1st Grade - Language Arts

• Between the Lions: Games
  Includes a collection of games to review phonics and vocabulary words.
• Catch The Spelling
  Use your keyboard's arrow keys to catch the letter in the correct order to spell the word at the top of the screen. (First Grade Dolch Words)
• Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
  Contains several storybooks starring Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Each line of the book can be read to students. Students have the opportunity to select a word for several sentences.
• Clifford's Make a Word
  Students select vowels to make words.
• Crossword Spelling
  This is a Houghton Mifflin site. The words correspond with the units, however, you wouldn't have to follow the Houghton Mifflin program exactly because it is simple enough for students to do. Teacher may want to read the clues.
• Drag and Spell
  Drag the middle lessons to complete the word.
• Harcourt School 1st Grade Spelling Activities
  This site contains a variety of spelling activities for each unit of the Harcourt Brace Spelling program. Teachers can look at the words in these units to discover any common patterns or similarities with school's spelling program. (Each unit has a spelling check where students select the correctly spelled word from a list of words and a Word Builder where students unscramble the letters to make a word that was orally given to students.)
• Snap It
  Match the middle sounds of the words.
• Spellbound
  Try to spell the word. The game shows the student the word briefly and then scrambles the letters. The student must then spell the word. Lots of high frequency words.
• Spelling Activities
  This site offers several choices in varying difficulty. Activites include matching beginning sound, missing letters, missing vowels, plurals, and blends.
• Spelling Word Search
  This site goes along with the Houghton Mifflin series. This site is word searches that students complete on the computer.
• Word Builder
  Student is given a sentence with a missing word and must choose the right letters to build that word. Everything is read to the student, including the instructions, so student can play this game by himself.
• Word Families
  Students choose what word family they would like to work with and then matches the picture to the word to make the tree bloom. Site provides three levels for the game.
• Words and Pictures
  This site contains several different modules emphasizing graphophonic cues including consonant-vowel-consonant words, consonant clusters, and long vowel sounds. Modules contain listening activities, interactive games, and writing activities.