Starfall:Free site to teach the basics of reading. Features interactive books and phonics games.
BBC Education - Words and Pictures: Colorful games, printable pages, animations and other activities to help 5 to 7 year olds with reading and phonics.
Book Adventure: A free on-line reading program encourages students in grades K-8 to read more often, for longer periods of time, and with greater understanding. Requires free registration.
California Reading List: Helps students find books matched to their reading levels on the California Reading List. Includes interactive quizzes and printable bookmarks.
CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
Endings: Simple interactive lessons matching words and pictures for young children.
GameGoo: Online educational games designed to help children develop early reading and language skills.
Guys Read: Offers a list of books recommended by the webmaster, children's author Jon Sczieska, and others suggested by visitors to the website.
Laurie's Stories: Phonics site with children's rhyming picture books and phonics activities.
Literacy Center: Interactive site helps young students learn letters of the alphabet and other basic literacy skills. In English and Spanish.
Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins: Nursery rhymes with their history and origins.
Print Activities: Word Searchers and Jumbled Words: Puzzle games with themes that include Animals, Pokemon, Oceans and Dinosaurs.
Reading-n-Phonics: Learn to read using phonics. Interactive phonics lessons for preschool and kindergarten children use colorful pictures and stories.
Sight Words Exercises: Contains online words games.
Student Generated WebQuests: Archive of student-generated literature WebQuests developed by middle school students.
Teen Reading: Contains book reviews and suggested readings by teenagers. Also links to teen sites, and a variety of topic specific forums.
Upon A Dream: Includes poetry, stories, and other activities.
World Book Day: Official site of the yearly event. Introduces the day, lists events, and lists book recommendations. Also pictures of past events.