Interactive websites for student use

http://www.eagles.k12.mo.us/sullivan/primary/

Sullivan has quite a few links for kids’ use, there’s also a section for teacher resources.

http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/bobsikes/student_frame.htm

Collection of links.

Primary Games

http://www.primarygames.com/curriculum/language_arts.htm

This is a terrific site with fun games; this link provides a curriculum for the activities that are available with grade level suggestions and subject areas. Games are free if you play them timed.

Star Fall

http://www.starfall.com/

A fun site that makes learning and reading acquisition fun for children.

“Our Learn to Read section combines explicit instruction in letter-sound relationships, word recognition skills and reading comprehension strategies with opportunities to apply and practice these skills. Our program weaves the reading-acquisition process together into a cohesive, fun, and entertaining program that kids love! Starfall.com is easy for children and educators to use and it is accessible for free on any web-connected computer.”

Fun Goo; Learning that Sticks

http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

Early reading and Language skills, I love making words on Fearless Frieda, a skate board game that reads a word and I spell it on my keyboard. Tina’s World of Buggy Trails lets me follow directions. Alien Scavenger Hunt Letter Bugs is for catching bugs to make words.

Between the Lions, Get Wild About Reading

http://pbskids.org/lions/

Tons of stories with games to practice early reading skills.

Pounce: Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound, Lookout Below: make new words from bigger words. There other games and printable pages. The songs are fun too!

Fun Brain

http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/subj_lang.html

What’s the Word (vocabulary, reading) is an activity where students can pick from the categories Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, Shapes and match pictures and words. Paint by Idioms (vocabulary, reading), students must read the idiom and match it with the meaning. Hard, but fun!

There are many other games on this site.

Figurative Language and Word Play

http://www.42explore.com/figlang.htm

A great site for teacher information on figurative language.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex1.htm

Phonemic Awareness including: What IS it?, Rhyming, Counting Syllables, Where is the Sound?, From Words to Sentences, Making Oral Predictions, Categorizing Words, Noun or Verb?, Main Idea/Supporting Details, Beginning Consonants, Ending Consonants, Print and Read Books and others.

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

Dictionary, Thesaurus, anagrams, vocabulary, glossary, children’s dictionary.

http://www.wordcentral.com/ Super for all grade levels, great for vocabulary, mad libs too!

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/trialover.jsp A Free trial

http://rhymezone.com/ Rhymes, quotations, synonyms, antonyms etc.

Magnetic Web Sites

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html

Magnetic letters are used to create words! Common endings are given to create word families.

Magnetic Rhymes http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm

Learning Planet http://www.learningplanet.com/

Learning Planet has many games, try this one for letter recognition. http://www.learningplanet.com/act/rats/rats1.htm?rats

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml Several games to practice different reading skills.

Try these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/snap/snap.shtml

Match the vowels. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/hfwords/starwords/game.shtml Practice high frequency words with a space themed game. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml Ending sounds, first sounds and rhymes with Digby the Mole

GameQuarium http://www.gamequarium.com/ A large site with games in all subject areas and grade levels. Try these:

Phonemic Awareness: http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/phonicsandphonemes.html Vocabulary: http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/vocabulary.html

Readquarium http://gamequarium.com/readquarium/phonicsandphonemes.html

Letter Recognition, Beginning Sounds, End Sounds, CVC Words, Long Vowels, Short Vowels, Chunks and Word Families, Working with Words, Blends Rhymes

Brain Connection

http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/ Many games for Sound Discrimination and Memory Attention Sound Discrimination (14 activities) Designed to exercise the neural pathways involved in distinguishing subtle differences in sound, this group of games works at training the fundamentals necessary for language, listening, and reading.

Memory Attention (8 activities) The brain is not a passive recipient of learning. In order to learn new information the brain must be able to focus on important cues and hold them in its short-term memory. The games in this category are designed to exercise the processes involved in attending to and remembering information. I tried: http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/?main=ma/ffdomino Students listen to parts of word and use domino game style to match up the same phonemes.

I Know That

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_LanguageArts Many games on various levels. http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=SelectAWord , it has several levels of difficulty, students choose words to finish sentences. http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WordBuilder is a huge array of phonics games, including ABCs, Long Vowels, Other Vowel Sounds Beginning Consonants, and Final Consonants.

Teachers First

http://teachersfirst.com/index.cfm

A Huge site with lots of games, try:

Penguins on Ice - http://teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=6356

Make a sentence, Which mark? Make it interesting.

Jim’s Crankophone - http://teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=6341

Give the middle sound found in words.