Reading Websites

The following websites are all interactive and entertaining for your child, and help with Reading skills at the same time!  I have ** many of my favorites-ENJOY!
Game Aquarium: Reading games that are fun practice for your child's reading skills: http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/
Giggle Poetry: Making poetry fun and silly for your child to enjoy: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales: the fairy tales that we all know and love are now interactive and interesting for our children: http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main
Jan Brett's official website: the wonderful author and illustrator has a great website for parents, children, and teachers: http://www.janbrett.com/
Nathional Geographic for Kids: great research information and great animal videos: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
**Starfall: a great interactive website to practice beginning reading skills: http://www.starfall.com/
Reading Planet: an interactive website to practice your child's reading skills:  http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet.htm
A website worth your time to explore: http://www.bes.fayette.k12.il.us/sites06.htm
Scholastic: the book company that usually caters to teachers and schools, is now available for parents and their children: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/index.jsp
**Spelling City:We all know how students do not like to study their weekly Spelling words, well this website has the student type in their words, then it creates a game for them to practice-it will also quiz them on the words, use them in sentences, etc: http://www.spellingcity.com/
Weekly Reading: a magazine that teachers are able to subscribe to, has many online resources: http://www.weeklyreader.com/
**Tumblebooks: many of your child's favorite books are now available online and they are interactive: http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp?accessdenied=%2Flibrary%2Fasp%2Fhome%5Ftumblebooks%2Easp