Story Scramble Game

"PBSKids: Story Scramble Game
An interactive game with PBS character Binky that allows students to place short stories into the proper order. Game is complete with sounds, pictures, and color for elementary students"

Alphabet Practice

Studyzone: Match My Lower Case Interactive media matching game that asks students to match upper and lower case letters. It is from a standardized test preparation site designed for younger students.

Studyzone: Vowels (Slide Show) Slide show about vowels, including audio of all the words in the presentation. It is from a standardized test preparation site designed for younger students.

Studyzone: Where's My Match? Interactive media matching game that asks students to match upper and lower case letters. It is from a standardized test preparation site designed for younger students.

Scholastic: Clifford-- Phonics Fun for Early Readers Game to help practice letter recognition led by Clifford the Big Red Dog. Students drag words beginning with a certain letter into a box labeled with that letter. The game's audio reads the directions and the words as they're selected.

Compact for Reading: Gd1: Letters, Words, Sentences[PDF] A short lesson for first-grade students concerning the difference between letters, words, and sentences. Provides examples and exercises.

Alphasongs: Lyrics and Activities AlphaSongs song lyrics--for teaching the alphabet--feature suggested activities to enhance your students' learning experience in conjunction with an optional CD.

PBS Kids: Sesame Street: Letter of the Day Help Cookie Monster find the objects that start with the correct letters in this activity for learning the alphabet, spelling, and new words.

Alphabet Letter Cartoon Characters In an effort to help students memorize the alphabet, the Tampa City Schools has come up with a program that associates the letters with cartoon characters.

LAUSDnet: Kinder. Word Lesson- Alphabet Potluck Feast Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets for creating templates for class lists, student writing and a class book as well as assessment rubrics.

Enchanted Learning Dinosaur Alphabet Book Do you know there is a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet? This online ABC book about dinosaurs is perfect for those students who love anything to do with dinosaurs. Pictures accompany each page, and there are links to more information about each dinosaur.

E.L. Easton: The Written Alphabet A great site for ESL and beginning students alike. Learn letter identification and the alphabet song. Using Realplayer, your students can click on a letter and hear what that letter is. Unfortunately, there is no letter-sound correspondence on this link. There are, however, links to in-depth vowel and consonant sounds, a description of how to make their sounds, and their different spellings. Teachers, what a great place to do research for your speech and language courses.

Alphabet Action: Printable Coloring Pages These printable coloring pages are available for parents, teachers, and students to use. There is also a link to go to the Alphabet Action game from LearningPlanet.com

Studyzone: Practice Vowels Interactive media practice identifying vowels where students pick the vowel out of sets of three letters. Audio of the directions is available. It is from a standardized test preparation site designed for younger students.

Bembo's Zoo A fascinating alphabet (abecedary) created by artist de Vicq de Cumptich. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an animal, and each animal is created by the letters in the animal's name. An interesting way to learn the alphabet for younger students, and of interest as artwork for older students.

Kidport Language Arts: Missing Letters of the Alphabet An interactive game/exercise which allows elementary students to type in the next letter of the alphabet. Simply type in a letter, and a green check mark (or a red "x") will inform you of a correct/incorrect answer.

ReadWriteThink: ABC Match Interactive Game An excellent interactive matching game which allows students to apply their understanding of letters and words. Includes sounds, visual aids and helpful resources for students.

Compact for Reading: Kdg: Letter Recognition [PDF] A PDF file which provides lessons for kindergarten students on the topic of letter recognition and formation. Taken from the US Department of Education's compact reading program.

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun with Letters This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an Alphabet Scrapbook, learn to write the letters with Spinner the Spider, and learn about alphabet fonts in the section on Shapes and Features.

White House Kids: White House ABC's Barney, the White House dog, obviously knows his ABCs! From Americans to Zest, find a colorful alphabet about being an American.

Compact for Reading: Kdg: Letters of Alphabet [PDF] Four lessons in PDF format which teach kindergarten students to write letters of the alphabet and copy words. Includes practice writing, examples, and exercises for children.

KidsKonnect.com: Alphabet Check out this incredible site full of alphabet resources. Students and teachers can use this site to develop their knowledge of the alphabet and activities associated with letters.

ReadWriteThink: Alphabet Organizer Interactive Game An excellent game for students for alphabetization and organizational skills. Provides an interactive interface for students to list names of items, and allows them to print out their organizer after completion.

Scholasitc: Clifford: Make a Word Phonics learning game led by Clifford the Big Red Dog. Students drag vowels over incomplete words in order to see if they can make real words. They can check their answers and keep practicing until they get them all correct.

Studyzone: Practice Vowels and Consonants Lesson with printable pieces to review which letters are vowels and which are consonants. First, students print and cut out cards of the letters before sorting them into vowels and consonants. It is from a standardized test preparation site designed for younger students.