Into The Book is a great reading comprehension website that can be accessed by both students and adults.  It first allows you to pick a strategy that the student needs to work on based upon the following eight resource based strategies: Summarizing, Visualizing, Questioning, Evaluating, Prior Knowledge, Inferring, Making Connections, and Synthesizing.  Some of the activities have the students watch a short video over the strategy they are focusing on and then it has follow up games the students can play to help them practice what they have just learned.

We Give Books is a non profit organization that works with various literacy organizations to share free online books.  This website has hundreds of book titles to choose from and lists the suggested age range for each book on their site.  To avoid long searches, the website has four easy categories you can choose from: Featured, New, Classics, or Editors Pick.  The website also has various educator resources to help teachers integrate We Give Books into their classroom.

Questions To Ask About Reading is a great resource to use either when teaching reading groups in the classroom or when reading with your child at home.  It covers six different strategies that can be used to see if your students are making connections and understanding what they are reading.  This resource can also be used as a hand out, teacher/parent reference sheet, or be printed as a poster to hang up in the classroom.  It is geared towards the key strategies that are focused upon in fourth grade, but it can be adapted to use with a variety of grade levels.

Flocabulary is an awesome website that takes multiple subject topics and makes them into fun and catchy rap songs.  This link will take you to a rap about the five elements of a story.  This gives students a good understanding of these five concepts and puts it into song format, which can help some students remember things easier.  Some of the videos on this website you do have to pay for, but this specific one is a free resource.

Blue Ribbon Readers is an interactive resource that focuses on the main comprehension strategies taught in Kindergarten through Fifth grade.  Once you are in the website you simply click on the comprehension strategy you want your student to work on and it will open it in a new window.  Each strategy game is a little different, but each one does a nice job in helping students practice each strategy.  This could be used by one student individually or used in a whole group setting.

Reading Q's are printable reading cards that can be used to reinforce key text features.  These cards can be printed out and used in the classroom during reading groups or at home with a child when they are doing their nightly reading.  The cards ask questions such as, "Who are the characters?" and "Can you retell the story using details?"

Storynory is a free website that students can use to listen to audio stories.  Storynory has a variety of book catergories to choose from such as original stories, fairy tales, classic books, myths and world stories..  This link will take you to the fairy tale section of Storynory.  If you would like to navigate to another story genre, you simply clip the link at the top of the page that says stories and a drop down menu will appear.

Cows is an interactive game students can use to practice their skills in identifying context clues.  In this game, students will read a short passage with a question and then choose one of the three choices given to answer the question.  When the students get the question right, a cow moves into its pasture.  If the students get the answer incorrect a TRY AGAIN message pops up on the screen and the students can have another chance to answer the question.