Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix's List of Prepositions [Pdf]
This is a PDF providing a handout with an extensive list of prepositions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Acrostic Summaries [Pdf]
Summarize any subject you'd like with these acrostic poems. Examples are provided. [PDF]
ICT Games
Ict Games: Writing Repeater
Use the mouse to write words and then save them into word lists.
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.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Unscramble
A game where students practice reading skills by listening to a sentence and then dropping words into the correct order to form that sentence. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Quia
Quia: Super Synonyms Match Up
These matching games challenge student understanding synonyms and aid in expanding vocabulary.
Other
Ki Co4 School English: Compound Words
This is a self-scoring matching game in which pairs of words are matched to form compound words.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Beginning Sound Games
In this activity, students are asked to type in the beginning letter sound of a word, based on a picture provided.
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
Other
Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
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: Phonics Word and Picture Match
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart asks students to match pictures with the correct word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Real Words or Nonsense Words?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students to distinguish between real words and nonsense words. Real words are words that we use to communicate. Nonsense words are words that we do not use.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Word Workout
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression. Practice with some Kindergarten sight words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a vocabulary and recognition lesson.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling Change Add Y
[Free Registration/Login Required] How words change when Y is added.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words That Rhyme With Hill
This reading game focuses on words that rhyme. Young readers click on stars and words appear. The readers then pick the words that rhyme with hill and drag the words into the Rhino's thought cloud.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Endings
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to spell regular verb endings s, ed, ing (link to grammar work on tenses).
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: Colors
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write color words and match color words to the correct color picture.