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Homework Home About Spelling Photo gallery Highland Creek First Grade Website Online Literacy Activities Online Math Activities Imagine It Workshop Wordly Wise Imagine It SRA HCE Nurse PBIS Scholastic Book Club Online Ordering Mrs. Mbote- Speech Calendar School Tube .com Summer Reading List About First Grade Poem Of The Month Math Investigations and Home Activities Sunshine Math DonorsChoose.org Contact me:   Membership Signup for my bulletins Site owner's login		Online Literacy Activities   Activities from Read Write Think **Word Maker** Word Families http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordmaker/ **Alphabet Organizer** http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/ **Picture Match** Beginning letter sounds, short and long vowels http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/ **What's in the Bag?** http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html **Word Wizard** A Making Words activity http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard/  Activities from Sadlier-Oxford **Long Vowel Sounds** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/long_vowel_grk1_nav.htm **High Frequency Words** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/high_fre/hifreq1.htm **Rhyming Words Memory Game** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/rhyming_k_1/hifreq.htm **Name the Pictures Short Vowels** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic1.htm **Name the Pictures Long Vowel Sounds A, I, O** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_66/long_vowel_2_3a.htm **High Frequency Words** more difficult http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/frequency/highfreq2_3.htm **Long Vowels E and U** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_76/long_vowel_2_3b.htm **Name the Picture Long Vowel Sounds** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic2.htm **R-Controlled Vowels** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/r_vowel/r_vowels.htm **R-Controlled Words** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/begin_dia2.htm **Blends** Beginning and ending consonant blends http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_106/blends.htm **Beginning Digraphs** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/begin_dia.htm **Final Digraphs" http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/final_dia.htm **Vowel Digraphs** Vowel digraphs such as oo, ea, au, aw, etc. http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/middle_dia.htm **Vowel Dipthongs ou and ow** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs.htm **Dipthongs oi, oy, and ew** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs2.htm **Fly By Contractions** http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/flyby/flyby1.htm   **Starfall.com" Excellent alphabet activities, short and long vowels, books with activities, and much more http://www.starfall.com **Between the Lions Games** Word play, vowels, word families, etc. http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ **BBC Words and Pictures** Phonics and high frequency word activities http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml The Magic Key Adventures: games about punctuation, rhyming, making sentences, etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml BBC Story Circle: Some stories are read to children (see Fairy Tales, e.g.): a lot of things here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle Blast the Rocket: Practice past tense http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/blastrocket.shtml Penguins on Ice: 3 games (Make a sentence, Which mark? and Make it Interesting) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/penguinsonice.shtml **Scholastic's Building Language for Literacy** Word sorting and rhyming http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm **Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybooks** Interactive storybooks and games http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/ **Scholastic I Spy Games** http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/play/ **Monster Hangman** http://www.scholastic.com/play/premore2play.htm Space Hangman: 5 levels of play http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacyresources/files/alpha/alpha.htm?s=44244157da **School Express Word Finds** challenging http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/wordsearch/word_finds.php **Little Animals Activity Centre Word Games** Beginning and ending sounds and rhymes http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml **BBC Story Circle** Many interactive stories (read with English accent) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle/ **Little Animals Activity Centre Storybooks** http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac//story/sbi.shtml **Down by the Bay rhyming activity** http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/english/edservices/pedresources/webquest/bay/bay.htm **Long and Short Vowel Mix & Match** http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/phonics-mm.htm **Long Vowel/Silent E Word Search http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/phonics-ws.htm **Phonics Word Builder ** Many, many games at all levels for ABCs, long and short vowels, other vowel sounds, beginning and ending sounds (including blends and digraphs) --You do not need to register in order to play the games.