Welcome to the Navesink School's Online Learning Center!

The purpose of this section is to provide links to support students as well as their parents. The links are selected to help with specific projects or to serve as references and resources for homework.

Fun Activities & Games

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/
Vocabulary Builders
This site is dedicated to vocabulary building. It features games to promote literacy learning such as hangman, text twist, word scrambler, hidden word puzzles, and WHATword. It also has a section with a word of the day sorted by grade level.

Funbrain.com
The Internet’s #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and Teachers
Featured on this site is eighteen literacy games sorted by grade level, a Quizlab section for teachers to use pre-made quizzes or create their own for automatic grading, a teacher section to find lesson plans and have an online grade book, and a parent section with educational game recommendations and links for parenting resources.

Seussville.com
Seussville
This site contains a biography section about Dr. Seuss, an online catalog to purchase books, bookstore events, and a playground section featuring games related to Dr. Seuss classics. It also displays information about the Read Across America contest for teachers, parents, or students.

Sesameworkshop.org
Sesame Street
This site has stories for children to read aloud or be read to, printable scenes from the story with the corresponding words at the bottom, a parents section for parenting advice and fun activities, a Sesame Store to purchase learning aids, and eleven phonics games. It also has a section that allows students to send a letter to a favorite sesame street character or electronic card to friends and family.

Noggin.com
Noggin
This site features several games to learn phonics, basic words, sequencing, rhyme, and letters for preschool to kindergarten students. There is also a section where children can print out scenes from the story for them to color and tell on their own. This site even has a parents section for educational guidance.

Pbskids.org
PBS Kids
This comprehensive site contains several games such as crossword puzzles, Muffy’s un-matching game where you have to read and understand what words belong and which do not, Between the Lions Get Wild About Reading Section featuring Word Worms silly sentence game, Word Walls story creation game, Word Play action word game, and word unscrambles. It also speaks about different genres of stories, has printable books, a parents section for study tips and book recommendations, and a teachers section for lesson plans and activities separated by subjects and grade. Additional activities include write to your favorite star, printable letter guides, and alphabet cutouts.

Nickjr.com
Nick Jr.
This site boasts read-along stories, an animated storybook, story picture riddles, Blue’s ABC, Swiper’s Spelling Book, Say it two Ways, Face’s Alphabet Game, and a teacher section for learning activities and links from television into the classroom. To encourage communication and build writing skills, the site has a section to send electronic cards or a letter to Joe from Blue’s Clues.

Billybear4kids.com
Billy Bear’s Playground
This site features online word searches, cryptograms, make your own crossword puzzles, stereogram word games, free electronic postcards and greeting cards. In the stories section children can write their own storybooks, watch animated stories, red personalized stories where they are the main characters, play with interactive stories, and create bookmarks.

http://www.blackdog4kids.com/games/word/
Blackdog’s Wordgames
This site has a series of literacy building games such as Anagram Creator, Joggle, Cryptogram Fun, Word Search, Word Dance, Word Jumble, Word Meister, Hangman, Word Whirl Game, Fill ‘Er Up Word Game, Crossword Puzzles, Flip Words, Word on Word, Book Worm Deluxe, Spelvin, Word Wizard, and WordZip. It also has fun activities like word puzzles, Pig Latin rules, tongue twisters, and a typing test.

http://kids.msn.com/kids/dept.aspx?id=/kids/content/learnread/
MSN Kids Read and Learn
This site features games and activities to aid literacy learning. There are finger puppet templates to encourage children to write and act out plays, rhyming reading activities, word building games, and interactive stories. There is also a section for family activities where parents and children can design their own greeting cards, play rhyming games, and much more.

http://www3.telus.net/teachwell/
Wacky World of Words
This site is devoted to language arts games. Some topics that are featured are compound words, alphabetical ordering, anagrams, rhyming, a to z lists, similes, and oxymorons. One interesting game using language arts as well as mathematics is called Fractured Fractions where you take a fraction of a group of words and make another word out of them.

