Using Your Home Computer to Promote Learning

Second-Fifth Grade

There are many ways that you can use your computer to help your child learn. I am including the addresses of some of my favorite websites. Be sure also to check for links from your child’s teacher and on the school page.

Good sites for Reading/Skills Practice

• Scholastic www.scholastic.com
• Keyboarding program www.senselang.com
• PBS Kids http://pbskids.org
• Funbrain http://www.funbrain.com/
• Kids Domain http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html
• Enchanted Learning www.enchantedlearning.com
• Play games with Dr. Seuss characters http://www.seussville.com/
• BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/index.shtml
• Adventures of Sydney reading http://www.cyberkids.com/cw/mul/sydney/index.html
• Amazing Adventure Series—stories, poems, videos http://www.amazingadventure.com/index_fl.asp
• Reading Workshop http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex.htm
• Wacky Web Tales (madlibs) http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
• Popular Stories read by celebrities http://www.storylineonline.net/storyline/

Informational Sites

• http://www.readingrockets.org/
• www.readinga-z.com
• http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/
• http://guysread.com/
• VA Dept. of Ed. http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/English/englishCF.html