Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for English Language Arts
This is a list of themed puzzles for English Language Arts. Click on a theme or puzzle that will take you to an interactive activity. All content is printable without a charge. NOTE: Each theme has a corresponding vocabulary word list...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
Crayola
Crayola: Mixed Up Meanings: A Homophones Matching Game
Turn a grammatical challenge into an amusing word game with inspiration from Crayola Twistables Colored Pencils and Maya Angelou's book Angelina of Italy.
Quia
Quia: Have Fun: My Quia Activities and Quizzes
Have Fun is a collection of links to Quia games, activities, and quizzes covering a variety of language arts topics, such as analogies, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, sequencing, categorizing, compound words, grammar, sentences, and...
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
Quia
Quia: What's My Meaning? Words Search
In this word search, students find the root words listed. A blue line and gold star will appear when the words are discovered with connecting the letters. Java is required.
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.
Other
Ki Co4 School English: Compound Words
This is a self-scoring matching game in which pairs of words are matched to form compound words.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.rf.2.3.c : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a printable learning game for core standard RF.2.3.C. A brief description of the game is on the widget. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All pages are free for individual and non-commercial use.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
Other
Ez School: Common Compound Words: Elephant Crossing
In this game, students read a clue and select two words that form a compound word fitting the clue. If they are correct, two elephants push the two words together to form the compound word. There are 10 sets of 20 questions each.
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
This matching game asks students to match singular and possessive nouns with their plural forms. Java is required.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaur's Eggs: High Frequency Words
Choose from a list of high frequency words then listen to the word and choose the correct egg that spells that same word. When finished, receive a certificate with words you know well and others you need to work on. Perfect practice for...
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
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.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Contractions Hockey Game
Focus students understanding of contractions with this interactive language arts skill-building site. Students' type the contraction of two words for points.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Balloon Verb Game
Fun game that challenges students to choose which words are verbs. Exercise students' abilities to identify verbs.
Other
Introduce Vocabulary: My School's a Zoo
A unique and flexible way to introduce vocabulary. The instructor introduces three new words to the class, then as the book My School's a Zoo by Stu Smith, is read, the students raise their hands when they hear the new words. The...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Spell Check
Students are presented with four words. After choosing the incorrectly spelled word, students make corrections and check their answers. There is an option for more difficult words.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Verb Viper
Students will choose the word that best fits. There will be a total of correct and incorrect strikes at the end.