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** Phonemic Awareness: ** [|Tips on Teaching Phonological Awareness] This resource defines phonological awareness. It gives the teacher tips for teaching different aspects of phonemic awareness: rime and onset, sounds, blends, rhymes, syllables, and phonemes, with examples for each. This resource is available through reading-tutors.com.

[|Phonemic Awareness Activities] This resource helps the teacher extend phonemic awareness concepts and skills in the classroom. It includes tasks and activities for rhyming, syllables, beginning sound substitution, sound isolation, and phonemic segmentation for Kindergarten and 1st grade students. [|Between the Lion: Word Morph] This is a free computer game available through PBS Kids. This would be a perfect center for Kindergarten students. This game focuses on changing beginning and ending sounds of letters. The game also says each sound as you hover the mouse over the letters. It is also very easy to use.

** Phonics: ** [|Phonics Monster Town 1 App for iPad/iPod] This App teaches the basic alphabet sounds easily and systematically. This app is good for Apple products and is free. It is best for Pre-K and Kindergarten students just beginning phonics and reading. Helps build the basic phonetic structure that students need to begin reading. [|ABC Pocket Phonics App for iPad/iPod] This app teaches the basic phonics skills needed to develop early reading techniques. This app is good for Apple products and costs $2.99. It addresses letter writing and formation, letter sounds, and basic first words for beginning readers. This is a great app to have available in a Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom.

** Fluency: ** [|Creating Fluent Readers] This website provides classroom support for establishing fluent readers. It also demonstrates how to effectively judge how fluent a student is. It addresses common issues among readers and provides ways of addressing these troubles.

[|Improving Fluency in Young Reader] This website addresses the three components of literacy, along with giving activities to improve each component. It also provides ideas of when  to implement the fluency activities, as well as when to assess fluency. [|My Word Wall App for iPad/iPod] This app helps develop early reading skills. I allows the user to hear, visualize, vocally repeat, and write letters and words to learn. It fosters fluency by repeated word recognition. This app is available for Apple products and costs $1.99. It is great to have available for Kindergarteners and 1st graders. ** Vocabulary ** [|Doing it Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary] This website is a great resource for teaching vocabulary. It describes how to choose words and how to rank them (tier one, two, or three), and most importantly how to teach them. This will benefit any teacher in any grade. [|Strategies for Vocabulary Development] This website helps teachers understand what works and what doesn't work when teaching vocabulary. It also gives ideas and strategies, along with examples. Additionally, the website also explains assessment techniques and formats. [|BookWorm App for iPod/iPad] This app helps build vocabulary while increasing spelling skills. It has multiple levels with a range of difficulty. This app is available for Apple products and costs $1.99. It would be great to use in 2nd - 5th grade. ** Comprehension ** [|Reading Rockets] This website provides strategies to teaching comprehension. It also has activity examples and strategies linked directly on the website, which also identifies whether it takes place before, during, or after reading. [|Aesop's Quest App for iPad/iPod] This app helps work on comprehension skills for grades 2 - 5. The app is available for Apple products and costs $0.99. It is a game that requires readers to remember elements of the story to complete a level. The goal is to earn puzzle pieces after each level. Once the puzzle is complete, the student continues to the next story, starting a new puzzle. ** Websites For GACE Review ** ** [|Reading Rockets] ** This will provide a good overview of the essential components of reading. [|Reading Rockets] This contains modules on each reading component, as well as a pretest and post-test for each (good for review) [|Reading First] This reviews the components of assessment and provides information about assessment and strategies to support students in each area.