Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Beginning Reading Instruction
Research-based programs for beginning reading instruction provide comprehensive, well-organized instructional plans and practice opportunities that allow all students to make sense of reading. It offers two free downloads: Beginning...
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McREL International
Mc Rel: 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers [Pdf]
A quick list of the 100 most frequent words in books for beginning readers. An excellent resource to print and give to parents to practice site words with students!
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games
Simple interactive games to help young students build reading skills.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
Starfall
Starfall: Robot and Mr. Mole (Long O Listening Practice)
Learn English words with the long O sound by listening to this read-aloud story about a robot. English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing words with long o's. Great graphics, unlimited...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Environmental Print
This instructional activity introduces students to the concept of reading through common items from the community. Through examining these items (environmental print), students will practice their reading skills and begin to see...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the young scholars learn to sound out the words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages:"new Orleans and the History of Jazz "By Loren Schoenberg
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "New Orleans and the History of Jazz "by LorenSchoenberg focuses on the beginnings of New Orleans and its history of Jazz. A comprehension question set follows the passage. 11-12.3 Text...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
University of Oregon
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
Free Reading
Free Reading
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle
What are predictor's for a child's success in reading? Use this site to learn more how the knowledge of the alphabet and shapes is a factor for reading success.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
US Department of Education
U. S. Department of Education: Teaching Our Youngest
A publication entitled Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers created under the direction of the Early Childhood-Head Start Task Force. Available in html or PDF format, the publication...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Onset/rime Games
Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Adding S Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate that end in letter "s" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Read Like This, Too Central Ideas and Supporting Details
Begin practicing skills that will help identify the central idea and details while reading literary nonfiction.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy provides hundreds of engaging online books for beginning readers and students learning English. The books are sorted into categories and themes that complement early learning programs. What makes their books unique is...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why!: Games
Choose from four interactive games have fun while working on reading skills.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 1: Roots of Reading
Hosted by Fred Rogers, The Roots of Reading looks at the earliest stages of literacy in such locations as a baby speech lab and a Head Start center. The program examines how parents, childcare providers, and kindergarten teachers can get...