Reading Websites

This is a site that will take you to a listing of authors, divided alphabetically.
If there is a particular author that you are wanting to find, locate that person by their last name and click on it.
There are many sites that have fun activities that you can do that relate to the author's books.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

This site gives information about picture books. It has a lot of interactive material, especially from an illustrator's viewpoint.
If you child is interested in art, they should benefit from this site.
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org

Traditional Literature has a description of 15 types of stories with examples titles.
If you need to know the difference between a fable and a fairy tale, this has all the information to help you.
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/using/traditional.html

Patricia Polacco is a favorite author of several of our students as well as some teachers.
Her life has had a great influence on her writing.
Use this link to learn more about her and make her books even more meaningful and have some fun.
http://patriciapolacco.com/fun/color_ins/index.html

If you are looking for a good "learn to type" program for elementary school students, this is one that has been recommended to me.
It's free and kids love it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Read aloud stories. There is a free trial, but a subscription costs around $65.
www.raz-kids.com

Great site for award book titles.
http://www.ala.org

April is National Humor Month. If your child enjoys jokes, try this site.
http://kids.yahoo.com/jokes

Another joke site for National Humor Month
http://www.ahajokes.com/kids_jokes.html

This site has monthly reading calendars that have daily activities related to reading.
http://martha.alewine.googlepages.com/2009-2010readingcalendars

Read aloud stories.
http://storynory.com

Games and activities relating to the Polar Express
http://www.polarexpress.com/games-fun

This site gives children activities from the Highlights Magazine. There are lots of puzzles and games.
It also has a read aloud section.
http://www.highlightskids.com

This is a great site for all grades to help with keyboard and mouse manipulation while playing games and drawing pictures.
http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://sites.google.com/site/marthaalewine/suggestedreadinglists

Suggested reading list for our students.
Richland County Public Library

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/compubs/booklists/homelib/alacbcbuildinghomelbry.cfm

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN/ReadingLists.html

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/summerreading/2010mas_handoutwithnotes.pdf

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.haisln.org/recommendedreadinglists.html

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/elemreading.html

Suggested reading list for our students.
http://www.bpl.org/kids/booksmags.htm

Read alouds for kids.
Note: Some of these read alouds for kids are downloadable MP3files, some are podcasts, and some livestream from the web site.
www.raz-kids.com

Read alouds for kids.
http://storynory.com/

Read alouds for kids.
http://kids.learnoutloud.com?Kids-Free-Stuff

Read alouds for kids.
http://lightupyourbrain.com/audio-stories-for-children.html

Read alouds for kids.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/links.html