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Websites for Beginning English Students
1. starfall.com –
Great for learning the sounds and beginning to blend sounds to make words.
The pictures on the right (the pumpkin, snowman, etc.) may be used as reward sites.
2. mes-games.com
Click on the topic in blue. There are different parts to this website, so you may want to sit with the student so he’s not lost within the site. Go to “Learn and Review” first to watch the video.
3. A few of the games on pbs.kids are picture- and one word-based. For example…
This one is a listening game. They have to click on the object that was named.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/messyattic.html
The “Quiet Machine” game is for identifying beginning sounds. I like it for beginners because each of the pictures is named one at a time.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
“Arty’s Smarty Doors” is for rhyming words.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/smartydoors.html
4. learningchocolate.com
This site is for high beginners to low intermediate learners. Most sections introduce ten or more words at a time. There isn’t any animation so is better used for third grade and higher.
5. abcya.com
I use this one mainly for the sight word bingo (on the preprimer-2 level) after students can read about 20 sight words. (I find that the graphics on their stories aren’t very clear, so I don’t recommend those. The graphics and stories are more realistic on other sites.)
6.http://www.yourchildlearns.com/letters/letter-sounds.htm
The student practices initial single-letter sounds in part 1 and initial consonant blends in part 2.
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