Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures
For this lesson plan, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of word choice. Onamatopoeia is the focus content for this lesson. After the reading of the...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Viking Full Circle
Practice reading and writing words with the consonant - vowel - consonant spelling pattern. Then, select the vowel and the endings to review a variety of patterns.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.
TES Global
Blendspace: At Resources
This eleven-part learning module provides assorted assistive technology references. This blendspace provides reading and writing video, print, and audio resources that will help special needs students with their reading and writing.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City:lakewood 1st Grade Vocabulary & Spelling Resources
This site offers 30 vocabulary and spelling lessons. Each lesson provides a word list; when the words are clicked on, it is pronounced and used in a sentence aloud. For the quizzes, the words are pronounced, and the students type in the...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Speedy Speller
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Listen as words are read to you and try to type them as fast as you can. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
This lesson plan outlines classroom methods to teach both how to evaluate and how to write book reviews. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word: Long O With a Final E
Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teacher Tools
Make a spelling scramble or a word search with any ten spelling words. Great interactive activity for practicing spelling!
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Scramble Saurus
Find more than a dozen spelling games to reinforce vocabulary on a range of levels and topics (from musical instruments to climate terms). Players unscramble words using definitions as clues.
Other
Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Spelling and Vocabulary
This site provides hands-on Spelling Activities from Houghton Mifflin for grades 1-8. Students can also do a word find. The word find correlates with the Houghton Mifflin Spelling series.
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.
Other
Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
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.
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!
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Writing
A collection of videos, articles for parents and for teachers, teaching strategies, webcasts for teachers, and research briefs on helping children develop their writing skills.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten
Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read, Write, and Say
In this lesson students 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 students' writing skills.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words
Some words may sound like other words, but using the wrong word can lead to confusion and madness. A dictionary would be helpful to make sure you know what you're talking about! [0:40]