Parent & Teacher Resources

Lessonplanspage.com
This website features hundreds of ready-made lesson plans for teachers separated into specific categories for easy navigation. Topics that promote literacy learning include alphabet, punctuation, sounds, poetry, parts of speech, reading comprehension, reading literature, story elements, sentences and paragraphs, spelling, vocabulary, writing letters, persuasive writing, and creative writing. Included in this compilation are many interdisciplinary lessons.

Enchantedlearning.com
This site contains essay topic printouts for children to write on directly, personal essay topics, poem prompts, book report forms, research report topics with included rubrics, personal books (about me, vacations, comic book, school memory, back-to-school, story stars for main ideas, kwl charts, business letter and envelope templates, and cloze fill-in-the-blank activities.

Abcteach.com
This site is perfect for teachers with limited time. It contains over five thousand printables separated by subjects or categories such as phonics, reading, writing, spelling, and grammar. Some other features include thematic unit printouts, portfolio templates, reading comprehension practice sheets, flashcard patterns, report forms, and fun activities.

Teachnet.com
This website contains many lesson plans for literacy development. Some subtopics offered under the language arts heading are reading, writing, spelling, terminology, speaking, and poetry. It also has an entire section devoted to activities related to the book Charlotte’s Web.

http://www.proteacher.com/070009.shtml
This website features literature based lesson plans, motivation tips for readers, books that help teach reading and spelling skills, decoding hints, Fry’s readability graph to determine appropriate reading level of book, and literacy center ideas. It also contains booklists of repetitious phrases, predictable stories, and recommendations for gifted and talented students. There are also many informational articles as well as a community board for teachers to communicate with one another.

Lessonplanet.com
This site contains many activities and lesson plans that promote literacy development. Among many other topics, there are vocabulary, rhyming, alphabet, grammar, phonics, poetry, reading, storytelling, and writing lessons. There are also lesson plans for book reports, author studies, literature, brainstorming, and literary analysis. Another feature of this website is the Teacher Web section that allows educators to use Newsletter Maker, Teachersite Maker, Lesson Maker, and Assignment Maker.

Lessonplanz.com
This website features literature based lessons plans for a variety of grade levels. Categories included in these lessons are alphabet, debate, grammar, handwriting, journalism, listening comprehension, literature, phonics, process skills, reading, Speech, spelling, story telling, vocabulary, whole language, and writing. The site also contains a Teacher Forum in which educators can post questions, answers, and helpful hints for other educators to view.



Informational Websites and Programs

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Children’s Authors and Illustrators on the Web
This site contains readily accessible biographical information about authors and illustrators of children’s literature. Along with presenting the information at a student’s level, the site also contains the option to email the author or illustrator directly.

http://www.state.nj.us/bookclub/
Governor McGreevey’s Book Club
This website features book recommendations for children based on grade level. There is a link to become an official member of the book club and children can write their own reviews of the books featured on the club’s website. It also contains a section of literacy games and activities for students as well as an area for parents and teachers describing the book club, when new recommendations come out, and offering a newsletter.

ePals.com
Classroom Exchange
This site offers students the opportunity to connect with other schools in the United States and other countries. There is even a translator device that allows children to communicate with others who speak different languages. The teacher section allows educators to share tips and talk about popular topics in education.

http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/
HarperCollins Children’s Books
This website contains book reviews and recommendations of HarperCollins stories. Featured on the Meet the Author section are interviews, websites, tour dates, and the ability to invite an author to come and speak to the students. There are also several contests featured on the site regularly.

Readingrainbow.org
This website includes teacher lesson plans and activities, workshop opportunities for staff development, and an online store to purchase family literacy kits or shows on VHS and DVD. It also has a section entitled library resources which features book lists by categories and a contest section for young writers and illustrators.

http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/
Kids@Random
This site has book reviews, teacher’s guides for individual books, contests for teachers and librarians, guides for parents, a monthly spotlight on a specific author, and book suggestions. There are also literacy games and activities as well as a readers and writers club that encourages students to share their stories with one another. Children are encouraged to write to their favorite authors through this site too.

Rif.org
Reading is Fundamental
This contains opportunities to participate in literacy programs and events, a parents section featuring summertime reading tips, a teachers section with activities and literacy videos for purchase, essay contests for students, a free newsletter, read-aloud stories, an art studio to illustrate a story and learn about famous illustrators, and workshops for educators.
Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources