Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control R
There are three levels in this interactive word game. Match the initial and final sounds to create a word to name the picture. ER words: herd, fern; IR words: bird, girl; UR words: curl, surf.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control Or
Starfall's interactive word game uses picture cues to spell OR words such as fork, horn, corn, fort. You must place the appropriate initial and final sounds in the empty boxes to complete the spelling of the word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: At
Use initial sounds to build words. Match AT sound pictures words.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: An
Play interactive game building AN words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures.
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Ten Games for Recycling Vocabulary
10 classroom activities that help students practice (recycle, reuse, review) vocabulary they've previously learned. Includes variations of well-known games, e.g., Pictionary, Taboo, Bingo, Outburst, and others. Instructions are provided...
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
Hud Kids: Community Word Scrambler
The community scrambler must be caught in order to save the neighborhood. In order to catch the scrambler, all the words must be unscrambled. Each word is provided with a picture clue.
Channel 4 Learning
Fairground Spells
Use these fairground games to practice spelling skills. Whack a Moley and the Grabber Grammar are just two of the interactive games you can play.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Word Me Puzzle Game
Play this fun word puzzle game called Word Me. Try to find all the words you can by connecting letters using your mouse.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Scrabble Game
[Free Registration/Login Required] Scrabble format game: Teacher needs to create Scrabble tiles for students. As students play tiles, however, they can write them as letters within the game board.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Draw a Man
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a word game much like hangman where students are to try and guess the word before the man is completed constructed...
Braingle
Braingle: Language Brain Teasers
"Manipulate words and letters" with these "language brain teasers" that ask you to think about letters, anagrams, syllables, consonants, rhymes, and other topics that you talk about in English class. Try the brain teasers presented here,...
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Juegos De Palabras
On this website you will find many short stories. Select one of the stories and then play the word game.
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Compound Words
This interactive language arts skill-building site provides a fun activity for creating compound words. Challenge student understanding of compound words and engage in the creation of compound words.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Prefixes, Suffixes, Abbreviations, Compounds
Students play this Jeopardy-like game against the computer to answer three questions about prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, and compound words.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words Within Words Game 1
This reading game provides a word with a word inside. Young readers find the word within and drag the letters onto the lines provided to form that word. Then they choose a toy for Lucy the Elephant by dragging it into her gift box.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Vocabulary Bingo!: Word Girl
In this WordGirl activity, students will be encouraged to review new vocabulary through playing a variation on "Bingo."
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaur Egg (Listen and Choose)
This word game utilizes listening skills and reading skills as words are displayed on various dinosaur eggs and the correct word must be chosen.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Bad Apples
In this game students pick apples in order to form words. Any apples that cannot be used will cost you points.
Other
Ez Games: Games for Preschool Grade 2
Contains a number of games appropriate for preschool through grade one that focus on developing vocabulary and spelling skills. Includes games that ask students to match rhyming words, match from memory, match pictures to words, and more.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: The Plural Girls
Short quizzes that challenge players to identify plural forms of nouns correctly.