Jeffery Williams
Excellent resource for up-to-date information about a variety of reading related resources
My personal website dedicated to Litaracy Issues and Resources
 
Ashland
 
Author websites
Links to websites of childrens authors and illustrators.
 
Graphic Organizers Online
This site has a multitude of interacte web graphics that children can type into and print.
 
Kid Sites
A really fun site! Kids, you can read funny poems, then grade them A to F. You can also create your own funny poem, and maybe win a contest, too!
 
Language Arts
Connect with other educators and access resources relevant to elementary literacy teachers.
Large collection of position statements on various aspects of literacy and literacy teaching.
This website contains a variety of games for all the different parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, prepositional phrases, and adverbs).
Interactive proofreading passages. Select a grade level (2-8) and a passage focused on a particular skill. Skills include spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Self checking so students can complete independently.
This interactive board game allows the students to distinguish between a compound, complex, or simple sentence.
Students identify what belongs in each of the places listed (farm, restaurant, store, home, and more)
 
Literacy
Learn all about Cynthia Rylant! She is the Author of many books including In November and Every Living Thing. Learn about her childhood, her writing, and what she is doing now.
A storytelling website that offers a number of full-text stories to use in the classroom.
Visit this - the best, most comprehensive - website for storytelling, which includes lesson plans, rubrics, and stories that align with national curriculum standards.
 
Literacy Activities
The Character Trading Cards tool allows students to create their own character cards, which they can then print off, illustrate, and trade or keep. It can be used with characters in a book students are reading or as a prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories.
 
Poetry
More poetry for children of all ages.
This site provides appropriate poems by the famous authors, including Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Browning, etc....
 
Preschool
Match the letter to the picture that starts with that sound.
 Match words and symbols to pictures in several variations of this game (Grades K-2)
 
Reading
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
Site contains hundreds of student written book reviews. Reviews are screened for appropriate language and content but are posted as is, so may contain mechanical errors. Have your class submit a review as an interactive writing lesson.
Bookwink seeks to get students excited about reading by providing video book talks online as well as booklists that are appropriate for grade levels three through eight. Book talks are categorized by theme or topic, with the books of the day featured on the main page.
This website provides graphic organizers to used with Reading and/or Writing Instruction. Each graphic organizer can be printed.
Arthur fans will enjoy this game where you read to solve real life problems by choosing the best advice (cause/effect).
Guys Read is a mission of a collective group of children and young adult authors that want just that, guys to read. They have gathered here, an excellent resource enabling you and your son (daughters too) to find a book that captures their interest and draws them into the world or reading!
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource. The focus is on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.
Click on CREATURE FEATURE and read about different types of animals.
 Choose the parrot that speaks the written word and place it on the stand.
Gr. K-1 Choose the picture that matches a printed word. Uses about 25 common nouns.
Click on NEWS and read about This Week in Sports. Excellent for Middle to Advanced Readers.
Simple story sequencing activity. Non-readers can listen the words in each part and the finished story.
An Arthur game where you pick that word that does not fit with the other three.
 
Reading - Audio Books
Listen and read along - Grade K
 Click on the sentences to have them read out loud. 
Listen to some of the Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit stories.
Check out this Web site to find short folktales for students to read. The site contains -- in addition to other stories -- a dozen folktales from around the world. Appropriate for ages 6-12, the tales include student-created illustrations, comprehension questions, and free writing assignments.
Collection of stories to read online.
 
Reading - Early Literacy
Match a printed letter to the spoken letter.
Click on a letter of the alphabet, then choose the pictures that begin with that letter.
Read the riddle and guess the animal.
Alphabet/word matching. Help Arthur find the truck that goes with each letter of the alphabet.
Drag the pictures to the correct word box. Great for kids learning to read!
Learn about rhyming words.
Interactive Storybook for early readers.
Lower Case and Upper Case - Help Rusty Rat catch the falling lower case and upper case letters.
Click on the picture that rhymes.
Match lower case to upper case letters.
Online story with audio
 
Reading on the Web
A site that explains how just about everything in the world works.
Easy reader stories online include fiction and non-fiction, play fables and more.
Read the mysteries and solve them online.
Explore geographic, scientific and historical concepts, issues and events.
The New York Times kids edition. News summaries, science and other features. Middle grades and older.
Click on Ranger Rick, then choose a month from past issues to locate past articles in the Ranger Rick archives.
A site that gives the science behind the news. Middle grades +
Read or print articles from the magazine Tme for Kids.
 
Reading Recovery
This site describes Reading Recovery--its components, procedures and general information.
 
Reading-Stories
Listen to professional storytellers. They can tell you some wonderful stories.
Hear some stories being read and read along with them.
Visit the story place to read some fun and interesting stories.
 
Teacher Resources
Online, web-based contdown digital timer.
Use this to make a form for a K-W-L activity.
 
Teacher Resources - Language Arts
This site offers simple descriptions of graphic organizers like bubble maps, Venn diagrams, and flow charts.
This site contains a wealth of teaching resources. Start by clicking the Writing with Writers link under Folktales, and read or listen to a story written by one of the guest authors. Then, have students follow the steps provided -- from brainstorming to publishing online -- to write their own folktales. Student writing is posted at the site. Next, check out Exploring Everyday Folklore, to discover what folklore is,how it is passed down within families, and how to share their stories with others.
 
Teacher Tools
This is an online quiz generator.
 
Teachers - Corrective Instruction and Assessment
Find lesson plans, activities, assessment items and instructional resources in a variety of formats from some of Ohio’s most trusted content providers by clicking
Use this site to locate instructional activities aligned to the Ohio diagnostic Tests.
Access model curricula aligned with the new academic content standards. Examples of assessement items and lesson plans,.
Ohio Achievement Test support tool.
 
Word Study
Choose the small words you can make from a big word. Letter Name Stage.
Match beginning sounds
Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.
Help the tooth fairy find synonyms. Grades 1-2.
Students choose the correct homonym to complete the sentence.
 
Word Study - Letter Name
Another Clifford site to play. Students drag words into the correct box based on matching the initial consonant. Words are spoken by the computer when they are dragged and directions can be read aloud by the computer. Letter Name - initial consonants
In this Clifford site, student choose a vowel to place between two consonants to make a real word. Letter Name - short vowels. You can choose to have directions read aloud. Words are pronounced as they are made.
On this Clifford site, students click on a key picture (word) to hear it spoken. They then click on pictures of things that begin with the same sound and drag them into a box. Uses only pictures to discriminate initial consonant sounds. The names of all pictures can be be spoken by the computer so there is no confusion as to what the intent of the picture is. Letter Name - initial consonants
Whirlyword is a fruit machine that makes 3 letter CVC words.
Word Maker provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words.
 
Word Study - Within Word
Choose the correct vowel pattern which goes between the beginning and ending consonants to complete a word. Two levels of play. Has adjustable speed.
What sound can you hear in the middle of the words that Jim is making?
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if youre right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that dont exist!
After selecting a postcard, locate a featured vowel pattern in all the words. In the second level, drag a vowel pattern to correctly fill in a gap in a word.
 
Writing
Browse or submit your own writings to the National Gallery of Writing from NCTE.