Hi, what do you want to do?
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Et
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Interrogative Words #1
This site has practice with interrogatives. Get a complete list of interrogative words and choose the correct one to complete each question. The answer to each question provides the cue to the student for making the selection. Many of...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Interrogative Words #2
Great practice with interrogatives! Get a complete list of interrogative words and choose the correct one to complete each question. The answer to each question provides the cue to the student for making the selection. Many of these...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ig
Create short IG words using picture cues. Drag the initial letter sound to spell each short I word. Match pictures to make words: pig, wig, big, dig.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long O
Make a Word offers an interactive game to practice long vowel O sound. Using picture cues you will spell the words: bone, mole, nose, and robe.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ink
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control Or
Starfall's interactive word game uses picture cues to spell OR words such as fork, horn, corn, fort. You must place the appropriate initial and final sounds in the empty boxes to complete the spelling of the word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control Ar
Become a better reader. This interactive game can motivate readers. Create controlled AR words. Use picture cues by identify beginning and ending sounds to make a word.
British Council
British Council: Paint It! (Learn Basic English Words)
Learn the words for colors, for parts of the face, for shapes, for sea creatures, for types of clothing, for household objects, and for types of moving vehicles. Excellent reinforcement using audio and picture cues.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: En
Create words using short vowel E. Identify beginning sounds using pictures to build words.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: At
Use initial sounds to build words. Match AT sound pictures words.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on cognates, words from different languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings. It shows ways that people who are in foreign countries can function by finding similar signs and words.
Starfall
Starfall: Garden Shop
Interactive games identifying letter sounds using picture cues. Sequencing and word families are emphasized. Other links include audio books and short videos.
Read Works
Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Starfall
Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.
Other
Crossroads Education: Context Clues Chart
A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Mnemonics
A mnemonic is an instructional strategy designed to help students improve their memory of important information. This technique connects new learning to prior knowledge through the use of visual and/or acoustic cues. The basic types of...
Curated OER
Interrogatives
Great practice with interrogatives! Get a complete list of interrogative words and choose the correct one to complete each question. The answer to each question provides the cue to the student for making the selection. Many of these...