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Extremely high quality voices are part of these sites and you don't have to do anything to get them to read. They are designed for younger readers. |
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| Classroom Examples: Starfall.com provides talking animated lessons with the alphabet, phonics, and materials for early to advanced beginning readers. It's designed for 1st grade but can be used preK-2nd. Storyline Online has 17 books read by members of the Screen Actors Guild, selected to appeal to children.Offered free of charge, these imaginatively produced videos fully capture the intricate illustrations, colors and textures of each book. Storyline Online also includes a supplemental activities section developed by an Early Literacy curriculum specialist. The videos and related activities strengthen comprehension, verbal and written skills of English language learners worldwide. Real Audio versions of Beatrix Potter Stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Stories from the Brothers Grimm, and A Chrismas Carol can be found at WiredforBooks.org |
Adventures of Alex the Ape Jungle adventures (cartoons) that are fun with added puzzles and games.
AntBee's Childrens' Stories Choose from a nice collection of stories to read, including Hilburt the Halibut, A Fishy Tale, Herman the Hippo, Horrible Screaming Monsters, and others. Each is professionally illustrated with bright, colorful artwork.
Beantime Stories "But that wasn't the best part." kids storybooks online.
BillyBear site An interactive array of online activities and special holiday activities
Blue Dog Can Count Blue Dog is a friendly, math-savvy canine waiting for you and your students on the World Wide Web! Fill in any basic math equation, and Blue will bark the result through your computer's speaker. A fun way to teach young students basic math and counting skills!
Bonus.com the SuperSite for Kids Explore a little and you'll find active games and fun activities that will engage your child.
Build-a-Monster Mix up creatures into a creature of your own; easy and fun to do!
http://www.goobo.com/monster/
Candlelight Stories A good selection on online storybooks and activities
Carlos' Interactive Coloring Book Kids choose the coloring tools they want to use and go to work coloring. http://www.coloring.com/
The Crayola Home Page Everything you always wanted to know about crayons. http://www.crayola.com
Dinosaurs For those dinosaur-seeking enthusiasts.
Disney Homepage As Disney does everything near perfect, this site provides activities worth exploring.
Download-a-Dinosaur Looking for a quick kids' craft activity (try saying that five times fast)? Look no further. http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html
Enchanted Learning. TONS of activities, learning tools, rhymes and fun. Not the best graphically, but look around and you'll find quality fun.
Figure This! Which shape holds the most popcorn? Can you combine the stamps to make $1.77? These are just a couple of the problems you can ponder in this attractively designed collection of real-world math challenges. Updated regularly; includes resources for parents.
Good Grief! The whole Peanuts gang (including that fabulous beagle) is on the Web courtesy of United Media and if you’re a fan, you’re in for a treat.
Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales Stories, poems, and songs for kids and familiesHorse Fun for Kids For those horse lovers. Facts, quizzes and interesting horsey fun.
Kids' Space A website designed to foster literacy, artistic expression, and cross-cultural understanding.
Kids' Place: Free games, activities, and resources for students studying math, reading, social studies, and science.
Lego A website designed by them for your fun.
Little Explorers Click on a letter of the alphabet and connect to, not one, but many many pictures of works with that letter and hot links to websites about that word. http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html
Lucky's Lite Brite Anyone who loves lite brites, ladybugs or beanie toys will enjoy this interactive site! Lucky's Lite Brite is a fun drawing program written in JavaScript that only works in Netscape.
Magnetic Poetry lets you move words around on a magnet-like board (kind of like the front of your refrigerator) to make poems.
The Magic School Bus Fun Place Incredibly fun learning activities!
Museum of Science, Boston. *** Virtual fish tank: Build your own fish online and then release them into the virtual fish tank.
National Geographic Kids wow. An amazing site that is well catered to kids.
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Includes activities for kids as well as show-related information for kids and parents. http://www.pbs.org/rogers/
The incredible
PBS site, with pages of activities and character, like
Arthur, Sesame ,
Mr. Rogers, and dozens more!!
Puzzability Puzzles Looking for a fun assortment of challenging word games? You'll find a great collection here, updated regularly, and written by a team who should know a thing or two about puzzles; 3 former editors of Games magazine. Don't forget your thinking cap!
Real Kids Adventures Stories about kids and real life experiences
Sesame Street Central The kids' activities page with your friends from Sesame Street. Play games with Prairie Dawn, Elmo, and Cookie Monster. http://www.sesamestreet.com/sesamestreet/
Seussville The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am,Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more!
Switcheroo Zoo Visit this Zoo-illogical park and create silly creatures by switching the head, legs, and tails with those of other animals. Over 6500 wacky combinations are possible.
World VillageKidz VERY graphically driven with fun activities.
