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!
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.
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Matching More Vowels
You can be victorious with vowels. This interactive game matches long and short vowel words and pictures. Master all three levels.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Tell a T Rex
Read these silly sentences and decide which ones make sense. Perfect practice for reading for comprehension.
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...
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: Morpheme Structures: Affix Fit
A lesson plan in which students match word cards with appropriate prefixes and suffixes. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game
A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful
A lesson plan in which students sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. 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.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Root Rap [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a matching game by pointing to the root that their partner read aloud. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509146-86312fb3a701918d288042db13332f58.jpg?1661800036 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. 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...