ABCya
Ab Cya: Out of Sight Words
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...
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....
Free Reading
Free Reading
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Origins & Meanings of Foreign Words & Phrases: English Ii Reading
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.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Games: What's Your Favorite Word?
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.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
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.
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...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
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....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: List Group Label
It provides students with a way to recognize the relationships between words and concepts using their prior knowledge about a topic. The list-group-label strategy can be used before and after students read.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long U
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...
DLTK
Kid Zone Language Arts: Dolch Word Lists and Flashcards
This site offers Dolch words lists and flashcards from pre-K to third grade.
ICT Games
Ict Games: High Frequency Word Bingo
Download word lists and bingo cards, then choose a list of high-frequency words to play this game.
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.
Other
Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 2
This site is a listing of a variety of worksheets for second-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension, and revision.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bl to the Ends (Blends) Game
This activity introduces letter blends both with index cards/flashcards and reenforcement with students highlighting the blends on individual word lists.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary
This vocabulary development tool for students features a matching exercise that shows pictures of common items of common kitchen utensils. Students match correct word with picture from a drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score can be...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Dolch Sight Words
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.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Dolch Sight Word List
This activity collection allows students to master the concepts of sight words through games, flash cards and a test. A voice reads, spells and uses each word in a sentence to ensure comprehension. Flash cards can be printed.
Other
Spelling Words well.com: 102 Frequently Misspelled Words
A list of 102 frequently misspelled words followed by a short quiz and links to helpful resources.
McREL International
Mc Rel: 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers [Pdf]
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!