Reading Links for Kids

Pre K - 2nd Grade

Computer Skills: ABC! Kindergarten computer activities and games have large and easy-to-use navigation buttons as well as voice instructions. The first activity is an interactive tutorial demonstrating how to use navigation buttons. The following activities include: learn the alphabet, uppercase to lowercase letters, categorizing, mouse manipulation, drawing, counting numbers and much more. These activities are great to use in the computer lab!

PBS For Kids - A safe place for kids to explore and play hundreds of fun educational games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters.

Art/Crafts

A Kid's Heart Holiday craft ideas

Learn Your Colors - Color pages online

Coloring Pages Animated Coloring pages, drawings to print - ages 6-10

Crayola - Home to over 4,000 Coloring Pages, Crafts, and Lesson Plans

Language Arts / Reading / Alphabet:

ABC Mommy and Me - Click on the letters to hear their names.

ABC Video - Teach your child the sounds of letters with this online movie based on the Reading Lesson

ABC's - Click on the letter to hear its name. Julia's Rainbow Corner

ABC's - Click on the letter to hear its name. Lil' Fingers

Alphabet Action - Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture.

Alphabet Antics - Listen to the monkey say the letter. Click on the correct letter. Three levels.

Alphabet Art - A few fun mediums you can use to help your students form letters of the alphabet.

Alphabet Awareness - from StarFall - click on a letter and hear the name of the letter. When the arrow at the bottom is clicked, the sound of the letter is heard along with a rhyme.

Alphabet Coloring Pages - Many pictures for each letter. Color online

Building Vocabulary Skills - Learn vocabulary words while sorting items that belong in each building. Great for ELL students!

3rd - 5th Grade

Art/Crafts

Coloring Pages Animated Coloring pages, drawings to print - ages 6-10

Language Arts / Reading

Children's Literature Children's literature is a field of writing intended to be enjoyed by children up into their early teens and which may have existed since as far back as the 1400's. As with any genre of literature there are various sub-genres including fantasy stories, picture books, realistic fiction, biographies, non-fiction, etc. Many children's stories feature pictures to accompany the tales. The resources provided here can be used to immerse yourself in the world of children's literature where you can learn about the authors, learn where to go to begin writing your own children's stories, and much more.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks The site provides phonics skills practice for early readers as they actively listen to words read aloud from engaging stories. The site also includes a teacher's guide with lessons.

First GradeBackpack - a great site for first grade students, they can read these on their own

I'm Reading Learn to Read

Little Explorers - Interactive dictionary allows children to read brief descriptions of objects and organisms, and follow links to web pages about them

Online Reading Younger Elementary Reader Online stories and games for early elementary children

Math

AAA Math - designed for grades K-8, helps with basic math skills with interactive practice and challenging games

Ask Dr. Math Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.

Change Maker - activities to work on money counting skills

Count Us In - Learning Numbers, time etc.

Education Place - challenge yourself with fun math puzzles and interactive math quizzes

Educational Games Variety of subject games.

Interactive, educational, activities for children 5-14 - contains printable games, storyteller, auto-maths, scrambler

Math Math.Com covers everything from basic math to statistics and calculus to help students understand their math homework. Games, formulas and tables and study tips and test preparation are a few of the things you will find at Math.com.

Multiplication Click on Student link and find numerous activities and strategies to learn the times tables. Parents can click on the parent and teacher link to help their child learn the times tables as well.

Stanley Park Chase - Times Tables==help Dexter find his gold by solving multiplication problems

WebMath Math Help for Students and Teachers

Word Problems for Kids - test math skill with challenging math word problems - for grades 5 and up. Great site to get students thinking.

Miscellaneous

Brain Games K-8 students and teachers - kids games and quizzes

Education 4 Kids - This site contains learning games for k-12, but specifically for different ages in K-8 for math, social studies and language.

Educational Games Variety of subject games.

Fun Brain - many games and activities for grades K-8--variety of subjects

Fun School for children, printable games, and online games - Pre-School to 6^th grade

Funology - contains many games, puzzles, and many more fun activities for all ages

Gamequarium - learning games and activities for grades K-6

Interactive Education and Learning - online math and English games, resources and activities for grades K-8

Kids Hub is a free online interactive learning center for elementary school students through 12th grade. It features fun educational games, puzzles, and quizzes.

Primary ages 4-11 - contains word games, read-along stories, math activities and more for Pre-K and Kindergarten

Secondary Ages 11_16 - contains word games, read-along stories, math activities and more for Pre-K and Kindergarten

Little People Games From Fisher Price, shapes and colors, matching, testing your memory, what's different, and animal sounds.

Online dictionary.

