Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
Library of Congress
Library of Congress: Readers to the Rescue
Visusal mad-lib reading game in which students help rescue storybook characters, including Pinocchio, Humpty-Dumpty and Sleeping Beauty and win rewards of animated short films and access to 36 books that can be read online for free.
Quia
Quia: Synonyms
In this game, students draw a line between synonyms in each column. Java is required.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Personal Vocabulary Notebook
This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
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.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Fun Exercises for Compound Words
This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Words to Watch Out For
A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
In this lesson plan the students will be introduced to compound words through the use of a multimedia presentation. Students will then form compound words through the use of teacher-made puzzles. Finally, the students will participate in...
Other
Foundation for Teaching Economics
The Foundation for Teaching Economics provides lesson plans and curriculum materials in a variety of areas of economics. Games and exercises enhance the lessons provided. Teachers can search by keywords or choose lessons from the list...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Quia
Quia: Rhyme Time Picture Match Up
"Click on the pictures of words that rhyme (i.e., dog-frog; hat-cat)." Games come in four formats: "Matching, Flashcards, Concentration, Word Search."
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Alphabet Fishing (Lesson Plan)
This site has a cute game young learners will enjoy playing to review letter recognition. Students "go fishing" for letters. For each letter they "catch" they must tell what the letter is and a sound it makes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rhyming Charades K, 1, 2, 3
Students use listening and kinesthetic skills to show their understanding of rhyme. They associate words that rhyme through pantomime. This activity encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cookies and Rhyme
This instructional activity will help students reinforce reading readiness skills (rhyming) with a chant and activities. After reading the story,Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar, the students will recite the word that rhymes with...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Improve Reading Achievement for African American Students
This article includes research recommendations in the areas of standardized testing, teacher quality, after-school programs, parent involvement, reading and study skills, and computer games and simulations.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers
A great exercise to help learners practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Substitution [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Isolation [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...
Other
Earth Rangers: Toxin Takedown
Accept the mission to take down toxins in this game. Students learn how to reduce toxins in their home, by completing three fun activities such as making your own eco-friendly product. Complete the mission and earn a badge.
Can Teach
Can Teach: African Folk Tales
Eight African folk tales, like "Why the Cheetah's Cheeks Are Stained" to "The Curse of the Chameleon", are at this site. All eight are traditional Zulu stories. The site provides resources for teachers such as lesson plans and games.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.