Study
Dog
(Update: No longer free, but if you have it downloaded on your computer,
it can still be used. Contact the site for information on purchasing
the program. Home versions of the program will be given to low income
families.)
Starfall
(Another must-have site)
Literactive
(Must sign up, but it's free. Another absolute must-have--take the
time to look around--it's a complete reading program on-line with
full screen interactive games for each skill)
DIBELS
Interventions Electrified!
Fun
School
Internet4classroom
(a collection of interactive websites organized by skills)
Kindergarten
1st
Grade
2nd
Grade
3rd
Grade
4th
Grade
5th
Grade
SAIL
ON
(Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online)
Must see! Great site!
KidPort
(Interactive
games offered by subject and grade level)
McGraw
Hill Resources
(If you're a first grade teacher using McGraw Hill, check out the
resources these two teachers are sharing!)
Dositey.com
Language Arts
practice--phonics, ABC, writing, contractions, synonyms, antonyms
and more!
Kids
Lab Grade 2
Vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, comprehension, phonics and more!
Letter Recognition
ABC
Mommy and Me
Literactive
Literacy
Center
Starfall
How
the Alphabet Got Its Order
(a movie that introduces letter names, order, and sounds)
Clifford
the Big Red Dog's Letter Match
Alphabet
Action
Sesame
Street Letter Games
Kangaroo
Confusion
Haunted
Alphabet
Rats!
(Catch the falling letters)
Rapid
Letter Naming Game
Gamequarium
ABCD
Watermelon (letter order game)
Alphabet
Animals Game
Space
Typewriter
Kinderweb
Alphabet Learning Game
ABC
Gulp
Alphabet
Jumble
ABC Order
ABC
order Game
Alphabet
Bears
Alphabet
Zoo
Alphabetical
Order Drag and Drop
Alphabetical
Order Drag and Drop
(just a little harder)
Phonological
Awareness
(when phonemic awareness tasks are too difficult)
Listen
and Match Sounds Game
Syllable
Counting Game
Saxon
Syllable Game
Phonemic Awareness
Rhyme
Garfield
and Orson's Farm
(find the rhyming words)
Meet
the Gang!
Wizards
and Pigs
(Higher level game with rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration)
Little
Animals Rhyming Games
Korky's
Cool Rhyme Machine
Rhyming
Practice
Reggie
Loves to Rhyme!
Rhyming
Blue Bird Game (reading and matching rhyming words)
Rhyming
Rockets (Read your rhyme and then shoot the rhyming rockets)
Initial Sound
Fluency
Sassy
Seals
Phonic
Fighter
Letter
Lifter
Clifford's
Sound Match
The
ABC Game
Begins
With
Little
Animals First Sounds
Kiddo
Net
Picture
Match Beginning Sounds
Beginning
Sounds
The
Chicken Coop Beginning Sounds Game
ABC
Match: Find the Picture and Beginning Letter that Match
Ending Sound
Little
Animals Ending Sounds
Where
is the Sound? (beginning, middle, or end)
Blending Sounds
The
Hay Loft
The
Pig Waller
The
Reading Machine (choose the word that names the picture)
Deleting and
Substituting Sounds
Lanolin's
Greenhouse
The
Pumpkin Patch
Phonics
CVC
Word Maker
(check out Wordplay and Wordmatch options)
Blending
Dragons (let the dragon catch real words and avoid the nonsense
words)
3-Letter
House (blending real and nonsense words)
Fuzzy
Lion Ears (choose the letter that's missing)
DJ
Cows Spelling Pattern Online Word Search (click on the first letter
and the last letter of the word in the puzzle)
Ladybird
Lander
(An adult or another child suggests a cvc or cvcc word to be made.
The child clicks on the appropriate letter--a ladybug-- and then on
a correctly positioned flower--beginning, medial, or end--to make
the word.)
Word
Reader (Listen to the word and choose which flower has that word
beneath it)
Literactive
Sounds
Fun (choose a letter that matches a given sound game)
Short
vowel practice
Phoneme
Pop
CVC
Pop
Sound
Bingo (click this link for matching bingo
cards to print)
Blending
Bingo (click this link for matching bingo
cards)
Letters
and Sounds Bingo (click this link for matching bingo
cards)
Blends
practice
Short
a Decodable Story
Short
e Decodable Story
Short
i Decodable Story
Short
o Decodable Story
Short
u Decodable Story
Short
Vowel Picture Match Game
Jim's
Crank-o-phone Game
(CVC words)
Whirly
Word
Word
Blender
(consonant clusters)
Cluster
Buster
Words
Machine
(decoding words)
Word
Wheels
(blending onset and rime)
Blends
Word Wheels
(blending onset and rime featuring phonics blends)
Word
Wheel
(onset/rime)
Word
Wheel 2
(onset/rime)
That
Magic e!
Long
a (a_e) Decodable Story
Long
e (ee) Decodable Story
Meet
the Creeps
(on-line poem featuring ee correspondence)
A
Meal by the Sea
(on-line poem featuring ea correspondence)
Long
i (i_e) Decodable Story
Long
o (o_e) Decodable Story
Long
u (u_e) Decodable Story
Long
vowel (oa, ai, ay, ie, oe, ea) Decodable Story
Picture
Match Long Vowel Game
R-controlled
vowel (ar) Decodable Story
R-controlled
vowel (or) Decodable Story
R-controlled
vowel (er, ir, ur) Decodable Story
Y
as a vowel
Letter
Bugs
Space
Trash
(vowel digraphs)
Sand
Castle Quiz
(vowel combinations)
Postcards
(vowel combinations)
Fearless
Frieda Surfer
(Challenging spelling game)
Fearless
Frieda Skater
(spelling game)
See
'N Spell
(short vowels, long vowels, vowel digraphs, blends, plurals)
Word
Build and Bank
Look,
Cover, Spell, Check
(You can type in your own spelling words to practice or use one of
their lists)
Look,
Say, Cover, Spell, Type, Check
Discover
the Word (an on-line Hangman game)
Alien
Hangman
Plank
Walk Hangman
Sticky
Letters
(How many words can you make?)
