Lang Arts

1. Alphabet Bears at Paw Park - click and drag the bears into alphabetical order so they can take a ride.
2. Alphabet Book - Garfield the Cat introduces the alphabet. Use these letter booklets to identify letters, identify phoneme, write the letter and more!
3. Color Match Activity - Find the matching color to locate the bear's Honey Pot.
4. Contraction Match - matching contractions with meanings
5. Disney Story time - Read a story or hear a story.
6. Dolch Sight Words - Pre-Primer - Click on the word and hear it read to you.
7. Dolch Sight Words - Primer - Click on the word and hear it read to you.
8. Dolch Sight Words - 1st Grade - Click on the word and hear it read to you.
9. Dolch Sight Words - Listen to a word, find it in the list, and drag it next to the speaker
10. Dolch Word Printables - pre-primer through third grade
11. Dolch Word Games - Reading Games
12. Dolch Word Kit - everything you need to help your students read, practice books, flash cards, and more!
13. Dolch Word Site - Multi links to Dolch word lists and activities pre-K through 3rd grade.
14. Dr. Seuss - Celebrate Read Across America with Dr. Seuss. Lesson ideas and activities using his books are found here.
15. Following Directions - Whole class activity. Dress Teddy. Teacher reads the sentence and student clicks the mouse until the clothes match the sentence the teacher read to them.
16. Following Directions - Whole class activity. Make an Animal. Teacher reads the sentence and student clicks the mouse until the clothes match the sentence the teacher read to them.
17. Free Books - print these for your students
18. Gingerbread Man - Detailed Lesson plan with activities and a book to print to go along with lesson.
19. Interactive Books and Word Games - from Starfall
20. Integrated Reading and Content Area Lessons - lessons with technology components. This is from the Early Childhood Technology Literacy program of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
21. Junior Web - This is a site with many activities. All the activities are on this main page and you will have to choose which activity you wish and then play. May be better used as a whole class activity lesson.
22. Kindergarten Lang Arts Lesson Plans - lessons, activities, worksheets, and more!
23. Kizclub - Phonics pages, ABC pages, Stories to read, activities to print and more.
24. Lil' Fingers Storybook Over a dozen stories and a coloring activities page also. Very good for use of beginning reading after students have read stories in class. Repetition of words, easy to memorize. Usage of Dolch words.
25. Months of the Year - Sing along animated song
26. Nursery Rhymes - Everything from "Ants Go Marching" to "Yankee Doodle." You will also find information on teaching rhymes and incorporating rhymes into other lessons. This site also features printouts to color and read.
27. Nursery Rhymes - There are many lessons to be learned from Nursery Rhymes, many things to talk about. You can learn something about being a good citizen when you do. Very good interactive site for whole class discussions.
28. Phonics Inventory - Students need to be individually assessed so that they can be grouped according to instructional needs. That is the purpose of the tool. Check your students for their phoneme readiness for reading.
29. Picture Sentences - worksheets which can be used as a class teaching tool - Look at the picture. Tell which sentence tells about the picture. Good for beginning readers. Also a section on Look and Write. Look at the picture and write a sentence that describes the picture.
30. Print and Read books - many books to choose from; K-3 [not available 4/1/08]
31. Reading Games to Print for School or Home - Printouts to create many games to use in school or at home.
32. Reading - from the Santa Maria Bonita School District; K, 1st, 2nd and 3rd ideas, activities, worksheets and more!
33. Read Like you Talk - The lessons are designed for two people working together - a learner and a parent, teacher, friend or tutor.They teach the learner that words are symbols for real objects or ideas and that by changing or adding words, the idea or picture changes
34. Real or Make Believe - Sometimes children have trouble learning the difference between real and make believe. This site help children discover the difference!
35. Rhyming - Reproducible rhyming selections - These can be used for a shared reading experience. After, they can be made into a reproducible reading book for the children to read and take home.
36. Same and Different - Click on the three things that are different in the second picture on the right. Many different pictures and matches. A good beginning site to teach little ones same and different. A Fisher-Price site.
37. Sequencing - print pictures for students to put in order
38. Sequencing Pictures - Print these visuals for There Was an Old Lady that Swallowed a Fly to do a cute classroom activity.
39. Sequencing Picture Stories - many to select from. Great for learning to sequence! Click on the section that says "The Right Order"
40. Sequencing Sentences - Monkey Business - For beginner readers. By using your mouse, put the words in the sentence in order so Monkey can cross the bridge. You might want to secure some headphones before using this site.
41. Spelling Strategies from Scholastic - strategies that integrate spelling into your reading and writing curriculum and help your students to improve their spelling skills
42. Spelling
    1. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
    2. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
    3. Fearless Frieda - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
    4. Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts with four letter words in this game. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
    5. Spelling Words - Click the letters in a word and then put the letters in order, like refrigerator magnets!
43. Synonym Match - [concentration style matching activity] find the two words that have the same meaning
44. Story-It - Stories to read and stories to write. Many story starters, picture story starters and more.
45. Vocabulary Building Game- WordPlay - Build up your student's vocabulary with visuals to help remember sight words.
46. Vocabulary Quiz - Easy - match word with picture
47. Word Match - Place words on pictures; turns green if correct. Fruits ; Vegetables
48. Words and Pictures - games and activities from the BBC to make learning phonics fun
49. Word Wall Activities - A word wall is a systematically organized collection of words displayed in large letters on a wall or other large display place in the classroom. It is a tool to use, not just display. Word walls are designed to promote group learning and be shared by a classroom of children. Check here for ideas on how to use your word wall interactively.
50. Word Wall Chants - wonderful ideas on how to utilize your word walls.
51. Word Wall charts - From pre-primer to third grade. These individual words with figure ground boxes around them can be printed out and placed all over your classroom. Excellent resource.

1. Acorn Drop - Player must successfully discriminate between two tones. This type of discrimination is a fundamental of understanding spoken language.
2. Bumper Cows - A version of the Simon Says game. Listen to the sequence and click on the correct order. Shockwave needed.
3. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
4. Dominos - A phoneme game where dominos are matched according to the phoneme sounds.
5. Frog Jump - Player must pair like sounds to allow frog to jump from lily pad to lily pad to reach his home. Shockwave is needed.
6. Hatch and Match - Listen to the sounds as you click on the eggs and find the matching egg.
7. KidzClub - In the Stories area, words are highlighted in red as they are read [not available 3/16/08]
8. Listening Test - Listen to the spoken word and click on the correct picture that matches the word.
9. Memory - Different words are spoken. Find the window that has the matching word.
10. Monkey Juggle - Click on the banana that has a different sound from the others! Get a banana split as a reward! If you miss, you get broccoli!
11. Orson's Waller Blending- Phoneme Blending - Match word that Orson says to the object.
12. Phonemic Segments - HayLoft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made.
13. Tone-o-Matic - Click on the lights that match the tone. If you are right, you get a nugget!
14. Weep Woop - Two sounds are given. There is a sequence of sound and child responds using arrows to indicate what is heard, a critical ability for accurate speech perception. Shockwave needed.
15. What do you hear? - Listen to what is said and click on the correct picture. many categories to select, numbers, clothing, etc.

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