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Read Alouds: Kids Picture Book Videos Storytime Station – Hundreds of picture books read aloud, page-by-page.  Excellent for whole class on the smartboard or for individual students alone on a computer .  The videos are hand-picked by teachers and parents, and are presented in a fun and creative way.  View the examples below or click the…

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Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Second and Third Grade) Prefixes and Suffixes – You’ll love this fun and free vocabulary lesson! Children play a balloon game and make new words by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words. Specific feedback combined with exciting interaction makes this lesson a hit for parents and students. Basic…

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Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Second Grade) Homophones – Learn about homophones in this free vocabulary lesson. Children first play a homophone matching game, matching words like meat and meet and mail and male to pictures they flip. Last, kids create a short story by filling in the blanks with correctly spelled homophones. Immediate…

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Animated Phonics Lessons (Second Grade) Consonant Digraphs – Capt. Armstrong leads your children on an important mission in this free second grade phonics lesson. Students are prompted to match consonant digraphs, including th, ch, and sh, with word parts to make words they hear. Correct matches will send each spaceship blasting off to outer space!…

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Animated Phonics Lesson & Activity (First Grade) Silent E Animated Lesson – Free phonics lesson provides an opportunity for kids to practice sorting words with long and short vowel sounds. This will help build the foundation for teaching children to read words with the tricky silent e. K -1. Isolation – This free phonemic awareness…

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Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Kindergarten) Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Kindergarten – free reading comprehension lesson begins with a short picture book about two twin brothers. Audio-visual support allows kids to follow along with the words as they are read aloud. The goal of the lesson is to teach children how…

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Animated Phonics Lessons and Practice Animated Phonics Lessons and Practice – Practice identifying beginning and ending consonant sounds, specifically the beginning sound y- and the ending sound -x. Audio-visual support, immediate feedback, and cute animation and music loops will keep your kindergartener excited and motivated to learn to read.  Animated Phonemic Awareness Lessons and Practice…

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Reading Comprehension Strategies Reading Comprehension Strategies – Online video with a student lesson and student activities to improve their reading comprehension and to improve student’s ability to think and learn across the curriculum.  The following Common Core aligned strategies are covered: Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating, Synthesizing, and Strategies Together. Click…

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Read Alouds – Online Short Stories (K-3) Online Short Stories – Full color stories, click the word and it reads it to you. These books are used with teachers in teaching story elements. In reading class, students are able to read a story with a definite plot and main idea, and discover even more elements…

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Online Sports Books – Informational Text (Grades 2-5) Online Sports Books – Learn about the importance of playing sports as well as the histories and rules of the following sports: Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Golf, Track and Field, Gymnastics, and Volleyball. Key Ideas and Details: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where,…

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Online Biographies of Famous People – Informational Text (Grades 2-5) Biographies of Famous People – Several free, color biographies of famous people that students can read, and they are written on a variety of reading levels to meet the needs of all types of readers. Famous people that children enjoy reading about are people from…

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