ALPHABET FUN - BEGINNING CONSONANTS - CAPITALIZATION
COMPOUND WORDS - CONTRACTIONS - DIGRAPHS - DIPTHONGS
ENDING CONSONANTS - GRAMMAR - HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS - MAIN IDEA
ONSET & RIME - PLURALS - PREFIXES - R-CONTROLLED WORDS - READING
READING COMPREHENSION - RHYMING - SPELLING - SUFFIXES - SYLLABLES
VOWEL SOUNDS - VOWEL TEAMS - WRITING A LETTER
ALPHABET FUN:
 1. Starfall: ABCs: An Introduction to Letter Sounds
Animations and audio. An awesome activity!
2. Matching Game -Find matching letters to uncover a hidden picture.
3. Paw Park - Help baby kangaroos find their parents by clicking on upper and lower case letters.
4. The Literacy Center - Choose from colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and word activities. Great for ESL students!
5. Etch-A-Sketch Hidden Letters - Click the puzzle piece to find the hidden numbers and letters activity.
6. Word Search - Click on "All ABCs" From iKnowThat.com
7. Sesame Workshop: Keyboard-O-Rama - Click on a keyboard letter. Elmo says the name of the letter and shows a corresponding object.
8. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet letters in this spooky picture!
9. Doodle Dots - Connect the letters of the alphabet to uncover fun pictures!
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BEGINNING CONSONANTS:
1. Kids' Lab - Excellent online, interactive practice activities.
2. Clifford Interactive Storybooks - Sound match
3. Word Search - Draw a line through hidden words.
4. Word Match - Match a word to its picture.
5. Word Builder - Combine sounds to make words.
6. Alphabet Action - Click on a letter to hear its sound and see a picture.
7. AlphaZoo - Match beginning letters memory game.
8. Sesame Street Letter of the Day - Listen as Cookie Monster says a letter. Click on objects that begin with that letter. From PBS Kids.
9. Bear Wear - Choose the correct shirt for the bear.
10. Match the Letters and Pictures - A memory game.
11. Phonics Year by Year - A variety of matching games.
12. Primary Games: See 'N Spell: Consonant Blends - Drag the correct letters into the gray box to spell the word that names the picture.
13. Read Write Think: Picture Match - Match the pictures for beginning consonant sounds.
14. Alphabet Goop - Stir the alphabet soup, click on the picture that emerges, and drag it into the box with the corresponding initial consonant sound.
15. Clifford's Letter Match - Look at the first letter of each word. Drag the word into the correct box.
16. Begins With. . . - Click on objects in the picture that begin with specific letters.
17. Building Language for Literacy: Leo the Letter-Loving Lobster - Help Leo sort the beginning consonants into the correct boxes.
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CAPITALIZATION
1. Grammar Gold Punctuation - Choose the correct punctuation. From Harcourt School.
2. Using I and Me - More Grammar Gold from Harcourt School.
3. Power Proofreading - Choose grade level and passage. A great activity for grammar reinforcement for all grade levels.
4. Punctuation Paintball - Add capitals and correct punctuation with a paintball. Fun!
5. Edit Dan's Copy! - Choose level one to correct capitalization and punctuation errors.
6. Who's My Partner? - Match the object with the capitalized proper name.
7. Capitalize the Place - Match the place with the capitalized proper name.
8. Find the Proper Match - Match the proper name with the noun.
9. Capital Letter Game: Beginning - Zara is dreaming of space again! Read the sentence then give the sentence its capital letter to make Zara's dream come true. Try not to wake Zara up! Move the magnifying glass over the letter that should be capitalized.
10. Capital Letter Game: Advanced- Zed loves to make things in his shed. Give the words their capital letters to help Zed collect his tools. What has Zed made this time? Move a magnifying glass over a word that should be capitalized. Click on the flower to undo an answer.
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COMPOUND WORDS:
1. A Whale of a Tale: Leap into Language: Compound Words Sample Lesson
Animated and interactive activity includes instruction, an activity and test. All have audio instructions and animations. Test questions can be read to the student.
2. Intro to Compound Words - Mini-lesson and lots of online practice!
3. Compound Word Practice - Drag two words together to create compound words.
4. More Compound Word Practice - Click in the circle next to the correct word to make a compound word.
5. Make a Compound Word - Read the definition,then click on two words to make the correct compound word.
6. Eduplace: Word Builder: Compound Words - Select Unit 35. Listen to the compound word. Scroll up or down each word list the choose the two words that build the compound word.
