Starfall
Founded in 2002, Starfall is a very popular website for parents looking for a free, interactive reading program. Through a combination of activities, songs and on-line books your child will have fun while also learning to read. There are four main sections of the site which progressively teach your child the skills they need in order to learn to read fluently. There are also free worksheets available to download to practice letters, phonics and creative writing skills.
Progressive Phonics
It offers a phonics-based method of teaching your child to read based on reading the specially written books. Once you have completed the free registration process, the reading books can be printed or read on-screen. They contain short silly rhymes to practice specific phonic rules and also teach important sight-words which break these rules.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Part of the Florida Center for Reading Research’s mission is to disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in Pre-K through 12th grade. To this end, FCRR has provided a selection of resources and materials of particular interest to education practitioners.
This includes a number of classroom activities developed by teachers at FCRR for use in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms and pedagogical information for empowering teachers with the skills and knowledge for effective instruction in the classroom. These materials have been developed through the Center’s commitment to applied research projects with the purpose of providing information that can be used to improve reading instruction to all students. Additional resources such as a glossary of terms and the FCRR report on corrective reading may provide further insight into the usefulness of the materials provided.
Freerice is a 100% non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme.Freerice has two goals:Provide education to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
Each time you answer a question right, the banner ad that you see generates enough money for the World Food Programme to buy 10 grains of rice to help reach Zero Hunger.
ReadWorks
Starfall
Oxford Owl
After registering for a free account, you have access to over 250 children’s audio books that can be used in the classroom. The book text is not part of the presentation, so students will not be able to follow along as it is read to them.
Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational program designed to inspire young children to become learners for life. The robust Khan Academy Kids curriculum and original content make learning engaging and fun for children ages two to seven
ELA practice exercises for 3rd – 12rg grade Reading comprehension. Aligned to Common Core State Standards for Reading: Literature. It also includes SAT practice.
Lumos Learning
Lumos StepUp gives students anywhere learning and teachers the ability to monitor their online work conveniently. It helps them identify student learning challenges and develop remedial programs. Lumos Quill technology allows teachers and curriculum leads to collaboratively create interactive lessons and assessments.
Reading Vine
ReadingVine.com provides free K-12 Reading Comprehension Passages and questions for teachers and parents to use to develop a student’s literacy, fluency, and reading comprehension. All passages are printable, and can be combined into custom reading sets based on grade, topic and more
K12Reader
Tween Tribune
TweenTribune is a free, not-for-profit online newspaper for kids, aged 8–15. It is updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevancy to pre-adolescents.
Rewordify
Built into Immersive Reader, Picture Dictionary enables students to view a picture representation of a word they click on. Students can combine with Read Aloud for multi-sensory processing, a technique to aid reading and comprehension.
Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. Rewordify is a free on-line tool that simplifies difficult vocabulary in a written text. In a nutshell, Rewordify will analyze an English text (or an entire website) and then automatically highlight all the words it considers are too difficult.
Story Time from Space
Story Time From Space is a nonprofit program that relies on donations and grants. Please help us to continue and expand the program by donating today. The curriculum has been made possible because of a generous grant from CASIS- The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. It has been written by a team of educators, scientist and an astronaut to make sure the activities address your teaching needs, gives you an accurate development and flow of science concepts, addresses research and best practices and utilizes the unique assets of Story Time From Space readings and Science Time From Space experiments.
Into the Book
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.
- a student website featuring interactive reading comprehension activities.
- a teacher website featuring video clips, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and a matrix linking each activity with Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts.
- nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers.
- the Behind the Lesson video series including nine 10-minute professional development videos that model effective ways of teaching the learning strategies.
MightyOwl
Mighty Owl is a free educational resource, which offers fun and engaging videos, quizzes and worksheets that support learners in and outside of the classroom.
Fun and engaging
Mighty and serious
Free