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Beginning ReaderHere are more than 24 websites to help beginning readers learn how to read. These interactive games help kids practice skills in letter sounds, phonics, phonemic awareness and sight word recognition. Some of the websites also help kids learn word patterns and word families.
February 14, 2008 Hits: 306
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From site: Bridge to Reading is a computer program that takes a child on the journey from being a non-reader to being a beginning reader. From the first screen, the child is reading a story. Pictures, sound, and animation provide a context for reading and hold a child's interest.
Click here for more detailed information on the program.
February 23, 2008 Hits: 127
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From site: Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing project. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1 and for at-risk students in later grades.
Our premises are:
The goals of Free-Reading are:
Though no individual skill taught here may be an end in itself, we believe each is a step on the path to that ultimate goal.
October 13, 2008 Hits: 67
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FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.
February 17, 2008 Hits: 273
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This series of brief videos illustrates and emphasizes the importance of frequent informal assessments of beginning readers. This helps to identify areas of difficulty early and target instruction to the needs of individual students. Assessments include Spelling as a Diagnostics Tool, Specialists, Assessing Reading Skills, an Assessment of a Pre-Reader, and an Early Elementary Assessment.
June 10, 2008 Hits: 231
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The phonic monsters are a fun way to learn and practice phoneme-grapheme correspondences. The phonic monsters are a series of 18 plus words that contain all of the phonemes in the English language and most of the basic graphemes that are used to represents these phonemes. Each word is depicted as a monster with a head, a belly, and a tail, which represent the CVC words. An extra set of legs can be added later to make CCVC words or CVCC words. The concept is best explained with illustrations.
January 22, 2008 Hits: 505
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There are a variety of activities for beginning readers to interact with short stories. These include a calendar, Earth Day clean up project, word hunt, and turkey dress up, among others. Starfall's online store includes books, puzzles and flashcards.
February 14, 2008 Hits: 85
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From site: Learn Letters teaches children to know and make the 26 letters of the alphabet. Using the shapes the letters have in common, the child is guided as he combines shapes to make the lower case letters of the alphabet. Learning the names and shapes of the letters of the alphabet is the first step to reading. This is one of the most important, most basic things a child needs to know to learn to read. Learn Letters makes learning the letters of the alphabet fun and easy, even for children whose fine motor coordination is not yet well developed. Fun, educational hands-on learning.
February 14, 2008 Hits: 145
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From site: Letter Sounds helps children make the first, vital connection between the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent. Children move pictures to the letters that make the first sounds of the word that describes the picture. Voice is used to be sure that children know the right word and to reinforce the connection between the first letter and the first sound in the word. Fun, educational hands-on learning.Letter Sounds - Blends teaches children how combine letters and the sounds they represent to make words. Children choose the first two letters that blend to form the sounds at the beginnings of words. The program says the word to make sure the correct word is associated with the picture shown, and to reinforce the correct sound produced by the combined letters. The child hears the word, spells it out and sees a picture representing the word, to make sure learning comes together. Letter Sounds - 'S' Blends teaches children how combine letters and the sounds they represent to make words. Children choose an 's' and the next letter that blend to form the sounds at the beginning of the word. Letter Sounds - Short Vowels teaches children how combine letters and the sounds they represent to make words. Children choose the first two letters that blend to form the sounds at the beginnings of words. Letter Sounds - Long Vowels teaches children how combine letters and the sounds they represent to make words. Children choose the first two letters that blend to form the sounds at the beginnings of words.
January 04, 2009 Hits: 221
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From site: Lexia Early Reading is a state-of-the art interactive reading program, specifically designed to increase phonological awareness among 4 to 6 year olds.... LearningReviews.com note: Student acheivement has been proven with this award-winning software. Pricing starts at $119 for up to 3 students.
January 04, 2009 Hits: 1123
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From site: Lexia Primary Reading is designed to help all children master basic reading skills. The program gives instant feedback and adjusts automatically to each child’s abilities. The on-screen alerts and user-friendly database management track each child's performance. Within an independent practice environment, children build speed and accuracy in the application of phonics skills. Using headphones, the program develops critical phonological reading skills to foster automatic word recognition while monitoring for meaning. The activities promote comprehension skills through the application of phonological strategies to single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and stories, and emphasize listening skills and following directions.
March 26, 2009 Hits: 134
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From site: Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Developed and approved by teachers and parents across the United States, Literactive is the acknowledged leader in early learning online. All the material is available for free from this site but you need to register.
September 30, 2009 Hits: 33
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In the Monkey Business game, you have to put the words in the correct order for the monkey to make it safely across. Each time you win, you get more banana points, and the monkey does more tricks.
January 04, 2009 Hits: 240
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From site: Scientifically Valid Instruction for Struggling Readers LearningReviews.com note: There are classroom and home versions of this product. Home version pricing begins at $299. This software program is research-based and proven to be effective. It is guaranteed and has received numerous awards.
February 17, 2008 Hits: 89
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This series of brief videos discusses: the Alphabetic Principle, the Sounds of the Alphabet, Phonemic Segmentation, Spelling Rules, the Importance of the Alphabetic Principle, and Phonics vs. Whole Language. Experts and teachers discuss illustrate the importance of phonics in the classroom.
October 19, 2009 Hits: 25
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NeoK12 Phonics videos is a series of videos to help preschool kids and beginning readers learn the alphabet sounds and basic sight words. All videos and lessons on this site have been reviewed by K-12 teachers and are safe for kids.
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