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Free Reading

Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities

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

Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Origins & Meanings of Foreign Words & Phrases: English Ii Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will be introduced to selective lists of words. These words can help enrich your language, deepen your understanding of what you read, and broaden your sense of the world.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity

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

Ab Cya: Out of Sight Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
Out of Sight Words is a beautiful, quirky game that allows children to practice their knowledge of sight words! Kids have to read the sight word, and then find its corresponding image in the fun illustrations. Simply click on the word at...
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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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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Games: What's Your Favorite Word?

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is a group of favorite word activities: find words from lists and create a message to send, watch favorite word videos, read the favorite word of the day, and send in your own favorite word.
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long U

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letter U with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
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ICT Games

Ict Games: High Frequency Word Bingo

For Students K - 1st Standards
Download word lists and bingo cards, then choose a list of high-frequency words to play this game.
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Other

Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 2

For Students 2nd Standards
This site is a listing of a variety of worksheets for second-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension, and revision.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Predictable Story Books

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Several examples of predictable books are listed and organized according to type. In addition to providing titles of children's books, this resource lists related titles for young adult readers. The bibliography includes several...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quiz asks students to read a sentence and type the correct word, from the pair given, into the box and click "answer' to see if they are correct. Links are provided to a tutorial, a list of quizzes, and "Guide to Grammar and Writing."
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Og

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
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McREL International

Mc Rel: 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A quick list of the 100 most frequent words in books for beginning readers. An excellent resource to print and give to parents to practice site words with students!
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long I

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letter I with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long E

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letters "ee" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
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Other

Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Dolch Sight Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides a variety of dolch-sight words spelling list for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and lists of dolch nouns. List can be tested, taught or played as a game on-line.
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Other

Spelling Words well.com: 102 Frequently Misspelled Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A list of 102 frequently misspelled words followed by a short quiz and links to helpful resources.
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Things for Esl Japanese Version

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...