Tauranga Reading
A literacy resource site for teachers, parents and children 0-13 years
Lower Primary 5 - 8 years
The resources shown in this section of the page are suitable for children in Lower Primary children aged 5 - 8.
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Ahoy there, me hearties! Salty Sam and Colin the Clam are on board to help with learning phonics. This site can be used as part of the literacy hour for years 1, 2 and 3 with interactive games suitable for whole class work using an interactive whiteboard.
BBC - Little Animals Activity Centre - Listen to and or read one of three stories; ‘The Missing Pencil’, ‘The Butterfly Trail’ and ‘The Wishing Tree’. Complete activities along the way.
ictgames - High Frequency Bingo
Play Bingo with Letters and Sounds High Frequency words.
ictgames - Interactive Whiteboard Dictionary
An interactive spelling Dictionary for Y1/2 (and perhaps 3).
Motivate children to read with phonics. The systematic phonics approach, and phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development.
Phonics and Spelling Activities:
Digital Books:
Reading Activities:
BBC - The Magic Key Adventures
Interactive activities based on characters from the Oxford Reading Tree written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta.
Zinger Tales is a collection of stories told by great storytellers! Choose a storyteller below to hear the tale and get some book recommendations too!
International Children’s Digital Library
The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
Listen to members of the Screen Actor’s Guild Foundation reading children’s books aloud. Each book includes accompaning activities and lesson ideas.
TumbleBooks at The New York Public Library
A large collection modern children's picture books with animation. A narrator reads each book aloud. Includes English and Spanish titles.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
This children's online library is a volunteer-driven project featuring scanned historical children's books. Many are translated into several languages.
StoryPlace - The Children’s Digital Library
The StoryPlace Pre-school Library is full of stories and activities for you to explore.
Read and listen to several Clifford stories online. Click the words to hear the story. The words in red make things happen.
The aim of this activity is to grow your own story from the story plant.
Victoria Parsons, a storyteller, shares her recordings of stories she tells, some of which she has collected from books, some she has heard or been told and some she has made up herself.
Topmarks - The Gingerbread Man
A traditional story by Topmarks.
Crickweb - The Three Little Pigs - Sequencing Activity
Drag and drop the scenes from the story onto their correct place on the fow chart.
Crickweb - The Three Little Pigs/ Cinderella - Scene Setting
Choose one of the stories to describe and annotate a scene.
Choose from one of eight fairy tales to read and then complete related activites.
Can you find out the what the objects/ answers are from the clues? There are two riddles pages and a fairy tales riddles page.
BBC Online - Living Things Riddles
Answer riddles and choose the answer from one of three living things.
Drag and drop the photographs of Gran’s tea making into their correct place on the flow chart.
Penguin Publishers - Aesops Fables
Thirteen animated fables from Tom Lynch’s book have been illustrated with hand sewn patchwork tapestries inspired by the textile folk art of Africa, India and Peru.
British Council - LearnEnglish Kids
Stories For Little Kids
Watch and listen to one of eight animated stories.
British Council - LearnEnglish Kids
Short Stories
Watch and listen to one of eighteen animated stories.
Join Max and Molly on their literacy adventures at KS1 Bitesize. Activities include phonics, spelling, alphabetical order, rhyming words, synonyms...
SpellingCity
The ultimate online spelling program. Start by entering your spelling words. Then select ‘Test Me’, ‘Teach Me’, or ‘Play a Game’.
Get set for adventure! Nash, Flick and Sprat's antics will help you get your English skills on track.
Flick’s Adventures 7 - 9 years
Get set for adventure! Nash, Flick and Sprat's antics will help you get your English skills on track.
Choose from one of three plays to read online.
Starfall - Fiction and Nonfiction
Choose from one of fourteen stories to read online.
Choose from one of six folk tales to read online.
Choose from one of six Greek myths to read online.
Choose from one of seven Chinese fables to read online.
Choose from one of five comics read and listen to online.
Choose an English myth or legend to read, watch and listen to online. Create your own.
Woodlands Junior School - Words and Spelling Games
Interactive games and activities. Links to many sites including; plurals, letters and alphabetical order, CVC words, compounds, synonyms, letter formation/ sounds, clusters/ blends, phonemes, homophones, prefixes and suffixes.
Practice your own spelling words or practise spelling in general. Many activities to choose from, including 100 misspelled words battleship...
