Literacy

=**Books online**=
 * **[|We give Books]**Many picture books you can read to students and show the pages on the smartboard
 * [|Storyline online]Actors read stories out loud
 * [|Tumblebooks] - Can go through library site and use your library card for free access
 * [|Signed Stories]Stories read aloud with a person signing the words
 * [|Barnes and Noble]Of course they want you to buy the book, but still a book read by the author is cool
 * [|Bookflix -] elv -- bookflix Scholastic books to read or watch
 * [|A Story Before Bed] a site where you can listen to authors read their story and see the pages, or record your own reading of a story
 * [|Robert Munsch] This site has Robert Munsch reading his books. No visuals, but you could play it with a book, or download it. It is always fun to hear the author read their own story.
 * [|Read to me] This is a site put together by the Las Vegas library system that has different stars reading books. Kids probably won't recognize these stars.
 * [|Mighty Book] - interactive books for use with a smart board.

=**Literacy**=


 * **[|Penn State Broadcasting] - Blue Ribbon inter actives** This is a great site that has games on Visualizing, Inferences, Making connections, Sentence building.
 * [|PBS - Between the Lions - Chicken Stack]- choose the words that match middle sounds to win the game.
 * P[|BS- Between the Lions - Blending Words]- choose different words with blended endings
 * [|Click,Clack Moo] - comprehension questions after you read the book - Use inference and judgement to answer questions. Must me able to read, or have questions read to them.
 * [|Coconut Words] - This is set up like a carnival game. Students must pick the word that best fits in the sentence. Must be able to read.
 * [|Flood! Book Sorting] - A game where the library has flooded and books are floating by- students must sort books into correct category. Must be able to read
 * [|Picture Match] - Students sort pictures into boxes based on beginning letter - ( from ReadWriteThink .org)
 * [|Starfall] - This has several levels for a variety of students - you have letter sounds and pictures, beginning decodable readers and several other levels with different types of stories for students to read
 * [|Construct a Word] - Another ReadWriteThink.org site - students pick different endings -ad, -an, -ig, -on, etc. Then get to play with adding beginning letters to make families of words.
 * [|Word Family Sort] - Another ReadWriteThink.org site - students sort words based on endings. The only thing I don't like is that there is no feedback if they put them in the wrong column.
 * [|Word Wizard -]Another ReadWriteThink.org site - students pick a book and are presented with questions that relate to the book, then a group of scrambled letters that they must use to come up with the answer to the question. Probably more 2nd - 4th grade level.
 * [] A creative writing prompt generator, and the students then type their story in one of 4 formats (postcard, letter, etc.)
 * [|Treasures] -- a Macmillan McGraw-Hill site that is tied to Treasures -- pick the grade, pick the story and there are many interactive activities that tie into that weeks lessons.
 * [|Wordle] - a site where students can enter words to create a word collage. The more you enter a word the bigger it is.
 * [|Spaghettie book club] -- a book review site for kids by kids

Inference- Using images for inference- library of congress http://www.tpsnva.org/teaching_materials/learning_experience/print.php?experiences_key=3518