Language Arts Resources

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English Language Arts Resources

Get Ready to Read

Accessible web reader

http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/

Text to audio file converters (online)

http://www.readthewords.com/

http://www.spokentext.net/

http://tarheelreader.org

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

http://prekese.dadeschools.net/BMD/interactivestorybooks.html

Kizclub

Check out all the online books and reading activities gathered on this one site!! Have fun.

LookyBook

This is a great site for animated picture books. They don't read aloud and you can't save them but they are a great online reading resource. Open your Audacity and let your kids record their reading!

Adolescent Literacy.org

Visit this new site to find information and strategies for increasing literacy for students in the 4th through the 12th grades.

Wisconsin Literacy Education and Reading Network Source

Internet Picture Dictionary

Picture dictionary on the internet.

Free-Reading Online Reading Program

This link is to a free online research-based open-source reading program for Grades K-3. It offers a 40-week reading program and many online materials with which the implement the activities.

Simple English Wikipedia

Here's Wikipedia, but at a more readable level for many students.

UNC Reading and Behavior Improvement Center

Larry Ferlazzo's ELL Resources

This site has awesome resources for any who is learning the English language, period. There are links assorted by level as well as subject.

Reading Resources
Excellent resource document for assistance in reading for students. PDF format that opens in a new window.

MCREL
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning. This is a super resource of a site for all kinds of manuals, resources, research, etc. on education, most of it government-funded.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia

Language Arts Freeware

List of freeware in the language arts areas-all levels

Literactive.com

This awesome site is a complement to the starfall.com that we all know and love. You must register to use the site but it’s free. There are online activities that range from interactive nursery rhymes to leveled reading selections, all with accompanying activities. Anyone need keyboarding, phonemic awareness, sequencing, etc. Enjoy!! I “played around” on this site using the Intellikeys and it worked really well, giving access to our more challenged students.

Read, Write, Think

Many resources that address literacy, writing, reading, and all the accompanying skills are here, along with many online activities.

K8 Access Center

This site contains a wealth of information on almost every aspect of working with students with disabilities. Downloadable guides, archived webinars on different topics...and it’s all free!! It actually excited Mollie Lusty... ;>)

Earobic Games

Online activities that address phonemic awareness, sequencing, comprehension, etc.

Lil' Fingers Online Read-aloud Books

Great site for all kinds of activities. Some great beginning books that will read aloud to students. Check it out!! There’s even a “potty” book for boys and a different one for girls.

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading. Another great resource looking at the components of reading.

Dolch Sight Words

Great resources for teaching Dolch sight words

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun!

Great site of online vocabulary drill games, such as hangman, word searches, etc.