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Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
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Parts of Speech - Identify and use adjectives (i.e., descriptive), nouns (i.e., singular and plural, possessive), pronouns (i.e., substitution for nouns), and verbs (i.e., tense, subject-verb agreement) correctly.
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  1. Adjectives
    1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessons All about adjectives - interactive show to use with whole class This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
    2. Adjectives - find the correct adjective in the sentences. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Nouns
    1. Irregular Plurals - Match the related words, singular to plural. [concentration style game] This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
    2. Nouns and Pronouns - Complete sentences with correct noun or pronoun. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
    3. Noun Dunk - Classify words as common nouns, proper nouns or not a noun. Score points for correct answers. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
    4. Plural Nouns - add s or es This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
    5. | Advanced | Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade (the lowest grade available) then select; Ad for a Clubhouse Kit, TV Program Guide, Meet the Authors, Memo to the Staff, Nick's Mobile Parts, or any one of the mixed practice exercises. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Verbs
    1. Correct Tense - type the correct tense of the verb in the sentence This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
    2. Verbs - Chose sentence with correct verb. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
    3. | Advanced | Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade (the lowest grade available) then select; Play-by-Play Sports, Moose on the Loose, On-the-Spot News, Mystery Hour, The Daddy Awards, Bubbles Toy Shop, Letter to Ross and Rosa, or any one of the mixed practice exercises. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Capital Letters - Use capital letters correctly (i.e., in the first word of a sentence, first and last names, pronoun I, proper nouns).
0101.1.2
  1. Capitalization - [advanced] type the correct capital letter of the words in a sentence This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade then select; Talk of the Town, or any one of the mixed practice exercises. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Common-Proper Nouns - online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Common - Proper Nouns - set two online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  5. Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.
End Punctuation - Identify and use correct punctuation at the end of declarative sentences and questions.
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  1. Find the correct sentence - choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks - an eleven question quiz This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  3. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  5. Sentences - Telling sentences or questions - online lesson and practice
  6. A PowerPoint show related to this standardTelling Sentences or Questions - a six slide PowerPoint show
Contractions - Form contractions using apostrophes.
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  1. Contractions - Treasure Trove - Find the correct contraction to fit with the treasure chest. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  2. Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  3. Contractions - Quia quiz - match contractions This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Full Stop -HMS Sweet Tooth - game, worksheet and teacher resource This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Homophones - Understand that some words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things (homophones-flower/flour).
0101.1.5
  1. Homophones - video that introduces the word to young students. A video is available through this link
  2. Homophone matching game - match the air of words, gives clues as to the meaning of he word and also says the word the student selects [concentration style game] This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Homophone - Circle the word that matches the picture - for a Smartboard activity or a printable worksheet This link includes something for the teacher to print This interactive site would work well on an interactive whiteboard
Sentences - Understand that groups of words make sentences.
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  1. Lionel's Tall Tales - put groups of words together to make a sentence This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  2. Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences - lesson plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
Word Order - Understand that word order determines the meaning of a sentence.
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  1. Reading Comprehension - Read the sentence, then find the picture that matches the meaning. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Reading Comprehension Set two - Read the sentence, then find the picture that matches the meaning. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
Complete Sentences - Identify and write complete sentences correctly.
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  1. Build a Sentence - Drag scrambled words to create a sentence. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  2. Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Literacy Center - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing component in the Keyboard Section. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  4. Scrambled Sentences - Click on the words in order to make a sentence. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  5. Scrambled Sentences - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  6. Scrambled Sentences - Use in Internet Explorer only. Click and drag the words/pictures into the box to form a complete sentence
  7. Scrambled Stories - students select one of six stories, select from a list of words, and then see the story that they scrambled This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
    1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsScrambled Stories Teacher's Guide - suggestions on how to use the stories in grades K-6
  8. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on Word Order and then drag the groups of words to make a sentence. Each of the 15 sentences have three parts. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Spell simple words using developing phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and simple consonant/vowel patterns. 0101.1.9
• High Frequency Words - Spell high frequency words correctly (e.g., Dolch list, Dr. Fry list).
  1. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Dolch Sight Words - games and activities
  4. Fearless Frieda - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. [From Game Goo (learning that sticks]This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts with four letter words in this game. [From Game Goo (learning that sticks] This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. Fry's 300 Instant Sight Words - PDF document An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  7. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Look, Cover & Spell - This spelling site has 30 pre-built lists of words, but you can create your own list. Double-click any word on the list and type a word appropriate for your grade level. Your student gets to see the word, then it is covered and they must type the correct spelling. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  9. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type the missing letters. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  10. Sight Words - from Quiz Tree - interactive site reads the words to the students when clicked on.
  11. Sight Word Activities and Games - from Readquarium
  12. Sight Words - Reading Games from Mansfield/Richland County Public Library
  13. Sight Words - read and copy sight words This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  14. Sight Words - Dolch Words, if you don't know the word, move your mouse over it and it will tell you what it is. Practice the words, then take the quiz.
  15. Spell Check - TCAP format, select word that is spelled incorrectly. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  16. Spell words - drag letters to create word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  17. Spelling - put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  18. SpellBound - see the word spelled correctly, then the letters are mixed up and you must put them in order again. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  19. Star Words - This activity provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of the 200 or so high frequency words This resource includes voice instructions for students This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•CVC Words - Spell three and four letter short and long vowel words, using basic CVC and CVVC
patterns.
  1. C-V-C Words
    1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsActivity sheets (c-v-c words) find the missing letter; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u This link includes something for the teacher to print
      1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsMore Activity sheets (c-v-c words) practice the following; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u This link includes something for the teacher to print
    2. Chicken Stacker - try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
    3. Drag and Drop - Read the CVC word, then drag the picture that matches the word in the box.
    4. Magic Pencil - see, and hear, animation of c-v-c words using the following; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
    5. Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound - Students hear a word and click on the CVC word they sound out that matches the word that was said. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
    6. Put it on the Shelf - Sound out CVC words and match with correct picture. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
    7. Short Vowel Take Home Cards - Print these out for your students! Great practice for homework or school work! This link includes something for the teacher to print
    8. Vowel Sound Drag - Drag a vowel sound to complete the word. Upper Primary Level spelling activity. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
    9. Whirlyword Machine - a 'fruit machine' that makes 3 letter CVC words (3 levels of play) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Spelling - Click on the misspelled word and then fix it. For different words and spelling activities, check here This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
• Alphabetize - Alphabetize words to the first letter.
  1. ABC Order Practice - Put these words in alphabetical order. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present] This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing] This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  4. Alphabetizing - drag and drop words in correct order
  5. Alphabet Game - Round One-Student drags lower case letters to uppercase letters to match. Round Two- reverse process. Round Three- Drag letters to correct alphabetical order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  6. The Book Game - Organize the out of order books. Click on the picture of the books to play. Click each book to put it in alphabetical order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  7. Find a Word - Drag and drop each word onto the correct dictionary page. Use the guide words to help you organize the words alphabetically. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  9. Looking Up a Word - drag each word into the right column in alphabetical order This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  10. Magnetic Nursery Rhymes - Put the poem back together again. Identify the words and drag them to recreate the nursery rhyme. Use this to practice spelling. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  11. Missing Letter - Type the letter that is missing This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  12. Memory Match - Match capital to small letters in the concentration game style to reveal a surprise picture. As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so the student can go back and read the matches later. [concentration style game] This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  13. Paw Park: Alphabet Bears - bears wearing words on their shirts must be put into alphabetical order This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  14. Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Show evidence of expanding language through vocabulary growth. 0101.1.10
•Build Vocabulary - Build vocabulary by reading, listening to, and discussing a variety of
literature.
  1. Crossword Puzzles for Young Children - Each week a new puzzle with Dolch words. Clues and hints included. Excellent first start for children learning to work crossword puzzles! This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsClassroom Reading Key Vocabulary Building Program - a reading vocabulary improvement program that has identified the specific reading words students need to master for each grade An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  3. Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.
  4. What's the Word? - a reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•Word Families - Use word families and word walls.
  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessons4 Blocks Literacy Framework - Provides templates, lesson ideas and plans which would assist in the implementation of 4 Blocks. Be sure to check out the Word Wall Grade Level Lists.
