Learning Links
Learn to Read: This website has a selection of 15 different interactive stories for grades K through 2. It offers themes to meet students’ interest levels and focuses on different vowel and consonant blends. Music and phonics introduce the story, and then students can click to read by themselves. Learning games are included with each of the stories.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f
Reading Rockets: This website prides itself in teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. It also offers a list of 12 reading comprehension apps that provide practice with sequencing, inferencing, word awareness, and mind mapping.
http://www.readingrockets.org/
Free Rice: A child dies every 6 seconds from hunger related causes and this website is here to stop this while educating children in the process. This website provides questions for students at grade level in any subject area. Each answer the student answer correctly 10 grains of rice is donated to designated areas where there are starving child. Students can make an account to track the rice they have donated. This is all paid for by sponsors. Kids are learning subject matter and helping the world at the same time!
Dr. Seuss: Welcome to the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss! Here you will find resources to share with kids, news about special events and annual celebrations, and tips on how to incorporate Seuss books throughout the school year.
Foreign Languages: A wonderful site for kids learning foreign languages with basic words for shapes, colors, alphabet, etc.
Math Playground: This site is an action packed math site for elementary students featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheets, logic puzzles, and math videos.
http://www.mathplayground.com/
National Geographic: This is a great site for kids about animals and nature. It offers games, videos, cool links, crafts, recipes, science experiments, etc.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
International Children’s Digital Library: This is a wealth of children’s stories in many different languages.
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Ziggity Zoom: This site offers online beginner stories for children to read with or without audio.
http://www.ziggityzoom.com/stories.php
