Free Reading
Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: At Home Literacy Activities
Families are a child's first educator and can serve as valuable partners throughout a child's literacy development. Providing families with quick, easy-to-use activities and strategies to use at home strengthens school-home connections...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Help young learners become better readers with these literacy resources and ready-to-use reading strategies.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Family Ties Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students to make authentic connections to reading selections. Lessons use books such as "Bigmama?s" by Donald Crews, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
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/,...
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.
Free Reading
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...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Free Reading: Alien Word Game: Sounding Out
A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Swatter Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.