Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long U
Given the letter U with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Wh) Activity
What sound does the consonant digraph "wh" make? Check out this interactive resource to learn more about the "wh" sound.
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Vocabulary and Reading Go Hand in Hand
Students will be doing their own illustrations of the vocabulary words from "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!" Students will also practice the skill of sequencing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vocabulary Magic
Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Students Write a Newspaper
In this project-based language development lesson, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The lesson format follows the Sheltered...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read, Write, and Say
In this lesson young scholars improve their ability to spell sight words and decodable text. Students use a slideshow presentation to practice spelling frequently-used words. This lesson will improve young scholars' writing skills.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: There Their They're
Do you know when to use 'there,' 'their,' and 'they're'?
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Dolch Spelling Lists by Grade Level
This site provides lists of Dolch spelling lists by grade levels for K-8.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Apples Up on Top
Sight word acquisition is an important building block in the construction of a child's ability to read. Kindergarteners need practice to learn sight words. This lesson provides them with a fun way to learn new words.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Out of Sight Words
Out of Sight Words is a beautiful, quirky game that allows children to practice their knowledge of sight words! Kids have to read the sight word, and then find its corresponding image in the fun illustrations. Simply click on the word at...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Letters and Sounds: Phoneme Pop
Click on the correct letter to match the phoneme and catch the letters to practice letter sound recognition.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Plain Words and Fancy Words [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences between words with similar meanings by placing them in the right column of a graphic organizer.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Dolch Sight Word List
This activity collection allows students to master the concepts of sight words through games, flash cards and a test. A voice reads, spells and uses each word in a sentence to ensure comprehension. Flash cards can be printed.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart explores beginning word sounds, ending word sounds, and short vowels. There are assessment questions included. The vocabulary level is appropriate for primary elementary...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Winter Fun Guess the Covered Word
[Free Registration/Login Required] This one page flipchart is a fun way to learn and read winter words. Students will guess the covered word activity from the Month to Month Phonics book.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: First Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Language Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that reinforce language skills such as vocabulary, handwriting as well as alphabet cheer, songs, and poems.
Other
King's Kids: Room 108: Dolch Word Games
The site is made of 11 dolch word list, one list per set of games. Each list has 4 games to play as practice. Games have audio sound for students' to listen to the words.