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWord Wall Activities - A word wall is a systematically organized collection of words displayed in large letters on a wall or other large display place in the classroom. It is a tool to use, not just display. Word walls are designed to promote group learning and be shared by a classroom of children. Check here for ideas on how to use your word wall interactively.
•Words in Context - Read high frequency words in context.
  1. LearntoReadfree - Free online lessons with audio - must register but registration is free. This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Compound Words - Recognize and identify compound words, synonyms, and antonyms.
  1. Antonym Practice - select the antonym of given word. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Synonym Practice - select the synonym of given word. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
•Positional Words - Identify positional words (e.g., inside, outside, beside, between).
  1. A PowerPoint show related to this standardDirectional and Positional Words - a 15 slide PowerPoint show [written by Martha McKinnon]
  2. Positional Words - [Smartboard activity to download] Use positional words to describe location (i.e., near, up, below, beside, next to, between, over, under) This interactive site would work well on an interactive whiteboard
•Multi-Meaning Words - Identify simple multi-meaning words in context (e.g., fly, pop, bat).
  1. Homographs (multiple meaning words) - Two definitions are given for the same word. You have to guess which word is being described. (a Quia quiz) This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
•Dictionary - Use a picture dictionary/beginning dictionary to determine word meaning.
  1. Internet Picture Dictionary - browse by letter or category
  2. Little Explorers - English Picture Dictionary
Phonemic Awareness
Maintain phonemic awareness. 0101.1.11
•Phoneme - Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound.
  1. Phoneme Pop - Click on the letters that match the phoneme. very basic This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Phonemic Awareness Picture Cards - Print these cards and use them to help students recognize sounds. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  3. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Sound Stretching - Use sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme.
  1. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. 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.
•Sound Blending - Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful words.
  1. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide! This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more! This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. Practice with Initial Consonant Blends - matching exercise with initial consonant blends This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  7. See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Two Letter Ending Consonant Blends - multiple-choice exercise This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
•Segment Words - Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.
  1. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. 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.
•Rhyming Words - Recognize and produce rhyming words.
  1. Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Concentration Game - match the words that rhyme This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Memory Cards - [concentration style game] Here's a memory card game with a twist - match pairs of rhyming words. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  5. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. Rhyming Practice - several match games
  7. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Rhyming Words - Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  9. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Similar Sounds - Recognize words that have the same beginning, middle, and ending sounds.
  1. Beginning and ending sounds, plus digraphs - concentration style games
  2. Beginning Phonics - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. Dositey - Dositey.com is an educational web site serving the students, teachers, and parents of the K-12 community. This is an index of their free activities.
  5. End Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. First Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  7. Lanolin's Greenhouse - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students (The pronunciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
  8. Learn to Read - 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.
  9. Match beginning sound - type the beginning sound of each picture. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  10. Match of Mystery - match words that have the same middle vowel sounds This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  11. Missing Word - The Word Dropping Cat - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  12. Parrot the Words - Which Bird is Correct? - pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to the word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  14. Pumpkin Patch - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new phoneme without the beginning letter sound. Excellent practice for students that have a hard time hearing individual phonemic parts! This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students (The pronunciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
  15. Sound it out - Cat and the Words from the Hat - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning-British accent may confuse some students) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  16. Target Tests and Target Lessons that Teach Phonics - print these and use as posters This link includes something for the teacher to print
  17. Use the Wordmaker from Read-Write-Think - select an ending sound then make words with that ending sound This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  18. Word Families - create new words from word endings This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•Syllables - Understand words are made up of one or more syllables (e.g., students clap syllables, move objects, etc. in words.)
  1. Clap and Count Practice Index - many online quizzes; clap syllables
  2. Phonological Awareness: Syllables Counting Quiz - Quia quiz This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  3. Reference Skills: Syllabication - printables from EdHelper This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. Syllable Quiz - Identify the number of syllables in ten words This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  5. Syllable Quiz 2 - identify where two syllable words should be divided This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  6. Syllable Quiz 3 - identify where two or three syllable words should be divided This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  7. Syllable Rules for Students: Black line masters - Posters of simplified spelling rules to enlarge for classroom display or reduce to give to students. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  8. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsSyllabication Rules - print these as large flash cards This link includes something for the teacher to print
•Substitute Sounds - Substitute targeted sounds to change words (e.g., bed to bad, hat to bat).
  1. Beginning letter sounds - select the ending family and add a beginning letter to create a word that matches the picture This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  2. Lanolin's Greenhouse - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Fishing with Phonics - select beginning consonants or ending consonants and choose a level - find the missing sound and drag the card into the space. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Change Letters - Change the letters of a given word to create new words (e.g., pan to nap, tent to net).
  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessons Phoneme Substitution, Name Game - lesson plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
  2. Whirlyword Machine - Pick level 2 - Spin the first or the third reel to make new words with the same middle vowel. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
Apply phonics generalizations in order to decode words. 0101.1.12
•Name Letters - Name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
  1. ABC Gulp - click on the frog to begin and then click on the letter that is named. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Missing Letters of the Alphabet - type in the missing letter This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Where's my match? - match upper and lower case letters. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•Letter Sequence - Understand that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of
sounds in a word.
  1. Word Family Sort - Click on a vowel to begin, then sort words according to their family. Students can read the words they see and create sentences with them once back at their desks.
  2. Magnet Board - How many words can you make using the same endings? This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Blending Bowl - [from Between the Lions] football players crash together to make words. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Decode Words - Use letter-sound matches and structural analysis to decode grade level words.
  1. Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type in the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers to control the pictures. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Blending Bowl - Football players blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide! This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Chicken Coop - phoneme matching This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. CVC Pop - select the word that matches the picture. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Dolch Site Words - Reading Games This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Parts of Words - Use parts of words (e.g., root/base words, compound words, contractions, prefixes, suffixes) to decode grade level words.
  1. Compound words - Quia quiz This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Contractions - Treasure Trove - Find the correct contraction to fit with the treasure chest.
  3. Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Contractions - Quia Quiz, match contractions This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  5. Full Stop -HMS Sweet Tooth - game, worksheet and teacher resource This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  6. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  7. Punctuation - [eleven question quiz] end the sentence with the correct punctuation This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
•Vowel Rules - Apply long and short vowel rules when decoding text.
  1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Chicken Stacker - try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  4. CVC Maker - create words and sound them out. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Drag and Spell - Drag a vowel sound into the slot to spell the word correctly. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Drag the vowels to finish the words before your time runs out. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  6. Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  7. Long and Short Vowel Match - match words by the vowel sounds that are the same This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Long Vowels - Show what you know about the different long vowel sounds. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  9. Long Vowel Sounds e, u - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  10. Long Vowel Sounds a, i, o - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  11. Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  12. Magic Pencil - [sound files to download] see, and hear, an animation of the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa. This resource includes voice instructions for students
  13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  14. Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. . This resource includes voice instructions for students
  15. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsPrint and Do - Make your own Scrapbook of words and collect a different page each week! Slither your way round Jake the snake or try your luck at Domino sounds and Silly sentences. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  16. Sand castle Quiz - Build a Sand castle and get to know the common spelling patterns for the following vowels; ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere, or all phonemes. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  17. Stories to read - Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
  18. Short Vowel Practice - select correct spelling of word This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  19. Short Vowel Words - Find the short vowel words that match the pictures. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  20. Short or Long Vowel Words - Find the words that match the pictures. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  21. Snap It - How well do you know your long vowel sounds? Your chance to beat the clock and collect the snaps. When you see a pair click Snap! But don't get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  22. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsVowel Practice - print worksheets to practice the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa This link includes something for the teacher to print
    1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsMore Vowel Practice - activity sheets to print for your students to practice following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and all phonemes.! This link includes something for the teacher to print
  23. Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  24. Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  25. Write a Postcard - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus phonemes. When you have got them all right, the next sentence appears but this time there are gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
•Unfamiliar Words - Use sounding out words, chunking words into smaller parts, looking for blends, digraphs, word families, etc. as a means of decoding unfamiliar words.
  1. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide! This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more! This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•Unknown Words - Continue to decode unknown words that are grade-level appropriate.
