Technology Supporting Literacy
Below are some great academic websites that your child may choose to use to practice skills learned at school. Please be aware that we recommend parental supervision as the websites on the internet can change from time to time. Please remind your child NOT to give away any personal information on any of these or any other website.
1. www.Starfall.com
this website has many opportunities to practice literacy skills
2. www.spellingcity.com
This is a great website to practice your child’s weekly spelling words through interactive games such as crossword puzzles, hangman, etc. The computer can even test your child’s spelling by saying the word aloud and having your child type it in.
3. www.funschool.com
Click on ALL games to bring up the game section. Select from language arts (spelling, word recognition, vocabulary, etc) , science, math, geography and history. Great for preschool through 2nd.
4. http://www.ahisd.net/campuses/cambridge/library/chilauth.html
This site has links to favorite children’s authors.
5. http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
This is a fabulous site for Kinder through second. The game speaks to you and skills such as alphabet, letter sounds, listening for sounds within words, putting words in order to make sentences, poetry, spelling high frequency words (with the computer modeling), etc . The site is color coded from beginner to more advanced.
6. http://www.littleexplorers.com/DictionaryA.html
Children’s picture dictionary- the amount of information on this site boggles the mind!
7. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Website teaches about the solar system
8. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/portal/site/Kids/menuitem.f977d82a49287d81b92c3010ca248a0c/?vgnextoid=9e18edfab621d010VgnVCM1000006640a8c0RCRD
National Geographic For Kids- video, activities, games and stories
9. http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
Variety of games to teach language arts- more intermediate grades
10. http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/
Does your child struggle with handwriting? Make practice sheets for home on this site!
11. http://www.mrcpl.org/literacy/lessons/sight/index.html
This site helps your child read stories that have 10 high frequency words in them. They can receive help reading stories with the help of their mouse.
12. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/
Beginning letter sounds, short and long vowels
13. http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard/
Word Wizard** A Making Words activity- use tiles to make words and build from one word to make another word.
Activities from Sadlier-Oxford
14. **Long Vowel Sounds**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/long_vowel_grk1_nav.htm
15. **High Frequency Words**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/high_fre/hifreq1.htm
16. **Rhyming Words Memory Game**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/rhyming_k_1/hifreq.htm
17. **Name the Pictures Short Vowels**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic1.htm
18. **Name the Pictures Long Vowel Sounds A, I, O**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_66/long_vowel_2_3a.htm
19. **High Frequency Words** more difficult
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/frequency/highfreq2_3.htm
20. **Long Vowels E and U**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_76/long_vowel_2_3b.htm
21. **Name the Picture Long Vowel Sounds**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic2.htm
22. **R-Controlled Vowels**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/r_vowel/r_vowels.htm
23. **R-Controlled Words**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/begin_dia2.htm
24. **Blends** Beginning and ending consonant blends
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_106/blends.htm
25. **Beginning Digraphs**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/begin_dia.htm
26. *Final Digraphs"
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/final_dia.htm
27. **Vowel Digraphs** Vowel digraphs such as oo, ea, au, aw, etc.
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/middle_dia.htm
28. **Vowel Dipthongs ou and ow**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs.htm
29. **Dipthongs oi, oy, and ew**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs2.htm
30. **Fly By Contractions**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/flyby/flyby1.htm
31. Make rhyming words with a magnetic poetry board
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
Other educational websites you might be interested in to support math:
1. www.Mathfactcafe.com
This website allows your child to practice basic math facts (which all children need to become efficient with), allows you to print off worksheets for your child to practice and it gives your child the opportunity to practice telling time.
2. www.aplusmath.com
This site allows your child to practice basic math facts (timed if you’d like them to race against the clock to practice getting them in 3 seconds or less) and practice counting money.
3. www.coolmath.com
opportunities to practice math
4. www.iknowthat.com
A great site to practice math, art, science, fun and more (skip the registration and go right to the games)
5. http://www.mathplayground.com/
An interactive site to practice math, logic and just have fun! (Anything from fractions, protractors, word problems, flashcards, etc.)
6. www.Funbrain.com
On this site your child can play math car racing. There are many math games including one that your child can make change with!! Be sure to click on the 2nd grade skills.
7. www.scweb4free.com
Interactive website that includes math flash cards, games and printable worksheets to practice math.
8. www.Thinks.com
This site has great online games and puzzles
9. www.figurethis.org
Math challenges for the whole family!