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Plant a Flower-develops vocabulary
Make a Snowman-develops vocabulary
Go On A Word Hunt-develops vocabulary, comprehension
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Interactive Book & Word Game-develops phonemic awareness, phonological
awareness, phonics
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm
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Reggie the Rhyming Rhino-develops phonological awareness
Leo the Letter Loving Lobster-develops phonemic awareness
Nina the Naming Newt-develops vocabulary, comprehension
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
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Alphabet Soup-vocabulary and spelling
Word Play-develop vocabulary
Look Out Below-develop vocabulary
Chicken Stacker-short vowel sounds
Pounce-develop phonological awareness(matching spoken word
to written word)
Fuzzy Lion Ears-develop phonological awareness (matching sound
to letter)
A.B. Cow-letter recognition
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/read/index.htm
Great fun reading and writing activities for kids.
http://www.prentrom.com/teaching/teaching.html
Prenke Romich Co. website with tips on teaching reading to AAC users
David Edyburn recommended Web sites:
http://www.donjohnston.com
Reading Strategies for Older Students- Provides a full array of critical
intervention products.
http://www.aph.org
American Printing
House for the Blind- Provides specialized materials, products and services
needed for education and life.
http://www.booksaloud.org
Audio library for the visually, physically and learning disabled of
all ages.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped that offers
a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to
eligible borrowers in the US by postage-free mail.
http://www.rfbd.org
Recordings for
the Blind and Dyslexic- the national educational library for those with
print disabilities.
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e-texts Via Membership
http://www.bookshare.org/
Has accessible books for people with visual or other print disabilities.
e-texts in the Public Domain
http://www.bibliomania.com
FREE on-line literature with more than 2000 classic texts.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Electronic Text Center - Combines an on-line archive of electronic
texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software
suitable for the creation and analysis of text.
http://www.loc.gov
Library of Congress
- Words, pictures and sound, more than a library.
http://www.worditude.com
Contains
current and public domain literature in ebook file formats, free to
download.
http://www.gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg-
The internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
Ready Reference
http://www.askjeeves.com
A search engine.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
A great resource to look up words. Also contains a thesaurus and links
to other dictionary resources in foreign languages and translators.
http://refdesk.com
RefDesk-Indexes
and reviews quality, credible and current information-based sites and
assists readers in navigating these sites.
Scan Print Materials using OCR Software
http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/
OmniPage-Turns PDF into editable word processing and apreadsheet documents.
Scan
Print Materials Using OCR Software & Text-to-Speech
http://www.texthelp.com/
TextHelp-A
range of software products designed to help computer users improve their
reading and writing skills.
http://www.freedomscientific.com
A line of products that help people read, write, study and take
tests more effectively.
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Language Translation
http://world.altavista.com
Babelfish. Translate a block of text or webpages from/to English and
a multitude of other languages.
Talking Word
Processors
http://www.readplease.com
FREE text to speech software.
Text to Speech
Conversion Software
http://www.textaloud.com
Convert
any text to speech and even to MP3. Listen to email, web pages, eBooks
and documents.
Making Your Own
Books
http://Audiobookmaker.com
Information about text-reading software which can speak any text using
different human voices.
Web
Sites For Literacy
http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/specialeducation/ecthematic/
index.html
Early
childhood Thematic Units
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teachercreate.html
Teacher
Created Resources (Boardmaker/Intellipics, etc.)
http://www.flashcardexchange.com
The place to create, study, print, download and share flashcards.
http://www.songs4teachers.com
Theme related poems and song words
http://usevisualstrategies.com
Provides tools to help improve communication. Articles, pictures, books
and products.
http://www.creativecommunicating.com
Provides a unique line of products and services in the early childhood
and emergent literacy arenas. Storytime tricks.
http://www.preschooleducation.com
Many themed and seasonal activitie and ideas for home and school.
http://www.starfall.com
On-line
stories. Provides a reading program for pre-K through 2nd grade. Free
materials available to teachers.
http://niteowl.org/kids
Provides
nursery rhyme coloring pages that can be done either on the computer
or printed out.
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http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
Produces web sites and games which are designed to maximizing creativity,
learning and enjoyment for children. Such as picture dictionaries and
learning rhymes.
http://www.abcteach.com
A cornucopia of resources for teachers, students and parents. Great
test-taking strategies, printable pages, worksheets, thematic units
and reading comprehension
http://www.news-2-you.com
Weekly news that mirrors the school year.
http://www.underfives.co.uk/index.htm
Themes, worksheets, activities, for the preschool age child.
http://www.nellieedge.com
6 printable little books as well as other resources.
http://www.readingatoz.com
Downloadable materials to teach guided reading, phonics, the alphabet
and much more.
http://www.coloring.ws
Coloring
pages, games, jigsaw puzzles and activities.
http://www.janbrett.com
2,255
pages of free activities, coloring pages and projects.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html
Webbing into Literacy: A Head Start Program designed to provide rural
Head Start teachers instructional materials.
http://www.amihome.com/rrca/
A California created site to share tools and information among Reading
Recovery (and other) teachers.
http://marcias-lesson-links.com/ChildrensLit.html
A site containing a multitude of literacy links listed by grade levels,
cultures, and topics.
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/transportation.htm
Pre-school activities and crafts.
http://www.callier.utdallas.edu/ACT/res.html#literacy
Site that facilitates literacy skills for students who use AAC devices.
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/
A site containing a wealth of resources for early childhood educators
and parents.
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