7. Eduplace: Word Builder: Compound Words - Unit 25. Listen to the compound word. Scroll up or down each word list the choose the two words that build the compound word.
8. Eduplace: Web Word Find: Unit 35 - A word search game with first grade compound words.
9. Eduplace: Web Word Find: Unit 25 - A word search game with second grade compound words.
10. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 35 - An interactive puzzle to practice compound words.
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CONTRACTIONS:
1. A Whale of a Tale Series: Leap into Language: Possessives and Contractions
2. Sample Lesson, Activity & Test - All have audio instructions and animations. Test questions can be read to the student.
3. Primary Games: Treasure Trove: Contractions - Read the words on the treasure chest. Click the key that shows the contraction for the words on the chest.
4. Kids' Lab: Contraction Practice- Seven practice pages that are scored.
(will, not, is, am/are)
5. Sadlier-Oxford: Fly-By Contractions - Click the plane that carries the correct contraction banner.
6. Contractions Games - Choose between matching, concentration, word search and flashcard games.
7. EduPlace: Word Builder: Contractions - Unit 26. Listen to the word. Match the base word with the contraction to spell the word.
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DIGRAPHS:
1. Primary Games: See 'N Spell: Digraphs - Drag the letters into the box to spell the word that matches the picture. 10 questions.
2. Sadlier Oxford: Student Activity Center: Ending Digraphs - Click on the digraph that ends the picture name.
3. I Know That: Word Search - Select beginning or ending consonant digraphs.
4. I Know That: Word Match - Select beginning or ending consonant digraphs.
5. I Know That: Word Builder - Select beginning or ending consonant digraphs.
6. Initial "CH" Picture Match-UP - Choose Matching or Concentration style game.
7. Initial "CH" Games - Matching, Concentration, Word Search or Flash Cards.
8. Initial "CH" Hangman - Have fun playing hangman. Guess the word that starts with the "ch" sound.
9. Final "CH" Picture Match-Up - Match PICTURES of words that end with "ch".
10. Final "CH" Challenge - Guess the word that is being described. All of the words end with the "ch" sound.
11. Initial "SH" Picture Match-Up - Match the PICTURES of words that begin with the "sh" sound.
12. Initial "SH" Word Jumble - Unscramble the word to guess what starts with the "sh" sound.
13. Final "SH" Picture Match-UP - Match the PICTURES of words ending with "sh".
14. Final "SH" Games - Play a matching game or complete a word search.
15. Initial "TH" Games - Match "th" words with their definitions OR complete a word search.
16. Initial, Medial and Final "TH" Games - Figure out the scrambled "th" word that would make sense in each sentence.
17. "TH" Medial Games - Play memory or complete a word search with words having "th" somewhere in the middle.
18. "TH" Picture Match-UP - Match PICTURES of words containing the unvoiced "th" sound in various parts of words.
19. "TH" Final Jumbled Words - Read the clues and guess the scrambled word that is being described.
20. SH/TH/WH/CH - Printable Worksheets
21. Word Wheels - Use blends and digraphs to make words that match the picture.
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DIPHTHONGS:
1. Sand Castle Quiz - Build a sand castle by choosing the diphthong you hear.
2. I Know That: Word Search, Word Builder, Word Match - Interactive and animated activities with audio to review -oil, -oy, -ow, -own and -ound diphthongs.
3. Student Activity Center: Diphthongs
-ou and -ow: Click on the circle next to the word that names the picture.
4. Student Activity Center: Diphthongs -oi, -oy, -ew: Click on the circle next to the word that names the picture.
5. Eduplace: Crossword Challege: Unit 32 - Interactive crossword puzzle with -ow words.
6. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge - Interactive crossword puzzle with words that contain -ai and -ay.
7. BBC: Words and Pictures: Write a Postcard - First choose a postcard. Each postcard features a different vowel phoneme. Sentences appear one by one. In the first sentence, you have to click on the focus phonemes. When you have got them all right, the next sentence appears but this time there are gaps in the words. You have to drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word. The game continues in this way until you have completed six sentences.
8. Eduplace: Word Sort - Sort each -oi and -oy word under the correct heading.
9. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge - Complete this interactive puzzle using -oi and -oy words.
10. Eduplace: Web Word Find - Find the hidden -oy and -oi words.
11. Eduplace: Word Builder - Click the sliders to build -oi and -oy words.
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ENDING CONSONANTS:
1. I Know That: Word Search: Final Consonants - Final consonant blends and digraphs. Optional registration.
2. I Know That: Word Match: Final Consonants - Final consonant blends and digraphs. Optional registration.
3. I Know That: Word Builder: Final Consonants - Final consonant blends and digraphs. Optional registration.
4. Student Activity Center - Ending digraphs
5. Student Activity Center: Blends - Click on the blend that begins or ends the picture name.
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GRAMMAR
1. Harcourt School Publishers: Grammar Practice Park - Choose between Sentence Clubhouse and Noun Dunk.
2. Gamequarium - Find multiple language arts games.
3. FunBrain: Grammar Gorillas - Select Beginner (nouns and verbs only) or Advanced ( all parts of speech.)
4. BBC: Magic Key Adventures - A variety of grammar games.
5. Irregular Plurals - Match the related words, singular to plural.
6. Grammar Review Interactive Quiz - Type the correct form of the verb in the box to complete the sentence.
 7. All About Adjectives - An interactive show for whole class instruction.
8. Word Invasion - Jellyfish with words in them drift toward the octopus at the bottom. Word types (pronouns, verbs, adjectives,etc.) are placed in the octopus, and then the octopus is activated to fire beams that destroy the matching word.
9. FunBrain: Mad Libs Junior - A super silly way to fill in the blanks! Create your own silly story by filling in the blanks with your choice of adjectives and nouns! Stories can be printed.
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HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS:
1. Student Activity Center: High Frequency Words - Six high frequency word lists. Click on the correct word to complete the sentence.
2. Star Words - As each Star Word is delivered you must choose which shape it matches - is it the planet, the rocket or the black hole?
3. Kids Lab: Dolch List Practice - Pre-primer through 2nd grade sight word lists. Click the word that matches the picture. Click "Submit" to have responses scored.
4. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type in the missing letters.
5. High Frequency Words - Drag the correct word into the box to complete the sentence.
6. Readquarium - High frequency word games and activities
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MAIN IDEA:
4. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Select What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
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ONSET & RIME:
1. Word Families - Phonics/word endings.
2. Magnetic Chat - Drag letters on magnetic board to create words.
3. Word Match - Match word with its picture.
4. PBSKids: Between the Lions: Gawain's Word - Create words from word families by "jousting."
5. ReadWriteThink: Word Wizard - Choose a word ending and a beginning. All of the correct words get deposited into the word bank.
6. ReadWriteThink: Word Family Sort - Sort the words into families that have the same vowel sound and ending. Print your charts when you're finished.
7. Word Wheels - Use blends and digraphs to make words that match the picture.
PLURALS:
1. Kids' Lab: Word Endings -S and -ES - Choose the correct ending for each red word.
2. Kids' Lab Word Endings Practice Page - Three pages of s/es practice and three pages of ed/ing practice.
3. Irregular Plurals: Matching - Match the singular and plural forms of a word.
4. Primary Games: See 'N Spell - Look at the picture. Drag the letters into the box to spell the word that matches the picture.
5. Fun Brain: The Plural Girls - Choose a difficulty level. Help Pearl and Flora rescue their friends from the bubble machine by clicking the correct plural form of the word.
6. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 31 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words ending in -s.
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PREFIXES:
1. BBC: Skillswise: Prefixes Quiz - Select Level 1 for first grade.
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R-CONTROLLED WORDS:
1. I Know That: Word Search - Word Builder - Word Match: All three games review r-controlled words. Includes -ter,-ar, -irt, -ear, -are, -ore, -urn.
2. Student Activity Center: R-Controlled Vowels - Click on the word that names the picture.
3. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: R-Controlled Vowel Words - Interactive crossword puzzle with r-controlled vowel words -or and our.
4. Eduplace: Word Builder: R-Controlled Vowel Words - Move the sliders on the Word Builder up or down to arrange letters and word parts to spell the missing word. Uses -or and -our words.
5. Eduplace: Word Builder: R-Controlled Vowel Words - Move the sliders on the Word Builder up or down to arrange letters and word parts to spell the missing word. Uses -ar words.
6. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: R-Controlled Vowel Words - Interactive crossword puzzle with r-controlled vowel words -ar.
