Phonics

Links verified on 7/31/09

An adult might need to explain some instructions to 1st Grade students for the activities below

1. AR song - Learn about AR (need Quicktime)
2. CVC Maker - Word Play- Make words and put them on Word list, then read them back. and Word Match - Match word shown by using arrows by the letters.
3. Beginning Sounds - interactive sites - click on as red dot and then choose the beginning consonant for the pictures.
4. Beginning and ending sounds - Teacher selects for the student out of multiple games - digraphs - concentration style games
5. Blends Word Wheel - look at the clue at the bottom and then press each wheel to form the word's beginning and ending sound.
6. Ending Consonants - interactive sites - click on as red dot and then choose the ending consonant for the pictures.
7. Froggy Phonemes - create CVC words with the frogs. Sound out the word you create.
8. Fun Fonix - select one of three games and then play
9. Learn to Read - Starfall - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
10. Letter Sounds - click on a letter to see six pictures, click on the three pictures that begin with the letter you selected, you can continue to select letters to do this activity again
11. Match of Mystery - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern.
12. Middle Digraphs - click on the correct middle digraphs
13. Missing Word - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
14. Phoneme Checker - click on a tab and then listen to the various phonemes.
15. Phoneme Pop - click on the correct matches so they fall into the gray collector
16. SpellBound - you see the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and you must put them in order again
17. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
18. Sound it out - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning- the British accent may confuse you)
19. We Choose to Cha Cha Cha - a song about Ch [not a game]
20. Which Bird is Correct? - pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to the word.
21. Wild West Phonics - choose Medium, Hard, or Really Hard to begin the game - listen to the words and help Molly send a smoke signal by choosing the correct letters to fill the gap [Caution to the teacher - wrong answers are more fun than right ones, keep an eye on your students]
22. Word Families - Magnetic Blackboard - create new words from word endings
23. Word Families - Word family sort; pick a vowel sound and then match the words to the family.
24. Word Maker - Select an ending, then combine letters to create words.
25. Word Wheel - look at the clue at the bottom and then press each wheel to form the word's beginning and ending sound.