River City Reading Festival
October 9, 2010

Contact Us

Volunteer

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Altrusa Club of Lawrence, a service organization that promotes literacy, has joined with community organizations to plan, organize, and present the River City Reading Festival.

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Reading Activities

Reading and Literacy Web Sites

Start at the Lawrence Public Library Children's Room
Look for Tumble Books (Animated picture books)
Find the games!

Now look for more reading and learning fun at these sites:

The American Library Association's Great Web Sites for Kids

Book Awards

• William Allen White
• Caldecott Books
• Newbery Books

Reading

• On-line literacy sites
• Read Alouds
• International Children's Digital Library
• Reading is Fundamental

Literature

• Book Adventure - Finding a Book
• Reading Rockets
• Starfall - Leveled Reading Books (A free website to teach children to read with phonics through games and interactive books; for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade)
• Storyline - Stories read aloud
• KidsClick! Literature

Fun & Games

• Dr. Seuss (high bandwidth site)
• Games Galore From BBC
• Lion Games
• Starship - Penguins on Ice
• PBS and PBS KIDS Raising Readers

Kindergarten

• Kindergarten Games
• Kindergarten Reading and Math
• More Games

Spelling

• Spelling Unit Games and Activities

Vocabulary

• Read Write Think

Web sites collected by Kim Fletcher, Lawrence Public Library, and Leslie Campbell, Library Media Specialist, Prairie Park Elementary (see her bookmarks)