Websites



[|**Roy, Tale of a Singing Zebra**] This website provides teachers, parents, and students tons of activities, games, and information to practice on different reading skills. Kids can access guided reading stories with interactive illustrations. It has games to practice on vocabulary, punctuation, phonics, capital letters, alphabet, rhymes, and more. There is free software for parents and teachers to download, where students can practice on different skills, such as vowel sounds, consonant sounds, high frequency words, and blends; available to use with smart boards or at home. Teachers can also access a list of literacy worksheets to practice on sentence structure, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar, speech, and comprehension. In addition, it has a selection of songs to practice on spelling and vocabulary, which are kids friendly. The website also has different lesson plans available for teachers within the free software, and it has a literacy store also available for parents and teachers.

[|**Book Adventure**] This website has a lot of activities and resources for parents and teachers to support students on reading. Students can register free and be able to access different resources, such as a book finder, where kids can find a book according to their interests, and eventually take a test to prove their comprehension. At the same time they earn points, which can be exchange it for books. Within the “Kids Zone” children can access games (scramble, idioms, word search, spelling, grammar, plurals, etc), awards (they can print their award for being good readers), and resources (dictionaries, calendars, bookmarks, etc). In the “Parents Place”, parents can find resources and information about different things they can do and use to motivate their children to read and learn. They can create a personal incentive plan to help their children read more books. They can also monitor their kids’ activities through the website, as they inform themselves about good books to have at home, and games to play with the family. Last but not least, the “Teachers Lounge”, provides resources to create a book group, using teachers’ guides, where students are encourage reading and sharing their comprehension. Moreover, they can create certificates for good readers and promote reading in the classroom. Teachers can create a website, encourage parents to participate in different activities to support the students, create fun activities related to reading, and be involved in the community to support education.