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Starfall: Garden Shop
Interactive games identifying letter sounds using picture cues. Sequencing and word families are emphasized. Other links include audio books and short videos.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address
The viewing goals for this instructional activity were for students to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use...
Read Works
Read Works: Be Careful With Medicines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension passage focuses on children learning to be safe with medicine and vocabulary words. It is followed by questions about the passage that include picture cues.
Understood For All
Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Long Vowels
Concentration matching game that match pictures with words. Word list for level 1: dice, mole, five, bee, rose, cake. Word list for level 2: rope, game, bike, sheep, tree, whale. Word list for level 3: flute, slide, three, feet, snake,...
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Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
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Starfall: Let's Play
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
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Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction
The more a new vocabulary word is associated with ideas from students' own experience, the more likely the word will become well 'networked' and a permanent part of memory. Making these links involves elaborating definitions of new...
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the meaning of the word "community." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Parts of a Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how leaves, branches, bark, and roots make up the parts of a tree. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by...
Starfall
Starfall: Matching More Vowels
You can be victorious with vowels. This interactive game matches long and short vowel words and pictures. Master all three levels.
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Starfall: Grandparents Day
Select the correct words to help write a letter for Grandparents Day.
Starfall
Starfall: Sorting: R Controlled
Fun with phonics. This interactive game can motivate readers. Sort R-controlled words: barn, girl, corn, star, bird, and horn.
Starfall
Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Classroom Rebuses
This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Walk
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who takes a walk and ends up making friends with a little bird.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Picnic
A combination of pictures and words creates a story about a family that goes on a picnic together.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Sea
A combination of pictures and words creates a story about a man who goes scuba diving in the ocean.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Trip
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who rides a bus to the mall with her mother to get new shoes and a dress.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Read Aloud, Read Along, Read Appropriately to Foster Flexible Readers
The read aloud, read along, and read appropriately strategies involve three phases of reading instruction. As the teacher thinks aloud about what he or she is reading, students begin to understand the connections between the words on the...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Happy Birthday! Le
This printable -le worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. With the use of a pictures cue, students will fill in words to complete sentences that contain words which end in -le. An answer...