Reading

In order to meet the IEP goals we utilize different programs for different needs: 

 

Reading Decoding

Wilson Reading Program - Intensive Phonics and phoneme mastery.

Reading Mastery - Intensive phonics and sight word mastery combined with vocabulary, story reading and vocabulary development. 

Corrective Reading - Intensive phonics and sight word mastery combined with vocabulary, story reading and vocabulary development.

Reading Comprehension

 

Marzano's Reading Comprehension Strategies

Step Up to Writing - This writing program incorporates a multi-sensory approach to improve reading comprehension with concrete practical strategies:

    • Responding to Text
    • Making Connections
    • Marking the Text
    • Taking Notes
    • Making Inference and Analyzing Text
    • Recognizes Text Structures
    • Summarizing
    • Asking and Answering Questions
    • Using and Creating Bookmarks

 

 

A few of our favorite links:

Books

Storyline Online - listen to books read by famous people

RIF Reading Planet

I'm Reading

It's Fun to Read

Book Adventure - A free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. 

StoryLine Online Screen Actors Guild

Aesop’s Fables

News and Magazines

Tween Tribune

Time Life For Kids

Scholastic News

Games

Primary Reading Games*

Educational Kids Games - kids can create their own wacky stories. (madlibs)

Comprehension

Starfall.com - great early reading website.

 

Picture Book Authors

Jan Brett - Award-winning website

Mem Fox - Mem's biography, likes and dislikes, and how she wrote many of her books.

Official Eric Carle Web Site

The Magic School Bus Fun Place

The Children's Literature Web Guide

Dr. Seuss's Seussville!

Scholastic.com Home Page

Children's Storybooks Online

Shel Silverstein Poems & Books

Chapter Book Authors

Bailey School Kids

Avi - Meet the author of Poppy, Charlotte Doyle and other favorites.

Betsy Byars - Q&A, photos, writing tips from this award-winning author.

Jean Craighead George - Meet the author of Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain

J.K. Rowling (creator of Harry Potter) 

Beverly Cleary

Magic Tree House

 

 

 

Grammar

 

The Children's University of Manchester Words

Subject-Verb Agreement

Grammar Gorillas - name parts of speech.

Book Report Activities

Write a Book Review

300 Book Report Ideas

25 Book Report Ideas

Fluency

8 Mini-Stories & Speed Reading Exercises

 

 

More Literacy Links

SpellaRoo - students must select the misspelled word.

Alphabet Fun

Amazing Tales O'Wonder (12 stories)

Animated Tall Tales

Barnaby Bear Goes to Paris

Beginning , Ending Sound

Between the Lions (Download Videos)

Book Plates (My Home Library)

Book Report Sandwich Station

BookHive Bookplates

Brementown Musicians

Candle Light Stories

CBeebies Story Circle

Classic Stories Online (Audio Only)

Clifford Interactive Storybooks

Daily News Quiz (New each week)

Dr. Seuss StoryMaker

Education Scapes

Family Education

Funbrain Vocabulary

Fuzzy Lion Ears

George’s Great Adventures

Get Ready To Read

Gus & Inky's Rhyme Time

Gus & Inky's Underwater Adventure

Homophones

Island Dance Party

Kids Reads

Literacy Matters (Help Lee Decide)

Mister Roger’s

Niehs Kid’s Pages

PBS Teacher Source Reading Comprehension

Pop-up Books

Read Write Think (NCTE)

Reader’s Theatre Scripts & Plays

Reading Rockets

Rumble, Grumble Roar - Whoopi Goldberg

Scholastic Explorers

School Discovery

Sesame Street

Shape Books

ABC to Keyboard

Alphabet Zoo - alphabetical order

Word Confusion - homophones.

Succeed To Read

Tall Tales Johnny Chinook 10'

The Amazing Adventure series

The Missing Pencil

Top 100 Sites For Teachers

What’s the Word?

Working Dogs: Becoming Eyes, Ears, Arms and Legs

Harcourt School Spelling Site