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English Language Activities
Before exploring the resources below, I cannot stress enough how important it is that your child reads regularly at home. Reading reinforces and strengthens all of the skills and strategies we teach in school. It enables your child to become a stronger critical thinker, a more empathetic human being, and increases their likelihood at developing their knowledge and understanding of the world as they grow up. If you are seeking additional language activities for your child to do at home, I strongly recommend having them read for half an hour a day.
- Scholastic is providing a wide variety of texts for reading, separated into grade levels here.
- Into The Book allows students to practice various reading comprehension skills that help them read past surface details in texts. These skills enable students to become stronger critical thinkers and helps them practice the application of their understanding and experience of the world to the texts they read. Students can have the texts read to them on-screen, though this website becomes more effective if your child is comfortable reading at an early Junior level.
- Want to keep up with the world? CBC runs a kids news site. It's a great way for students to practice reading and grow their awareness of the world around them.
- One of my big focuses every year in Language is on helping students explore different forms of texts so they can express their own stories and ideas. MyStorybook.com allows them to create their own storybook online, complete with pictures and drawings!
- ABCya! has a wide collection of stories and games. This website is highly friendly for learners of English as a second language!
- Storyline Online features celebrity readers to read stories to your child.
- The Ottawa Public Library offers you TumbleBook: online stories with animations, sound, music, and narration. You will need an Ottawa public library card to access them, but you can get a temporary card for free online here!
- We have been given access to Forest of Reading resources! Your child may remember that the Forest of Reading is a program offered to our school every spring to have children select prize-winning books. The Blue Spruce level has books aimed at children in kindergarten to grade 2, and the Silver Birch level has books aimed at children in grades 3 and 4. You can find all of their levels here.