-- http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WordBuilder **Phonics Endings Level 1** Word families: ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics1.htm **Phonics Endings Level 2** Same word families as above http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics2.htm **Phonics Endings Level 3** Same word families as above http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics3.htm   Games from Primary Games **Slate** Practice writing upper and lowercase letters and numbers (mouse skills) http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/slate/start.htm **Treasure Trove** Contractions http://www.primarygames.com/contractions/start.htm **See 'N Spell** Spell words: short vowels, long vowels, digraphs, blends, plurals http://www.primarygames.com/see-n-spell/see-n-spell.htm **Squigly's Apples** Ordinal words http://www.primarygames.com/squigly/start.htm **Color Words Word Search** http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/word_searches/colors_/start.htm **Months of the Year Word Search** http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/word_searches/months_/start.htm **Alphabet Zoo** ABC order http://www.primarygames.com/ABC%20Zoo/start.htm **The Number Game** Match numbers to number words http://www.primarygames.com/Number%20Game/start.htm   Games from Game Goo **Paw Park Alphabet Bears** ABC Order http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark2/pawpark2.html **Tina's World** Real and Make-believe http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/tina/tina.html **Paw Park Sassy Seals** Match beginning sounds http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark3/pawpark3.html **Alien Scavenger Hunt Letter Bugs** Spell simple words http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/alien/ash.html **Monkey Business** Put words in order to make sentences http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/monkey/monkey.html **Alien Scavenger Hunt Space Trash** Spell worde http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/alien/ash.html **Alien Scavenger Hunt Space Trash** Spell words (more challenging) http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/alien2/ash2.html   Look, Cover, Write, Check Spell words http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/toftwood/lcwc.html Look Cover Write and Check http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html Similar to the previous site, but you can put in your own words to practice **Missing Letters of the Alphabet** ABC Order http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/LanguageArts/Workbook/Lang1_missingAlpha.htm **Word Magnets** Short and Long Vowels http://www.storyit.com/magnets/wmagnets.htm **Don't Wet the Bear": hangman type game with color words, number words, days of the week, etc. http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/bear/bearintro.html **First Grade Mixed-up Sentences** http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~greentown/quiz/1st1020.htm **Long Vowel Word Quiz** http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/quiz/long_vowels.htm **Same Vowel Word Quiz** http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/quiz/vowel_review.htm **Online Scrambles for K-2** http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/1stgrade/lotsofscrambles.htm **Spelling Words ABC Order** (Actually goes along with McGraw-Hill Grade 1 Book 5, but can be used by anyone for practicing ABC order.) http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/1stgrade/spellingabcorder.htm **Discovery School's Puzzlemaker** Make your own word searches and other kinds of puzzles http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Reading First games: ABC and sound practice and complete the nursery rhyme http://roe.stclair.k12.il.us/reading1st/Games/just_for_kids.htm Online Literacy Games with Roy the Zebra: punctuation, sight words, rhyming, blends, days of the week, etc. http://www.roythezebra.com (Click on ICT Games.) Molly Mix-up: Students compose a sentence. Molly Mix-up mixes it up. Another students unscrambles the words. http://www.deltamicro.co.uk/primary_online/molly.html Poetry board: Make rhyming words with a magnetic poetry board http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html Months of the year hangman http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/flash/hgmonths/months.html Word Wheels: making simple words with onsets and rimes http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfslit/WW1/ww.html Blends Word Wheels: making words with onsets and rimes http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfslit/WW2/ww2.html Reading Machine: Matching simple words with pictures http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/toftwood/machine.html Professor Garfield: Long A, nursery rhymes, counting songs http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_kbkids.html Professor Garfield Orson's Farm -- rhyming words http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/farmIntro.html Professor Garfield Reading Ring: sequencing and answering questions (more challenging) http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html *Many of these sites were provided by http://www2.boardman.k12.oh.us/bdms/golubic/onlineliteracy.htm Last update: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 10:36:22 AM Disclaimer: We have made every reasonable attempt to ensure our webpages are educationally safe and do not contain any links to any questionable materials or anything that can be deemed in violation of the CMS Internet Acceptable Use Policy. 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