Read Works
Read Works: Friends Food Fun at the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage about animal keepers is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It...
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Read Works: Friends, Food and Fun at the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes how animals play at the zoo and explains the roles of the animal keepers at the zoo. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: An Elephant's Excellent Trunk
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage includes information about the elephant's trunk. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Terrific Toucans by Kate Paixao
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational passage is about toucans and is followed by a comprehension question set.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Make a Picture Dictionary
Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.
Other
Alphabet Animals: Animal Dictionary
This site includes animated animals that represent each letter of the alphabet. Sound buttons are included to accompany the animal represented by the corresponding letter.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Waddle
This activity connects literacy, creativity and movement. Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. When the animal name and the verb describing how that animal is read, students move like the...
Read Works
Read Works: The Harmonica
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Short Vowel
Interactive concentration game with three levels. Matching short vowel words and pictures. vocabulary words: red, fan, bus, sun, hat, bag, jump, lamp, bell, duck, tent, drum, skunk, bench, dress, pants, shells, clock.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Long Vowels
Concentration matching game that match pictures with words. Word list for level 1: dice, mole, five, bee, rose, cake. Word list for level 2: rope, game, bike, sheep, tree, whale. Word list for level 3: flute, slide, three, feet, snake,...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ug
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ink
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Et
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control R
There are three levels in this interactive word game. Match the initial and final sounds to create a word to name the picture. ER words: herd, fern; IR words: bird, girl; UR words: curl, surf.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: An
Play interactive game building AN words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Two Vowels
Interactive games that allow you to create a word to match the picture cues. Vowel teams: ai, ea, oa. Long vowel words: mail, rain, seal, team, boat, soap.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Sort
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to sort words according to category and then label each category. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
Students will listen to the story Once There Was A Bull (frog) and identify the compound words in the story, then work with a partner to think of additional examples of compound words.
Starfall
Starfall: Dolphins Are Not Fish Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin
This is the nonfiction interactive ebook "Dolphins Are Not Fish - Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin." Children can read-along, listen to, or read this story independently.
Starfall
Starfall: Penguin, Penguin
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on penguins. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.