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Mark's English School Online: Esl Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
A commendable teacher-created site by an American ESL educator based in Japan. Includes a nice variety of ESL/EFL games for younger students for learning the past tense or verb usage playing basketball, punctuation playing golf, or new...
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Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...
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Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.

For Teachers K - 1st
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
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Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Ict Games: Dinosaurs Eggs Phonics

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game for students to practice elementary vocabulary and spelling. Choose from a list of patterns. Listen to the word and choose the egg that correctly spells the word that was said. Receive a certificate with words you know well and...
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Got Kids Games: Magic Phonics Wizard: Find the Wizard

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a phonics game in which students listen to a sound and then click on all of the words containing that sound. If they make three mistakes, they must start over. When finished, they find the magic wizard.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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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.
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Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Young scholars stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Phonics Scramble Games

For Students K - 1st Standards
Phonics Scramble Games includes eight games from which the students can choose, such as "Short A Sound". They are given a picture and a scrambled word. They are to drag the letter blocks to spell the word correctly, check their answer,...
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Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

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

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