Free Reading
Free Reading: Vocabulary Activities Find Activities
A fantastic reading skills site emphasizing vocabulary activities. This site contains 54 individual vocabulary activities to click on, and provides teaching tips as well. It is still in the building phase, and more activities, tips, and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Practice
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games
Simple interactive games to help young students build reading skills.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Swatter Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Free Reading: Alien Word Game: Sounding Out
A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
Other
Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder
This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.
Other
Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons
Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Conferencing
Editing is a step that can often be overlooked in Kindergarten; however, it is crucial that our young scholars understand how and why to go back and fix their writing! In this lesson, students will take suggestions from the teacher and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing
Students will write a sloppy copy and help a peer to edit their writing. They will use a kid-friendly checklist (included)to help each other find their mistakes. Videos of students engaged in the lesson are provided, along with a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing
Students will write a sloppy copy and help a peer to edit their writing. They will use a kid-friendly checklist (included)to help each other find their mistakes. Videos of the lesson in action are provided, along with a teacher's grading...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing Day 4 Honeybees
You mean I have to write my story again, have someone check to make sure it's right, and fix my mistakes? For this lesson, students will peer edit each other's writing. They will use their five-star checklists (included) to make sure...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Homophone Site
Check out this informative site featuring homophones. Students will enjoy the illustrations and activities found within this resource.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Alphabet (Easy)
In this vocabulary game for beginning readers, students click on the words that fit the picture. A link to other games is available.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Phrase Reading
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 1, Page 2
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
Other
Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf
In this lesson plan, students use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing, a...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 2
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Study With Henry and Mudge
Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...