Online Thesaurus.com - Online Thesaurus

Online Merriam-Webster - Dictionary and Thesuarus

Primary Games - contains all sorts of educational games for elementary students

Thesaurus.com - Online Thesaurus

Science

How Volcanoes Work - Resources on the science of volcanoes

Human Anatomy Online Begin your tour by choosing a system...

Monarchs & Migration - Monarch butterflies and their migration patterns

Oceans Alive! - Looking into the ocean

Scanning the Electron Microscope - Information on electron microscopes

Science Learning Network - a useful site that contains other resources for science questions

Science Ology - Insight too many science areas

Solar Max - Information on the sun

Syvum Interactive Education and Learning - science activities and games best suited for grades 5-8

The pH Factor - pH levels and their meanings

The Wind: Our Fierce Friend - The wind and how it works

Water in the City - Water and its water ways

Zoom Astronomy - Comprehensive site on astronomy and astrology

Social Studies

Educational Games Variety of subject games.

Geography skills with different activities, best suited for grades 4 and up

Harriet Tubman - provides links for information on Harriet Tubman

Learn the 50 States Learn everything there is to know about the 50 states in the US.

Sheppard Site on States Position the state pieces on the US map.

Games to Learn the States Provide games to teach students the states

Syvum Interactive Education and Learning - history games and test worksheets for grades 3-6 to test different history skills

The Wright Bros and their first flight attempts.

U.S. History, Explorers, Fun facts

Color Room - Select the Coloring Room for the students. Introduce site as whole class activity, then it can be used at Center Time. When students click on a primary color and paint a particular area, then click on another primary color and paint that same area, the color on the picture will show as the combination of those two primary colors.

Color Room - Select the Mixing Room for the students. This is more of a class activity as the mouse skills may be above some students. Click and drag two colors into the machine and see what new color is made. Great site for discovering primary color mixes.

Color Room - Select the Sorting Room for the students. A class activity that gives critical thinking questions and asks students to find the combination colors of red and yellow, blue and yellow, etc.

Find the letter - Rabbit names a letter for student to click on. (feedback given for wrong response)

First GradeBackpack - a great site for first grade students, they can read these on their own

I'm Reading Learn to Read

Keyboard-O-rama - Press any letter on the keyboard and Elmo will tell you what it is and show a picture that starts with that letter.

Learn the Alphabet

Learn Your ABC's - (from Fisher Price) The letter is named. Students press a letter on the keyboard to go to the next letter. Gets students used to using the keyboard as an input objects instead of the mouse.

Letters or Numbers? - Click on the word Games near the bottom of the screen. On the couch are rabbit ears in back of the A. Click on the rabbit ears to get to the game. Drag the object into the correct box. Is it a number or is it a letter?

Little Explorers - Interactive dictionary allows children to read brief descriptions of objects and organisms, and follow links to web pages about them

Mrs. Alphabet - All you ever wanted to know about teaching the alphabet, math, phonics, and reading.
Nursery Rhymes - listen to the poem, sequence the poem, sing the poem

Online Reading Younger Elementary Reader Online stories and games for early elementary children

Patterning - Color Sequencing - Color the picture to match the one shown.

Patterning - Copy the Bead pattern to match the one shown.

Pick a letter and hear its name - Click on a letter and hear the name of the letter;see a picture of an object that starts with that letter.

Poems - Listen to poems online.

Printed Alphabet activities - Cut letters into pieces for a center time activity. Put a letter train together in correct order. Many other activities

Same and Different - Two cards are shown. If they are the same, then click the SNAP button. If they are different, do not click. Great activity to introduce same and different.

Reading, Art and much more Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. Be sure to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost writing journals and books that parallel this website.

The ABC Game - Pick the object that starts with the letter shown at the top of each page. This game has 10 questions

The Alphabet - States the Alphabet in order. This is a British site and the Zis not called a Z. When you click on the letters across the top, you have a choice of listening to the name, listening to the sound, learning how to write the letter.

The Alphabet Jungle Song - Song, plus letters. This is a British site and the Z is called a zed.

The Animated Alphabet - Click on a letter on the left and it states the letter and has a movie to go with it.

What's in the Bag? - Audio directions to listen to clues and then decide what is in the bag.

Math

AAA Math - designed for grades K-8, helps with basic math skills with interactive practice and challenging games

Ask Dr. Math Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.

Change Maker - activities to work on money counting skills

Count Us In - Learning Numbers, time etc.

Education Place - challenge yourself with fun math puzzles and interactive math quizzes

Educational Games Variety of subject games.

Interactive, educational, activities for children 5-14 - contains printable games, storyteller, auto-maths, scrambler

Math Skills - Comparisons, Numbers, and more

Counting - Find objects in the pond by moving your mouse over them. After all are found, audio voice counts aloud the number of animals found. Audio directions also allow this to become an independent activity for children. No counting skills are required from the students. An introduction to counting one-to-one.

Counting - Mouse skills needed to drag box car. Audio counts box cars as they are added. Once there are 10 cars, student selects a number and a one-to-one activity is displayed.

Counting - Pick an object to count; pick a number for the number of objects; audio counts objects as they appear.

The Counting Game - [numbers up to 9] Count the shapes and then click on the number you counted. Get ten right to win the game.

Counting Story - Teacher-led and read. Story counts up to Five.

Count the Bananas - Count the banana peels and click on the correct numeral.

Let's Count! Cynthia Lanius - Many counting activities; also in Spanish.

Matching Numbers - Count the number of items on the top and click on the box with the same number of items. Click on the ear to hear instructions.

Matching Numbers - Click on the picture with the same number of items as the example on the left. one-to-one matching

Number Recognition - Click on the number the rabbit says. If a wrong response is given the number will be repeated several times.

Miscellaneous

Activity Center - contains word games, read-along stories, math activities and more for Pre-K and Kindergarten

Authors - authors of fiction and nonfiction books for young readers

Brain Games - K-12 students and teachers - kids games and quizzes

Computers - KidSpace Internet Library

Education 4 Kids - This site contains learning games for k-12, but specifically for different ages in K-8 for math, social studies and language.

Fun Brain - many games and activities for grades K-8--variety of subjects

Fun School for children, printable games, and online games - Pre-School to 6^th grade

Gamequarium - learning games and activities for grades K-6

Interactive Education and Learning - online math and English games, resources and activities for grades K-8

Kids Farm - Kids Farm is about animals and people that live and work on a ranch in Colorado. It is a place for young children to learn about farm and wild animals, animal sounds, what grows, farm equipment and a wildlife rehab center. We also have spelling, puzzles, horses, cows, chickens, sheep, goats, elk, kids rodeo, and guest pets. It is also a tool for teachers who teach farm units.

Kids Hub is a free online interactive learning center for elementary school students through 12th grade. It features fun educational games, puzzles, and quizzes.

Little People Games From Fisher Price, shapes and colors, matching, testing your memory, what's different, and animal sounds.

Matching Shapes - Use the mouse to drag the toys to the matching picture on the shelf

Primary Games - contains all sorts of educational games for elementary students

Buzzing with Shapes (2 player game) - Be the first to fill a row (like tic-tac-toe). Players must select the number of sides in a shape.

Colors, Shapes and Number Matching - Barney Site - Pick the shape, or number, that matches the objects with which Barney is playing.

Colors and Shapes - States color and shape of objects. Sound effects helps students remember. Press a letter on the keyboard to go to the next shape. Gets students used to using the keyboard as an input objects instead of the mouse.

Color the Shapes - Click on color paint and click on shape as directed.

Find the Shape in the Picture - Barney Site - Click on the shape that is in the picture that matches the one on the side.

Find the Hidden Shape - Look at the shape at the top and click on that shape within the picture.

Fun With Shapes - Arrange the puzzle pieces by matching the colored shape to the puzzle piece.

I Spy Shapes - Find the shapes within the picture and click on them.

Nursery Rhymes - Turn up the speakers and enjoy listening to numerous nursery rhymes.

Oochy Goes to the Fair - Look at the shape on the sign and then match it by clicking on the one in the box that is the same.

Oddball - Click on the one that is different.

Matching Game - (Fisher Price) Students click on the Little People Friends that don't match the other two.

Matching Shapes - Click on the shape that is the same as the one on the left.

PBS For Kids - A safe place for kids to explore and play hundreds of fun educational games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters.

Primary Games - The fun place to learn.

Put the Shapes where they belong - A puzzle where the student moves the shapes to fit into the puzzle; a click and drag activity.

Sammy's Shapes - Teacher directed lesson for whole class activity.

Shapes - Concentration game. Find the shapes that match under the boxes. May be too difficult for some students because of the number of boxes. (18)

Shape Story - describes each shape

Sorting by Size - A click and drag activity, moving the objects in a row according to size.

Sorting by Categories - Name items in various places and drag them into the box. Mouse skill of dragging items needed for this activity.

Time - Fill in the numbers in order around the clock 1-12. A click and drag operation.Can use this activity to become familiar with the clock layout.

What's Different? - Students look at two pictures and select what three things are different. Four different pictures are available.

Zoe's Pet Shelter (Sesame Street) - Zoe has to group animals with similar characteristics. This will work best as a whole class activity. Caution! This game never ends!

Zoom School - Zoom School is an on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities.