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1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - Select the correct digraph.
2. Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers
to control the pictures.
3. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds
and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit
difficult for some children to understand the words.
4. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - Blend beginning sounds and ending sounds
together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
5. Chicken Coop - Beginning phoneme matching.
6. Consonant Blends - Find the blend that matches the picture.
7. Fishing for Phonics - Select beginning consonants and help Garfield catch objects by matching
the missing letter for each word [two levels].
8. Fun Fonix - Select one of three games and then play.
9. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 1 - Story about Gus and Inkey - Help Gus with
beginning sounds.
10. Have More Fun - Many games to select from in various formats.
11. Hung up on H - H sound song. [not a game]
12. Online Interactive Practice - Click on one of the red buttons, there are fifteen practice activities
on this page.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds.
14. Phonics Fun For Early Readers - Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at.
Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture. Caution: You must drag the
words to the word box, not to the open space of the box.
15. Picture Match - [don't enter your whole name] choose beginning letter sounds and match
pictures to their beginning letter sounds by sorting them into boxes, you enter five letters or let the
game select them randomly
16. Sound Match - Find words that begin with same letter sound.
17. Sounds Sea - Beginning letter actually, not just consonants - select the letter, click on mouth
sound to hear the sound and then click on the matching letters as they appear.
18. W Trouble - W sound song. [not a game]
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Find the correct sentence - Choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.
Full Stop - A game for putting punctuation at the end of a sentence.
Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation.
Punctuation Poems - Learn about punctuation and create sentences using what you learned.
Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.
1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - Select the correct digraph.
2. Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers
to control the pictures.
3. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds
and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit
difficult for some children to understand the words.
4. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - Blend beginning sounds and ending sounds
together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
5. Chicken Coop - Beginning phoneme matching.
6. Consonant Blends - Find the blend that matches the picture.
7. Fishing for Phonics - Select beginning consonants and help Garfield catch objects by matching
the missing letter for each word [two levels].
8. Fun Fonix - Select one of three games and then play.
9. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 1 - Story about Gus and Inkey - Help Gus with
beginning sounds.
10. Have More Fun - Many games to select from in various formats.
11. Hung up on H - H sound song. [not a game]
12. Online Interactive Practice - Click on one of the red buttons, there are fifteen practice activities
on this page.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds.
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Phonics Fun For Early Readers - Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at.
Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture. Caution: You must drag the
words to the word box, not to the open space of the box.
Picture Match - [don't enter your whole name] choose beginning letter sounds and match
pictures to their beginning letter sounds by sorting them into boxes, you enter five letters or let the
game select them randomly
Sound Match - Find words that begin with same letter sound.
Sounds Sea - Beginning letter actually, not just consonants - select the letter, click on mouth
sound to hear the sound and then click on the matching letters as they appear.
W Trouble - W sound song. [not a game]
1. 3 Letter House - Spelling patterns with CVC words generated randomly, select an ending and a
vowel.
2. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds
and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit
difficult for some children to understand the words.
3. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - Blend beginning sounds and ending sounds
together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
4. Consonant Blends -Find the blend that matches the picture.
5. Drag the Ending Blend (ld) - Drag the ending blend to each part of a word on the right, click on
the word to see a picture of the word.
6. Drag the Ending Blend (nd) - Drag the ending blend to each part of a word on the right, click on
the word to see a picture of the word.
7. Drag the Ending Blend (nt) - Drag the ending blend to each part of a word on the right, click on
the word to see a picture of the word.
8. Drag the Ending Blend (rk) - Drag the ending blend to each part of a word on the right, click on
the word to see a picture of the word.
9. Drag the Ending Blend (st) - Drag the ending blend to each part of a word on the right, click on
the word to see a picture of the word.
10. Ending Blends - Use your mouse to circle the word that fits in the sentence listed.
11. Ending consonant practice - For all letters [click on a red dot]
12. Ending Digraphs - Select the correct digraph ending.
13. Fishing for Phonics - Select ending consonants and help Garfield catch objects by matching
the missing letter for each word. [two levels]
14. Have More Fun - Many games to select from in various formats.
15. Magnet Board - How many words can you make using the same endings?
16. Online Interactive Practice - Click on one of the red buttons, there are fifteen practice activities
on this page.
17. Phonics Endings - Choose an ending and then practice.
18. AR song - Learn about AR. (need Quicktime)
19. CVC Maker - Word Play- Make words and put them on Word list, then read them back. and Word
Match - Match word shown by using arrows by the letters.
