Good Reading/Language Arts Web Sites for Carson Families
Spelling City lets your child input his or her spelling list and play games with their words. It will also give practice tests. http://www.spellingcity.com/
Starfall is a great site with reading activities for different developmental levels. http://www.starfall.com/ K1
Storyline.com has wonderful videos of celebrities reading books. http://www.storylineonline.net/
This site has many stories for the younger reader to enjoy. http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Use this tool to sort word families. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/
Word Wizard uses oral clues to help your child find and spell words. http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard/
The Word Builder lets your child practice pattern words. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/
Your child has to use clues to find what is in the bag. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/ K2
Picture Match helps your child learn long vowel sounds. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/ K3
Kid's Lab has many reading activities for grades K - 3. http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/srw.htm
The English-Zone has on-line lessons covering many language arts topics. http://english-zone.com/index.php
Word Jungle is an interactive game that helps you develop your vocabulary. http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/
At Reading Ring, you have to put comic strips in order and answer questions about them to win. http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
With this site, your child must choose the correct word to complete the sentence. http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=SelectAWord
This site will give parents of struggling readers more insight on how to help them. http://www.readingrockets.org/helping
At this site, your child will help Mr. Brown color letters. http://www.seussville.com/university/reading/games
This is the children's reading area of the Internet Public Library. It is full of links to stories you can read on-line. http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/rzn0000
The Spectrum site has great on-line stories and articles for all ages. http://www.incwell.com/Spectrum.html
This MagicKeys site has on-line stories for different reading levels. http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books
This site houses some stories written by other youngsters. http://mgfx.com/kidlit/kids/artlit/stories/index.htm
On this site, you can read myths and legends from around the world. http://www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html
The Cyberkids site has some great student-produced stories. http://www.cyberkids.com/cw/sto/
Wonderful Tales is a site full of folk and fairy tales from around the world. It is not the best designed site, but the stories are great. I recommend highlighting the text to make it easier to read. http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/mythology/worldtalesindex.html
This site has many categories of stories for your on-line reading pleasure. http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm#stories
Go here to read 82 of Aesop's fables. http://www.dusklight.com/aesop/
On-line stories from England. The are read to you in an english accent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/
This site has many good english practice skills. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html