  1. Not Too Little to Help - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Happy Mother's Day, dear Dragon - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Dragon Goes to the Farm - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. A House is a Tree - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. Things that Can go - Starfall book click on a letter to hear it read This resource includes voice instructions for students
kindergarten communication standards Communication 2nd grade communication standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
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Listening
Listening Skills - Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
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  1. Rules for Listening - List of rules to discuss
  2. A Listening Doll - [lesson plan] Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories. Then, they create a listening doll in the tradition of the Native American storyteller dolls. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  3. Rules for Listening - PDF file An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
Listen Attentively - Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
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  1. The Pig Waller - Listen to the word and find the written word. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. I Can Read - Listen to the sentence and then answer the question. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Listening And Doing - activities to help students learn listening skills A lesson plan can be found at this site
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWon't Listen, Won't Mind - Parenting suggestions from Positive Discipline
Follow Directions - Understand and follow simple two and three-step oral directions.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsADHD at School: Helping Children Follow Directions - Strategies to help children with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD) focus and sustain attention in the classroom.
  2. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Copy Cat Jack is like the Simon game. The game starts off with one color and adds a new color when you repeat the order correctly. How good is your memory? This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. Follow directions - Lesson and activity
  5. How Well Do You Follow Directions - a lesson plan from Education World A lesson plan can be found at this site
Summarize - Summarize what has been heard using the logical sequence of events.
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  1. I Can Wash Dishes - The pictures on this sheet are supposed to tell a story but are in the wrong order. An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  2. Monkey Business: Rain Forest Run Around - Click on the words to put them in correct order. (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Sequence of Events - arrange events in chronological order. (Author - Lois Davis) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  4. Sequence the Story - (drag the pictures in the correct order) Students can have the story read to them if necessary. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsSequencing - Choose from a long list of sequencing activities at Quia
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsSequencing Worksheet - Read each sentence. Use the numbers 1, 2, and 3 to show the sequence. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  7. Stories to Retell - Read stories online, then retell
  8. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on Picture Order and then put the pictures in order to tell the story. (three pictures are presented at a time) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  9. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last? This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This link includes something for the teacher to print
  10. Three Stories from the Little Animals Activity Centre - The stories are read to students, and choices must be made during the story. Give your students the opportunity to retell these stories.
    1. The Missing Pencil - This resource includes voice instructions for students
    2. The Butterfly Trail - This resource includes voice instructions for students
    3. The Wishing Tree - This resource includes voice instructions for students
Speaking
Conversation Rules - Use rules for conversation (e.g., raise hands, take turns, and focus attention on speaker).
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsConversation Skills: Helpful Hints - useful for people who are working on improving conversation skills
  2. Having a Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  3. Polite Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  4. When It's Time to Talk - Read each statement then circle 'yes' or 'no.' - pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
Speak Clearly - Speak clearly, properly, and politely, and recognize the difference between formal and informal language.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsHans Christian Andersen fairy tales - Andersen is recognized as a master of the use of informal language in his fairy tales. Choose chronological list to see stories to use with your class.
  2. Talking with a Friend - A Planned Conversation Using Communication Devices - script of a conversation of informal language This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
Give Directions - Give multi-step oral directions.
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  1. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Listen Up - lesson plan; great for learning how to give people directions and following them.
Group Discussion - Participate in group discussion.
• Work productively in group discussion for a particular purpose (e.g., respond to literature, solve a problem).
• Ask and respond to questions from teacher and other group members.
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  1. All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
  2. Group Discussion Scoring Guide Rubric - PDF file An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  3. The Great School Clean-Up - lesson plan ; engage the learners in a school wide clean-up event. Learners will be asked to participate and reflect on the activity by creating a heightened awareness of community based environmental issues and how everyone should be good stewards of the Earth A lesson plan can be found at this site
  4. I Will Not Take a Bath - listen to the story as it is read aloud - determine problem and solution This resource includes voice instructions for students
  5. The Perfect Pet - Which pet should she select? Listen to the story that is read aloud. This resource includes voice instructions for students
  6. The Yellow Gorilla - Why did the gorilla turn yellow? How did he solve his problem? This resource includes voice instructions for students
Retell a Story - Retell a story, describing the plot, characters, and setting.
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  1. Animals - Match pictures to correct sentence. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
  3. Let’s Retell A Story - PDF file - activity guide and posters An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  4. Playground Fun - Match pictures to the correct sentence. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  5. Retell a story - Children are prompted to use shapes to drag over text to show where setting, characters, problem, solution and events in the story; 6 stories to select from
  6. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
  7. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Recite - Recite poems, stories, and songs.
