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1. [|Save the Words]- an excellent site that values language, vocabulary, and words. 2. [|Grammaropolis]- an enchanting site that teaches students parts of speech through character and story. 3. [|Signed Stories]- an online story collection accompanied by British Sign Language, pictures, and sound. 4. [|Learn Direct]- where students can be the star in their own online storybook. 5. [|Inkless Tales]- a literacy website with a beautiful mission statement “You can do anything. Try, try again. Don’t give up. Experiment. Write, draw, explore and more.” 6. [|Storybird-] a beautiful collaborative storytelling website. 7. [|My English Images]- images that illustrate difficult vocabulary and language concepts. 8. [|Lexipedia]- a visual dictionary and thesaurus. 9. [|Tikatok]- Students become published authors with Tikatok 10. [|Free Reading]- an open source instructional program to help you teach early literacy. 11. [|Word World]- a great site for kindergarten and first grade letter and word recognition. 12. [|Reading Rockets]- free reading guides for teachers to improve reading achievement of kids. 13. [|Super Why!]- a site that helps kids gain important foundational reading skills such as alphabet, word families, spelling, comprehension, and vocabulary. 14. [|Get Ready to Read!]- a great site that helps teachers equip children with the basic skills necessary for learning to read. 15. [|Roy the Zebra]- Excellent site for emerging readers. 16. [|Fable Vision]- the beautiful virtual town filled with stories and games. 17. [|Kidoons]- brings time honored tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Thorton Burgess, and more to life. 18. [|GameGoo]- fun educational games that help students develop reading and language skills. 19. [|Read Write Think]- a collection of online student resources that support literacy learning k-12. 20. [|Seussville]- the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss brought to life. 21. [|Digital Booktalk]- book trailers that will whet your students appetite for a good book. 22. [|Storybook Web]- a website based on popular children’s stories where students can listen to author’s reading excerpts. 23. [|Mee Genius]- where students can read books, personalize them, and share them with a friend. 24. [|Stage’d-] a tool that helps students tell stories digitally. 25. [|Kerpoof]- where students can create their own storybooks, comics, and movies. 26. [|Lightning Bug]- “your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END.” 27. [|ePubBud]- for publishing your very own ebooks. 28. [| Magic Treehouse-] a wonderful website where students can engage in the popular book series. 29. [|The Stacks]- a wonderful creation by Scholastic that excites students about reading. 30. [|The World of Peter Rabbit]- an absolutely captivating site based on the work of Beatrix Potter. 31. [|My Hippo Has the Hiccups]- a free poetry ebook by Kenn Nesbitt. 32. [|Weboword]- a visual vocabulary site. 33. [|N][|ational Geographic Young Explorer]- non-fiction for the primary classroom from National Geographic. 34. [|Online Audio Storie]s- an impressive collection of free audio stories. 35. [|Story Nory]- another collection of free audio books for kids. 36. [|Skratch Track]- a virtual bookshelf for primary students. 37. [|Picture Book Maker]- a place for students to create picture books. 38.[| Story Cove]- a collection of stories from around the world. 39. [|Skype an Author Network]- connects teachers, students, and authors over Skype. 40. [|Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos]- animated vocabulary videos. 41. [|My Story Maker]- a website where students are in charge of the interactive story. 42. [|Book Wink]- an incredible site that motivates students to read through podcasts and web video. 43. [| Scholastic Story Starters]- a tool that generates writing ideas. 44. [|Telescopic Text]- a site that expands a sentence to demonstrate descriptive writing. 45. [|The Tale of Despereaux Adventure-] a beautiful interactive story book. 46. [|Literactive-] leveled guided readers, comprehensive phonics activities, and supplemental reading material. 47. [|Pic Lits-] a creative writing site based on pictures. 48. [|Speakaboos]- a collection of online stories and ebooks. 49. [|Animailia]- a site based on the popular book by Graeme Base. 50. [|Mrs. P’s Magic Library]- an absolutely enchanting site that celebrates books and reading. 51. [|Free Rice]- practice vocabulary while helping others fight hunger. 52. [|Shelfari]- a virtual bookshelf. 53. [|Read to Feed-] Heifer International reading project for kids. 54. [|Into the Book]- an outstanding site that teaches reading strategies for comprehension. 55. [|Google Lit Trips]- exploring literature using Google Earth. 56. [|Starfall]- a must see website for phonics. 57. [|Book Adventure]- a free reading motivation program