14 Literacy Websites to Enhance Students Reading Skills

ReadWriteThink is a platform that provides a wide variety of educational materials covering different literacy areas including reading, writing, listening and speaking. You can use the integrated search functionality to filter resources based on criteria such as grade level, resource type, themes, learning objectives and many more.

2- Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets provides access to a wide variety of resources to help struggling readers build phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Online courses on teaching reading, classroom strategies, in-classroom videos, parent reading tips, interviews with children’s book authors, recommended children’s books, and more.

3- Reading Bear

Reading Bear provides  educational resources to help kids learn to read. These include over 50 presentations covering numerous topics including phonics principles and over 1000 vocabulary items. Here is how Reading Bear works:

‘In each presentation—playable either as a video or as an interactive slide show—we introduce one or a few related “phonics rules.” Presentations are available in seven different versions. In the fullest version, [the tool] sounds out a word slowly and quickly, then blend it slowly, and finally (after an optional prompt) blend it quickly. 

As sounds are pronounced, the corresponding letters are highlighted. Then the [tool] displays a picture illustrating the word, show a sentence (with the individual sounds again highlighted, karaoke style), and finally show a video illustrating the sentence.’

Reading Eggs offers self-paced and easy to follow reading games, lessons and activities .To keep students motivated, lessons includes animations, songs, fun characters, and rewards.There are also over 3000 online books for kids each of which includes comprehension check questions. Also, Reading Eggs provides parents with access to ‘detailed progress reports as well as hundreds of full-colour downloadable activity sheets that correspond with the lessons in the program.’

Choosito is a search engine that uses sophisticated algorithm to search for reading materials based on students reading levels (e.g., from early readers to advanced readers) and subject area (e.g., humanities, social studies, arts, technology, etc). 

Choosito offers both a free and a premium plan. Premium subscription offers extra features such as the ability to search over 25.000 vetted videos, search teacher collections, create your own standards-aligned resources, a built-in tool to help students learn how to evaluate the quality of websites, a built-in citation tool, class analytics, student accounts and many more.

‘CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12.’

Scholastic Parents provides you access  to a diversified collection of reading materials to use with your students and kids. These include a Book Search tool to locate relevant reading materials, book reviews and recommendations, guides, activities, printables, Scholastic Book Club  and many more.

‘Accompany your students on a journey through a vast library of reading comprehension content. ReadTheory’s adaptive approach fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Signup takes seconds and no time is spent vetting assignments. Progress is shown on an intuitive report, replete with actionable, meaningful insights. Read Theory program is completely free.’

Launched in 2002, Starfall website offers various resources to help kids and young learners develop reading and writing skills through interactive games, activities and phonics.

ReadWorks provides a huge collection of curated nonfiction and literary articles along with reading comprehension and vocabulary lessons, formative assessments, and teacher guidance.

12- Epic

13- StoryPlace

14- Magic Blox