Language Arts Knowledge & Skills - 1st Grade

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1. Kididdle's Musical Mouseum - a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. If you know the title of the song you're looking for, the Alpha Index is the place to go.
2. Kids Club Stories [these stories open in a new window - close that window to return to this list]
   1. Country Mouse and City Mouse - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   2. Mother Bear Bakes Bread - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   3. The Fox and the Crow - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   4. The Mouse and the Lion - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   5. The Three Bears - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   6. The Three Billy Goats Gruff - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   7. Other stories rom Kids Club - Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3
3. KidzSing Garden of Songs - Words and midi files of music for songs. Many of the old favorites!
4. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - an alphabetical index to a very large number of familiar texts to use for recitations.
5. Rebus Rhymes: Mother Goose and others - (from Enchanted Learning) - more familiar texts to use for recitations
6. Scout Songs - A compilation of songs that are popular at Tanah Keeta Scout Reservation and other camps around the country. It includes many types of songs. There are action songs to keep you moving, American standards to fill you with patriotism, and Boy Scout songs and Girl Scout Songs that have been sung by Scouts for generations.
7. Songs for Teaching - Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum. From physical movements, to mood enhancers to reading and science songs, this site is a pleasure to use!
8. Songs and poems for many theme areas in addition to fingerplays.
9. Stories Online - online reading resource links - uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator
10. 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.

1. I Can Wash Dishes - The pictures on this sheet are supposed to tell a story but are in the wrong order.
2. Monkey Business: Rain Forest Run Around - Click on the words to put them in correct order. (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
3. Sequence of Events - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] arrange events in chronological order. (Author - Lois Davis) m
4. Sequence the Story - (drag the pictures in the correct order) Students can have the story read to them if necessary.
5. Sequencing - Choose from a long list of sequencing activities at Quia
6. Sequencing Worksheet - Read each sentence. Use the numbers 1, 2, and 3 to show the sequence.
7. 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)
8. 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 -
   2. The Butterfly Trail -
   3. The Wishing Tree -

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - A twelve-chapter performance in RealAudio by the Wired for Books Players
2. Cinderella 26 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
3. The Emperor's New Clothes 12 min (MP# format) - read the story yourself
4. Hans 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. How the Leopard Got His Spots 12 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
6. The Light Princess 92 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
7. Little Animals Activity Center - (4-8 year olds) Audio stories from BBC with interactive participation. This is a British site and the language pronunciation and meanings may seem strange at times.
8. The Little Mermaid 51 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
9. Reading Lounge -"Three children's books are animated online, with readings and/or introductions by a variety of players and Spike Lee. Students love to see their favorite Knicks players read aloud to them, and they can also read along with the narrator in the captioned version"
10. The Story of Snow White 20 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
11. Other Audio Stories
12. Other stories for children - look for stories with the audio icon

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.
2. Concentration Game - match the words that rhyme
3. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match
4. Memory Cards - Here's a memory card game with a twist - match pairs of rhyming words.
5. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
6. Rhyming - [click on a red dot] several practice activities
7. Rhyming Practice - several match games
8. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with
9. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.
10. Rhyming Words Activity with pictures created by children. This is really a cute site.

1. The 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.

1. Safety - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
2. Bike Safety - If you will be riding your bike or in-line skating by the side of a road, you will need to know what these traffic signs and signals mean
3. Bus Safety and School-Zone Safety Signs - from the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles Governor's Traffic Safety Committee
4. Railroad Safety - Use Caution When Crossing Railroad Tracks
5. Safe Walking for Kids - What about crossing the street? In some areas there are signs, signals and roadway markings to help you cross safely.
6. Sign Quiz - select a sign shape and match it with the correct color
7. Traffic Signs - Shapes of Traffic Signs - Colors of Traffic Signs - Warning Signs - Bicycle Signs - Highway Signs

1. ABCow - Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet the cows have been eating! This is a keyboard exercise. The mouse is not used to select the letter. [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
2. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present]
3. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing]
4. 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.
5. Alphabet Garden Activity - Fill in the missing letter by clicking on the flower that has that letter. Very good activity for sequencing the alphabet.
6. Alphabet Library - Help Checkers the Bear put the books away on the library shelves in alphabetical order.
7. 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.
8. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
9. Missing Letter - Type the letter that is missing
10. 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.
11. Putting Things in Order - language arts example
12. Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order.

1. Capitalization - type the correct capital letter of the words in a sentence
2. Find the correct sentence - Choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.
3. Lug and the Giant Storks -Game, worksheet and teacher resource
4. Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.

