Early Childhood Literacy Resources

As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I use Starfall almost daily. It is my and my students' favorite website to use in class. I love it because I can feel confident in its ease of use and know that my students are not going to be led astray by confusing links or advertisements. It is so age appropriate and directly correlates to our curriculum. Our Kindergarten team actually subscribes to More.Starfall.com. For those in early elementary grades I definitely recommend it. Sometimes the students get a little bored with just what is on Starfall if they use it at home as well. MoreStarfall gives more variety and also has great teacher resources. There are projectable books, and customizable worksheets. You can type in any high frequency words and it will create them instantly.

As I was exploring, One More Story looked like a good resource for online books. It reminded me a little of Tumble Books. It is frustrating that everything needs to be subscribed to. 

I am also very familiar with Hubbard's Cupboard. I have used it for her great High Frequency Word Books. A kindergarten site that I find very useful to me is Kelly's Kindergarten. She has great center ideas easily explained. She also has put Dr. Jean's great educational songs to a powerpoint. You just have to re-insert the audio. I guess there's copyright issues if she leaves the song. I have tried it with my Dr. Jean CD and it works great. I use Dr. Jean's songs all the time in my class. I dream of having a Smartboard to play the powerpoints along to. Actually, after having this class, maybe I can make a higher-quality digital story for these songs instead of powerpoints!