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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 4

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Scramble Saurus

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
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.
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Handout
Other

Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
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Unit Plan
abcteach

Abcteach: Spelling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[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.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Matching More Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
You can be victorious with vowels. This interactive game matches long and short vowel words and pictures. Master all three levels.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ug

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ink

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Two Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Graphic
Other

Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 1.4: Sometimes a Vowel, Sometimes a Consonant:

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Spelling rules with examples for words that contain the letter "u."
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
With this BBC Skillswise fact sheet, find out about syllables and how they can help you spell.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by counting syllables in words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Lone Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this lesson, students will learn the different sounds vowels make. They will view a slideshow presentation that teaches them the different sounds. Once they have learned the sounds, students will create a document of pictures...
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Interactive
Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
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!
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Interactive
Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Spell Check

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
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.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabats Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Alphabats - Syllables is a super fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. Click on the bats' bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with the same number of syllables. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats...