Curated OER
A Difference of Mind
Students discover the individual variance in brain response to its four main functions. They perform activities related to each function at four stations set up in the classroom. They discuss their responses as a class.
Curated OER
Study of States in the five U.S. Regions
Fourth graders identify the five regions and the states within them. They research a state from each of five regions, then they choose one of those states to do an extensive research report on following teacher guidelines. They work in...
Curated OER
Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Sahara, Vanishing Cultures
Students read Sahara, Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study nomadic cultures. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Poop Deck Pirates
Choose two sounds which you have been taught recently. The pirate will throw a coin to you. If it's a real word, you need to keep it and if it's not, drop it in the water. The game ends when you've seen most or all of the words for that...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
ABCya
Ab Cya: Word Bingo
This word game offers seven levels: pre-primer, primer, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, nouns, and all words. Students listen to a word and click on the word on the bingo card; when they have five in a row, BINGO appears on that row....
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Amazing Spelling Fleas
Practice and play five games that build language skills like recognizing parts of speech, connecting images and words, spelling and completing words, and understanding simple sentences.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Wizards: Students Making Words
Using four popular children's books, "Corduroy", "Franklin in the Dark", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and "Chrysanthemum", the Word Wizard interactive game builds vocabulary with related words. Each 30-minute lesson looks for patterns...
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.
Hopelink
Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Interesting Things: Basic Esl Vocabulary Word Lists
Collection of word lists in a variety of categories such as baseball, geography, cooking, and transportation. Learning activities include word finds, hangman, and even typing practice.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: High Frequency Words: Tom's Color Game
Help Tom the zebra get ready for bed in this interactive game. Drag each color word next to the box with the matching color and give Tom one item he needs for bedtime. After giving him socks, a blanket, hay, and a glass of water, watch...
Arcademics
Arcademics: Kitten Hop Word Recognition
Help your kitten win the race by clicking on the words stated as quickly as possible. You could win a trophy!
Other
King's Kids: Room 108: Dolch Word Games
The site is made of 11 dolch word list, one list per set of games. Each list has 4 games to play as practice. Games have audio sound for students' to listen to the words.
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TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]
A simple activity that connects letters of the alphabet to simple words, specifically names of animals. Typing any letter on the keyboard reveals an illustration of a common animal, its name, and the sound that animal makes.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games: Scrub a Pup
In this interactive activity, students give a dog a washing while practicing word recognition with related vocabulary.
Other
Boggle's World Esl: Word Searches
A collection of more than 40 printable word search activities designed for ESL students. Searches are organized by level of difficulty (easy, intermediate to difficult) and cover a wide variety of themes, e.g., colors, verbs, the five...
Free Reading
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.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Counting With Words and Numbers
Students must choose the written number word that comes after the numeral given in this online game from AAAmath.com. This lesson offers the opportunity to learn, practice, play a game, and explore the concept.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Color Game for Kids
In this game, young writers select three colors by clicking the color buttons until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they let the carefully-chosen colors inspire an original story.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Wheels Game
What kind of interesting things could happen to a vehicle that's an unusual color? In this student-created lesson, young writers click the color and the wheel button until they find a colored vehicle they want to write about. Then they...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Animal Game for Kids
How did this zebra turn green? Do the other zebras like him still? Young writers click on the animal button and the color button until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they write a story about the animal including...