Interactive Books 
and Reading
Sites
Starfall: Reading resources
This website provides
interactive phonic and reading games to designed for kindergarten and junior
primary learners.
Story Place : The Children's Digital Library
URL: http://www.storyplace.org /
StoryPlace: Spanish & English versions. Listen to interactive children's stories, play with on-line activities, print out take-home activities, reading list and more
Super Thinkers
URL: http://www.superpages.com/...tenme/superthinkers/pages/index.html
SuperThinkers features a set of original
interactive mysteries designed to foster literacy and problem-solving.
Abracadabra
URL: http://grover.concordia.ca/abra/current/PD/index.php Ó Ó
This site contains a collection of interactive and printable resources teaching literacy for junior primary aged students.
Story Time
URL: http://pbskids.org/berenstainbears/games/story/index.html
This Berenstain Bears online activity is an interactive cloze exercise where children write a story choosing objects visually.
Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, history, and facts
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html
National Geographic: twelve unvarnished, true fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Timeline, maps, resources, and biographical information on the Grimms'. The stories are interactive allowing users to follow paths of narration that lead to a specific story
MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries
URL: http://kids.mysterynet.com/
Mystery Net is the place for online mysteries and mystery games. Every Month the site features See-n-Solve, Solve-it, Twist and Flash mysteries. Every Day: Get-a-Clue mini-mystery, Teasers by Members.
Learn English kids
URL: http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids
Although designed by the British Council for children learning English, this site provides a variety of quality stories, songs, writing activities, and games for young children. The stories are read aloud and each one has an extension activity to go with it. Included are tips for parents and teachers.
Pirates
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/index.html
From National Geographic, this site looks at the history of pirates and contains pictures, information, maps, a game, and details about Blackbeard, Black Bart, Henry Morgan, and Captain Kidd.
Book Box
URL: http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/bookbox/home.htm
This Channel 4 website is aimed at encouraging 9 to 13 year-olds to read. It provides information on 40 popular writers of children's classics along with interviews, games and activities. There is also a writing toolkit to aid creative writing. Authors featured include Roald Dahl, Jamila Gavin, Anthony Horowitz, Terry Jones, Beverley Naidoo, Terry Prachett, Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling
Into the book: Teaching reading
comprehension strategies
Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4: using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. Information and teaching resources are provided for each strategy. The Kids' area has interactive activities for each strategy.
Cyberkids
URL: http://www.cyberkids.com/index.html
A fun online magazine for kids that contain stories, artwork, puzzles and more, created mostly by other kids.
Word Games
One stop English: Free games and
activities
URL: http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=59788&docid=154344
This site provides a collection of free interactive games and activities to help young learners to practise grammar and skills. You can display them on a monitor or on a screen. For each game there is a zipped file. Save the file on your computer and open it from your computer in order to play the game. Games include wordsearches, crosswords, quizzes, a survey, a song and more. Student levels are indicated.
WordSplay
URL: http://www.wordsplay.net/
An online Word Boggle game. When the timer starts, each player searches the assortment of letters for words of three letters or more on the 4x4 board (four or more on the 5x5 board).
Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams
URL: http://www.manythings.org/anagrams/ Ó
Anagrams sorted by subject and number of letters
Spelling
Spin and Spell
URL: http://www.spinandspell.com/
This is an animated spelling game for very young children. The user can click on a picture, write down the letters and submit the spelling. It also shows the correct word and users can listen to the word spoken. Suitable for ESL and lower primary students.
KS1 Bitesize Games - Literacy:
Spelling
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ks1bitesize/literacy/spelling/index.shtml
Part of a collection of fun and interactive games to help children at Early Childhood with literacy: Spelling.
Hard Spell
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/hardspell_game.shtml
Spelling city
URL: http://www.spellingcity.com/
This site allows students to input their own spelling lists and learn and practice the spellings through interactive games.
OZ Speller
URL: http://www.ozspeller.com/index.html Ó
Oz Speller is a free Australian Online Spelling Tutor.
Grammar
Grammar Ninja
URL: http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html
Grammar Ninja is an educational web game that requires learners to find parts of speech such as noun, adjectives and verbs by throwing ninja stars at words.
Englishzone
URL: http://www.lcfclubs.com/englishzone/
This website provides a collection of interactive stories, songs and games to help children develop their English vocabulary, punctuation and grammar.
Writing
Make Beliefs Comix!
URL: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Ó
An interactive site that generates comics, suitable for students of all age groups. Students create a name for their comic and choose characters and write text online.
Zam's Quest
URL: http://www.zamsquest.com/comic_maker.php?id=9
This interactive comic book maker includes 9 frames in which you can choose backgrounds, characters and speech bubbles. On completion students can share, print or email the completed work.
Comic Creator
URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
The Comic Creator is an interactive tool that invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts
Poetry Express
URL: http://www.poetryexpress.org/ Ó
Poetry ideas and activities. This online guide offers help in making, sharing, revising, and publishing poetry--of special interest to creative writing students and instructors.
Kids on the Net
URL: http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/ Ó
Kids on the Net invites children to submit their writing. It offers special writing projects as well as resources for teachers and parents.
Scriptwriting with a Wiki
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp054.shtml Ó
Students use a wiki (a Web site that allows users to add and edit content collectively) to write a one-act play
Tate Tales
URL: http://blog.tate.org.uk/tate-tales/
Every few months a new artwork in the Tate Museum is posted on the Tate Tales site. Children are invited to write a story about the piece and submit it for display on the Tate Kids Site. Information about how each artwork was created is available along side the stories written by other children.
Phonics
Snakes and Ladders - A Reading Game
URL: http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/snakes/index.htm
This is a reading / phonics game of Snakes and Ladders that you choose the words for. The web page describes how the words are generated for the game and there is a printable document which supplies the game board.
CVC Phonics Game
URL: http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/change/index.htm
ÓA card game for the emerging reader to focus on medial short vowel sounds. The website has downloadable documents that contain the instructions for the game, and printable cards.
Mrs Alphabet
This site aims to assist children in early learning and successful progress in alphabet recognition, phonics, beginning reading, math, and more.
Poetry
Children's poetry corner
URL: http://www.kristinegeorge.com/
An extensive children's poetry site from acclaimed poet, Kristine O'Connell George: author information, teaching ideas, audio clips, animated for students
Poetica: A pod of poets
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/features/pod/ Ó
A Pod of Poets is a series of eleven, 40-minute podcasts of Australian poetry, read by the authors, and brought to you by ABC Radio National.
Poetry Archive
URL: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
The Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets reading their own work. Users can listen, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past. Areas of the site are provided for teachers and students.