Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Audio Assisted Reading
A resource for teachers to understand how to effectively use audio books in their reading programs. Includes links to teaching materials.
Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read: Surfer Girl
Surfer Girl is an interactive story that allows you to practice reading words with the er, ur, and ir sounds.
Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read: My Family
"My Family" is a interactive story which emphasizes Y as an E sound. You can photograph the events and place them on the calendar.
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Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
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Lil' Fingers: My Colors: Learn the English Words for Colors
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short story about colors. Delightful illustrations that clearly match color words with their corresponding colors aid comprehension. Good reinforcement through word...
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Lil' Fingers: Draw Me Shapes: A Vocabulary of Shapes and Colors
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about colors and shapes. Good practice for children learning basic English vocabulary, with excellent graphics to aid comprehension.
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Mandarin Daily News for Kids
The Mandarin Daily News is a well-established children's newspaper published in Taiwan for elementary and middle level students and their teachers and parents. The site includes world and local news stories, as well as news on topics of...
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English & Fun!: Strip Cartoons & Stories
This is a collection of printable cartoon and reading activities teachers can use with their younger ELL/ESL students. Materials include writing prompts, role and finger plays, limericks, and an activity on superlatives and comparatives.
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Making Faces: Learn Vocabulary Words About Your Face
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about eyes, noses, and mouths.
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Lil' Fingers: Who's at the Zoo? Learn the English Words for Animals
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about zoo animals. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for lions, polar bears, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more.
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Lil' Fingers: Daddy Wears a Funny Hat: What Is His Job?
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about different kinds of jobs. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for the different kinds of hats worn by police officers, construction...
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Lil' Fingers: Purim Sweets
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about Hamantashen, a favorite sweet baked for Purim.
NASA
Los Asombrosos Cometas!
Engage in the quest to help the Stardust spacecraft capture comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Each time you answer a question correctly from the article, you move closer to the comet. Students enhance reading comprehension skills...
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Fonetiks: Phonics Practice
This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...
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Teby Y Tib: Poesia Infantil
This site contains a nice collection of children's poems in Spanish. It features poems by the author Gloria Fuertes.