Kindergarten Reading Sites

There are five main reading standards in Kindergarten:

Students use prior knowledge to comprehend new Information and construct meaning.
Students make predictions and confirm meaning.
Students use graphophonic cues (letter/sound correspondence) to decode words.
Students begin to monitor and guide their comprehension of text through listening.
Students, teachers, and parents read together to create a shared meaning from print.

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/rattic/rattic1.html
This animated online story gives you a lot of opportunities to stop and have children make predictions. This is a funny story of a farmer who can't sleep because of noise coming from his attic. Readers have the ability to change background music and to click on mouths for characters to talk. There is also a self grading quiz at the end of the story.

Three Little Kittens

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose/kittens/
Students can listen to the audio version of this Mother Goose classic. Perhaps you can have them raise their hand each time they hear a rhyming word.
Note you need to download the free RealPlayer plug-in in order to listen to this story.
You can also view the non-audio version of this story.

Jan Brett Alphabet Page

http://www.janbrett.com/alphabet/alphabet_traditional_main.htm
Click each letter for a full sized version that you can print out and use as an alphabet line or separately as flash cards. These letters can be used to help students identify upper and lower case letters by name.

Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html
This site is designed for children who are learning how to read. Kindergartners may enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes.

Children's Stories

http://www.childrenstory.com/
The stories on this page have been organized into four groups: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Interactive stories, and Holiday Stories. You can have some of the stories read to you, if you have the free RealPlayer plug-in.

Kids Corner - Beatrix Potter

http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids.htm
Read these classic Beatrix Potter stories to your whole class. Stories include Tale of Peter Rabbit, Cecily Parsely's Nursery Rhymes, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and others. These online versions feature large text and the original illustrations.

Online Story Books for Young Children

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#yc
Here are a variety of online picture books for young readers.

Myths and Legends

http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
This site contains many legends such as, How Kangaroo Got His Tail and The Ungrateful Tiger. Some of these are from Native American tribes and children wrote others.

A Pocketful of Rhymes

http://members.aol.com/Bvsangl/pocket.html
Read rhymes about baseballs, school lunches, and different kinds of jobs. You can play guessing games and finish off some of the poems yourself.

School-Home Links: Reading Activities

This page contains 100 School-Home activities for the kindergarten level. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. Examples include: Knows the Parts of Books and Their Functions and Begins to Track Print. The School-Home Links activities below are available to download as PDF files. In order to read or print these files, you will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you may download for free from Adobe .

At-Home Reading Kit

Encourage your students' parents to create a reading kit for home. This will help extend reading beyond the class and into the home. Here is a list of things to put into the kit and what to do with the kit.

Author: Karen Krier - Email karen@uen.org