20. Beginning Sounds - Interactive sites - Click on a red dot and then choose the beginning
consonant for the pictures.
21. Beginning and ending sounds - Teacher selects for the student out of multiple games - digraphs
- concentration style games.
22. Blends Word Wheel - Look at the clue at the bottom and then press each wheel to form the word's
beginning and ending sound.
23. Ending Consonants - Interactive sites - Click on a red dot and then choose the ending consonant
for the pictures.
24. Froggy Phonemes - Create CVC words with the frogs. Sound out the word you create.
25. Fun Fonix - Select one of three games and then play.
26. Learn to Read - Starfall - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with
quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
27. Letter Sounds - Click on a letter to see six pictures, click on the three pictures that begin with the
letter you selected, you can continue to select letters to do this activity again.
28. Match of Mystery - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern.
29. Middle Digraphs - Click on the correct middle digraphs.
30. Missing Word - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
31. Phoneme Checker - Click on a tab and then listen to the various phonemes.
32. Phoneme Pop - Click on the correct matches so they fall into the gray collector.
33. SpellBound - You see the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and you must put them
in order again.
34. Sound Buttons - Make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to
blend it together.
35. Sound it out - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning- the British accent may confuse
you)
36. We Choose to Cha Cha Cha - A song about Ch. [not a game]
37. Which Bird is Correct? - Pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to
the word.
38. Wild West Phonics - Choose Medium, Hard, or Really Hard to begin the game - listen to the
words and help Molly send a smoke signal by choosing the correct letters to fill the gap. [Caution to
the teacher - wrong answers are more fun than right ones, keep an eye on your students]
39. Word Families - Magnetic Blackboard - Create new words from word endings.
40. Word Families - Word family sort; pick a vowel sound and then match the words to the family.
41. Word Maker - Select an ending, then combine letters to create words.
42. Word Wheel - Look at the clue at the bottom and then press each wheel to form the word's
beginning and ending sound.
1. 3 Letter House - Spelling patterns with CVC words are generated randomly. Select an ending and
a vowel.
2. Chicken Stacker - Try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them.
3. CVC Maker - Create words and sound them out.
4. CVC Pop - Listen to the word that is said and click on the correct match of the word so that it falls
into the gray collector.
5. Drag and Drop - Read the CVC word and drag the picture that matches the word in the box.
6. Drag and Spell - Drag a vowel sound into the slot to spell the word correctly. Use the slow/fast
slider to increase the challenge. Drag the vowels to finish the words before your time runs out.
7. Grubby Pup - A short U song. [ not a game]
8. Long A sound - Drag pictures with a long a sound into box.
9. Long E sound - Drag pictures with a long e sound into box.
10. Long I sound - Drag pictures with a long i sound into box.
11. Long O sound - Drag pictures with a long o sound into box.
12. Long U sound - Drag pictures with a long u sound into box.
13. Long and Short Vowel Match - Match the words that are the same as the vowel sounds. [scroll
down to find the game]
14. Long Vowels - Poems and activities about long vowels and digraphs.
15. Long Vowels - Show what you know about the different long vowel sounds.
16. Long Vowel Sounds e, u - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
17. Long Vowel Sounds a, i, o - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
18. Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures.
19. Magic Pencil - Listen and see the animation of c-v-c words using the following; n, g, d, m, p, a, e,
i, o, and u.
20. Make a Word - Drag the vowels to make real words with Clifford the Big Red Dog.
21. Missing Sounds - Type out the word with the missing vowel in place.
22. Online Stories - Starfall - Select a vowel sound to hear the pronunciation and see examples of
words that use that vowel sound to practice reading.
23. Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the
following categories; ABC's, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants
and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence
accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later
to go directly to the activity.
24. Picture Match - [don't enter your whole name] Choose short vowel sounds or long vowel
sounds and match pictures to their beginning letter sounds by sorting them into boxes.
25. Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with
a different long vowel sound.
26. Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound - Students hear a word and click on the CVC
word they sound out that matches the word that was said.
27. Put it on the Shelf - Sound out CVC words and match with correct picture.
28. Short A - Practice index; Click on a red dot; Self checking.
29. Short E -Practice index; Click on a red dot; Self checking.
30. Short I - Practice index; Click on a red dot; Self checking.
31. Short O - Practice index; Click on a red dot; Self checking.
32. Short U - Practice index; Click on a red dot; Self checking.
33. Short Vowel Practice - Select the correct spelling of the word.
34. Short Vowel Words - Find the short vowel words that match the pictures.
35. Short Vowel Words - Scroll down near the bottom and select the vowel. Make sentences using
the phonics and sight words.
