“The online reading library is huge, with over 1500 award-winning lessons aligned to state and national standards!”
SmartTutor’s award-winning online reading curriculum contains over 1500 tutorials and activities designed to develop literacy and comprehension skills. The K – 5 reading curriculum covers “Reading First’s Big 5” and more, including:
- Phonemic Awareness – identifying and working with individual sounds in spoken words
- Phonics – understanding the relationships between written letters and spoken sounds
- Sight Words – recognizing high frequency words to increase reading fluency
- Vocabulary – understanding words and constructing meaning from their context
- Reading Comprehension – understanding fiction and non-fiction reading materials
“These reading lessons build strong readers that foster a love of reading!”
- Our animated online reading lessons build strong readers and foster a love of reading and literature by:introducing children to relevant, high-interest informational and age-appropriate literary texts in a variety of genres
- helping children set a purpose for reading through personal connections
- utilizing an interdisciplinary approach with social studies, science, history, sports and current events topics
- building knowledge conceptually and explicitly, gradually relating concepts to skills and strategies
- exposing children to rich, academic vocabulary terms
- providing a safe, non-threatening learning environment including the chance to answer questions with multiple right answers and the opportunity to engage in open discussions
- incorporating immediate and specific feedback for correct and incorrect answers that activates prior knowledge, anticipates and corrects misconceived knowledge, fills learning gaps, and teaches new material
Reading Sample Lessons
Kindergarten – Practice Exercise
Phonemic Awareness – Categorizations – Level A – Vol 1
First Grade – Tutorial
Vocabulary – Multiple Meaning Words – Level 1- Vol 1
Second Grade – Tutorial
Phonics – Consonant Diagraphs – Level 2 – Vol 1
Third Grade – Practice Exercise
Phonemic Awareness – Rhyming – Level B – Vol 1
Fourth Grade – Quiz
Reading Comprehension – Poetry – Level 4 – Vol 1
Fifth Grade – Tutorial
Reading Comprehension – Cause and Effect – Level 5 – Vol 1