Free Reading
Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: Numbers: Count to 10
On this interactive site students learn to count to the number 10, represent numbers from 0 to 10, and demonstrate one-to-one correspondence when counting.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
BBC
Bbc: One Year On: Kabila Assassination
BBC correspondent Mark Dummett looks back on Laurent Kabila's assassination and what has occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo since his death. (January 16, 2002)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Consonant Sound Concentration Game
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a concentration game that focuses on hard and soft g/c consonant sounds. It can be used a class activity or a center.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
Other
Target Tests and Target Lessons That Teach Phonics
This site has simple lessons that use images and everyday words to demonstrate the usage of diphthongs, regular vowels, and irregular vowels. Click on on one of the "Phonics Lessons," to prepare for one of the corresponding tests.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jack London
Lesson plans, e-notes, activities, and other resources are provided for teaching students reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild and his other works.
Other
The Stoa Consortium: The City Eleusinion
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of the ancient Athenians. As the urban "branch" of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, the City Eleusinion played a key role in the initial...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Oliver H. Kelley Homestead
The Oliver H. Kelley Homestead is a historic farmstead once owned by Oliver Hudson Kelley, one of the founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Oliver Kelley moved to Minnesota in 1849, the year that Minnesota Territory was formed....
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...