Scholastic - Word Girl: Synonym Toast
Help Captain Huggy Face stop the avalanche of bread slices by making synonym toast. Choose words that are similar in meaning to the word on the toaster, and toss them inside by clicking on the toast.
Crickweb - Onset/ Rime Word Wheel
Can your make a word in the word window to match the picture and written clue? Move the wheels by using the start and stop buttons.
BBC - Words and Pictures - Word Blender
Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if you're right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that don't exist!
Scholastic - Phonics Activities : Oh, Oh, Oh Long O
A Goat on a Boat that Floats! Listen and learn all about Long O. Built in Notebook software - downloadable here.
Listen to one of four animated poems read aloud online.
Read sentences about yourself then drag and drop/ fill in the blanks about yourself.
Listen to and read along to favorite tongue twisters. Answer questions along the way.
In this game you have to guess the word by picking the letter. Scores will be added or subtracted depending on whether you've picked up a correct letter. The game ends when you've finished 10 words.
Play Kids Games - The Book Game
Organize the out of order books. Click on the books in alphabetical order.
Select from one of the spelling lists, or create your own. Custom spelling lists can be saved, and linked to from a classroom website. Once a list has been selected, play one of our many free spelling games listed to the right.
BBC - CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘The Big Beastie Thing’
Read Razzledazzle's story about Tony the ant and his adventures around the garden.
BBC - CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘Carlton’s Magic Trainers’
Read this Razzledazzle story about Carlton and his magic trainers.
BBC - CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘Fisherman TIm’
Read this Razzledazzle story about fisherman Tim and his adventures at sea.
BBC - CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘Molly in the Trolley’
Read this Razzledazzle story about Molly’s trip to the supermarket.
BBC - CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘Sshh!’
Read the Razzledazzle story and find out who and what goes "sshh!".
BBC CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘The School Run’
Read this Razzledazzle story about the big orange school bus.
BBC CBeebies - Razzledazzle ‘The Wind’
Read and join in with Razzledazzle's story about the wind.
BBC - CBeebies - Charlie and Lola
Listen to one of four stories. FInd out how Charlie celebrates his birthday, how Lola helps Charlie with his music project, how Charlie helps Lola get to bed, and find out what Lola decides to collect.
BBC - CBeebies - 64 Zoo Lane ‘Georgina the Giraffe’
Watch the story of Georgina the giraffe and find out what happens when she gets her neck in a twist.
BBC - CBeebies - Balamory Weather Story
Find out what the weather is doing in Balamory today with Miss Hoollie.
BBC - CBeebies - Fimbles ‘The Enormous Turnip’
Watch a story about a great, big turnip and the red robin.
Get Ready To Read - Rhyming Words
Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 2 - help Gus in the story with rhyming words.
Sadlier-Oxford - Phonics/ Rhyming
Find matching rhymes by clicking cards and finding the matching pairs.
Quia - Sequencing - Brushing Your Teeth
Uncover the hidden picture by putting the terms in order. Enter the numbers 1 through 7 in the fields provided.
PBS Kids - Binky’s Story Scramble - Arthur
Read the words, or click each speaker to hear them. Then use the mouse to move the pictures in the right order. When you are done, click on “Read it.”
BGFL - The Tales of Peter Rabbit
Choose an activity: Place the pictures from the story in order, place words in order to form a sentence or roll over images from the text to see a question about the story to answer.
Quia - Sequencing - Making Toast
Uncover the hidden picture by putting the terms in order. Enter the numbers 1 through 7 in the fields provided.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions - Spicy Hot Colors
This short, narrated online story/ poem from Between the Lions is fun and easy to read along with. Listen for the rhyming words in this explosion of colour.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions - ‘Night In the Country’
This short, narrated online story from Between the Lions is fun and easy to read along with. Listen carefully to hear the sounds of the night.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions - ‘How to be a Good Dog’
This short, narrated online story from Between the Lions is fun and easy to read along with.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions ‘Upper and Lower Case’
Watch this video clip that explains the difference between upper and lower case and when to use each.
Watch this video clip that explains the rules that apply when you see two vowels together in a word.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions ‘Vowel Boot Camp’
Learn all about long and short vowel sounds and what happens when two vowels stand side by side.
PBS Kids - Between the Lions - ‘Stone Soup’
This short, narrated online story from Between the Lions is fun and easy to read along with.
Site designed and created by Rachelle Hulbert, 2010