Literacy+Websites



Please click on the links below to practice your literacy skills.

[|Similes Game] [|Crossword Similes] [|Super Similes] [|Nash's Adventures] [|Flick's Adventures] [|Sprat's Adventures]

reading strategies for 'making meaning from text.' These are: 3. Questioning 4. Visualising 5. Inferring 6. Summarizing 7. Evaluating 8. Synthesising || books. || of a book, a real book is donated to charity. || genres include myths, legends, folktales, fairy tales and some original works. || by genre, theme, author and other choices. Click to play and listen or read along with the story teller. || children's literature, with 4,469 books in 55 languages. ||
 * Try these websites to practice your reading skills. **
 * [[image:Into_the_book.png width="134" height="137" link="@http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html?login"]] || **Into the Book** is a reading comprehension program. It provides tools and resources that explore eight
 * 1) Using prior knowledge 2. Making connections,
 * [[image:Story_online.png width="140" height="62" link="@http://www.storylineonline.net/"]] || **Storyline Online** has a great collection of videos with well-known actors reading children's fiction
 * [[image:We_give_books.png width="132" height="95" link="@http://www.wegivebooks.org/"]] || **We Give Books** has hundreds of e-books available for kids to read. Every time you get to the end
 * [[image:story_bee.png width="165" height="49" link="@http://www.storybee.org/index.html"]] || **Story Bee** contains hundreds of stories for a range of ages (4-18). Told by professional storytellers,
 * [[image:online_audio_stories.png width="164" height="64" link="@http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/"]] || **Online Audio Stories** has hundreds of classic children's stories. Choose the story you want to read
 * [[image:international_childrens_digital_library.png width="222" height="55" link="@http://en.childrenslibrary.org/"]] || **International Children's Digital Library** is the world's largest online multicultural repository of

from scratch or use one of several templates and use your own artwork/photos or select from the site's gallery. || even collaborate with others on the same story. Simply add images and text onto pages. || provide the URL of your 'pad' to everyone you want to use it. You can then all work on the dame document simultaneously. And it's super fast. ||
 * How about creating your own books. Take a look at these websites to help you. **
 * [[image:Story_jumper.png width="173" height="73" link="@https://www.storyjumper.com/"]] || You can create your own books with **Story Jumper.** It's an easy seven-step process. You can create
 * [[image:Story_bird.png width="186" height="73" link="@https://storybird.com/"]] || **Storybird** helps you make, short, art-inspired stories that can be shared, read and printed. You can
 * [[image:etherpad.png link="@http://etherpad.org/"]] || **Etherpad** allows people to work together in "really real-time!" All you have to do is click 'create' and

your progress and asks harder questions. || the on-screen keyboard to fill in the blanks. It's against the clock and there are various levels of difficulty. ||
 * Try these websites to improve your use of words. **
 * [[image:vocabulary.png width="177" height="55" link="@http://www.vocabulary.com/"]] || **Vocabulary** has more than 40,000 questions designed to help you learn words. As you answer, it tracks
 * [[image:wordmaster.png width="174" height="48" link="@http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flash/wordmaster/"]] || **Word master** is another way to test vocabulary. You're shown a sentence with a word missing. Click