Starfall is a website I have used with my students in the past. It is a great website to support below level readers who need reteaching with short and long vowel sounds and word families. The website is also great to support students who are working on fluency. Students can listen to story being read to them and track the print across the screen.The Literacy Web from UConn has great resources! I especially like the Children's Literacy tab. This tab provides authors and books for primary students. Many link to the authors' website and other interactive online resources to support an author study or literacy circle.
ReadWriteThink is great website to support online writing. I found many "student interactives" for writing poetry under the classroom resources tab. This will be very valuable in the coming weeks when we begin a poetry writing unit. Students follow step by step directions to create different types of poems. Students can then print their poems to share and/or add to a poetry collection. 
Scholastic is another website that I have used with my students. There are seasonal activities that are available for students to explore throughout the year. For example, in October students have explore the ships that Columbus sailed across the Atlantic to come to the "New World", in November students explore a Pilgrim village and learned about the first Thanksgiving, and in December students learn about different winter holidays including Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Hanukkah. There are also articles and activities describing relevant news and other holidays in appropriate language for young children. Topics range from insects, famous people, weather, to the Underground Railroad. 
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