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English Language Arts Grade 1 [2011]
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Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
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Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
 
  • 1st Grade Language Arts Skill Builders
    A large number of activities for building language arts skills in grammar, phonics, and reading.
  • BBC Schools 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.
  • Between the Lions: Videos
    This site includes a collection of phonic songs including: Hung up on H, Sven Said, W Trouble, etc. Songs can be played in QuickTime or RealPlayer. Some songs include video clips. All songs include the words.
  • Bossy R Jeopardy
    Prepare this jeopardy game to practice bossy 'r' words with your students.
  • 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.
  • Houghton Mifflin Spelling Match
    This site offers several choices in varying difficulty. Activites include matching beginning sound, missing letters, missing vowels, plurals, and blends.
  • Kelly's kindergarten Games
    This site has many games to make to teach and practice letter names, sounds, sight words, spelling rimes, and much more.
  • Little Animals' Activity Center
    Students identify words ending or beginning with the same letter or words that rhyme.
  • PBS Literacy Games
    A large variety of games can be accessed from this link that address foundational reading skills for kindergarten and 1st grade.
  • Sounds Poem Pack
    Select a poem from the list that contains the vowel sound to be practice. The student can read it themselves or have it read to them. Then the student can search for sounds or find the word which is good practice for simple comprehension.
  • 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 Family Make a Word
    Click on the word family you would like to work with and add beginning letters to form words that match the picture.
  • Word Wizard
    An interactive version of making words. Students use clues to build words.

 

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