2007
Kids' Lab Reading Workout
Great site for grades 1, 2, 3 for reading. Click the dropdown button to select the grade level.
AOL@SCHOOL Jr.: For Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade -
AOL@SCHOOL
Useful directory of links to activities for all subject areas.
2006
GameGoo - Literacy Games
Great set of games for beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Appropriate for multiage 1-2. Activities range from phonemic awareness to vocabulary development (synonyms)
BookPALS Storyline Online
(via)Screen actors guild members read books aloud via streaming video. Includes activities and lesson ideas.
View in full screen. Combine video of the actor/actress reading and the actual pages from the book.
2005
Airport X-Ray
(via)A high frequency word reading game dealing with all 170-odd words for Grades 1 & 2. Click "Next Bag" to move the suitcase into the X-ray machine. Drag the sliders on the X-ray machine back and forth until you figure out the word. Click each speaker and listen until you hear the correct word. Click the check mark/
Learn to Read at Starfall
Activities teaching comprehension and phonics
GameGoo - Learning that Sticks!
Various learning games at 3 levels. Includes sound awareness up to matching opposites. From the makers or Earobics.
Fairty Tale Unit: Reading and Writing
This activity pack introduces pupils to two traditional fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man. Pupils read through the stories with the teacher and then complete a series of activities that describe characters, sequence events and discuss what is needed for good beginnings, middles and endings when writing stories.
Rhyming Unit
This resource pack aims to introduce pupils to rhyming patterns using familiar poems and rhymes. This is a whole class activity using a projector.
The CVC Machine
This is great game for cvc word recognition. May need teacher assistance to get started.
Games for Numeracy and Literacy
Very nice early elementary school games for literacy and math. Most games require minimal instruction.
Look, Cover, Write, Check
Use the easy buttons for basic site words or type your own words to practice your spelling words. Requires teacher direction to start, Requires keyboard typing.
Dinosaur Words
Listen to the voice and choose the egg that shows that word. If you get it wrong you miss out on getting a leaf, so get it right first time!
blending_dragon
This is a mesmerizing and calming game for identification of real vs fake words using varies vowel patterns.
WordReader
Listen to the word, then click the flower that matches.
The Reading Machine
Match the 3 letter cvc works to the picture
BBC - Words and Pictures - Sand Castle Quiz
Choose a phoneme. A word containing a gap will appear in the sand. Listen to Colin the Clam say the complete word then click on the sandpie with the right spelling for the missing phoneme. Has print feature.Choose Full Screen mode
BBC - Words and Pictures - The Whirlyword Machine
Whirlyword is a 'fruit machine' that makes 3 letter CVC words. Choose if the word is real or not. Has print feature.
Choose Full screen mode. Three levels.
BBC - Words and Pictures - Wordblender home
Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Prints list of words made. Choose Full screen mode.
BBC - Words and Pictures - Poems
Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities
Star Words
Provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of the 200 or so high frequency words. Choose full screen mode.
'Fetch and spell!'
Click Full screen mode, click level, use arrow keys to move the doggie.
Digby Mole's Word games
Play a game with end sounds, beginning sounds, and rhymes
Kidspiration Activity Templates
Many curriculum related templates created by teachers for grades k-5 available for downloading. Check it out!
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