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Foundational Skills and Vocabulary Practice

Parents
You have at your fingertips an astonishing tool that will support your child’s literacy. See for yourself how quickly your child gets excited to read TKN’s simple and informative articles. Then, extend their learning by discussing with them the thoughtful questions and highlighted grammatical features included in our Curriculum Connections section. In reading just one article, you and your child will have bolstered important literacy skills that will help them every day of their lives.

Kids
TKN is an online newspaper written for you! You’ll find all kinds of stories that will fascinate you. Do you want to know about what’s happening with your favorite sports team? Maybe you’re curious about science and nature. No matter what your interest, TKN has stories that will keep you up-to-date with the world around you. Explore the site, read about your favorite subjects, and make sure to visit us again and again.

Practice Comprehension Through Current Events

Read the on-line article and take the quiz afterwards. Print or email the quiz to me and I will give you extra credit! :) YAY!

Flocabulary's "Elements of a Story" song with animated video

Books 2 Go

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Homework Help

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home pc, your school library computer lab, or your iPhone – anywhere with an internet connection. TEL provides access to over 400,000 electronic resources, including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more!
All types of not-for-profit libraries participate in TEL and benefit from the wide range of information TEL databases offer, including homework help to new readers, consumer health information, business resources, leisure reading suggestions, current event essays, academic and civil service test preparation help, and genealogy and family history sources. Over 1.2 million searches are performed each month across the various TEL databases. Since 1999, the Tennessee Electronic Library has been dedicated to providing equal access to this expansive collection of electronic resources for all Tennesseans.

TEL is administered by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, a division of the Tennessee Department of State, Tre Hargett, Secretary of State.

Practice Reading Fluency through Poetry