Home
Michelle Krill's Library tagged → View Popular
Reading Is Fundamental | Leading to Reading | Preschoolers | Read
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most.
Founded in 1966, RIF is the oldest and largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. RIF’s highest priority is reaching underserved children from birth to age 8. Through community volunteers in every state and U.S. territory, RIF provides 4.5 million children with 16 million new, free books and literacy resources each year.
All RIF programs combine three essential elements to foster children's literacy: reading motivation, family and community involvement, and the excitement of choosing free books to keep.
Information Literacy - Home
"Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques."
Student Center Activities K-1 (Revised, 2008)
During the Spring 2004 Florida Reading First school site visits, staff from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) determined that teachers may benefit from classroom materials that would be immediately useful in implementing independent student center activities.
The Teacher Resource Guide is posted as a PDF file. The individual chapters are divided into two parts (i.e., Part 1 and Part 2) for easier access. Individual pages or chapters can be printed by choosing the pages or page range desired. Chapters can also be printed in their entirety.
The K-1 activities are posted below as PDF files. Some of the files are divided into parts (i.e., Part 1, Part 2, etc.) for easier access. The individual Activity Plans, Masters, and Student Sheets can be printed by choosing the pages or page range desired. Activities can also be printed by reading component in their entirety. Please be aware that some of these files are quite large.
Digitally Speaking / Blogging
"Blogging and podcasting has allowed me to create a forum where my students discuss current events connected to our social studies curriculum while developing language arts skills like critical thinking and persuasive dialogue. It has also given my students the opportunity to be creators—rather than simply consumers—of online content. Finally, blogging and podcasting have given my students an audience for their ideas, which has increased levels of interest and motivation."
WritingFix: interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms
"Since 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that the teaching of writing can be both fun and rewarding.
If you explore our website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and here we share the very best, hoping that our passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what we've proudly posted here."
Interactive ebooks for children
"Students improve their reading skills by:
* Listening for modeled fluency
* Reading for practice
* Recording their reading
* Checking comprehension with quizzes
Students choose books in the bookroom or log in to get books and quizzes assigned by their teachers. "
Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure!
"Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. "
Word Magnets
"Word Magnets will take a piece of text and break it into individual magnets which can be moved around the screen, resized, removed, colour coded, grouped, sorted and so on. New magnets can also be added at any point.
The resource also offers a range of backgrounds for use in a variety of activities."
Kids' Stories, Songs, Games, Educational Activities for Children, Free!
Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.
Just One More Book!!
Children's Book Podcast - Children's book reviews and interviews with authors, illustrators, editors, publishers, teachers, librarians and more.
Tar Heel Reader
"Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. "
LibriVox
"LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3"
I'm Reading! from Starfall
PLays, fiction/nonfiction, comics, folk tales, greek myths, chinese fables.
http://www.mrsp.com/v1/mrsp.html
MrsP.com was created with the goal of giving kids the wonderful experience of having a trusted, skilled storyteller read them classics of literature. Rather than simply presenting an audiobook, Mrs. P recreates the look and feel of “story time,” a magical ritual many kids might not otherwise get to enjoy.
StoryPlace - The Children's Digital Library
The ultimate Children's Digital Library. Stories and activities for children young and old.
Storyline Online
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.
TumbleBooks - eBooks for eKids!
"TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated,
talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love."
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Top Contributors
Groups interested in Literacy
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo