Within these websites you can find online activities, stories to enjoy, parent and educator tools, and much more.
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BBC Schools
The school site from BBC has a wealth of interactive content for students, teachers, and parents.
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Between the Lions
This website associated with the PBS show features games, activities, and resources for emerging readers.
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BookHive
BookHive, from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, contains recommended book reviews for children ages birth through twelve.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site includes children's book reviews, ideas for activities, and themed book lists.
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Chateau Meddybumps
Check out the Parent’s Guide to see how you can use this site to develop language, reading, and social skills.
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Children’s Storybooks Online
This collection of online stories is perfect for beginning readers through young adults.
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Earobics: Game Goo
GameGoo includes games based on language art curriculum standards. Their tagline is “learning that sticks”!
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Goodnight Stories
This story collection has stories to read online, audio books, fill-in-the-blank stories, and more!
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Guys Read
Guys Read can help boys (and their parents and teachers) find books that inspire them.
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Inkless Tales
The activities in this colorful website encourage young students to write, draw, explore and more!
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International Children’s Digital Library
This collection of over 3000 children’s books features stories in 15 languages in a kid-friendly reading format.
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Literacy Center Education Network
The Play & Learn center has lots of online activities for learning to read while the ReadToday!Net section features hundreds of free printable lessons.
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Noggin
In conjunction with the Noggin educational cable channel, this website offers online activities that foster learning based on curriculum standards.
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PBS Kids
Kids can explore their favorite PBS shows such as Curious George, Caillou, and Arthur while playing educational games.
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Professor Garfield
Garfield and his friends have a new home in this humorous and polished website. There are activities for kindergarten through eighth grade.
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Reading is Fundamental
This children's literacy organization has activity ideas for parents, articles for educators and stories and games for kids. Be sure to check out the reading activity calendars!
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ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning. For educators, there are also lots of lesson plans to support a variety of Language Arts standards.
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Roy: Tale of a Singing Zebra
Students can play the interactive reading games and guided reading stories, featuring Roy the Zebra and Lucy the Elephant.
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Scholastic-Online Activities
Scholastic features online activities for K-12 students, in language arts, social studies, math, and more.
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Starfall
Starfall guides students from learning the alphabet to early reading and beyond. The four sections include videos, guided stories, and a selection of stories featuring comics, plays, folk tales, and more!
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Storyline Online
At Storyline Online you can listen to Screen Actors Guild members read children's books aloud, accompanied by the book illustrations.