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  1. All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing - lesson plan - understand more deeply the qualities of verse - the importance of sound, compactness, internal integrity, imagination and line. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  2. KIDiddles - Lyrics to your favorite songs
  3. Nursery Rhymes - collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is offered by themes listed below
  4. Poetry for the Elementary Classroom - lesson plan - stress an oral emphasis and methods of incorporating poetry into different curricular areas A lesson plan can be found at this site
  5. Songs and Poems - songs and poems categorized by theme

kindergarten writing standards Writing 2nd grade writing standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
Brainstorm Ideas - Brainstorm ideas with teachers and peers, use graphic organizers (e.g., webs, charts, Venn diagrams) independently and/or in group, draw pictures to generate ideas, and use a variety of resources to gather information.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsKinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
  3. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsGraphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsGraphic Organizers from Education Place An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsIndex of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsInstructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
  7. Interactive Venn Diagram - good for whole class activity This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  9. Story Starters - Here’s a quick writing activity to try every day. First generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Four levels are available, pick K-1st This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  10. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsTips on Making Your Own Concept Maps
Classroom Resources - Utilize classroom resources to support the writing process (e.g., word walls, picture dictionaries).
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWord Wall ideas - making your word wall interactive
  2. My English Dictionary - Click on the speaker below to hear the word. Many pictures to expand vocabulary.
First Draft - Begin to compose first drafts using the appropriate parts of the writing process with an emphasis on planning and self correcting.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsSeasonal Sentence Starters - Make Journal Writing easy for your Elementary students
  2. Writing Topics - The best way to get into writing is simply to write
Spell Independently - Use temporary/creative spelling to spell independently as needed.
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Logical Sequence - Arrange events in a logical and sequential order when writing.
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  1. Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing - Using the book Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola or any other wordless book with a clear story line and detailed pictures that support the unwritten text students create their own interpretation of the story. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  2. The Grain Chain - Number each box to show the order they should go in, or cut them out and stick them onto a new piece of paper in the right order.An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  3. Sequence Chart for Writing - List steps or events in time order An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
Descriptive Words - Begin to add descriptive words and details to writing.
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  1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - Look and Write - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Write a sentence that tells about the picture This link includes something for the teacher to print
Form Letters - Create legible documents for reading by forming legible upper and lower case letters utilizing correct spacing, writing from left to right and top to bottom, and tracing and reproducing letters and words correctly.
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  1. Handwriting Practice Worksheets Letters - Scroll to the bottom to the handwriting section
  2. Young Writers' Workshop - Story starters for young writers. Print the pages and let the child write the rest of the story This link includes something for the teacher to print
  3. Writing Wizard - Makes English handwriting practice worksheets Type in a word or short sentence and then set a number of display options. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. Zaner-Bloser Writing Practice - Dotted practice, letters to color and trace and more from abcteach.com This link includes something for the teacher to print
Evaluate Writing - Evaluate own and others’ writing through small group discussion and shared work.
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Using Suggestions - Incorporate suggestions from teachers and peers.
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  1. School to home help sheet - Use suggestions from parents to help revise writing. This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
Use a Rubric - Use a simple rubric to evaluate writing.
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  1. Writing Rubrics - use this to evaluate writing
Illustrate Writing - Illustrate written work with simple drawings.
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  1. Make Your Own Story - choose a story, select pictures and then type five sentences This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data

kindergarten research standards Research 2nd grade research standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6
Narrow a Topic - Narrow a research question so that the research process is manageable.
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  1. How do changes in weather affect our daily life? - unit plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
  2. The Life and Times of Tomie DePaola - Do you ever wonder where authors find ideas for stories? unit plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
  3. How do the ways frogs grow and change compare and contrast with the ways people grow and change? - unit plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
Find Resources - Determine two resources to answer a research question.
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  1. Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts - listen to read-alouds of nonfiction texts to identify and confirm factual information which is recorded on charts and graphic organizers. They also use the Internet to gather additional information about the animal. A lesson plan can be found at this site
Family as Resource - Use the family and community as resources for information.
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Visit the Library - Visit the library as a resource of information for research.
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  1. Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes! - unit plan that can be adapted A lesson plan can be found at this site
Use Print Source - Locate a print source for research (e.g., magazine, book).
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  1. Make Your Own Book - There are many fabulous books that you can make all by yourself. Let your imagination run wild with some simple, step-by-step instructions, with illustrations, to show you how to make some very creative and very fun books!
Present Results - Present the answers to a research question orally to the class.
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kindergarten logic standards Logic 2nd grade logic standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4
Sequence - Arrange four or more items or events in sequential order.
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  1. Brushing your teeth - put sentences in sequence This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Make Toast - put sentences in sequence This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  3. Doing the dishes - put sentences in sequence This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Making Tea - put pictures in order This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  5. I Can Wash Dishes - put the pictures in the correct order and write a sentence to describe each activity.An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print
Logical Decisions - Recognize logical decisions and choices in reading selections.
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  1. The Town Witch - a story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook] This is an Excel workbook to download
  2. Writing a Branching Story Using Excel - a step by step module on writing with Excel
Make Predictions - Make and adjust predictions in a variety of written and oral contexts.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsAnd Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsEnd the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  3. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsLittle Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2) An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUse Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
  7. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWhat Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast information and ideas.
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  1. Compare two characters - a chart to write notes about your characters This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsThree Little Pigs - lesson plan A lesson plan can be found at this site

kindergarten informational text standards Informational Text 2nd grade informational text standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
6.1 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.4
Written Directions - Follow simple written directions to complete a task.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsADHD at School: Helping Children Follow Directions - Strategies to help children with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD) focus and sustain attention in the classroom.
  2. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  3. Copy Cat Jack is like the Simon game. The game starts off with one color and adds a new color when you repeat the order correctly. How good is your memory? This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  4. Follow directions - Lesson and activity
  5. How Well Do You Follow Directions - a lesson plan from Education World A lesson plan can be found at this site
Main Idea - Identify the main ideas and supporting details of informational texts.
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  1. Tale of Peter Rabbit - select What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Variety of Texts - Explore a variety of informational texts (e.g., books, charts, newspapers, magazines).
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  1. How Does My Garden Grow? - Writing in Science Field Journals - lesson plan A lesson plan can be found at this site
  2. Parade Classroom Anytime Activities - These activities are designed to help teachers incorporate the elements of the newspaper and PARADE Magazine into their classroom. The exercises can be used with any edition of your local newspaper and most issues of PARADE Magazine.
Text Features - Recognize and use text features to comprehend informational texts (e.g., time lines, illustrations).
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  1. Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic - Students use a timeline to break a larger topic into several events or moments; then, each student selects an event to write about from the timeline A lesson plan can be found at this site

kindergarten media standards Media 2nd grade media standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.4
Experience Media - Experience and respond to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, video, film, computer, illustrations).
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  1. Pics from the Web - free downloads - select from many pictures from which to respond
  2. Lit2Go - free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 (audiobook) format
  3. StoryPlace - many books to listen to with activities to go along with it.
  4. Storynory - free audio books for children.
Visit Libraries - Visit libraries/media centers and regularly check out materials.
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  1. Let's use the Library - article on how to help students learn to use a library.
Visual Message - Understand the main idea in a visual message (e.g., pictures, cartoons, posters).
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  1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. Pics from the Web - free downloads - select from many pictures from which to respond
Visuals - Enhance oral presentations with a visual medium.
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kindergarten literature standards Literature 2nd grade literature standards
Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)
8.1 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.10
Read Books - Read picture books, alphabet and number books, rhyming books, story books, fairy tales, poetry, and nonfiction text.
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  1. Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Concentration Game - match the words that rhyme This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsHans Christian Andersen fairy tales - Andersen is recognized as a master of the use of informal language in his fairy tales. Choose chronological list to see stories to use with your class.
  5. Memory Cards - [concentration style game] Here's a memory card game with a twist - match pairs of rhyming words. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  6. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture This link includes something for the teacher to print
  7. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3) This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  8. Rhyming Practice - several match games
  9. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  10. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  11. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
Real or Make Believe - Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction and fantasy and reality.
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  1. Real or Make Believe - from Tina's world at Game Goo This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data This resource includes voice instructions for students
  2. Fantasy or Reality - read sentence and decide which is fantasy and which is reality. This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  3. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are make believe This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  4. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are real This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
Parts of a Book - Identify parts of a book (e.g., front cover and back cover, table of contents, index, glossary, title page, author, illustrator).
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  1. Explore the parts of a book - Click on each of the pictures on this page to learn more about that part of the book. Then go to Who Am I to see how much you know! This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  2. Locate Information in a Books - Learn about the table of contents
  3. Make Your Own Book - (a ThinkQuest site) There are many fabulous books that you can make all by yourself. Let your imagination run wild with some simple, step-by-step instructions, with illustrations, to show you how to make some very creative and very fun books!
  4. Make Your Own Book - (from Enchanted Learning) This activity teaches the student the structure of book and helps them organize their thoughts and writing.
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUsing the Parts of a Book - a worksheet from Teach-nology This link includes something for the teacher to print
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUsing an Index for Information - a worksheet from Teach-nology This link includes something for the teacher to print
  7. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUsing a Table of Contents - a worksheet from Teach-nology This link includes something for the teacher to print
Predict Events - Make predictions about text.
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsAnd Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsEnd the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  3. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsLittle Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2) An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUse Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
  7. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWhat Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
Graphic Organizers - Participate in the creation of graphic organizers (KWL charts, diagrams).
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  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsKinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
  3. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsGraphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsGraphic Organizers from Education Place An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsIndex of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsInstructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
  7. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsTips on Making Your Own Concept Maps
  8. Interactive Venn Diagram - good for whole class activity.
  9. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
Derive meaning while reading by employing the following strategies: [0101.8.6]
•Ask Questions - Asking questions to clarify meaning.
  1. Question to Clarify - interactive lesson This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
•Group Discussions - Participating in discussions.
  1. All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
  2. Group Discussion Scoring Guide Rubric - PDF file An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  3. The Great School Clean-Up - lesson plan - engage the learners in a school wide clean-up event. Learners will be asked to participate and reflect on the activity by creating a heightened awareness of community based environmental issues and how everyone should be good stewards of the Earth
•What Happens Next - Predicting what will happen next.
  1. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsAnd Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsEnd the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  3. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  4. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsLittle Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2) An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  5. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) This link includes something for the teacher to print
  6. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsUse Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
  7. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWhat Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2) This link includes something for the teacher to print
•Mental Images - Creating mental images.
  1. From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories - Drawing can create a bridge between the ideas in a child's head and the blank piece of paper on the desk A lesson plan can be found at this site
•Use Illustrations - Using illustrations to gain meaning.
  1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture This link includes something for the teacher to print
•Five W's - Answering the Five W + H questions (i.e., Who, What, When, Where, How, Why).
  1. 5 W's Chart - use this printout as a guide This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  2. 5 W's Pumpkin Poems - Each line in this type of poem answers one of the 5 W's
•Relate Knowledge - Relating knowledge from personal experience, and/or other text.
  1. Making connections between things that happen in a story - worksheet for family involvement This link includes something for the teacher to print An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  2. Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension - Read-alouds of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant are followed by activities that help students learn to identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and apply them when responding to texts A lesson plan can be found at this site
Story Elements - Identify the characters, plot, and setting of a story.
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  1. Animals - Match pictures to correct sentence. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  2. Cinderella - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
  3. Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
  4. Playground Fun - Match pictures to the correct sentence. This link includes something for the teacher to print
  5. Rumplestiltskin - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
  6. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
  7. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
Shared Reading - Participate in shared reading and small group guided reading.
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  1. Learning Vocabulary Down By the Bay - The lesson uses a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist students in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts. A lesson plan can be found at this site
Read Simple Texts - Read simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondence and high frequency words.
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  1. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - an alphabetical index to a very large number of familiar texts to use for recitations.
  2. Rebus Rhymes - Mother Goose and others - (from Enchanted Learning) - more familiar texts to use for recitations
  3. Stories Online - online reading resource links - uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator
  4. Story Time - Five stories; Cinderella, Firebird, Arabian Nights, Rumplestiltskin, and Ranik the Elephant. There is an online version, or (if you download and install Microsoft Reader) you can hear the story read to your students. This resource includes voice instructions for students
Read Orally - Read orally with fluency and accuracy.
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  1. Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.
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