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Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.
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Starfall: Word Machines: Short A
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
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Starfall: Mox's Shop
A phonics activity that demonstrates the short "o" sound. Beginning with a song and examples, students learn the sound and how it works within words. Then they can click through a story about a fox named Mox to see several examples of...
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Starfall: Dragon Goes to the Farm
Dragon Goes to the Farm is an online storybook for the early reader. The site also provides a list of all of the words in the story.
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Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.
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Starfall: Make a Word: Silent E
Match words with pictures then add the silent E to make a new word.
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Starfall: Short O Song
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short o sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [:051]
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Starfall: Short E Song
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.
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Starfall: Every Day Is Earth Day
This is a simple simulation in which the viewer puts different types of trash into three containers for recycling.
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Starfall: Vincent Van Gogh
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.
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Starfall: Frederic Chopin
From Starfall.com, this site explores Chopin in relation to his works "Little Dog Waltz" and "The Cat's Waltz." A link to his biography is also provided.
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Starfall: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A short online storybook about Mozart for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.