumble the letters / how many words can you make [|Language Skill Builders] - Interactive reading sites to practice skills, consonants, blends, matching, vowels [|Grammar Ninja] - Do you know your nouns from your verbs, adjectives, articles and prepositions? [|Phonic 3] - nouns, verbs, adjectives [|Days of the Week] - interactive [|Reading activities] - levels do not match NZ levels [|Alphabetical Order] - It mixes up letters, click and drag into alphabetical order [|The Dreaded Book Report] -10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports [|Elements of a story] - A good story is like a tasty soup. It follows a recipe with a handful of ingredients that blend together [|Book Adventures] - Children create book lists and take multiple choice quizzes [|Fractured fairy Tales] - the Three Pigs [|Scholastic Reading and Writing Activities] - [|Elementary Reading Activities] - Interactive Reading Activities [|Speakaboos] - Watch and listen to videos [|Word frog] - antonyms, synonyms, homonyms [|Prefixes] - links to interactive prefix activities [|Reading related videos] - Berenstein Bears, Curious George, Dr Seuss, Little Bear and more [|Fun With Words] - anagrams, palindromes, oxymorons, spoonerisms, tongue twisters, rebus puzzles, mnemonics [|The Arrival by Shaun Tan] - discussion ideas and questions, lesson plan and activities [|Book Titles and teaching resources] [|Tumble Books] - Read and listen online [|Carl's Corner] - Alphabet, Word families, Word study, write spell

[|My Story Maker] - Build your own story, choose characters, plot, setting
[|RATS] - Nouns. Verbs practice [|Game Zone] - verb or noun or both [|Maggie's Earth] - Verb or noun [|Grammar Gorillas] - nouns, verbs, parts of speech [|Gamequarian]- parts of speech games [|Speed Word -] be quick, change verbs to nouns ==[|Suzie's links] - Suzie has collected a wide range of reading resources here. General reading resources, stories online, resources for specific texts, Harry Potter, other texts and authors==

[|Pioneer Valley Books] - books to read online. Great for data projectors. Books are levelled (American I think)
==[|Information Literacy] - Storyboarding is a way of planning which uses sketches and text, like a comic strip.==

[|Tar Heel Reader]- Books for beginning readers of all ages
==[|Elements of a Story] - Enjoy listening to a story and then use the interactive pages to explore setting, characters, sequence, climax, conflict and resolution. [|The Tale of Desperaux] - Get involved with the story==

**A bit of everything here at [|e-learning for kids]**
==[|Starship English] - Practice sentence building activities here [|Discovery Education]- learning objects that show a variety of written language skills==

**[|www.spinandspell.com]**
==Spin and Spell **is a fun free spelling game that is ideal for a 5 minute lesson filler. It has more than 200 commonly used words divided into five sections: The Animal Kingdom, In and Around the House, What We Wear, How We Get There and What We Eat.**==

=[|Rockford's Rock Opera]= Rockford's Rock Opera is a FREE unique multi-media musical story, for children and adults. It features Rockford the Dog from Battersea Dogs Home and his adventures on the Island of Infinity, a bizarre world of extinct creatures, amazing music, colourful soundscapes, enchanting illustrations and lovingly animated videos. Featuring and scripted by BBC respected writer and performer Steve Punt, Rockford's Rock Opera is a story about animals, extinction and the effect man is having on the planet, but it's a positive and hopeful story which is now enchanting children and adults across the world. Think The Jungle Book' meets 'Jurassic Park' but on the web and FREE! [|Click here to download lesson plans to go with the story] (PDF) link fixed [|Click here for more lesson plans and other free downloads] (registration required and thats free too!) [|Click here to download the lyrics to the songs]

==[|Roy the Zebra] has lots of fun interactive reading games here. Practice alphabetical order, double consonets, high frequency words, plurals and rhyming words.==

** [|www.wingedsandals.com] **
==** Winged Sandals is a prize winning interactive created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in collaboration with Melbourne University. The site explores the magical world of Classical Greek mythology, a place filled with awesome gods, daring heroes and fabulous monsters. It contains some great background material and superb animations **== ==**·** Animated stories**, including ‘Perseus and Medusa’, ‘Orpheus and the Underworld’ and ‘How Apollo got his Oracle’ · A** Who’s Who **of gods, heroes and monsters from Classical mythology · An** interactive Delphic Oracle **allowing the audience to ask questions about the future · A detailed history section looking at** life in ancient Greece **·** Games **and creative activities for primary and secondary aged children.**==

[|Literacy Websites]
Junior Children Have fun here [|http://wwwfirst-school.ws/]

**Fun Reading activities at [|Starfall] for early readers.**
==**Adrian Bruce's [|Resources for teachers] - It's all done for you. Posters, reading games, sight word games, spelling strategies and much, much more. Just print out and laminate and you are ready to go.**==