Literacy Activities
Create your own comics. A place for you to have fun by creating your own world of comic strips. You have the choice of characters with different moods and the chance to write words and thoughts for them, tapping into your creativity. A site where you can create and test new ideas and ways to communicate through art and writing.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Foundation brings you this on-line video streaming program, featuring famous actors reading children's books aloud. Activities included.
Kids games and puzzles by educational topic: reading, letters, numbers, science, math, literacy, spelling, and vocabulary.
Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys. Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
Play free typing games, lessons, and tests. Great for any age! It's addictive! See if you can beat our scores!
Created by a high school student, Repeat After Us is an award-winning online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. The free audio clips provide an excellent resource for students and literature lovers of all ages.
Storynory publishes fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. They also include unusual stories from around the world, in addition to original children's stories.
Free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum is intended to motivate kindergarten children by creating an atmosphere of fun and enthusiasm, providing opportunities for child-directed instruction.
Educational Technology Training Center's poetry writing site. Great for the reluctant poets among us.
Discipline-specific, standards-based web sites that include lessons for activities to use in and out of the classroom, games for young children and teen, adult literacy resources and reference materials for anyone in the education field, as well as for parents and after-school practitioners. The Content Partners and their Thinkfinity web sites are Arts Edge (JFK Center for the Performing Arts), EconEdLink (economics), EdSitement (arts), Illuminations (math), Literacy Network (American Library Association, ProLiteracy, National Center for Family Literacy), ReadWriteThink (International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English), Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Smithsonian's History Explorer, and Xpeditions (National Geographic Society).