Early+Literacy+and+Language+Skills

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 * [|Starfall Early Reading]: Your emergent readers will love to explore the online storybooks here, each with animation, audio, sound effects, and more, and all focused on building beginning reading skills. These activities would make great center activities.
 * [|Chateau Meddybemps] Among the many activities at this site, budding writers will love the opportunity to visit the Young Writer’s Workshop and print out their favorite thematic story starter as a background for their writing or the chance to solve a few interactive Animal Riddles. Have children carefully copy their favorite riddle and illustrate their own picture before adding it to an Animal Riddle Bulletin Board in your classroom.
 * [|Scholastic Building Language for Literacy]: Young children can practice their early literacy skills with these three research-based activities sponsored by Scholastic to reinforce their knowledge of oral language, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and concepts of print.
 * [|PBS Between the Lions]: Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona - a family of lions - run a magical library where characters pop out of books, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own. The series combines puppetry, animation, and live action to help young children learn to read.
 * [|Little Fingers Shockwave Games] Activities to practice important early learning skills including alphabet name knowledge, telling time, counting numbers, counting change, and much more.
 * [|Kiddy Karaoke Song Corner for Kids]: Lots of sing along songs with lyrics and music - just click on the alphabet at the top to select your song.
 * [|Mojo’s Musical Museum]: Song Lyrics from KIDiddles
 * [|Literacy Center Education Network]: An interactive literacy curriculum in English, Spanish, Dutch, and French. Focuses on letters, numbers, words, shapes, colors, numbers, and keyboarding skills.
 * [|Little Explorers Dictionary]: Once your young students understand the concept of hyperlinks, they are ready to begin exploring one of the very best online dictionary resources for young children. Best of all, children can select words from the dictionary in ten different languages! This site even offers a number of thematic alphabet quizzes for young children that provide practice with navigating between webpages while learning more about the alphabet. You can find many resources for teachers too at the [|Preschool Activity Page] or the homepage for [|Enchanted Learning]
 * [|International Children’s Digital Library]: An amazing and growing collection of authentic children's literature from around the world. The searchable database leads to stories in over 15 languages and introduces students to the world around them through picture books.
 * [|BBC Preschool] This site, sponsored by the United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Company (BBC) hosts an interesting array of interactive online games and stories to explore with little ones.
 * [|Boowa & Kwala] Explore this site from South Africa for it's many offerings of children’s music, preschool craft activities, and children’s stories.
 * [|PBS Kids]: You and your children could explore here for hours, interacting with favorite characters from PBS Children's television programs! Three examples of the many, many activities include [|Clifford The Big Red Dog] or [|Dragon Tales: School in The Sky] or [|Preschool Kids Sprout]
 * [|Funschool Preschool Games]
 * [|Weekly Reader]: Kids solve problems and post solutions.
 * [|Billy Bear for Kids]: An old favorite among Internet users - includes Show & Tell, Storybooks, A Post Office, and much more. Best to explore with an adult since there's a bit of reading at each activity.