ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but lesson...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Sight Word Bingo
This resource provides an interactive game using sight words to help students with prereading skills.
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.
TES Global
Tes: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Power Point
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point lesson will introduce students to biographical information about the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl. At the end of the lesson, students will engage in...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: En
Create words using short vowel E. Identify beginning sounds using pictures to build words.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: At
Use initial sounds to build words. Match AT sound pictures words.
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Pre Reading Activities: Signs and Symbols
As young children begin keying into symbols, they are making a huge conceptual leap: they're learning that a picture can convey a message. The following anecdotes track practical applications of children's interactions with...
Other
Learning4 Kids: We're Going on a "Teddy" Bear Hunt
Playing with songs and books helps prepare children for future learning and teach them beginning pre-reading skills. Re-enacting we're going on a bear hunt is a fun activity we can do with our kids to help promote this learning through...
Starfall
Starfall: At School
In this learning game, children click and drag pictures and words into boxes to create sentences, and then click on the apple to read or listen to sentences containing words and pictures.
Starfall
Starfall: A Computer
In this learning game, children click and drag pictures and words into boxes to create sentences, and then click on the computer to read or listen to sentences containing words and pictures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
This instructional activity is part of a week-long unit. It focuses on the pre-reading phase of guided reading. It aims to activate prior knowledge, preview vocabulary, and set a purpose for reading. This book deals with a very sensitive...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabats Alliteration
Alphabats - Alliteration 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 beginning sounds. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Oddball (Pre Reading Skills Game)
Players choose from one of three categories--animals, shapes, or machines--to see if they can identify which animal, shape, or machine is not like the others.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Magic Phonics Wizard: Find the Wizard
This is a phonics game in which students listen to a sound and then click on all of the words containing that sound. If they make three mistakes, they must start over. When finished, they find the magic wizard.
Other
Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Biography: Emily Dickinson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Introduce your students to Emily Dickinson by engaging them in higher order pre and post reading activities presented in this flipchart.
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Kwl Chart [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write what they already know about the topic and what they want to know about the topic by reading. After reading, students will record...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Alphabet Review Activities (Lesson Plan)
Site presents a myriad of fun filled activities which will enhance the student's identification of letters and their use in the context of words. Site uses games, songs and other captivating activities that will engage young children.
Starfall
Starfall: Vowels Save the Day
A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.
Starfall
Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.