An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...

Help the bees collect words that rhyme with "bug" by clicking on the bees to see the words and drag the rhyming words into the nests.

Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different...

Come one, come all! The Turtle Dash is a multi-player game against friends of the computer that challenges your knowledge and speed to match vowel blends with consonants to form words. Match everything quickly and accurately to win the...

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...

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.

Help the bees collect words that rhyme with top by clicking on the bees, finding the words that rhyme with top, and dragging them to the nest. Links to lesson plans and materials are available.

How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.

A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.

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.

A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.

Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.

Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division rules to guide us. It all starts with the vowels. Find the vowels in the word. It helps to underline or...

Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...

Practice spelling common Consonant Vowel Consonant words in this game-style interactive activity.

Help Belinda the Chicken collect her fruit by clicking on the apples, finding the ones that rhyme with cat, and dragging them to her house. Links to lesson plans and printable materials are available.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ge", "dge", etc. Students will choose to sound out words, see words sounded out, see words with pictures with and without sounds, and see...

This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...

This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Princess Pea read aloud the following: initial vowel sounds, initial consonant sounds, and/or words with emphasized initial vowel or consonant sounds. Then...

A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....

A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.

Practice reading and writing words with the consonant - vowel - consonant spelling pattern. Then, select the vowel and the endings to review a variety of patterns.

At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to blend a consonant vowel and consonant to make a word. Included are instructional videos, activities, printable worksheets, an assessment, and extension activity.

An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.