36. Short or Long Vowel Words - Find the words that match the pictures.
37. Sloppy Pop - Short O song. [not a game]
38. Snap It - How well do you know your long vowel sounds? Try to beat the clock and collect the
snaps. When you see a pair click Snap! But don't get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a
point.
39. Vowel Boot Camp - Song (need Quicktime)
40. Vowel Digraphs - Select correct digraph to match picture.
41. Whirlyword Machine - A 'fruit machine' that makes 3 letter CVC words. (3 levels of play)
42. Word Families - Select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to
match the pictures.
43. Word Family Sort - [don't type your real name] Click on a vowel to begin, then sort words
according to their family. Students can read the words they see and create sentences with them
once back at their desks.
44. Words and Pictures - Activities with vowel blends: oo, ee, ay, igh, and silent e with long vowels.
Includes audio, poems, activities and worksheets.
45. Write a Postcard - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus
phonemes. When you have them all correct the next sentence appears, but this time there are
gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word.
46. Can you make sense of a sentence? - Drag the words into the correct sentence order.
47. Characters - Click on the different parts to create a character, then write a sentence about the
character you created.
48. Clean Up Your Grammar - Nouns and Verbs by Maggie's Earth Adventures- Put the trash into the
correct bucket, separating the nouns and verbs.
49. Literacy Center - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters,
shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing
component in the Keyboard Section.
50. Lionel's Tall Tales - Make a sentence by putting groups of words together.
51. Scrambled Sentences - Click on the words in order to make a sentence.
52. Scrambled Sentences - Use in Internet Explorer only. Click and drag the words/pictures into the
box to form a complete sentence.
53. Scrambled Sentences - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence.
54. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on Word Order and then drag the groups of words to make a
sentence. Each of the 15 sentences have three parts.
55. Wall of Words - Drag scrambled words to create a sentence.
56. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you
hear.
57. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word
you hear.
58. Body Parts - Move the pictures by using the arrow on the right to match the word.
59. Coconut Words - Three Levels. Click on correct word to complete the sentence.
60. Crossword puzzles using Dolch Sight Words - Select a lesson and fill in the missing word.
61. Dolch List Practice - Online activities to practice sight words [click on a red dot].
62. Dolch Sight Words - Games and activities.
63. Dolch Sight Words - Select any of the four activities: Test Me, Teach Me, Play A Game,
Handwriting Worksheets.
64. Fearless Frieda - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level
one, four letter words on level 2.
65. Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts
with four letter words in this game.
66. High Frequency Words - Six activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete
the sentences.
67. I Can Read Game - Listen to the sentence then click on the spoken word.
68. Look, Cover & Spell - This spelling site has 30 pre-built lists of words, but you can create your
own list. Double-click any word on the list and type a word appropriate for your grade level. Your
student gets to see the word, then it is covered and they must type the correct spelling.
69. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type the missing letters.
70. Sight Word Activities and Games - From Readquarium.
71. Sight Words - Read sight words and then type them in the box.
72. Sight Words - Reading Games from Mansfield/Richland County Public Library.
73. Sight Words - Dolch Words, if you don't know the word, move your mouse over it and it will tell you
what it is. Practice the words, then take the quiz.
74. Sight Word Practice Quizzes - Many quizzes and levels. .
75. Sight Words with Samson - Listen to the word as he pronounces it, spells it and uses it in a
sentence.
76. Spell Check - TCAP format: Select word that is spelled incorrectly.
77. Spell words - Drag letters to create word.
78. Spelling - Put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud.
79. SpellBound - See the word spelled correctly, then the letters are mixed up and you must put them
in order again.
80. Star Words - This activity provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of the 200 or so high
frequency words.
81. Star Writer - Words are written with stars. Click on the domes to hear the word read and click on
the dome that says the word. (Caution, UK site with British accents may confuse some students.)
82. Three plays - Starfall site - Read and act out plays.
83. Word Machine - A picture is displayed along with three words, click on the word that matches the
picture.
84. Bat Stories - Practice your phonics skills on these stories.
85. Clifford's Big Dig -Interactive story. Click on the bone to begin.
86. Children's Books to read online - Practice your reading skills.
87. Dragon Goes to the Farm - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read.
88. Emily Elizabeth Goes to School - Interactive story. Click on the bone to begin.
89. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 1 - A story about Gus and Inkey; help Gus with
beginning sounds.
