lesson slideshows
reading anthology stories
word work activities
trade book activities
sites for teachers
sites for students

Sites your students will like

read alouds

 

 

 
Tumblebooks
Storyline Online
Reading Planet
Arthur Books (by Marc Brown)
sillybooks.net
Little Animals (three stories on BBC site)
 

vocabulary

 

 
comic maker
toon doon (like comic maker; more sophisticated)
Kids Games
(video games mixed with multiple choice Storytown Vocabulary questions)

spelling

 

 
Sitton Grade 2
Sitton Grade 3
Spelling Match
Spelling City
 

phonics and grammar

 

 
BBC vowel practice
Grammar Blast (engaging for maybe five minutes)
contractions
Starfall (great for early phonics - computer will read everything)
reading Into the Book (amazing site for comprehension stragtegies)
other Rocks (students identify different kinds of rocks)
levers and pulleys (students manipulate a rube goldberg machine)
SnowDays (students make virtual snowflakes)