English Language Arts
Reading Foundations
Word Blender from BBC
Make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rhyme) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if you're right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that don't exist. Three levels of difficulty: simple cvc words, words with related blends, digraphs and end blends, and more complex start and end blends, 3 letter blends, blends with digraphs, irregular words.
Poem Pack from BBC featuring long vowel sounds
Ten colourful, animated poems with voice over and activities that include finding long vowel sound words and filling in the blank with words. Poems can also be printed for student sheets as activities done on projector.
Arty's Smarty Doors from Between the Lions
Doors and More Store
Students must open doors to find a word picture that rhymes with the given word.
Delightful and Dandy Doors
Find words that start with the same sound as a given sound.
Vowel Digraph Games from KizPhonics
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More Vowel Digraph Games from KizPhonics
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Car Race from StarFall
ar controlled activity from Star Fall
ar Song from Between the Lions
My Horse Glory from StarFall
Word Sorting r controlled vowels from StarFall
Antonyms and Synonyms from ABCya
Synonym Sam's Lab from Between the Lions
Which One from Learning Games for Kids
Word Frog from Arcademics
Furious Frogs from Arcademics
Name the Picture Short Vowels from Sadlier-Oxford
Letter Sounds Short Vowel Activities from Owl and Mouse Software
The Doctor's Line A poem and activities featuring i-e words.
Ice Cream Cake A poem and activities featuring a-e words.
Construct a Word from Read, Write, Think
Spicy Hot Colors from Between the Lion
This activity creates new words by changing initial consonant and word endings.
Primary Games Magnetic Letters Activity
Professor Garfield Mix and Match
Sandcastle Digraphs from BBC
Easy Reader Books from Professor Garfield
Entertaining stories in pdf format to practice sight words in engaging contexts. There are two versions of these stories available. The first is unedited and can be used to gain familiarity with the text. The “altered version” gives students the ability to fill in the blank with the correct sight words. Word flash cards and game cards available
Star Words from BBC, high frequency words
Students must match high frequency words with shapes in space.
Second Grade Sight Words, Talking Chart
Dolch Second Grade Matching Game
Vocabulary Memorization Cards from freeology.com
Write the word, part of speech and the definition. Then draw a picture or symbol of the meaning. Lastly, students write their own sentence using the word.
Learn to Read from StarFall
Three options: Play, Read, and Skills
Poetry
Shel Silverstein Poems Animations
Author's Purpose
Sequencing
Binky Barnes Sequencing Stories
Story Sequencer from Crickweb
Sequencing Fun, Students must put sentences in order to reveal a picture
Writing
Interactive Venn Diagram from Read, Write, Think
Generate clear, well-formatted Venn Diagrams by naming project and labeling Circle 1 and Circle 2. Generating concepts that can be placed on the diagram by clicking and dragging them with the mouse.
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
This simple labelling activity can be used for two scenes, playground or busy street, as a backdrop for their scene. Lesson Plan available also.
Aliens, They Came from Outerspace from Crickweb
This site lets students write conversations in bubbles and then print. Students could write the dialogue or purpose.
Days with Frog and Toad, Compare Contrast
Give Em a Hand Graphic Organizer from Freeology
Question Mark from Freeology
Who, What When, Where, Why and How.
Emoji Random Writing Prompt Generator
This Google Sheet generates random sets of emojis that can serve as writing prompts. You can use them in a story, poem, or other creative writing project. To view the emoji writing prompts, click the tabs at the bottom of the Google Sheet.
Grammar Practice
Monkey Interactive Grammar Games
Grammar Games from Crickweb
Play Your Caps Right from BBC
BrainPop Contractions Movie
Go for Grammar Gold for Harcourt
Multiple Choice quizzes covering various grammar skills (could use clickers in verbal mode or Insight 360 with iPads).
Grammar Blast from Houghton Mifflin
Editing
Edit Dan's Copy from Scholastic
This can be challenging. Students are given a sentence and must retype the sentence with corrections. Level 1 is for capitalization.
Penguins On Ice from BBC
Three activities: Make a Sentence, Which Mark, and Make it Interesting
Students must create sentences from mixed up words, find the correct punctuation, and make it more interesting.
Online Picture Dictionary