SEDL
Cognitive Framework: Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities
This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Sentence Structure Games
A collection of games for students to work on forming sentences. These games give students strategies for sentence formation.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Phoneme Patterns
Resource that provides lists of words that are grouped in families with similar spelling patterns.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Capitalizing First Words and the Pronoun "I" Worksheets
The English language requires us to capitalize words at different times. These worksheets, on the other hand, focus on the first words of sentences and the letter "I" when used as a pronoun.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Word Wake Up
A lesson plan in which students match a strong word choice with its overused counterpart. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Vowel Stars
A lesson plan in which students fill in the missing letter with vowels to determine which ones form real words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to their vowel-r combination. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: The Lone Vowels
Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.
Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?
This lesson will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use the Correct Capitalization
Capitalizing is extremely important. Not only is it proper writing, but it also makes writing look polished and finished. Learn what should be capitalized and what shouldn't! [0:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Turtle Dash
Game will engage students in a turtle race by identifying a word using vowel combinations.
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.
Other
Missing Letter Alphabet Game With Billy Bear
Type in the right letter to begin each word, then see your score.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Full Stop Game 4 (Advanced)
This reading game presents young readers with a three-sentence passage. They are to read it, determine where they need to come to a full stop, and click and drag a snail to that spot. The snail spins and makes a period. They can undo and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Alphabet Chart
Use this graphic organizer to help students review and better understand letters, sounds, phonemes, and word formations.
Quia
Quia: Abc Order Practice
This interactive alphabet site challenges students to put a group of words in alphabetical order.
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Count the Vowels
Pupils are given a list of words and told to count the vowels and turn the sheet over. They are then asked to list the words. In this exercise, students discover how the words are arranged and find it easy to remember them.