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ABCya

Ab Cya: Out of Sight Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
Out of Sight Words is a beautiful, quirky game that allows children to practice their knowledge of sight words! Kids have to read the sight word, and then find its corresponding image in the fun illustrations. Simply click on the word at...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
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Free Reading

Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
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Other

Santa Monica College: Words Commonly Confused

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of commonly confused words with practice activities to help in learning how to use them correctly.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Origins & Meanings of Foreign Words & Phrases: English Ii Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will be introduced to selective lists of words. These words can help enrich your language, deepen your understanding of what you read, and broaden your sense of the world.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where learners generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Games: What's Your Favorite Word?

For Students K - 1st Standards
This is a group of favorite word activities: find words from lists and create a message to send, watch favorite word videos, read the favorite word of the day, and send in your own favorite word.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Learning Vocabulary Down by the Bay

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for six lessons that teach students Dolch high-frequency sight words using songs and activities. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the learners' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vocabulary Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the need to look up vocabulary words when given a list from an assigned reading to help better understand the text. It offers a literary example of such a list. This information is provided in text and in audio...
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Vocabulary.com

The New Sat: Language of the Test List #1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 25 words from the directions and the questions on the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Abc Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Six 50-minute lessons build vocabulary through the content areas by making an ABC book. It can become a classroom resource. Links include a non-fiction book list, checklist, word list, rubric, and a storyboard chart. There is also a link...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: List Group Label

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It provides students with a way to recognize the relationships between words and concepts using their prior knowledge about a topic. The list-group-label strategy can be used before and after students read.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long U

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letter U with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
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DLTK

Kid Zone Language Arts: Dolch Word Lists and Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers Dolch words lists and flashcards from pre-K to third grade.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 1

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.