Author Read Alouds

Reading Rockets

See Author Dan Gutman read aloud his My Weird School series HERE

Reading Rockets is a site from WETA (PBS in DC area) and gives tips for reading with your child, book lists, incorporating other subjects into reading, discussions with children’s authors, and much much more. They have a comprehensive site for parents looking for more information on how to help their child. Click HERE

Fry Sight Words

Fry first created these lists in the 1950s based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website. This site has all the lists as well as sight word lessons, printable flash cards, and sight word lessons. Knowing how to read and spell these words would augment a student’s reading & writing. Click HERE

Student Center Activities

This website has an enormous number of worksheets on various topics from phonics, to reading comprehension to spelling for grades K-5. It is well organized and a product of Florida State University. Click HERE