Mrs. Herook, Online Reading Resource Page

Stories Online

This Page is currently a work in progress

First Grade Focus - Multiple Topics Covered
These online reading resource links can be included in lesson plans, teacher web pages, etc. to assist students as they explore and build reading skills. The sites are included using Guided Reading levels as an indicator. Additional stories will be added as they are reviewed and leveled.

General Online Reading/Language Arts Sites

Storyhour at the IPL

Hans Christian Andersen-Online Fairy Tales and stories
A full listing of stories, with text online. Text is intended for higher grades. Could be printed off to read.

Kids' Corner-Stories of Beatrix Potter

Phonics and Word Study
Online activities broken out by grade level.

The First Grade Backpack-Reading
An extensive list of online activities to build reading skills. *A must see site*

Lil Finger Online Stories
Emergent reader level stories

BBC - Words & Pictures
Choose activities covering: CVC Words, Consonant Clusters, Long Vowel Sounds, High Frequency Words

First Grade Skills
Online activities to support 1st grade topics.

BBC-Comfy Corner
Online stories - various levels

1. Emergent Readers

Learn To Read Books
Online stories - emergent reader levels - provides audio & option for reader to click on word to hear it. Site also has online video and games supporting the emergent reader.

The Alphabet

Ollies Jar
Online story about an eel. Introduces over, under, through, around.

Kitty Wants A Box
Early online reader.

The Counting Story

The Alphabet

2. Level A-C

Do Spiders live on the World Wide Web?
A fun story to introduce computer vocabulary.

Animals You Can See At The Zoo

A Walk in the Woods
Quicktime story with audio. A rhyming and counting story.

3. Level D-F

Bananas For Lunch
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Engine Nine, Party Line
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

It's Fun To Read
Online activities to support the advanced emergent reader - offered by Starfall.com

Emily Elizabth Goes to School
Clifford the Big Red Dog, Offered by Scholastic. Play tic-tac-toe while you wait for story to load.

Here, Clifford
Offered by Scholastic.

Clifford's Big Dig

Where is Emily?
Scholastic online book -Clifford.

4. Level G-I

Clydes Smile
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

The Story of Shapes
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Six Little Teddy Bears
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Color The Rainbow
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

New Fish on the Reef
Online story with audio. Try the online activity after reading the story.

When Will Daddy Come Home
Another online story with an activity.

Sniffy & Fluffy Have An Adventure

When I Grow Up

5. Level J-L

The Yellow Gorilla
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

The Story of Miss Moppet
Text version of the story by Beatrix Potter.

6. Level M-P

7. Level Q-S

8. Level T-V

9. Level W-Z

How the Leopard Got His Spots
By Rudyard Kipling - this online version has images

Mr. Coyote Meets Mr. Snail

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This resource designed and maintained by:
Susan Herook, Instructional Technology Specialist
(Last Updated November 2004)