Curated OER
Around the World
Learners play an Around the World game in order to read Dolch words. In this Dolch words lesson plan, the teacher holds up a Dolch word card and the first student to say the word moves on. This is played in pairs.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Deeper Reading Response a Template for Teachers
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to express and perform responses to reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in learners' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Split Stomp, Segmenting Syllables Activity
A classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
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....
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 1: Haunted House
Solve the mystery of Dr. Know It All's magic elixir by searching for clue words and filling in the missing parts of his journal.
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Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 3: Out at Sea
Dr. Know It All is hiding on a ship. Find the clues and fill in the missing words in his journal to find him.
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Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 4: Escape Through Time
Travel through time looking for Dr. Know It All. Look for clues, fill in the missing words in the journal to find him, and then solve some simple puzzles to follow the doctor through time.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teacher: Harry Potter Brings Magic Into the Classroom
Here is a list of lesson plan ideas for teachers to accompany the Harry Potter series.
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Og
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 2: Under the Big Top
Dr. Know It All has stolen the words from the books in the library and has run off to the circus. Find the clues, fill in the missing words in his journal to catch him, and get the words back where they belong.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Full Stop Game 4 (Advanced)
This reading game presents young readers with a three-sentence passage. They are to read it, determine where they need to come to a full stop, and click and drag a snail to that spot. The snail spins and makes a period. They can undo and...
English Zone
English Zone: Elephants
After reading this informative article about elephants, students will hone their reading comprehension skills by answering a series of related questions.
Phil Tulga
Phil Tulga: Inference Riddles: Inference Riddle Game
In this game, students are asked to infer what is being described. They click on "Press to Show a Clue" revealing a line of the riddle until they have an idea of what is being described; next, they type their guess into the "Make a...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words That Rhyme With Ten
This reading game focuses on words that rhyme. Young readers click on stars and words appear. The readers then pick the words that rhyme with ten and drag the words into the Rhino's thought cloud.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words That Rhyme With Hill
This reading game focuses on words that rhyme. Young readers click on stars and words appear. The readers then pick the words that rhyme with hill and drag the words into the Rhino's thought cloud.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Zara's Capital Letter Game 1
This reading game focuses on beginning capital letters. Young readers drag a looking glass to where a capital letter needs to be, and the letter becomes capitalized. Then they drag a puzzle piece to Zara's dream cloud. The game continues...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Zed's Capital Letter Game 1
This reading game focuses on capital letters. Young readers drag a looking glass to where a capital letter needs to be, and the letter becomes capitalized. There are multiple capital letters needed and the same number of looking glasses....