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!
2. 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!
3. Make Your Own Book - (from Enchanted Learning) This activity teaches the student the structure of book and helps them organize their thoughts and writing.
4. Using the Parts of a Book - a worksheet from Teach-nology
5. Using an Index for Information - a worksheet from Teach-nology
6. Using a Table of Contents - a worksheet from Teach-nology

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)
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)
3. 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)
4. 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.
5. Spell Check - TCAP format, select word that is spelled incorrectly.
6. Spell words - drag letters to create word.
7. Spelling - put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud.
8. Spelling - Click on the misspelled word and then fix it. For different words and spelling activities, check here
9. SpellBound - Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.

1. 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.

1. Clap and Count Practice Index

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. Rhyme Activity - Complete the sentence with the rhyming word. This activity can be done by 2nd or 3rd graders independently or with lower grades as a group activity.
4. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
5. Rhyming Words Activity with pictures created by children. This is really a cute site.
6. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.

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.
2. Blending words together- Gawain's Word - Jousting contestants blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two jousters collide! [something is not working at this site - 3/27/07]
   1. Other contestants : Sir Ack, Sir An, Sir Ap, Sir Ar, Sir Est, Sir Ick, Sir Ig, Sir Ip, Sir It, Sir Ock, Sir Op, Sir Ub, Sir Uck, Sir Ug
3. Blends- Letter blends combination Chart - Click on the blend and read a poem using the blend numerous times in a rhyming poem.
4. 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!
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. See 'N Spell - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] 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.

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.
3. Beginning Sounds with Patch - Students click on the picture that has the same beginning sound as the object pictured. This game reads the name of the object.
4. Blend Matching Sounds - digraph matching
5. 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.
6. Clap and Count Practice Index [click on a red dot]
7. Dosity - Dositey.com is an educational web site serving the students, teachers, and parents of the K-12 community. There are three levels of phonics activities.
   1. Level One shows a picture and the student will pick the correct word.
   2. Level Two prompts the student to add the beginning sound to the word to go along with the picture.
   3. Level Three requires the student to type in the word that goes with the picture with a word bar above with the spellings.
8. End Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
9. First Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
10. Learn to Read - (Don't use the Back button. Close the Learn to Read page to return to i4c.) 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.
11. Match beginning sound yype the beginning sound of each picture
12. Missing Word - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
14. Reference Skills: Syllabication - printables from EdHelper
15. Sound it out - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning-British accent may confuse some students)
16. Syllable Quiz - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] Identify the number of syllables in ten words
17. Syllable Quiz 2 - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] identify where two syllable words should be divided
18. Syllable Quiz 3 - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] identify where two or three syllable words should be divided
19. Syllable Rules for Students: Black line masters - Posters of simplified spelling rules to enlarge for classroom display or reduce to give to students.
20. Syllabication Rules - print these as large flash cards
21. Target Tests and Target Lessons that Teach Phonics - can print these out and use as posters
22. Use the Wordmaker from Read-Write-Think - select an ending sound then make words with that ending sound.
23. Which Bird is Correct? - pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to the word.
24. Word Families - create new words from word endings

1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph
2. Chicken Stacker: try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them
   1. short a | short e | short i | short o | short u
3. Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture
4. 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.
5. Ending consonant practice - for all letters [click on a red dot]
6. Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending
7. Long and Short Vowel Match - match words by the vowel sounds that are the same
8. Long Vowels - Show what you know about the different long vowel sounds.
9. Long Vowel Sounds e, u - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
10. Long Vowel Sounds a, i, o - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
11. Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures.
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.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
14. Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. .
15. Print 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.
16. Sandcastle Quiz - Build a sandcastle 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.
17. Stories to read - (Don't use the Back button. Close the Learn to Read page to return to i4c.) Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
18. Short Vowels at Kids Lab [click on a red dot]
    1. Short A | Short E | Short I | Short O | Short U
19. Short Vowel Practice - select correct spelling of word
20. Short Vowel Words - Find the short vowel words that match the pictures.
21. Short or Long Vowel Words - Find the words that match the pictures.
22. 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
23. Vowel Practice - print worksheets to practice the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa
    1. More 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.!
24. Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture
25. Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
26. 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.

1. Practice with Initial Consonant Blends - matching exercise with initial consonant blends
2. Two Letter Ending Consonant Blends - multiple-choice exercise

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!
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. What's the Word - Build vocabulary by matching words with pictures.

1. Sight Words - read and copy sight words
2. Dolch List Practice - online activities to practice sight words.
3. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type in the missing letters.
4. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences.
5. Sight Words - Match the word with the picture. Many, many selections
6. 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.
7. Star Words - This activity provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of the 200 or so high frequency words

1. Classroom Reading Key Vocabulary Building Program - a reading vocabulary improvement program that has identified the specific reading words students need to master for each grade
2. What's the Word? - a reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game.

