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Help your child enter the world of fiction with our story starters, question and answer pages, sequence of event quizzes, and so much more.

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Everything from letter formation to organizers to writing opinions and narratives.

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Learn the basics of the writing process with our collection of worksheets, activities, and games made to perfect your child's writing.

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Students can create a comic 1, 2, 3 or 6 panels long.

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The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment.

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The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left).

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Read some research or use the "Try This" with students.

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1. Young children possess knowledge about written language and a variety of forms of writing-stories, lists, signs-from an early age; quality instruction in the primary grades reflects children's experience and knowledge.

Try this: This ReadWriteThink lesson helps young readers become more aware of their reading abilities through the use of environmental print. The lesson involves (1) bringing environmental print from the students' surrounding community into the classroom through artifacts and photographs; (2) making a visual display and class books that can be accessed and used by the students; and (3) giving the students plenty of opportunities to use their reading skills and view themselves as competent readers and users of print.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=27

Try this: Family Message Journals can be tools for learning, thinking, and self-expression. When writing messages about school activities children think about, and articulate what they have learned, connect new information to known information, and express thoughts and feelings about their learning.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=82

Some students come to school needing additional support and Njima is one such second grader. Through attendance at an after school literacy program and the involvement of her mother, she gained confidence and a repertoire of learning strategies that she could develop in everyday experiences at home-strategies that any teacher might adapt.
Source: Talking Points, Vol. 12 No. 2, April/May 2001

Read this: Teacher Kay Cowan shares the work of three kindergarten students to illustrate the integral relationship between the creation of visual art and the development of written and oral language, clearly showing how children use art as a tool for composition. She reflects on stages of literacy development and the arts and the acquisition of skills and the arts.
Source: Primary Voices K-6, Vol. 9 No. 4, April 2001

Try this: Drawing is an important part of the literacy process. Children read pictures to understand, make pictures to tell what they mean, and write the pictures into words. Continuing to use drawing past those early years not only helps students to make personal connections with their writing, but also results in more natural writing and a greater range of writing genre. It helps prompt ideas for writing and teaches the skills of observation.
Source: Primary Voices K-6, Vol 10 No. 2, October 2001

Drawing can create a bridge between paper and a child's ideas. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfiction story. Story elements are then used as a structure for organizing students' ideas.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=111

4. Writing is a social activity; writing instruction should be embedded in social contexts.
Through face-to-face interactions, children come to understand that writing serves many functions, that relationships exist between speaking and writing, and that writing is aimed at, and therefore must be sensitive to, an audience.

Read this: Isoke Nia describes a year-long study of writing genre. She addresses: getting started by mapping out the units for the year, the function of mini-lessons, drafting, embellishment and voice. She notes that even reluctant writers became involved in writing and that she followed her own advice and began writing a memoir about her grandmother. A rubric for evaluating memoirs is included.
Source: Primary Voices K-6, Vol. 8 No. 1, August 1999

Read this: Teacher beliefs determine the kind of writing experiences they create and how they blend craft, conventions and procedures. This School Talk issue revisits the teaching of writing and provides a "refresher" course on writing workshop components and strategies 10 years after the teaching of writing became more common in elementary classrooms.
Source: School Talk, Vol 4. No. 4, July 1999

A group of linguistically diverse teachers come to identify themselves as writers by drawing neighborhood maps and writing personal narratives about childhood memories.
source: Language Arts, Vol. 80 No. 3, January 2003

Read this: Researcher Elizabeth Sulzby describes the results of 15 years of study of young writers, illustrating the move from descriptions of children's proficiencies to collaborations among educators aimed at increasing writing opportunities for children. Source: Language Arts, Vol. 69, April 1992

Try this: This ReadWritThink lesson invites primary students to share their letter/sound knowledge in a small group and gives teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context. Working with name cards, students share observations about their names and the names of their classmates.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=3

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1. Young children possess knowledge about written language and a variety of forms of writing-stories, lists, signs-from an early age; quality instruction in the primary grades reflects children's experience and knowledge. Try this: This ReadWriteThink lesson helps young readers become more aware of their reading abilities through the use of environmental print.