7. Eduplace: Web Word Find - R-controlled vowel words -ar.
8. Eduplace: Web Word Find - R-controlled vowel words -or and -our.
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READING:
1. Story Place Pre-School Library - Excellent for beginning and intermediate first grade readers! Animated read-along books with audio. Includes a corresponding online activity, take-home activity, a parent's activity and suggested reading lists.
2. Story Place Elementary Library - Animated read-along stories with optional print-out activity and corresponding Dolch reading list books.
3. Online Talking Stories & Books to Read Online
4. Starfall: Word Hunt - Click on a word to finish the sentence. Animation and audio.
5. Read Along Sight Words - Read the word, copy into adjacent box.
6. Emily Goes to School - Click on speaker icon to have story read aloud.
7. Clifford's Storybook: "Here, Clifford!" - Read along, interactive.
8. Clifford's Storybook: Clifford's Big Dig
9. Learn to Read - Easy stories that focus on vowel sounds.
10. The Little Animals Activity Centre - Three interactive stories with audio.
11.Books for Young children : Several animated books and several talking e-books.
12. Reading Planet: Read Aloud Stories and Songs - Follow along as the story is read. Fun animations in some stories. Three songs in Spanish.
13. Book of Pooh Word Match - Click on the picture after the word is spelled.
14. Pooh's Balloons - Read the word, click on each letter of the word to help Pooh spell it!
15. Stories Online - Online reading resource links; uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator.
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READING COMPREHENSION:
1. First Grade Books Online - Students can read to one another from books especially designed to match first grade Dolch reading lists.
2. Read Write Think:
What's in the Bag? - Listen to the descriptive words and click on the word that names what's in the bag! Animated and interactive.
3. Read Write Think:
Word Wizard - Move letters around to make words from popular children's books. Animated, interactive with sound and clues options.
4. Make-A-Story - Choose characters, places and actions to create a story. Hear it read aloud! Click "Launch" to open.
5. Lost Treasure - Drag words to the pictures they describe. Fill in letters to find clues to find a sunken treasure.
6. What's the Word? - Vocabulary comprehension. Click the word that matches the picture.
7. Coconut Words - Click on the word that correctly completes the sentence.
8. Mixed Up Sentences - Look at the scrambled sentence and click the words one by one until everything - including punctuation - is in the correct order.
9. Word Bank - Choose a word ending, then click each beginning letter to make a word to be added to your word bank.
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RHYMING:
1. Building Language for Literacy: Reggie the Rhyming Rhino - Help Reggie find the rhyming words.
2. The Little Animals Activity Centre: Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme.
3. Quia Matching Game - Rhyming Words
4. Sadlier Oxford: Student Activity Center - Match the rhyming words.
5. Rhyming Game - Click on the picture to complete the rhyming sentence.
6. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventures: "Rhyme Time" - Online lesson and activity.
7. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventures, Chapter 2: Help Gus in the story with rhyming words.
8. Rhyme Time Picture Match-UP - Click on the pictures of words that rhyme (i.e., dog-frog; hat-cat).
9. Rhyme Time Match-Up - Find matches of rhyming words. Have fun!
10. Wizards & Pigs - Students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration
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SPELLING:
1. Look, Cover, Write & Check - 30 preset lists that students can use to practice common spelling words. Look at the word, click "Cover," write the word, then click "Check." Teachers can set up their own lists with current spelling words.
2. Spin & Spell - Click on the word you wish to spell then click on the letters on the spinning wheel. Click submit to check spellings. A fun game with many options!
3. Spellaroo - Spellaroo can hop better than he can spell. Click on the word that is spelled wrong.
4. Harcourt School Spelling Check - Click on the misspelled word then correct it. Click Here for additional word lists.
5. Magnetic Spelling Board - Drag the words onto the board to spell words. Great for spelling list review!
6. FunBrain: Spell Check - Click on the misspelled word.
7. Self-Check Spelling Quizzes - Click "Listen" to hear the word, then type the word and click "check."
8. Whaddya Know? Quiz Show - Play with a friend or against the computer. Click on the misspelled word.
9. Web School:Most Missed Spelling Lists - Alphabetical lists of most commonly misspelled words. Can be printed for teacher review, or e-mailed to teacher for review.
10. TVOKids:Spelling Bee - Practice your spelling skills with Spelling Bee. Like in a real spelling bee, you can have the word repeated or ask for a definition, but you only have one chance to spell the word correctly!
