Websites of Interest: English Language Arts (K - 5)
Website Name
Into the Book
Description of Website
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We
URL
Into the Book
focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections,
Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.
Graphic
Organizers
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency site is filled with graphic organizers to support
learning strategies.
F and P
ReadWriteThink
At ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool
professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts
instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
ReadWriteThink
Recycle
Saskatchewan
We have designed teaching units for the grades Kindergarten through grade 8
Saskatchewan curriculum (including the grade 7 and 8 curriculum which rolled out in
the fall of 2009).
Recycle Sask for
Teachers
Reading Power
Reading Power is a practical reading comprehension program designed to
help students learn specific thinking strategies to use while they read and
to develop a “language of thinking.”
Reading Power
The Daily CAFE
This site includes a wealth of articles and professionally edited videos specifically
designed to support the thousands of educational professionals who have already
attended the workshops and taken advantage of these progressive strategies.
The Daily CAFE
Reading A-Z
The website has more than 2,500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and
French versions) and thousands of teaching and learning materials.
Reading A-Z
Teaching Reading
K-2
The nine classroom videos and three student case study videos in this video library let
viewers observe teachers and students in real, unscripted classrooms. The viewing
activities and background information in the guide (available online and in print) provide
grist for teacher discussion and reflection.
Teaching Reading K-2
The Daily 5:
K-5 Literacy
The Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks which students complete daily while the teacher
meets with small groups or confers with individuals. The Daily 5 is more than a
The Daily 5
Websites of Interest: English Language Arts (K - 5)
Connections
management system or a curriculum framework – it is a structure that will help students
develop the daily habits of reading, writing and working with peers that will lead to a
lifetime of independent literacy.
Dene Kede Stories
-Northwest
Territories
The stories in this book are very old stories that have been handed down from
generation to generation from when the world was new. We tell these stories as First
Nations People from the North because we are proud of who we are and where we have
come from.
Dene Kede Stories
Teaching that
Makes Sense
A repertoire of reading and writing tools for teachers and student at various grade levels
and across the curriculum.
Teaching that Makes
Sense
Writing Prompts
1000 writing ideas
Writing Prompts
NESD Fun with
Speech &
Language
This website was created to help provide information related to speech, language, and
other communication skills. We have added information regarding developmental norms,
summer home programming, helpful recommendations/resources, as well as several
other topics.
NESD Fun with Speech
& Language
Education Rethink
13 Ways to Engage Reluctant Writers
Education Rethink
Literacy Launch
This site contains Focus lessons to familiarize students with the routines, behaviors, and
habits of mind that will promote successful independent reading throughout the year.
Literacy Launch
Comprehension
Strategies
A site filled with various reading strategies. Making connections, questioning, visualizing,
inferring, determining importance and synthesis.
Comprehension
Strategies
Effective
Vocabulary
Instruction
This link offers a chart which explains how to “do” word work/ spelling/vocabulary with
students.
Effective Vocabulary
Instruction
First People
Legends
This link connects to a number of First Nations legends.
First People legends
Teach Kids News
Timely, relevant news articles for kids, educators in the classroom and parents at home.
Teach Kids News