Resources
Below are a handful of resources that may be useful when planning your reading comprehension instruction or when parents would like to know how they can assist in their child’s reading development further. There are limitless amounts of resources that can be found when explored.
Government & Curriculum Links
Teacher & Parent Resource Websites
Apps for Interactive Learning
- Reading Comprehension https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-comprehension-first/id542011671?mt=8
- SentenceBuilder https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sentencebuilder-for-ipad/id364197515?mt=8
- StoryBuilder https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storybuilder-for-ipad/id377631532?mt=8
- Aesop’s Quest https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aesops-quest/id442928041?mt=8
- Reading Comprehension: Fable https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-comprehension-fable/id549325009?mt=8
- Reading Remedies https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-remedies/id423213168?mt=8
- Speech with Milo: Sequencing https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speech-with-milo-sequencing/id431803095?mt=8
- BrainPOP Featured Movie https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainpop-featured-movie/id364894352?mt=8
- Enchanted Dictionary https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/enchanted-dictionary-7-12th/id480290062?mt=8
- Compare A Twist https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/compare-a-twist/id510922341?mt=8
- Reading Trainer https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-trainer/id406388984?mt=8
- Popplet http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popplet/id374151636?mt=8
- Question Builder http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/question-builder/id360577727?mt=8
- SimpleMind http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplemind-for-iphone-mind/id304515487?mt=8
- Reading Comprehension Camp http://smartyearsapps.com/service/reading-comprehension-camp/
Websites for Students
Activity Worksheets
Look Listen Play (Multicultural Children’s Literature)
- Watch The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey, Narration by David Gulpilil, Soundtrack by Andrew Vial, video art work, 11: 23
- Watch Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail, video art work, 4:39
- Watch Girawu The Goanna (Murrumbidgee River), video art work, 4:00
- Watch Mirram The Kangaroo and Warreen The Wombat, video art work, 4:39
- Watch Biladurang The Platypus, video art work, 4:36
- Watch A Brief History Of Australia, video art work, 6:00
- Watch Ziba Came On A Boat by Liz Lofthouse, story telling at Wodonga Library, NSW
- Watch Shaun Tan, The lost thing, trailers for art work animation
- Look at K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales with an introduction by Andrew Lang (London, 1896)
- Watch Tommy McRae, video, 2:11 Koorie Heritage Trust, Nerissa Broben, Senior Curator talks about how the artist Tommy McRae provides a valuable Koorie perspective from the late 1800s through his drawings
- Look at Mickey of Ulladulla & Tommy Mcrae, State Library of New South Wales, high resolution drawings