Phonics
Word Builder
Kid's
Lab: Ending Consonants
Fluency
Dog
and Cat
(an easy on-line play to read with a partner or the computer can be
your partner!)
Guess,
Guess
(an easy on-line play to read
with a partner or the computer can be your partner!)
Cookies
(an easy on-line play to read
with a partner or the computer can be your partner!)
Sight Words
Sight
Words On-line Story
Spelling
Ship (read and spell high-frequency words- a cross between Look,
Cover, Spell, Check and Hangman)
Spelling
Ship II
Dinosaur
Eggs (listen to the voice and choose the egg showing that word)
Happy
Mother's Day, Dear Dragon
(an easy on-line story by Margaret Hillert)
The
No-Tail Cat
(an easy on-line story by Margaret Hillert)
Dragon
Goes to the Farm
(an easy on-line story by Margaret Hillert)
Not
Too Little to Help
(an easy on-line story by Margaret Hillert)
Color
Word Search
Vocabulary
Squanky
the Tooth Taker
(Synonym game)
Squanky
the Tooth Taker
(Opposites game)
Flip
a Chip
(Learning about affixes and root words)
Fish
Tank
(Prefixes, suffixes and root words)
Prefixes
Make New Words
(a drag and drop activity)
Prefixes
Say Plenty
Vocabulary
Learning Fun
Word
Jungle
(Choose the correct meaning of words to swing!)
Weekly
Reader's Word of the Day
Word
Central
Word/Definition
Connections
Kids
Lab: Multiple Meaning Words
Word
Play (Between the Lions)
Scramble-Saurus
Word
Drop
Vocabulary
Pinball
Everyday
Vocabulary Anagrams
Illustrated
Vocabulary
Word Endings
Word
Link
(Practice watching those inflectional endings)
Comprehension
Reading
Ring
(Wrestle with reading by putting Garfield comic frames in correct
order and then answering comprehension questions about the comic strip)
Tell
a T-Rex (objectives: to read words in context; to read for comprehension)
The student reads a silly question and answers "yes" or
"no". Correct answers feed the T-Rex!
Different levels include: CVC words, CVCC and CCVC words, vowel phonemes
words, and more complex phonemes)
Monkey
Business
(Word order in sentences)
Tina's
World
(Real or Make-Believe)
Build
a Snowman
Eye
on Idioms
Fact
Finding Frenzy
(Finding facts in what you read)
Hints
on Print
(Demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource
to determine its appropriateness for a research project)
Book
Adventure
(It's like an on-line Accelerated Reader Program--they even have prizes
you can earn by taking quizzes on books you've read)
On-line
Crossword Puzzle
Brainchild
(Read a 5th grade passage online and answer the questions)
Cows
(Using context clues)
Second
Grade Reading Exercises
Third
Grade Reading Exercises
Fifth
Grade Reading
(read the passage and answer the questions)
Kids
Lab: Main Idea
Kids
Lab: Main Idea Tutorial
Kids
Lab: Main Idea Practice Page
Main
Idea Web Lesson
Dig
It! (Prediction)
Kids
Lab: Compare and Contrast Practice Quizzes
Compare
and Contrast
Arthur's
Story Scramble (sequencing)
Scrambled
Stories (sequencing)
Test
Tutor (sequencing)
Sequencing
Fun
Compare
and Contrast Online Activities
Monkey
Business (word order in sentences)
Guess
What (Inference Poems)
Contractions
Treasure
Trove Contraction Game
Compound Words
Compound
Words Drag and Drop
On-line Fiction
Reading
Little
Animals On-line Stories
Ghost
stories for Scouts
A
Walk in the Woods: An online storybook with a counting rhyme
On-line Non-fiction
Reading
Penguin,
Penguin
(easy read by Margaret Hillert)
Wolves
(easy read by Margaret Hillert)
Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
(easy read by Margaret Hillert)
Children's Authors
and Illustrators
Jan
Brett's Website
Children's
Authors and Illustrators
Berenstain
Bears
Eric
Carle
Arthur
the world's most famous aardvark
Dr.
Seuss's Seussville
Audrey
Wood's Clubhouse
Kevin
Henkes
William
Steig
Robert
Munsch
Tedd
Arnold
Mem
Fox
Gail
Gibbons
Writing
Create
Your Scenario: Make Your Own Play
Create
a Flip Book Online
(and print it, too!)
Acrostic
Poems
(Create your own on-line)
Create
your own comic strip!
Create
your own Diamante Poem online
Poetry
Frames
(Create your poem online and print it out)
Scene
Creator
(Create a story by labeling a scene and typing a story in the box
below the scene)
Label
that Scene and Create that Story: Old Macdonald's Farm
Label
that Scene and Create that Story: The Three Little Pigs
Edit
Dan's Copy Game
Other Interactive
Games
Writing
Runway
(An adult types in a sentence which is then scrambled. The child puts
the sentence in correct order to help the plane take off.)
