Online Reading
Click on the links (coloured writing) to access free ebooks and reading resources
Storyline Online
Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Each book includes a teacher’s guide with suggestions and activities to aid comprehension.
Oxford Owls
I have created an Oxford Owl login for our class. This will give you access to lots of free eBooks. Each book has two comprehension activities you can play after you have read it. The login details are below.
As you are able to filter the ebooks to your level, below are the current reading levels for our class. Select ‘Book Band’ and then the correct level. You do not have to restrict reading to just these books, feel free to browse all of the ebooks.
Strawberries – Turquoise
Pineapples – Orange
Grapes – Blue
Lemons – Yellow
To access, click on ‘My Class Login’ at the top of the website and enter these details:
Username – missLroom4
Password – books
Read On
This is a great website with lots of free books to read online You don’t need to register or login. Books are organised into various different categories, if you search for an item you can filter the options to books for your year stage using the funnel button at the left of the screen. There is an option to have the book read aloud to you using the play button at the bottom left of the screen once you select a book to read. Words are highlighted as you read and there’s even a dictionary built in that you can search for the meaning of any words you are stuck on.
Reading Activity Ideas
Reading Follow-Up Activity Ideas
| Write/discuss alternative ending for text. | Write answers to simple comprehension questions.
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Ask a partner simple questions to go with the book.
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Read the book again for pleasure or read to a friend or a soft toy.
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Write down 3 fascinating facts you learned from a non-fiction book.
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| ORT games or CD Rom. | Find words from their book with 2/3/4/5 letters and record them.
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Read, write & draw words from book.
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Add new vocabulary to Reading & Writing Wall.
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Simple pictorial Book Reviews.
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| Find the title, author and illustrator of the book. | Choose a favourite sentence to read, write and draw.
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Read onto a tape.
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Using wordless books, write some text for each page to tell the story. | Use a newspaper to highlight or cut out words from the book. | |
| Find words containing sh/ch/ee/oo etc. | Find a word in the book for each letter of the alphabet.
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Find 10 words beginning with ……… from the book, write onto a whiteboard.
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Dictionary work, e.g. highlight 3 tricky words for a partner to find and clarify.
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Design a new cover and title for book.
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| Choose ……. words from the book to practise spelling with a partner, using whiteboards. | Find all the words in the book with a capital letter and copy them on a whiteboard.
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Highlight capital letters/full stops/exclamation marks/question marks/speech marks etc from a piece of text (could use Textease)
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Grammar Hunt – read and find nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.
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Grammar work –Put in capital letters or full stops from a piece of text.
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| Write about what a character might be thinking or feeling, using speech bubbles | Draw a character/setting from the description in the text.
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Play snap/pairs to match vocabulary to pictures.
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Play snap/pairs using key words from book.
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Lotto/word bingo games to reinforce vocabulary.
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| Cloze procedure.
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Research topic/author/ illustrator on Internet. (with support)
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Make a poster for an event in the text e.g. a party.
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Look in text for alternatives for said, small, big, happy, sad etc and add to the Reading & Writing Wall.
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Highlight 5 adjectives and give alternatives. (could use Textease)
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| Look for and record compound words, with a partner.
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Write about a favourite character.
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Sentence reconstruction. Copy text and cut up. Ask a partner to reconstruct the sentence correctly.
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Make a cartoon strip showing the sequence of events in chapter.
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Write a simple blurb (synopsis) from the back cover in your own words.
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| Character/ word jigsaws.
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Act out an event as a drama using puppets.
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Read and discuss another text by the same author.
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‘Draw the Face’ sheets for main characters.
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Make a zig-zag book of the story.
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| Listen to stories on tape. | Copy a piece of environmental print from the book
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Identify and record words with the same letter patterns or beginnings/endings
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Find smaller words within words, with a partner.
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Draw an alternative illustration for a page.
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| Re-tell the story to a partner | Find rhyming words in book | Find words in book that rhyme with words given by teacher | Find words in the book that match meanings given by the teacher
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Use digital camera to record partners reading |
| Use interactive whiteboard fro reading activity | Use beebot for reading activity
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Literacy Activities