90. Happy Mother's Day, dear Dragon - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read.
91. Here, Clifford - Interactive story. Click on the bone to begin.
92. A House in a Tree - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read.
93. I Will Not Take a Bath - Listen to the story as it is read aloud and determine the problem and
solution.
94. Not Too Little to Help - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read.
95. Online Interactive Stories - Listen to the stories with audio or turn the audio off and read the story.
96. Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially
designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
97. The Perfect Pet - Which pet should she select? Listen to the story that is read aloud.
98. Stories - Several books to read and two or three have audio. (Site has changed hands; no longer
available for download.)
99. Stories to read - Starfall - Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice. There
are 15 easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same
vowel. Long and short vowels are included.
100. Things that Can go - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read.
101. Three Stories from the Little Animals Activity Centre - The stories are read to students and
choices must be made during the story. Give your students the opportunity to retell these stories. ||
The Missing Pencil - || The Butterfly Trail - || The Wishing Tree 102. The Yellow Gorilla - Why did the gorilla turn yellow? How did he solve his problem?
103. Crossword Puzzles for Young Children - Each week there is a new puzzle with Dolch words;
clues and hints included. Excellent first start for children learning to work crossword puzzles!
104. Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.
105. Suffix-ly - Use simple strategies to determine meaning and increase vocabulary for reading,
including the use of suffixes.
106. What's the Word? - A reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy),
Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game.
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ABC Gulp - Click on the frog to begin and then click on the letter that is named.
ABC Order Practice - Put these words in alphabetical order.
Alphabetize - Connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing. [all letters present]
Alphabetize - Connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing. [some letters missing]
Alphabetizing - Drag and drop words in correct order.
Alphabet Game - Round One - Student drags lower case letters to uppercase letters to match.
Round Two - Reverse process. Round Three - Drag letters to correct alphabetical order.
7. The Book Game - Organize the out of order books. Click on the picture of the books to play, then
click each book to put it in alphabetical order.
8. Find a Word - Drag and drop each word onto the correct dictionary page. Use the guide words to
help you organize the words alphabetically.
9. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
10. Looking Up a Word - Drag each word into the right column in alphabetical order.
11. Magnetic Nursery Rhymes - Put the poem back together again. Identify the words and drag
them to recreate the nursery rhyme. Use this to practice spelling.
12. Missing Letters of the Alphabet - Type the missing letter.
13. Memory Match - Match capital to small letters to reveal a surprise picture; concentration style
game. As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so
the student can go back and read the matches later. [concentration style game]
14. Paw Park: Alphabet Bears - Bears wearing words on their shirts must be put into alphabetical
order.
15. Where's my match? - Match upper and lower case letters.
16. Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order.
17. Irregular Plurals - Match the related words, singular to plural.
18. Irregular Plurals - Match related words, oes, os.
19. Plural Nouns - Add s or es.
20. Plural Play - Be the first to fill a row, column or diagonal, like tic-tac-toe. You must get three in a
row to win.
21. Plurals Picture Quiz - In the space underneath each picture, write in the correct plural form of the
word given in the singular.
22. See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the
pictures. A very good activity with many skills; plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and
digraphs.
23. Singular and Plural Nouns - Three types of games to choose from. (some words may be a bit
above first grade)
24. Plurals: Y Endings - Change the singular nouns into plurals.
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1. Bear Wear - Help Bear get dressed by listening to the letter sound and selecting the shirt that
matches the sound.
2. Beginning Phonics - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start
with that letter.
3. Begins With - Click on items in a picture which begin with specific letters.
4. Big Bird Gets a Letter - Find the pictures that start with the indicated letter.
5. Fishing for Phonics - Select a level and find the missing beginning or ending sound and drag the
card into the missing space.
6. Gus and Inky - A story with activities in it that asks the students to help them identify beginning
sounds.
7. Hedgie's Alphabet - Listen to the name of the picture and find the word that matches. This is a
click and drag activity.
8. Letters and Pictures - Click on the objects that start with each letter of the alphabet shown on the
left.
9. Loosey Goosey Rhymes - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what
letters are missing.
10. Match of Mystery - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern.
11. Phonic Fighter - Click on the picture that starts with the letter shown.
12. Sound Buttons - Make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to
blend it together.
13. Sound Dominoes - Students listen to parts of word and use domino game style to match up the
same phonemes.
14. Sound Fun - Match sound with the letter. Click on the letter that matches the sound that is said.
15. Drag and Drop Sight Words - Self checking.
16. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the
sentences.
17. Sight Words - Use this pre-primer dolch word list to practice sight words. Click on the word and
hear what it is.
18. What's the Word? - A reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy),
Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game.