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Sometimes when you want to help a child learn to read, it pays to think “outside the book.” Unlike many of us, our kids are not only growing up with free access to computers, there is at least one screen at their disposal at all times.

Whether they get to the Web from a desktop, laptop, or mobile device, there are fun ways to use that screen time for literacy.

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General | Educational Games | Sites with Book Connections

GENERAL

ALA’s Great Websites for Kids – Want to know if a website is safe or educational? This is the place to go.

EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Best Wordgame Apps for Young Kids – A collection of curated educational apps via Common Sense Media.

BestHistorySites – A collection of history games and animations, ranging from ancient history to modern history.

Boowa and Kwala – This site offers fun activities and games for kids that are easy to navigate.

Game Classroom – Games from all over the web are sorted according to skill, topic and grade level (K to 6). There’s a homework help section with learning tips, online resources and sample problems. According to the site, content was created by professional educators with more than 200 years of teaching experience, and has been outlined using US state educational standards. There are games here simple enough for children younger than five, yet more challenging ones too. There are heaps of Language Arts games

Games on History – The History Channel offers interactive games and puzzles that encourage learning in the subject of history.

Highlights – Free activities and interactive fun from the children’s magazine HIghlights. See the Book Chook review.

I Spy – You’ll find games and puzzles just like Scholastic’s I Spy book series. Check out this part of Scholastic’s huge site that offers games, riddles and fun for the whole family. The games are interactive, and kids who aren’t at the reading stage can listen to the clues. I like the neat zoom in/zoom out feature that enabled me to search the pictures more easily.

Literactive Online educational games for preschool to Grade 1. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child’s reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner.

Tagxedo – Site that turns words into cloud blocks in a variety of shapes. See the Book Chook review.

Teaching Literacy Online – compiled list of 50 free online literacy games

Whomp – This is a Shockwave game where you attempt to make as many words as you can in a prescribed time period. It is very similar to Boggle. Players adopt a monster avatar such as the Yeti or Chupacabra and compete against another monster. This game will help reinforce spelling patterns and increase orthographic knowledge. (Jeff Berger NC Teacher Stuff, March 2010)

Sites with Book Connections

Preschool and Elementary Ages

Arthur (at PBS Kids) by Marc Brown
Berenstain Bears by Jan and Mike Berenstain
Bembo’s Zoo: An Animal ABC by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. This is an animated version of the ABC book that created animals from the letters in their name.
Beverly Cleary website
Curious George by H. A. Rey
Elizabeth O. Dulemba website (author and illustrator)
Fun with Spot by Eric Hill
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
Kideos Children’s video site with lots of content about book characters, nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.
Laura Numeroff author website (different from Mouse Cookie, below)
Little Critter by Mercer Mayer
Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne
Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo
Mouse Cookie Books by Laura Numeroff. Moose, Mouse, Pig, and Cat are all here to play.
Neil Gaiman author of The Graveyard Book, Odd and the Frost Giant, among others
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Pigeon Presents by Mo Willems. Naked Mole Rat, Elephant and Piggie, and the Pigeon himself are ready to play.
Shel Silverstein author website
Seussville Playground – You’ll find the Lorax, Sam-I-Am, and the Grinch, among others.

Middle Grade to Young Adult

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Chronicles of Kendra Kandlestar by Lee Edward Fodi
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Samurai Kids by Sandy Fussell
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
Warriors by Erin Hunter Serve Your Clan as it tries to fulfill its prophecy

Common Sense Media has released a list of 50 books kids should read by age 12, and it's fantastic.

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein is on there. So is Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat all made the cut.

“The list includes books that are known to turn a kid into a reader, books that are known to hook reluctant readers and books that have stood the test of time,” Common Sense senior editor Regan McMahon said.

“I also didn't want the list to be all books from a white, Western perspective,” she said.

“I wanted books that discuss the immigrant experience and the people-of-colour experience. I wanted different genres to be represented: poetry, science-fiction, graphic novels, historical fiction, novels in verse, dystopian novels, fantasy.”

McMahon compiled the list largely by herself, with input from the Common Sense managing editor and editorial director.

Certain books, she said, made the list for being cultural touchstones: The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.

“When kids get to high school and people make literary allusions to certain works, it's a good idea that you've read them,” she said.

Not everyone agrees.

“A lot of people are horrified that we'd ever recommend The Hunger Games,” McMahon said, of the stories about 24 teens pitted in a reality-show race to kill one another.

“But it's a great series. I read it. And it's not only known to hook kids and appeal to both boys and girls, but it's a very trenchant critique of our media-obsessed culture and the culture of violence that we're steeped in.”

Besides, a list that pleases everyone would be a tall order.

“Not even The Cat in the Hat is safe from our finger-wagging culture,” McMahon said. (Some parents disapprove of Thing One and Thing Two destroying Sally and her unnamed brother's house.)

Another surprise was To Kill a Mockingbird, a book I didn't read until high school (and then again as an adult), on the list. But McMahon said several of her peers read the Harper Lee classic in middle school, and more to the point, she strongly believes the themes resonate with 11- and 12-year-olds today.

“Race is such a strong issue right now,” she said.

“The issue of consent is constantly being discussed on high school and college campuses right now. The notion that we need to protect our kids from concepts like rape and racism - I think kids are running into these topics anyway, so why not read a great literary work that deals with them?”

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I wholeheartedly agree. So much so that I forgive the list for not including my favourite kids book of all time: Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings.

Here's the full list:

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems.
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker.
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle.
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter.
The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss.
Frog and Toad Are Friends, by Arnold Lobel.
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans.
The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne.
Mercy Watson to the Rescue, by Kate DiCamillo.
Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl.
Ivy + Bean: Book 1, by Annie Barrows.
Stuart Little, by E.B. White.
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein.
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White.
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K. Rowling.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1, by C.S. Lewis.
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery.
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1, by Lemony Snicket.
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself: Big Nate, Book 1, by Lincoln Peirce.
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson.
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1, by Rick Riordan.
Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume.
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle.
Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan.
Hold Fast, by Blue Balliett.
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick.
Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai.
My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George.
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party, by Ying Chang Compestine.
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank.
Wonder, by R.J. Palacio.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hunger Games, Book 1, by Suzanne Collins.
Legend, Book 1, by Marie Lu.
March: Book One, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin.
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

Written by Heidi Stevens. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.

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