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Mrs. Mayernik's Favorite Learning Websites

Antonyms and Synonyms

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Walk The Plank Game

Antonyms and Synonyms

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Synonym Sam's Dog Game

Antonyms and Synonyms

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Word Girl Toast Game

Antonyms and Synonyms

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List of Synonyms

Authors

Patricia Polacco  

Dr. Seuss- Seussville Playground

Shel Silverstein.com- Kids resources


Dav Pilkey- Captain Underpants


Barbara Cooney-  Write to her!


Chris Van Allsburg- Story writing contest

David Adler- Cam Janson books

America Writes For Kids Website- Link to Michigan Authors

Beginning Sounds

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The Quiet Machine- PBS KIds

Book Cover Creator

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Read Write Think:  Students can create a book jacket.

Cause and Effect

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Grammar Activity

Cloze Reading Strategy

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Cloze Practice Texts  Use the context to fill in the

Cloze Reading Strategy

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Content Area Cloze Practice


Comprehension

Reading Ring- Put the sentences in order in this game.  Boys check it out if you like wrestling!

Mr.Naussbum:  Reading Comprehension Passages With Questions

Comprehensive Children's Literature Site

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Carol Hurst's Children Literature Site- Look for genres and books

General Reading Content



Funbrain Reading Madlibs, authors and other fun reading content

Poptropica Content area reading world.  Game without sound that encourages you to read.

GameGoo- games for many different reading skills

Soft Schools 

K-2 Reading

Between the Lions- games and stories for early learners

CrickWeb- Labeling and reading activities.  Great for smartboards.

Starfall Reading- Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read.  The systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL

Language Experience Story

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Language Experience Story- Write an online book at classtools.net

Literature

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Shmoop-  Standford, Harvard and Berkeley students have created this helpful site.

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Fifteen Minutes of Fiction-This is a great site full of short stories and poetry for you to read.


Vocabulary


Wordly Wise Vocabulary Practice- Choose your grade and look over the lessons.  The words and definitions will be read to you as you click on them.

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Visuwords-  Online Graphical Dictionary.  Shows if a word is a noun or verb.  Has different lines for relationships.  Just type in a word and see.  



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Learning Chocolate Object Identification Games-  This sight has the vocabulary organized by theme.  It uses bright, real-life objects.


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AAA.spelling-  Grade 5 Vocabulary List.  You choose your grade and learn some new words.  

Speech

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American Rhetoric- 100 top speeches PDF and Podcasts

Punctuation



Complete the Word

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Word Bubbles


Story Podcasts

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Night Light Stories- This is a blog that includes stories from different authors.  These stories are in the form of a podcast.

Online Books

Wikijunior online books and information

TumbleBooks
Monroe Library online story books-click on tumbleweed books

RoseBud a BookPop book by Stephen Cosgrove

The Tortoise and the Hare story from Fables From Aesop by Tom Lynch

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Make your own story- Write an online book!

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Cast UDL Book Builder-  Create online books.  Read books created by other students.  CAST is the Center for Applied Special Technology.

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MightyBook- Learning to read with stories, songs, jokes, games and more!

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Google Books- Great for older students!


Book Lists


Book It National Reading Incentive Program:  100 Great Read-Alouds-  I like this list because it is separated by age.  How many books have you read from this list?

Dictionary Skills

Merriam-Webster's Word Central

Picture Dictionary

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Enchanted Learning Picture Dictionary


Barbara Parks- Junie B. Jones

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Junie B. Jones Website

Spot Website

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Spot Website-  play primary games and activities


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Videos From Scholastic- Favorite Authors Speak.  Click on Author Interviews.  At the top of the screen scroll over to see the different authors.  You can be an author too!


Navigating the World Wide Web

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Cast Strategy Tutor-This is a great site to help with researching while using the web.  Teachers or parents can encourage students to keep track of websites in a log.  This program walks the student through the process while encouraging strategic reading.  

Sight Words

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Popcorn Words- Fun4thebrain- Practice sight words

Word Sorts

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Houghton Mifflin- Online word sorting

Word Sorts

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Dadecounty- word and letter sorting 

Word Sorts

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Carls City- Printable word cards for matching and sorting

Word Study

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The Problem Site- Word games, spelling games, thinking games

Word Study Crossword Puzzle

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Eat your words- Food crossword puzzle

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