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Learn to Read with these helpful online resources
Beginning Reader Resource Chart Created by Vicki Martinez
 
Between the Lions http://pbskids.org/lions/
This site by PBS.org includes games, stories, and videos. The stories include folktales and fables. The video clips include letter songs. the games include the quiet machine which asks kids to choose beginning sounds. Lions to Go includes audios, music videos, and character videos that can be downloaded.
     

Dolch Site Word Books

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http://www.ndreadon.com/dolchwordpage.htm
This is a very extensive site with dolch words listed by grade, alphabetical order, and by nouns. There are also interactive books with sight words which include sounds. It's a list of a variety of sites. Really great resources.
Dolch Site Word Kit http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html
This site includes charts for keeping records of student learning of site words, a student practice book, flash cards, phrase cards, gameboards, bingo, concentration, and more.
     
     

Mr. Nussbaum's Reading Comprehension Exercises

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http://www.mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex.htm
This is an amazing site which has reading comprehension downloads with questions for grades 3, 4, 5. the printables are two page pdfs with questions.

Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words

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http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm
This is a very extensive site with dolch words listed by grade, alphabetical order, and by nouns. There are also interactive books with sight words which include sounds.
Phonics Blending Practice http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/game.shtml
This is like a game. Listen to a word, choose the beginning and ending sound and the blender tells if you are correct.
Interactive Reading Games for Kids http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html
This includes games for following directions( plot a route on a map that visits the places in the right order), poetry(read a poem and answer 3 questions about it), nonfiction(choose a theme, words, and a title to make a book), and dictionary.
Star Fall http://www.starfall.com/
Star Fall is a great interactive primary site for reading and math. It includes links for ABCs, Learn to Read, It's Fun to Read, and I'm Reading. Star Fall teaches children to read with phonics.