Reading Resources for Teachers
This is a list of reading resources to help you teach your students to become more effective in reading, critical thinking and writing.
Fort Wayne TinCaps Summer Reading Program
A reading program that is run by the Minor League Baseball team, Fort Wayne TinCaps, is for both students and teachers that includes lesson plans and tools to track a student’s reading progress.
Fort Wayne TinCaps Summer Reading Program Link
Meddy Bemps
Very simply, Meddybemps.com is a free, high quality, educational resource for families with young children. It provides online activities and other content that can be used to help children build and strengthen learning skills.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free e-books. Choose from among free e-pub books, free kindle books and then download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks; most Project Gutenberg e-books were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Questia Library
With more than 83,000 academic books and more than 10 million articles from more than a thousand of the world’s leading publishers, Questia offers quality sources selected by librarians and approved by professors; many of which are peer-reviewed!
Read Print
Thousands of Free Online Books! Keep track of what you’ve read and books you’d like to read. Discover new books and get recommendations. Discuss books & join online book clubs & groups, and best of all…it is entirely FREE!
Looney Tunes Phonics
Delivered online, Looney Tunes Phonics contains 100 research-based interactive cartoon lessons that teach the entire kindergarten to 3rd grade phonics curriculum. Children master reading skills in an interactive environment that is fun and easy to use. Designed to be used in homes and schools, Looney Tunes Phonics incorporates the research-based curriculum and instructional design of the highly acclaimed ClickN READ Phonics. Featuring the zany antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy, Taz, Tweety and more, children learn to read the right way with help from the world famous Looney Tunes characters. The Looney Tunes gang entertains your child, and kids will delight in meeting the new character Professor Wizbot, the on-screen instructor in Looney Tunes Phonics, who teaches one click at a time®.
Barnes & Noble: Educator Discounts and Resources
Barnes & Noble, one of the largest bookstores in the country, has provided a program for teachers that has helps them receive discounts on books and resources for their classrooms.
Free Phonics Worksheets
Here you will find free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading. These free worksheets are printable and designed to accommodate any lesson plan for reading that includes phonics. Conveniently organized by the skills covered, these worksheets come with answer keys.
Sadlier Phonics: For Grades K–3
This proven Phonics program provides explicit instruction and abundant practice for phonemic awareness, alphabetic knowledge, decoding skills, sound-symbol correspondences and manipulating and building words.
Education Creations
Your one stop “file cabinet” for quality K-6 Morning Math, Daily Language, Daily Writing, Phonics, Reading and Science & Social Studies worksheets. Ideas & activities for group work, brainstorming, lesson plans, games, gifted and more! For teacher helpers, too!
Galactic Phonics
Galactic Phonics has been created by a small number of primary teachers to provide worksheets, games and other resources for parents and teachers of children across the primary age range (Nursery to Year Six). Our interactive resources are free for educational use, and we also offer a small number of purchasable e-books.
Carole Marsh Mysteries
Award-winning books, these fun, educational mysteries take place at real places across America.
National Writing Project
The National Writing Project focuses on the knowledge, expertise and leadership of our nation’s educators to sustain efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners.
Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Start your reading adventure below!
Kids Konnect: English Worksheets
Our English language arts worksheets (ELA) can be used to build reading and writing skills and cover many topics including grammar, vocabulary, spelling, literature and reading strategies.
Kidzone Worksheets for Children
KidZone’s printable preschool and kindergarten worksheets help younger kids learn their letters, numbers, shapes, colors and other basic skills. KidZone’s printable grade school worksheets help older children learn phonics, reading, creative writing, math, geometry, science and geography.
Kidzone Worksheets for Children Link
Study Zone: Reading Topics
The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create the English language lessons and practice exercises. The site is designed for our adult English language learners, but all are welcome to read the lessons and use the exercises.
Starfall
Starfall has been teaching children to read with phonics for well over a decade. Our systematic approach, in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
