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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Sound? Identifying Phenomes Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Nice Games for Little Parties by Dean and Son

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Nice Games for Little Parties by Dean and Son (1865), an illustrated book of games.
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Interactive
Other

Topics Online Magazine: Traditional Children's Games From Around the World

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about traditional children's games from around the world in this list of games with explanations of where they are from and how they are played.
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Website
Other

Northpole: Santa's Classroom

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visit Santa's classroom where you will find fun-filled and engaging activities, printable worksheets, interactive games, and more. A great resource for parents and teachers.
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Website
Other

Yourpage.org

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
"Yourpage.org is a Jewish educational website created to bring fun to Jewish learning." Includes stories, games, and activities suitable for elementary and middle school children. Also provides a guide for teachers and a section for...
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Website
Other

English for Kids (For Native Speakers of Russian)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Offers the latest news on learning English in Russia. Contains useful links to English language learning resources: tales, songs, games, riddles, lesson plans, proverbs, and a pen pal club.
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Website
Other

Les Cles De L'actualite Junior

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the homepage for the magazine Les Cles de l'actualite JUNIOR, a magazine for 8- to 12-year old French-speaking children. Covers everything from current events to the environment to sports. Includes games and quizzes in the...
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Interactive
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: I Civics Attributes

For Students 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource explains the attributes associated with the free educational game designed by Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics. Teachers can use this resource to assess understanding of the American government and...
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Interactive
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Educational Games Online: What Is I Civics?

For Students 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource explains the background of the free educational game designed by Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics. Teachers can use this resource to assess understanding of the American government and citizenship.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Riddle Game: Oral Blending

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
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Website
Other

Nbc

For Students 9th - 10th
The official home of NBC includes information on local news, national news, shows, show castings, videos, mobile, and games.
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Website
Other

Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Activity
Other

Esl Kid Stuff: Teaching the Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Dynamic classroom activities for teaching the alphabet -- includes a few classic methods and some great new ideas. All are hands-on; many are group or team oriented.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Busy Bodies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Students will keep a...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Facs: Communication Games

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This instructional activity engages students in communication games. Students will learn how to play "Cosmic Motions" and "Silent Ball" to practice communication skills.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Hop, Hop, Hop Scotch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to play hop scotch in a different way on a spiral design. Book includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Playground Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Shows games children play when they are outside. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Funology: Games

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Here is a list of games for elementary age children. The games include simple directions, and can be played in a variety of settings and with a variety of number of players. Includes games for one player and games for indoor and outdoor...