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Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Free Reading: Letter Baseball: Letter Sound Fluency Game
An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.
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Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...
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Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
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Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Young scholars play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives...
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Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.
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Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
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Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
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Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
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Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game
A teacher-led activity that helps young scholars learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Free Reading: Beginning Sounds; Poem
An activity that can be adapted for the whole class, small group, or large group. The instructor first reviews a letter and its sound, then presents the group with a poem with that letter that the students will then identify.
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Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
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Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
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Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Free Reading: Vocabulary Activities Find Activities
A fantastic reading skills site emphasizing vocabulary activities. This site contains 54 individual vocabulary activities to click on, and provides teaching tips as well. It is still in the building phase, and more activities, tips, and...
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Mes education.com: Printable Phonics Worksheets
Choose from variety of free printable phonics worksheets, coloring pages, and games to use for English language learners.