Starfall is a great resource for young elementary children to help them with their letter sounds and beginning reading skills.
Seussville
Seussville has a ton of games, activities, videos, and books for children to explore. It has fun graphics and has all of the familiar characters that children love!
Read Write Think
Students and children may need assistance with getting started with some of these activities (depending on age), but there are tons of activities sorted by grade level/literacy skill that are awesome. They are interactive and effective.
Spelling City
This is a wonderful resource to practice spelling and vocabulary words. You can insert your own list or use pre-made lists to practice!
Free Rice
This site has a very interesting premise: for every question that you answer correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated through the World Food Programme. It's great vocabulary practice for an even greater cause!
Wordle
Wordle is a fun site that creates word maps and clouds out of the words that you insert. A fun and creative way to get to know words.
Magnetic Poetry
Kids will have a blast creating their own poems by using the drag and drop function of Magnetic Poetry. Words are provided and all you have to do is create a poetic masterpiece!
Storyline Online
Done by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online is a great way to keep children entertained. Famous actors and actresses read well-known children's stories aloud as children can follow along. This is not only great for an at-home activity, but it's also great to fill in some free time in the classroom!
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is a fun way for kids to interact with their favorite PBS characters with fun games and activities. Between the Lions has great interactive games and stories for children who are learning to read!
ABCya
This is an excellent website for children! It is already split up into grade levels (K-5) and each level provides fun games, books, and aactivities that are age appropriate.
Cookie
Cookie is a great resource for both Language Arts and Math for grades Pre-K-2. It has games, letter practice, word practice, stories, worksheets, and much more!
Scholastic
Scholastic provides many resources for parents and children alike. It has a lot of games and a lot of fun stories to read through! Also great for Clifford interactive story books!
Funschool Language Arts
The Language Arts section of Funschool allows children to play tons of games that cover spelling, vocabulary, reading, etc!
Sheppard Software
This site has tons of games separated into different subjects and categories.
Highlights Kids
This Highlights site has a lot of games, stories, and creative activities for young children and students to do!
FunBrain
FunBrain has tons of resources and games for children to explore from Language Arts to Math!
Jayzee Bear
Jayzee Bear is a bit outdated with its graphics, but it provides some fun practices games for ages 2-8.
TVO Kids
This site has a lot of fun Flash games with a wide range of subjects for children ages 2-6.
Utah Education Network
Just choose your grade level and subject area and this site will direct you to plenty of sites to suit your needs! Very good resource to find new educational sites.
Brain Pop Jr.
Brain Pop Jr. has a ton of resources from all across the curriculum. It also helps to strengthen different reading and comprehension strategies!
Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids is an awesome website to integrate reading with science and exploration. It has a lot of fun resources for children of all ages!
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has a lot of fun interactive games and stories for children to use and play with. Obviously this is better suited for younger children, but it has great resources for up to early elementary aged children.
Sports Illustrated for Kids
This is an excellent resource for students who love sports! Students can read articles about their favorite sports in a kid friendly format.
Kids.gov
This is a government sponsored site that has awesome resources for children and students of all ages. It also categorizes its content into subject areas!
Kids Click
Kids Click is a resource that provides other resources for certain subject areas.
Let me know if you have any other good Language Arts sites for kids! Thanks!
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