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Here are Links to
Websites and Fun Games to "build on"!
On this page you will find many links to websites that will address the ELA skills that we have been learning about in school. This is a brief list. Keep checking back! There will be many more! Enjoy!
ABC Order:
- "How the Alphabet Got its Order" video
- Alphabet Adventures
- Magic Bill
- Alphabetize through third letter
- Alphabet Book Game
- Roy the Zebra ABC order games
- Sort the Words in ABC order
- Dictionary skills- guide words
- Thesaurus ABC order
- Order Me Around-put words in ABC order
- ABCD Watermelon- game- easy intro
- Alphabet Zoo
- Short a words (Spelling City)
- Short e words (Spelling City)
- Short i words (Spelling City)
- Short o words (Spelling City)
- Short u words (Spelling City)
Abbreviations:
A or an:
Adjectives:
- Adjective Detectives
- All About Adjectives
- Infinite articles -a, an
- Adjective Crossword Puzzle
- "Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal" Song/Video
- "Good, Better, Best" Video
- "Brave, Braver, Bravest" Video
- "Noise, Noisier, Noisiest" Video
- "Tasty, Tastier, Tastiest" Video
- The Good, Better, Best Trampolini Game
- Add an Adjective (Fill in the Blank)
- Word Hunt- find a word to describe
- Grammar Blast - Adjectives
- Choosing Adjectives- fill in the blank
- Blast the Rocket
- Blustery Day of Adjectives (what type)
Aesop's Fables:
Antonyms & Synonyms:
- Antonym Matchups
- Antonym Columns
- Antonym Puzzles
- Antonym Memory Blast
- Squwanky the Tooth Taker's Quest for Opposites
- 2 Column Matchup Game
- Opposite Train Game
- Land of the Rocket (antonym/synonym/homonym)
- Antonym Pull Down Game
- Antonym Jeopardy
- Antonym Frog
- "Opposite Bunny" -Between the Lions songs/videos
- "Hopposites" Game- the Opposite Bunny
- Rocket to the Moon- identify synonyms & antonyms
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Word Frog- Synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
- Synonym- Matching Word Golf
- Synonym Challenge
- Synonym Toast
- Synonym Unicorn Game
- Synonyms- Feed the Bigbots
- Synonyms for Said
- Synonym Sam's Lab Game
- Synonym Field Trip to the Science Center
Blend & Digraphs:
- Chunking song/video
- Initial Blend Fill-in game (bl, gl, pl, fl, cl, sl)
- Digraph Fill in (ch, sh, th, wh)
- Beginning Digraphs
- Ending Digraphs
- Sassy Seals
- Consonant Blends
- "ph" Song/Video-Between the Lions
- "sh" Song/Video-Between the Lions
- "ch" Song/Video "We Choose to Cha Cha Cha"
- "ch" Song/Video "Good Bye Chick"
- "ch/sh" Tongue Twister
- Wordblender Game
- Ending Consonants
- Blends-initial
- Making and Breaking Words with Blends
- Salty Sam Phoneme Game-all
- Magic Pencil Phoneme Game-all
- Activity Sheets to Print at Home (-ck, -ll, -ss, -ff, digraphs, clusters)
- Missing Sounds- shows blend- figure out vowel
Capitalization:
- Robot Guy
- Proofreading Activity
- Complete Proofreading
- Monkey Match- match capital letters and lowercase
- Left to Right - How to Write Video
- Grammar Blast - Capitalization & Punctuation
- Lug and the Giant Stork
- Paw Island
- QUIA- Rags to Riches
Compound Words:
- Build a Snowman
- Compound Word Creator
- Gus & Inky's Underwater Adventure
- Compound Word Match up
- Compound Word Builder
- Compound Word Builder 2
- Divide the Compound Words
- Compound Word Match up Game-Animals
- Compound Word Match up Game- Transportation
- Compound Word Match up Game- General
- Compound Word Game (easy)
Contractions:
- Fly By!
- Contractions
- Contraction Matchups
- Bulldozer Contractions
- Contraction Crossword
- QUIA Contraction Games
- Type the Contractions
- Bed Full of Cats Game
- Is, Am, Are contractions
- "I Love Contractions"- song/video Between the Lions
- Contraction Typing Game
- Contraction Memory Game
- Contractions- Which One?
- Contractions- Which One? Part 2
- Where Does the Apostrophe Go?
- Contraction Basketball
- Treasure Trove
- Contraction Quiz
- Contraction Teaching Site
CVC- District Foundational Skills Sites:
- 3 Letter House
- CVC Maker
- CVC Pop
- Drag and Drop CVC Words
- Magic Pencil
- Clifford - Make a Word
- Pounce on the Right Word
- Put It On the Shelf
- Whirly Word Machine
- Sight Word Bingo- Dolch
District Foundational Skills Sites:
- Chicken Stacker- Vowels
- Drag and Spell- Long Vowel Rules
- Missing Sounds- Blends and short vowels
- Picture Match- Long and Short Vowels
Fact or Opinion:
Fairy Tales:
Homophones/Homonyms:
- Super Match Game
- Memory Game
- Word Jungle
- Their, There, and They're Game
- To, Too, Two Game
- QUIA Homophone Game
- Our, Hour, Are Game
- "Homophones" song/video- Between the Lions
- "Many Meanings of Cool"- song/video- BTL
- "Miniscule" song/video
- "Fabulous" song/video
- "Humongous" song/video
- Homonym Match up
- Homophone Car Rally- Pick the right word
- Regan the Vegan Word Confusion
Idioms:
Nouns/Verbs:
- Noun/Verb Sorting Game
- World Class Nouns
- Grammar Blast - nouns and pronouns
- Grammar Gorillas-noun/verb
- Proper Nouns
- Noun Explorer
- Interactive Nouns
- Possessive Noun Cave
- School of Fish Plural Noun Game
- Noun Plural Play
- Plural Girls
- Fly By Plural Nouns
- See n' Spell
- Slam Dunk Nouns- common and proper
- Plural Noun Matching Game
- Plural Noun Construction
- Plural Rules (for Parents)
- Plurals (-s, -es, -ies)
- Adding -s Song/Video (plurals)-Between the Lions
- Irregular Plural Noun Matchup
- Irregular Plurals
- Irregular Plurals Matchup -os/-oes
- Clean Up Your Grammar - determine noun or verb
- Blast the Rocket- Past Tense Verbs
- Correct the verb and noun usage in sentences
- Verb - Past and Future Matchup
- Verb Ride - Past tense
- Verb Word Play- see the verb move!
- Grammar Blast -Verbs
- Monster Truck Verbs
- Space Verbs- Pick the right verb
- QUIA - Irregular Verbs
- Verb Viper -subject/verb agreement
- Irregular Verbs
- Irregular Verbs 3
- Covered Wagon Ride - verbs
- Past Tense Target Practice- Typing Game
- To Bee or not To Bee (choose helping verb)
- Verb Power - Type of Verb (4th grade)
- Fantastic Flight- Type of Verb (4th grade)
Parts of Speech Review:
Phonics:
- Wild West Phonics
- The Quiet Machine- initial sound in words
- Between the Lions-Letter Songs/videos
- 2 sounds for g video/song
- 2 sounds for c video/song
- "City Country Rap"-2 sounds for c video/song
- "Rocket Doodle-Doo" (r) song/video
Poetry:
- Between the Lions- Poem Videos
- "If You Were a..."- songs/videos
- Tongue Twisters- video
- Starfall Poetry
Pronouns:
- Pronoun Clubhouse
- Interactive Pronouns
- Traveling Pronoun
- Pronoun Agreement Car Rally
- Grammar Blast - Nouns and Pronouns
- Life on the Pronoun Reef
- Using I and Me
- Using he, she, it, they
- Pronoun Toss
Punctuation:
- Full Stop Wizards
- Alien Punctuation
- Grammar Blast- Find correct sentence
- Proofreading Activity
- Trapped-- fun but challenging!
- "There's a Gorilla" -Add punctuation song/video
- Doggie Ending Punctuation
- Adding Commas in a Note
- Happy Ending-Predict what the punctuation should be
- Grammar Blast
- Sentence Clubhouse - type of sentence
- Dragon Land- Questions
- Penguins on Ice- What punctuation should you use?
- Sentence Sort - type of sentence
- Robot Guy
- Paw Island
- Camping with Quotations and Commas
Resources/ Dictionary Skills/Genres/Strategies:
- "Look it Up" video/song- Between the Lions
- Genre song/video- Between the Lions
- "Surfing the Web"- song/video
- "Got a Good Reason to Read"- Between the Lions
- "Got a Good Reason to Write"- Between the Lions
- Categorizing "Vegetables" Between the Lions
- Categorizing "Flood!"- Game
- Reader's Theater- Dozens of Plays
Rhyming:
Rules:
Syllables:
- Syllable Video
- Syllable Video 2
- Break it up! (divide words into syllables)
- Break it up! (very challenging)
- Syllable Roller Coaster
- Word Jumbler
- Syllable Games- Foundational
Suffixes/Prefixes:
Vowels: (Dipthongs)
- ou/ow- easy
- ou/ow- figure out which one to use
- ou/ow- Sandcastle Game
- ou/ow- Look, Cover, Write, Check
- oi/oy/ew
- oi/oy- Sandcastle Game
- oi/oy- Look, Cover, Write, Check
- /oo/ digraph
- /oo/, u - Sandcastle Game
- /oo/ Man in the Moon Poem-video
- "Double o Heaven" song/video
- Double o-/oo/ Song/Video- Between the Lions
- /oo/ Sentence Fill-ins
- Vowel Digraphs
- au/augh/aw Sandcastle Game
- Vowel Fill in (ai, ee, ie, oa, oi)
Short Vowels:
- Brain Pop Jr.- Vowels
- Word Magnets- Foundational
- "Consonant Party"- video- Vowels needed
- Short Vowel Sounds
- Picture Match
- Short a- Short or not?
- Short a- Word Match
- Short a- Word Search
- Short a- Grubby Pup Song- Foundational
- Short a- Practice Sheet Game- Foundational
- Short e- Video/Song "Sven Said e" Between the Lions
- Short e- Practice Sheet Game- Foundational
- Short e- Word match (Spelling City)
- Short e- Short or not?
- Short e- Word Search
- Short i- Short or Not
- Short i- Practice Sheet Game- Foundational
- Short i- Word Search
- Short i- Word Match
- Short o- Short ot not?
- Short o- Practice Sheet Game- Foundational
- Short o- Word Match
- Short o- Word Search
- Short o- Video/Song "Sloppy Pop" Between the Lions
- Short u- Video/Song "Grubby Pup" Between the Lions
- Short u- Practice Sheet Game- Foundational
- Short u- Wall match up (Spelling City)
- Short u- Short or not?
- Short u- Word Search
- Chicken Stacker- short vowel game
- Starfall- short vowel stories
- Word Machines
Long Vowels:
- Brain Pop Jr.- Vowels
- Word Magnets- Foundational
- Circus Builder
- Picture Match- Foundational
- Snap It- Foundational
- Starfall- long vowel stories
- Clifford Concentration
- VOWEL BOOT CAMP: man/main video
- VOWEL BOOT CAMP: not/note video
- Long and Short Vowel Match- Foundational
- Long Vowel Sounds
- Long a Drag and Drop- Foundational
- /ay/ Birthday Day Poem-video- Foundational
- /ai/ Daisy the Snail Poem-video- Foundational
- /ai/ Arty Smarty Pants- rain/train video
- /ai/ Arty Smarty Pants- snail/nail video
- Lonely Vowels Song- /e/, /o/
- Long e Drag and Drop- Foundational
- /ee/ Meet the Creeps Poem- video- Foundational
- /ea/ Meal by the Sea Poem-video- Foundational
- /ea/ Blending Bowl- video
- /ea, ee/ - Look, Cover, Write, Check
- /ee/ "Double e" song/video- Between the Lions
- /ee/ Pete's Sheep- read along story
- Long i Drag and Drop- Foundational
- /igh/ Marching Through the Night Poem-video- Foundational
- /igh/ - Look, Cover, Write, Check
- /igh/ "Mighty Star Lion"-song/video-BTL
- /igh/ "Gawain's Word:night" video
- /i-e/ The Doctor's Line Poem-video- Foundational
- /ine/ Blending Bowl- video
- Long O Drag and Drop- Foundational
- /oa/ Toad and the Goat Poem-video
- /oa/ "Soap Boat" read along story
- Long o- "Home is Where Long O is" song/video
- Word Sort /oa/ /ai/ /ea/
- Long U Drag and Drop- Foundational
- Vowel Fill in (ai, ee, ie, oa, oi)
- 2 Vowels Song
- i before e except after c (explanation video)
- 2 Vowels Song-Vowel Teams
- 2 Vowels Go Walking Song/Video-Between the Lions
- Dragon Vowel Phoneme Game
- /y/=Long I - I Spy a Little Fly Poem-video- Foundational
- Y as a Vowel (Y TV) Song/Video
- Y is a Vowel story and minivideo
Vowels: Evil e:
- The Amazing Silent e video
- Evil e- Ice Cream Cake Poem-video
- Evil e - Look, Cover, Write, Check
- Sky Ride- Read along story
- Jake's Tale- read along story
- Dune Buggy- read along story
Vowels: r Controlled (vowel + r)
- r-controlled Vowels
- /ar/ song/video- Between the Lions
- /ar/ song/video- "Dance in the Smarty Pants"
- /ar/ "Car Race" read along story
- are, air, ear Sandcastle Game
- er/ir/ur Sandcastle Game
- er/ir/ur- Surfer Girl read along story
- er/ir/or- Look, Cover, Write, Check
- eer, ear, ere Sandcastle Game
- /or/ Picture Search- center activity
- /or/ "My Horse Glory" read along story
- ar/or/ir Word Sort - center activity
- Write a Postcard- Foundational
Word Families:
- Construct a Word
- -ing song/video -Between the Lions
- "Get Your Mouth Moving -at" song/video
- "Ten Little Words" Song-Video- Between the Lions
- "Arty Smarty Pants: ants/pants" Between the Lions
- Dubs Cubs- Word Family Game
- -ink Making and Breaking Words- Starfall
- Blending Bowl Game
- Alphabet Soup- making words game
- Fuzzy Lion Ears- game- find missing letters
- Pounce! Game- find the word
- Word Family Games- Starfall
- Word Families- Foundational
- Word Family Sort- Foundational