TTCR Reviews

PBS Between the Lions
This is a child-friendly site that is colorful, interesting, and entertaining for the young student learning how to read. It provides many actitvities to develop phonemic awareness - games, stories, and video clips.For educators, there are lesson plans, literacy activities, handouts, certificates, and other resources. It's great for learners with special needs because it has both auditory and visual supports.

STARFALL
Starfall is another interesting, colorful, child-friendly site that provides a multitude of activities for phonics and phonemic awareness. There are great literacy activities for learning letters, phonics, beginning reading activities, and stories for fluent readers. Exceptional supports that the stories provide are text-to-speech (click the ear icon) for beginning readers and special learners; some stories also provide captioning for deaf students! What I also like about the site is that it provides great visual prompts for the student so that they know what to do next on the page.

Transforming Teaching Through Technology
This site provides a variety of Inspiration graphic organizers,word webs, semantic maps to develop vocabulary knowledge. The benefit of this site is that you have access to these graphic organizers if you or your school district doesn't have access to Inspiration or your free trial has expired. The page is nicely organized with categories at the top of the page so you can easily navigate the page and find what you need.