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - A twelve-chapter performance in RealAudio by the Wired for Books Players
2. Cinderella 26 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
3. The Emperor's New Clothes 12 min (MP# format) - read the story yourself
4. Hans 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. How the Leopard Got His Spots 12 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
6. The Light Princess 92 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
7. Little Animals Activity Center - (4-8 year olds) Audio stories from BBC with interactive participation. This is a British site and the language pronunciation and meanings may seem strange at times.
8. The Little Mermaid 51 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
9. Reading Lounge -"Three children's books are animated online, with readings and/or introductions by a variety of players and Spike Lee. Students love to see their favorite Knicks players read aloud to them, and they can also read along with the narrator in the captioned version"
10. The Story of Snow White 20 min (MP3 format) - read the story yourself
11. Other Audio Stories
12. Other stories for children - look for stories with the audio icon

1. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
2. 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?
3. Listen and Follow Directions - (spatial concepts activity) This would make a good whole class activity and then a center activity.

1. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last?

1. And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
2. End 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)
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. Little 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)
5. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
6. Use 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. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. Fact or Fiction? - This section is composed of online stories to listen to, or read aloud and a series of practice quizzes to practice distinguishing between what is real and what is make-believe.
2. Real or Make Believe - from Tina's world at Game Goo

1. Internet Picture Dictionary - browse by letter or category
2. Little Explorers - English Picture Dictionary
3. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture

1. ABCow - Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet the cows have been eating! This is a keyboard exercise. The mouse is not used to select the letter. [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
2. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present]
3. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing]
4. 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.
5. Alphabet Garden Activity - Fill in the missing letter by clicking on the flower that has that letter. Very good activity for sequencing the alphabet.
6. Alphabet Library - Help Checkers the Bear put the books away on the library shelves in alphabetical order.
7. 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.
8. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
9. Missing Letter - Type the letter that is missing
10. 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.
11. Putting Things in Order - language arts example
12. Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order.

1. Arthors and Illustrators - Online lessons and practice activities.
2. 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!
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. Parts of a Book -Title Page, Index, Heading and more. Online lessons and practices
6. Parts of a Book - Chapter Headings and more. Online lessons and practices.
7. Using the Parts of a Book - a worksheet from Teach-nology
8. Using an Index for Information - a worksheet from Teach-nology
9. Using a Table of Contents - a worksheet from Teach-nology

1. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
2. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation.

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!
2. Make Your Own Story - choose a story, select pictures and then type five sentences
3. Scrambled Stories - students select one of six stories, select from a list of words, and then see the story that they scrambled
   1. Scrambled Stories Teacher's Guide - suggestions on how to use the stories in grades K-6
4. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story.
   What would happen first, next, and last? (This does not involve drawing their own pictures.)

1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph
2. Chicken Stacker: try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them
   1. short a | short e | short i | short o | short u
3. Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture
4. 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. (sound effects only)
5. Ending consonant practice - for all letters
6. Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending
7. Long and Short Vowel Match - match words by the vowel sounds that are the same
8. Long Vowels - Show what you know about the different long vowel sounds.
9. Long Vowel Sounds e, u - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
10. Long Vowel Sounds a, i, o - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
11. Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures.
12. Magic Pencil - see, and hear, an animation of the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
14. Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. .
15. Print 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.
16. Sandcastle Quiz - Build a sandcastle 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.
17. Stories to read - (Don't use the Back button. Close the Learn to Read page to return to i4c.) Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
18. Short Vowels at Kids Lab
    1. Short A | Short E | Short I | Short O | Short U
19. Short Vowel Practice - select correct spelling of word
20. Short Vowel Words - Find the short vowel words that match the pictures.
21. Short or Long Vowel Words - Find the words that match the pictures.
22. 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
23. Vowel Practice - drag the correct vowel into the word to spell it correctly
24. Vowel Practice - print worksheets to practice the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa
    1. More 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.!
25. Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture
26. Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
27. 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.

1. ED or ING - choose correct word.
2. S or ES - choose correct spelling
3. Suffix practice - more practice on s/es and ed/ing.

1. Noun Dunk - Classify words as common nouns, proper nouns or not a noun. Score points for correct answers.
2. Plural Nouns - add s or es
3. | Advanced | Power Proofreading (noun practice) - 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.

1. Correct Tense - type in the correct tense of the verb in the sentence
2. | Advanced | Power Proofreading (verb practice) - 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.

1. Build a Sentence - drag scrambled words to create a sentence
2. Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order
3. Full Stop -HMS Sweet Tooth - Game, worksheet and teacher resource
4. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
5. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation.
6. Scrambled Sentences - drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence
7. 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.

1. Tale of Peter Rabbit – Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
2. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last?