St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Old, Olt, Ow Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "old", "olt", and "ow" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Spelling
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach spelling.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Oo Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oo" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oo" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Er, Ur, Ir Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words with r-controlled vowels. Words with the letters "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: er, ur, ind, ir"...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ow, Ou Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ow" or "ou" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Aw, Au, Al Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "aw", "au", or "al" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ie, Ui, U Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ie", "ui", and "u" to form words. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
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.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Look, Cover, Write, Check
This interactive spelling tool offers lists of words ranging from easy to much harder and allows students to type in their own spelling lists to study. It shows a word, covers it, students type it, and then check to see if they are...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dj Cows Spelling Patterns
A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.
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: 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...
Other
Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 2
This site is a listing of a variety of worksheets for second-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension, and revision.
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.
Quia
Quia: A Feast of Homonyms
This is a collection of four homonym games: Flash Cards, Matching, Concentration, and Word Search.
Quia
Quia: Online Stories
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
This online lesson uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin Henkes....
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Letter Fall
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students hear a word and a sentence containing that word. They must catch falling letters in a pail in the correct order to spell each word...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Alphabetize
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The word list is presented and you must put the words in alphabetical order. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are then hidden on turned-down cards in a concentration-type game. As students click on cards, they both see and hear the words,...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Crossword
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are used for a crossword puzzle, and students must study the clues to see where each word goes. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach...