A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.

Build a snowman and read a story about ten little snowmen. This book engages the reader in an animated story. Other links provide emergent reading skills.

Early readers can practice their counting skills with this short online storybook based on the hundredth day of school.

A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Dorothy Strait. Two paintings about powwows are presented and the story vocabulary is posted below the book. A link also takes you to a short biography.

A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Marc Chagall. Two of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.

A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Georges Seurat. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.

A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Paul Gauguin. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book.

An online story for beginning readers about Peter Tchaikovsky, and two ballet dances that are based on his music. A short biography of Tchaikovsky is also found here.

Help write a story about a rabbit in a garden by choosing words to describe the rabbit and to tell what action the rabbit likes to do. Then watch these choices come to life in the cartoon illustrations.

Read along and listen to four different poems including "If I Could Touch the Sky" and "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti.

A short but clever animation that helps early readers learn to pronounce words by chunking them into letter groups and syllables.

A short online storybook about Scott Joplin for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

A short online storybook about Beethoven for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.

In this interactive, students click and drag words to form simple sentences. The words are on the puzzle pieces and on the puzzle spaces.

Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.

Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short o sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [:051]

A song that students can listen to and sing along with to introduce the short e sound and to hear examples of words using that sound.

A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Vincent van Gogh. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book. A link also takes you to a short biography.

A short online storybook about Mozart for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

These games use the magic theme to teach young readers vocabulary. It offers four games: click on stars to change colors of the magician's clothes, labeling his clothes by clicking and dragging, picking up the wand and clicking on...

Read and listen to this illustrated children's poem about what could happen if I could touch the sky.

The illustrated poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Georgina Rosetti tells about how we know the wind is there even if we can't see the wind itself.

Listen and read along with the illustrated poem "My Hiding Place" by Natasha Josefowitz, about a little girl who makes a hiding place with a blanket where she be anything she wants to be.