International Reading Association
Lesson Plan: Making and Writing Words
A detailed and thorough lesson/unit plan designed to lead students into a greater understanding of word building through intense study and activities. Students learn spelling structure, word recognition, and phonics. Great resource!
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.
abcteach
Abcteach: Spelling
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate worksheets that help students practice spelling with tricky vowels and letters, as well as, homophones, compound words and more. Several activities include assessments at the end.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Phoneme Patterns
Resource that provides lists of words that are grouped in families with similar spelling patterns.
Starfall
Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Words to Watch Out For
A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Wh, Qu, Th Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "wh", "qu", and "th" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long I
Given the letter I 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...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research
A lesson plan in which students review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Th) Activity
Check out this interactive digraph activity for the "th" sound. Students will find this interactive activity engaging and educational.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Og
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
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 (Sh) Activity
Come and learn more about the consonant digraph "sh" when you visit this interactive activity. This site features an audio component.
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Ch) Activity
Come and learn more about the digraph "ch" when you participate in this interactive activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long E
Given the letters "ee" with a blank before them 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: Make a Word: Control Ar
Become a better reader. This interactive game can motivate readers. Create controlled AR words. Use picture cues by identify beginning and ending sounds to make a word.
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!
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Spell Check
Students are presented with four words. After choosing the incorrectly spelled word, students make corrections and check their answers. There is an option for more difficult words.