Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Craft Stick Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game where students draw/colr and happy face on one end of a craft stick and a sad face on the other end. Then they hold up these sticks to identify whether or two words that their instructor says rhyme.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
A version of Bingo! that teaches students to differentiate between words that rhyme. The site includes links to bingo boards and rhyming pictures.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...