Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Spelling Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
Unit Plan
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teacher Tools

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Make a spelling scramble or a word search with any ten spelling words. Great interactive activity for practicing spelling!
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Christmas Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
ABCya's Christmas Crossword Puzzle is a fun and interactive way for kids to test their knowledge of Christmas vocabulary words and facts. The crossword puzzle can be played on the computer or by printing on paper. The interactive version...
Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.2.e : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.2.E. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
Professional Doc
Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. Children will hear the letter or number when they click on a magnet. Practice writing names, birthdays or short...
Unit Plan
Auburn University

Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.
Unit Plan
LD Online

Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
Website
Kidsource OnLine

Phonemic Awareness: Important Early Step to Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.
Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you assess phoneme awareness and decoding skills in your students? Teachers can benefit from this informative resource that takes you through this intricate path of phonemic awareness.
Handout
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Famsi: Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs

For Students 9th - 10th
John Montgomery's Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs is a unique reference to the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Maya that presents over 1,200 hieroglyphs or glyph compounds. Each entry includes the hieroglyph, phonetic transcription,...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Build a Word

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the Activboard and Activprimary, students assemble words by arranging various letters on the flipchart page. Students create words given pre-assembled word endings or listen to words delivered by...
Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Y Ll

For Students 3rd - 7th
Fourteen exercises are provided so you can test your spelling knowledge with words that may contain the letter y or ll. You can find out your final score at the end.
Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De M Y N

For Students 3rd - 8th
Eleven exercises are provided so you can practice the spelling with words that may contain the letter m or n. Final score will be given at the end.
Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: El Alfabeto

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice correct pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet along with Spanish vocabulary words that include those letters. Audio files load very quickly and play as you point your mouse over each letter or word.
Lesson Plan
Auburn University

Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The "letterbox activity" is a phonics activity in which young pupils are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
Unit Plan
Lingolex

Lingolex.com: Learn Spanish: How to Use Spanish Characters With Any Pc Running Msdos and Windows

For Students 9th - 10th
A very succinct guide on how to apply accents on your computer. The codes are a must for every student and teacher learning or teaching Spanish.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: If the Word Fits

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...