British Council
British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers
Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words: A Story About Fred
A fun poem about "Fred" that the teacher reads to the class and students guess what the missing words are. When they guess correctly, they are able to draw the character.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Craft Stick Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun game where students draw/colr and happy face on one end of a craft stick and a sad face on the other end. Then they hold up these sticks to identify whether or two words that their instructor says rhyme.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Electric Company: Games: Prankster Planet
Overcome obstacles to reach big red buttons and turn off the Wordsuckeruppernator, a dastardly device that has been sucking up words from planet Earth.
Other
English for Kids (For Native Speakers of Russian)
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the students what is different.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games
Simple interactive games to help young students build reading skills.
Other
Funology: Games
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...
Other
Propaganda Critic
A comprehensive site that offers student information on: Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, False Connections, Bad Logic or Propaganda, Wartime Propaganda and more! Site also offers the Propaganda Gallery - short video clips that can...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Games: What's Your Favorite Word?
This is a group of favorite word activities: find words from lists and create a message to send, watch favorite word videos, read the favorite word of the day, and send in your own favorite word.
BBC
Bbc Learning English: Wordmaster
This is a hangman-style game that requires users to provide a missing vocabulary word within a sentence. Users can select their game level -- easy, medium and difficult -- get clues, and hear the British pronunciation after they complete...
Quia
Quia: Matching: What's My Meaning?
This matching game asks students to match roots on a grid with their meanings. Java is required.
British Council
Brirish Council: Learn English Kids: Word Games: Spring
Play this naming game with words associated with spring.
British Council
British Council: Learn English: Secret Coder (Where Is Ratty?)
Crack the secret code in five messages to try to find the villainous Ratty.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
English for Little Children
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Root Word Lessons
This is an index of links to activities using root words. These activities are separated into 3 levels of difficulty. These interactive, vocabulary puzzles and activities use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word...
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 1: Haunted House
Solve the mystery of Dr. Know It All's magic elixir by searching for clue words and filling in the missing parts of his journal.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 3: Out at Sea
Dr. Know It All is hiding on a ship. Find the clues and fill in the missing words in his journal to find him.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 4: Escape Through Time
Travel through time looking for Dr. Know It All. Look for clues, fill in the missing words in the journal to find him, and then solve some simple puzzles to follow the doctor through time.
Other
Eigo21: Daily Hangman
A site for self-study of English for Japanese speakers. Instructions are in Japanese. Maintained by a private afterschool "English cram" program. This section has an interactive Hangman game that updates daily. Play today's game or let...
Knowledge Share
Super Kids: Vocabulary Builders
This site has 6 creative games to improve your vocabulary.