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.
Hopelink
Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Wonderful site for Spanish speaking ELL. Beginning level has instructions in Spanish and an excellent variety of activities focusing (in this section), on alphabet, numbers, time, classroom vocabulary, school subjects, titles. Auditory...
Other
Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
Other
Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Fluent: The Esl Challenge Game
Race against the clock to play games that help to build grammar and vocabulary skills.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Reading Collection
Get summer started on the right page with PBS LearningMedia's Summer of Reading collection! These videos, activities, and interactive games help to build vocabulary and reading comprehension while bringing storybook characters to life.
Other
Grammar.com: Grammar
All the grammar you need to succeed in life - Explore the world of Grammar with FREE grammar & spell checkers, eBooks, articles, tutorials, vocabulary games and more! Check out the common grammatical mistakes, parts of speech,...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Occupations Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to search for the occupations described in a series of clues. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Play Match It Sentences Games
Complete ten analogy sentences by choosing the word that matches the relationship in each sentence.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Animals
Given pictures of animals, students must select the word that fits the picture. A link to other games is provided.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Machines
In this game, students identify machines by selecting the words that fit the pictures. Links to other games are provided.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Fruits
Given pictures of various fruits, children select the words that fit the pictures. Links to other games are available.
Read Works
Read Works: Mean Machines
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the growing problem of cyberbullying and what can be done to stop it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Chicken Blast Off Peg + Cat
Use this game resource to help children foster the skills of using 3-D shapes to build a spaceship that is just the right size and shape for its passengers.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Theodore Taylor
What do you know about the life and work of Theodore Taylor? Use this online resource to discover information about this famous author.
Starfall
Starfall: Label the Magician
These games use the magic theme to teach young readers vocabulary. It offers four games: click on stars to change colors of the magician's clothes, labeling his clothes by clicking and dragging, picking up the wand and clicking on...
Quia
Quia: Super Synonyms Match Up
These matching games challenge student understanding synonyms and aid in expanding vocabulary.
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.
Quia
Quia: Vocab/word Knowledge: Awesome Analogies!
A one or two-player Jeopardy style game to play while learning to identify word relationships. Students complete each questions by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The game can be played alone or with an opponent.
Quia
Quia: Who Wants to Be an Analogy Word Master?
An interactive game where students read a pair of words and then choose another pair of words that show the same relationship. Students can complete fifteen analogies in order to win the game, and three hints are available if needed. If...
Quia
Quia: Analogies Jeopardy
A Jeopardy-style game to play while learning to identify word relationships with categories including Family, Places, Actions, Time, and Opposites. Students complete each question by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The...