11. Scholastic Kids: Homework Hub: ABC Spelling Wizard - Type in 10 spelling words to study, then choose to make a word scramble or a word search with your spelling words!
12. English Banana - Days of the Week Spelling Quiz - Choose the correctly spelled word.
15. Days of the Week Spelling Quiz 2 - Fill in the blank.
13. Months of the Year Spelling Quiz 1 - Choose the correctly spelled word.
14. Months of the Year Spelling Quiz 2 - Fill in the blank.
15. Rooms In Your House Spelling Quiz - Copy the word into the box.
16. Punctuation Marks - Spell the names of punctuation marks.
17. Numbers 1-25 Spelling Quiz - Spell the number words from one through twenty-five.
18. Find-A-Word Puzzles:Spelling Stumpers Word Searches - Click on Page 5, then select Spelling Stumpers I or II. A new word list is loaded each time you play!
19. Spellbound - Look at the word on the tiles. After the word is scrambled, drag the letters out of the box to respell the same word - before your time runs out!
20. Word Bank - Choose a word ending, then click each beginning letter to spell a word to be added to your word bank.
21. Smart Crosswords - Each week brings a new puzzle with Dolch words. Clues and hints included. Excellent first start for children learning to work crossword puzzles! Puzzles are both interactive and printable.
22. Eduplace: eWord Game - Listen to the definition, then click on the correct word.
SUFFIXES:
1. Scholastic: Miss Maggie's Adventures: Fish 'Em Up! 2; Suffixes - Drop your fishing line to pick up the word with the correct suffix added to it.
2. Kid's Lab: Suffixes -ed, -ing word endings.
3. Kid's Lab: Word Endings -S and -ES - Choose the correct ending for each red word.
4. Kid's Lab: Six more practice activities with -s, -es, -ed and -ing suffixes.
5. Eduplace: Crossword Challege: Unit 34 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words ending in -ing suffix.
6. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 33 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words ending in -ed suffix.
7. Student Activity Center: Suffixes - Type in the word that goes with each definition. Includes -ful, -less, -ness and -ly suffixes.
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SYLLABLES:
1. Syllables Factory - Click on the number of syllables in the displayed word, and the Syllables Factory will break it up into that many chunks! Animation and audio.
2. Syllables Pop-Up Counting Quiz - Figure out how many syllables there are in the words presented. Select your answer from the pop-up menu.
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VOWEL SOUNDS:
1. Learn to Read - Long, short vowels, games, movies.
2. PBSKids Songs - Movie and song clips for vowel sounds.
3. Word/Picture Match - From Saxon Publishers. Choose grade level and lesson number.
4. I Know That! - Long and short vowel activities; interactive with fun animations and audio.
5. Story Magnets: Long & Short Vowels- For one or two players. Drag and drop long and short vowel words into the yellow box to make a complete sentence.
6. Primary Games: See 'N Spell: Short Vowels- Look at the picture. Drag the letters into the box to spell the word that matches the picture. 10 questions.
7. Primary Games: See 'N Spell: Long Vowels -
Look at the picture. Drag the letters into the box to spell the word that matches the picture. 10 questions.
8. Chicken Stacker - Stack five hens with the same vowel sound on a ladder. From PBS Kids.
9. Read Write Think: Picture Match - Match the pictures for long or short vowel sounds.
10. Over the Moon - You've heard of the cow that jumped over the moon, right? Well if Cornelia Cow is to jump over this moon, she's going to need your help.
11. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 29 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words having long "i" sound spelled with "y."
12. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 26 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words having long or short "i" sound. Ex: pin/pine
13. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 25 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words containing long vowel sound with silent "e."
14. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 23 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words containing long "e" sound.
15. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 21 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words containing long "i" with silent "e."
16. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 20 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words containing long "a" with silent "e."
17. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge: Unit 19 - Interactive crossword puzzle with words containing short vowel sounds.
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VOWEL TEAMS:
1. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge - Interactive crossword puzzle with words that contain vowel team -ea and -ee.
2. Eduplace: Crossword Challenge - Interactive crossword puzzle with words that contain vowel team -ai and -ay.
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WRITING A LETTER
1. Writing a Friendly Letter Lesson - Interactive but no audio. This would be best presented with a projector or white board.
2. Parts of a Friendly Letter - See an example of a friendly letter.
3. Jan Brett Stationery for Writing Friendly Letters - Downloadable PDF files. There is also a link for interactive stationery.
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