Reading Resource Websites

Around the Town
This collection of games for 2-3 partners uses everday words and names to develop phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills.
BBC Schools - Words and Pictures
This link has fun activities for long vowel sounds. The Poem Pack is particularly cool. It is sometimes difficult to understand because the speaker has a British accent, but the poems are available for printing also.
Beginning Phonics Software Game
Interactive game that includes pictures, letters and sound.
Between the Lions on PBS
Students hear blends, match words to pictures, identify initial consonant sounds, fill in corny jokes by making words in alphabet soup.
Decoding Multi-Syllabic Words
Detailed lesson plan that includes spelling patterns and think alouds.
I Know That
Phonics Games, Word Searches, Word Match, Word Builder (Some annoying pop-ups, but the site offers practice with vowel and consonant rules.
Jazzles - Kids Section
Jazzles is a blue tiger that has songs for every letter of the alphabet. Lyrics are available for printing and singing!
Phonics Assessments
Teachers choose options to create a personalized phonic assessment.
Scholastic Interactive Books
Phonics fun for Early Readers. Read a book, play concentration, make a word, letter match and sound match.
Sheep in a Shop
Students use decoding skills to create the illustrations for a big book.
Starfall
Phonics, ABCs-letter sounds, Folktales, Comics, Myths, Fables, Fiction and Nonfiction, Poetry