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Have students create well crafted sentences

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Stretch those writing skills with this "stretch a sentence" activity! Little writers will learn to expand on an idea by adding more details to a sentence.

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Have students read and listen to the initial sounds in words.

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Kindergarten1 Games " Product Types " KizPhonics

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Have students read and listen to the final sound in words.

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Teach your child to read with our phonics video tutorials for kindergarten level 2. These videos will teach your child ending consonant sounds, short vowels 'i', 'o' and 'u'. The child will also learn short vowel word families and develop skills in blending sounds to read simple words and sentences.

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Students can read along with a variety of decodables to practice a phonics sound.

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Finally our phonics short stories section is complete with 21 stories to help your child really learn to read. These stories are phonics based which means they focus on specific sounds but also offer a great opportunity to learn words by sight. Here is one great idea for using this section. Choose a story, based on a sound you want to practice. Then turn off the audio and let your child watch. Ask the child simple questions for example:
1- Who are in the story? 2- Which sounds do you often hear? 3- Can you tell the story in your own words? Next, turn on the audio and let the child hear it being read. Finally turn off audio again and then pause when words show up. Ask the child to attempt to read the sentences. Can he/she do it? Yeah! Go out and celebrate - your child is reading.

Mike Rides Bike - Long 'i'

Long ' i' word families - ike, ide, ite, igh and ' y' as long 'i' will be learned. Mike learns to ride a bike properly.

Ben, Pets, Vet - Short 'e'

Short 'e' Phonics story - et, en, ell, elp, word families. See the short 'e' in action in the story. Also a great way to learn sight words. Ben learns what it takes to keep his pets healthy.

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Finally our phonics short stories section is complete with 21 stories to help your child really learn to read. These stories are phonics based which means they focus on specific sounds but also offer a great opportunity to learn words by sight. Here is one great idea for using this section.

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Interactive Handwriting Practice for Phonics Learners

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The first step in learning alphabets is to learn the writing order of alphabet letters. The best way of learning them is writing letter(s) several times. We have tried to add some fun to this activity which your preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade phonics learners can use.

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Create words using word families from ReadWriteThink.org

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Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words. For each ending, Construct-a-Word prompts students to create between 6 and 14 different possible words, adding an element of fun and discovery. It uses animation and sound to guide students through the steps of creating words, and employs prompts that are clear and easy to master. This interactive tool could be used individually or in small groups, either in one session or across multiple lessons.

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Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words.

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Audio recording of a variety of stories, poems, and music

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Videos of children's books read aloud by the authors or other well know people.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Students work on letter recognition and sound identification from ReadWriteThink.org.

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Looking for ways to engage your students in online literacy learning? Find more interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language.

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Learning to recognize letters is integral to early literacy. But how can you keep your students practicing until they are fluent? The ABC Match game meets this challenge by offering students the chance to match initial letters with pictures while also using their memory skills to remember which cards are where. Students work their way through three increasingly difficult levels, each with more pairs of cards. The game offers two modes of play, one timed and one not, as well as the option to hear the names of all the pictures. A print version of the cards enables students to play the game offline, either in the classroom or at home.

For additional ideas on how to use this game outside the classroom, see ABC Match in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section.

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Word Wizard back to top Puzzle Me Words
Word Wizard uses themes from four popular U.S. children's books to create word puzzles that students solve by unscrambling letters and considering related clues.
Picture Match
Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game for primary students that reinforces letter sounds and how sounds combine to form words.
Construct-a-Word
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
Word Family Sort
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading
This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

IRA's position on the appropriate emphasis on phonemic awareness in reading instruction.

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Download the plug-in tools you need to use our games and tools, or check to see if you've got the latest version. Looking for ways to engage your students in online literacy learning? Find more interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language.

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Students can create their own poems with this digital resource from ReadWriteThink.org

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In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included.

By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme. In addition, as part of the online tool, students are prompted to brainstorm, write, and revise their poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can save their draft poems to revise later. The finished theme poems can also be printed and colored to display in the classroom or at home.

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In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included. By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme.

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Digital sort from ReadWriteThink.org

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You can find activities, games, and resources for all domains of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, & comprehension). These can be printed out for students to use.

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Find some of the best, award winning picture books for your students to enjoy