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Beginning Readers Interactives & Lessons

Here are more than 24 websites to help beginning readers learn how to read.  These interactive games help kids practice skills in letter sounds, phonics, phonemic awareness and sight word recognition.  Some of the websites also help kids learn word patterns and word families.
 
 
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Bridge to Reading

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Author/Host of Website
Owl & Mouse Educational Software
Type of Educational Content
Software
Visit the website: Bridge to Reading
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:   Bridge to Reading is a computer program that takes a child on the journey from being a non-reader to being a beginning reader. From the first screen, the child...
 
 
Free-reading

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Author/Host of Website
Free-reading.net
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Free-reading
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site: Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing project. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching...
 
 
FreeReading

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Author/Host of Website
FreeReading Advisory Board/free-reading.net
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: FreeReading
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:  FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and...
 
 
Informal Assessment

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Author/Host of Website
Reading Rockets
Type of Educational Content
Video
Visit the website: Informal Assessment
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)
This series of brief videos illustrates and emphasizes the importance of frequent informal assessments of beginning readers.  This helps to identify areas of difficulty early and target instruction to the...
 
 
Lanternfish Phonics Monster

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Author/Host of Website
Lanternfish Phonics
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Lanternfish Phonics Monster
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:  The phonic monsters are a fun way to learn and practice phoneme-grapheme correspondences. The phonic monsters are a series of 18 plus words that contain all of the...
 
 
Learn to Read at Starfall

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Author/Host of Website
Starfall.com
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Learn to Read at Starfall
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
There are a variety of activities for beginning readers to interact with short stories.  These include a calendar, Earth Day clean up project, word hunt, and turkey dress up, among...
 
 
Learning Letters

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Author/Host of Website
Owl & Mo9use Educational Software
Type of Educational Content
Software
Visit the website: Learning Letters
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:  Learn Letters teaches children to know and make the 26 letters of the alphabet. Using the shapes the letters have in common, the child is guided as he...
 
 
Letter Sounds

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Author/Host of Website
Owl & Mouse Educational Software
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Letter Sounds
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:   Letter Sounds helps children make the first, vital connection between the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent. Children move pictures to the letters that make...
 
 
Lexia Early Reading

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Author/Host of Website
Lexia Learning Systems, Inc.
Type of Educational Content
Software
Visit the website: Lexia Early Reading
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
You must pay to use this site
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site: Lexia Early Reading is a state-of-the art interactive reading program, specifically designed to increase phonological awareness among 4 to 6 year olds....A powerful combination of methodology and motivation propels...
 
 
Lexia Primary Reading

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Author/Host of Website
Lexia Learning Systems, Inc.
Type of Educational Content
Software
Visit the website: Lexia Primary Reading
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
You must pay to use this site
Grade Level Elementary (K-5)
From site:  Lexia Primary Reading is designed to help all children master basic reading skills. The program gives instant feedback and adjusts automatically to each child’s abilities. The on-screen alerts and...
 
 
Literactive

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Author/Host of Website
Entertainment & Information Industries Ltd.
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Literactive
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
From site:  Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic...
 
 
Monkey Business

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Author/Host of Website
Game Goo/Houghton Mifflin
Type of Educational Content
Website
Visit the website: Monkey Business
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
In the Monkey Business game, you have to put the words in the correct order for the monkey to make it safely across.  Each time you win, you get more banana points,...
 
 
My Reading Coach

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Author/Host of Website
MindPlay/Methods and Solutions, Inc.
Type of Educational Content
Software
Visit the website: My Reading Coach
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
You must pay to use this site
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)
From site:  Scientifically Valid Instruction for Struggling Readers My Reading Coach is a reading software program that provides a personal reading specialist and speech pathologist for every student, producing dramatic...
 
 
Phonics

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Author/Host of Website
Reading Rockets
Type of Educational Content
Video
Visit the website: Phonics
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
This series of brief videos discusses: the Alphabetic Principle, the Sounds of the Alphabet, Phonemic Segmentation, Spelling Rules, the Importance of the Alphabetic Principle, and Phonics vs. Whole Language.  Experts...
 
 
Phonics Videos

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Author/Host of Website
NeoK12
Type of Educational Content
Video
Visit the website: Phonics Videos
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
NeoK12 Phonics videos is a series of videos to help preschool kids and beginning readers learn the alphabet sounds and basic sight words.  All videos and lessons on this site have been...
 
 
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