Sight words good website that has words and  when you roll  with the mouse a child will say the word. 

1,000 High Frequency Words list

BUILD SKILLS

Youtube Video's to look at - read and listen to.

Online Nursery Rhyme Cards
To encourage both the school-home connection, as well as the positive influences of families reading together, this site offers more than seventy illustrated nursery rhymes to print as cards and send home with students. They can also be used in the classroom, collected, reviewed, and sent home as a little book.

Children's oral history - playground rhymes found in newspapers - 39 page PDF

Get a Reading Chart for your Classroom

Skills Checklist for Kindergarten:
Mouse / Keyboard - What Smaller Hands Need. Safe educational resources to use with children ages 2 through 6. FREE PRINTABLES AND COLORING BOOKS - GAMES - ABC's - Music and Song

• Sight Word Sets Online for the first grader to practice.
• Early Emergent Readers Leveled Reading Games
• Talking ABC's
• Belt Word Challenge for site words. 
• Flash Program that teaches the alphabet
• Download the alphabet - Alphabet flashcards
• RepeatAfterUs.com struggling with pronunciation in an English as a Second Language class provides free texts and audio clips to help students around the world with their language skills. 
  

AUDIO BOOKS
HEAR BOOKS
and / or
READ ALONG.

AUDIO BOOKS

2 ORIGINAL E - BOOKS Read and Hear FOLKTALES
A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English. See Story Telling and Folktales

• Kiddie Records devoted to the golden age of children's records.  This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics.  Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers. Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners. 
• BookPals Storyline features online stories for children. You can see videos of bedtime stories read by mothers, with subtitles and some pictures of the books. Those stories can be used by students level A2 and above to improve their listening comprehension. Note that for some books you can also access the script as reader's theater : the story turned into a play!
  chose "my rotten red headed older brother" (a story with lots of comparative and superlatives), and here is the reader's theater:  and then "Pigasso and met Mootisse" based on the characteristics of Picasso and Matisse. A teacher's guide is provided with lots of activities to do around the story, and links to sites to discover the lives and works of the real painters so as to understand the references.
• Storybooks to Read - easy books for young readers to read on-line.
• Integrate reading into music-- or to recommend to classroom teachers. http://www.starfall.com/ 
• Kiddie Records - Revive Children's stories recorded in the 40's and 50's. Kiddie Records Weekly is a two year project celebrating the golden age of children’s records. This brief but prolific period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties, producing a wealth of alltime classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers.
• StoryNory - iPod Ready Stories for Kids
  This fun and free site contains audio stories that you can either listen to online or on your iPod or MP3 player. Some titles include The Flying Trunk, Tim learns where Easter Eggs come from, The Princess and the Pea, Favourite Stories, Kissa the Cat, The Owl and the Pussycat, How Prince Bertie became Bertie the Frog, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Elephant’s Child, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Sleeping Beauty, The Cat’s Elopement, The Snow Queen, and many more. A fun site for younger children.
• Beatrix Potter Online Stories - Offers a variety of B. Potter stories in slide show format with Real© Audio.
• Aesop's Fables Online Many of these fables are printable and read aloud by a 10 year old student in California.
• Readers' Theatre Scripts for grades 2-4.
• Book-pop - read online while music plays in the background.
• On-line Books and Stories.
• The International Children's Digital Library Children's Books Online

Teacher Recommended Activities AND BOOKS

REMEMBER AUTOGRAPH BOOKS?
Why not revive this forgotten tradition in your classroom. This is an autograph book, from Valparaiso, NE dated 1900. It appears to have been the property of Miss Etta Seedlund. This book is old and dark, with all entries done in pencil, therefore, I have scanned all pages, and then transcribed the inscription, as best I can, below the scanned image.