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Glenview, Illinois 60026
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Phonemic Awareness

Consonant Sounds

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Word Families

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Phonemic Awareness

Get Ready to Read:
Rhyme Time

Interactive rhyming activity for beginning readers (NEW)
Get Ready to Read:
Letter Names and Sounds
Works on rhyming words, word recognition, letter names and letter sounds (NEW)
Scholastic: Annie's Rhyme Time K-3 Build vocabulary, exercise critical-thinking skills, and develop phonemic awareness in this fun rhyming riddle game
Scholastic: Reggie the Rhyming Rhino Help Reggie find the rhyme - click on the top picture and then find a rhyming word
Brain Connection: Dominoes
Listen to phonemes on domino halves and match up the phonemes with the same sound.

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Matching Uppercase to Lowercase Letters

Kinder Planet: Match upper and lower case letters Click on the lowercase letters that match the uppercase letters shown and you will uncover a picture.

Literacy Center: Match upper and lowercase letters

Click on the arrows to find the matches

Literacy Center: Type the uppercase letters on the keyboard

Type any letter on the keyboard and you will see the matching lowercase letter.
Literacy Center: Concentration Card Game Click on one of the 6 cards shown and find the upper and lowercase matches

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Sequencing

Dot to Dot Alphabet Online Game  

a  b  ___  d  e A.B.Cow

Find the missing lowercase letter in the alphabet 

Learning Planet: ABC Order find the missing letter
Fun School: What's the Order? Drag the 4 pictures in the order they occur. Has just 3 sets of sequencing pictures.

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Consonant Sounds

Get Ready to Read: Word Round-Up Works on beginning and ending sounds (NEW)
Starfall Alphabet Click on one of the letters to see a "story" about that letter. In the story see 3 pictures that begin with the letter, and sort upper and lower case letters.

S Sunshine Online Alphabet

A picture for each letter of the alphabet.

ALearning Planet.com: Alphabet Action

Click on a letter to hear it's name and see a picture
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary Click on one of the letters and see lots of words that begin with it.
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Pick the object that starts with the letter shown at the top of each page. 
KidPort: Letters and Pictures Click on the objects that start with each letter of the alphabet shown on the left.
Scholastic's: Leo the Letter Loving Lobster Students find upper and lowercase letters to match pictures
Between the Lions: Pounce! game Pounce on the word that matches the sound
TVO Kids: Letter Goop sort pictures by their initial sounds - given 2 letters at a time
Fuzzy Lion Ears:

Game 1   Game 2   Game 3   

Game 4   Game 5   Game 6

Click on the letter to complete the word.
The Reading Lesson  simple movie to help your child learn or review the sounds that go with each letter of the alphabet
Starfall: SH movie short, interactive activity - use to introduce or reinforce
Starfall: WH movie short, interactive activity - use to introduce or reinforce
Starfall: TH movie short, interactive activity - use to introduce or reinforce
Starfall: CH movie short, interactive activity - use to introduce or reinforce

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Vowels Sounds

Name the Picture: Short Vowels Students read the words and then click on the circle next to the word that names a picture

Make-A Word
-ar 
 
 
 

Add beginning consonants to make words

For the silent e words: students need to make a word first with a word family ending such as "an" and then add silent e to make a new word

PBS Kids: When Two Vowels Go Walking animated video clips from PBS Kids - nice way to introduce or review concepts
PBS Kids: Double O, "oo"
PBS Kids: Vowel Boot Camp
PBS Kids: The a-r song
PBS Kids: Sometimes Y
Starfall: Y can be a Vowel From the Starfall website - interactive clips - use to introduce or reinforce 
Starfall: How the Vowels Saved the Day
Starfall: The Amazing! Silent e

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Word Families

Gawain's Word

Students click on one of the word families. Then they click on a consonant letter to make the letter and word family ending "joust" to make a word.

Make-a-Word
  -en

Click on one of the word families. Then click on a consonant letter to create word family words to match the picture shown.

 Magnetic Chalkboard

How many words can you make using the same endings? Click on the magnets on the board and drag them to make words. Endings include and, eat, ice, ink, ace, ake, est, atch, ake, ool, ick 

Dositey Phonics Ending Game Make word family words with the following: -an, -ar, -ap, -ag, -en, -at, -all, -ate, -ail, -ub
Word Maker Make word family words with the following: -an, -ed, -ig, -at, -et, -in, -op, -ot, -un

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Sight Words

Colors Word Search
Months of the Year Word Search
Animal Eyes room 108
PBS Kids: Ten Small Words song/movie clip

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Compound Words & Contractions

Drag and Drop Compound Words Click and drag words to make a compound word
Feed the Hungry Thing Make compound words with pictures
Jan Brett Compound Words 3 choices of words to make a compound word
Match Compound Words (Quia) Match up the compound words

base + ball Make a Compound Word

Treasure Trove: Contractions

Read the words on the treasure chest.  Click on the key that shows the contraction for the two words on the chest.

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Spelling

Ambleside: Look, Cover, Write, Check
Look. Cover, Write, Check

practice spelling the days of the week, months, numbers 1-20, colors and words with the following:

a_e, o_e, i_e, u_e, wa, ee, ea, aw, ou, ow, er, or, ir, igh, oi, _oy

PBS Kids: Without an S   song/movie clip - use to introduce or reinforce
Literacy Center: Spelling Color Words Click on a crayon and then spell the color
Primary Games: Short Vowel: See and Spell look at each picture and spell the word - game has 10 questions
Primary Games: Long Vowel: See 'N Spell look at the picture and spell the word - game has 10 questions
Primary Games: Blends: See 'N Spell look at the picture and spell the word - game has 10 questions

Primary Games: Digraphs: See 'N Spell

look at the picture and spell the word - game has 10 questions

Primary Games: Plurals: See 'N Spell

look at the picture and spell the word - game has 10 questions

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Homophones

PBS Kids: Homophones

Song/Movie Clip  - use to introduce or reinforce
Ambleweb Primary Homophone Quiz 1 there, their, they're
Ambleweb Primary Homophone Quiz 2 variety of homophones
Ambleweb Primary Homophone Quiz 3 are, our, hour
Ambleweb Easily Confused Words 10 sentences variety of homophones
Ambleweb Easily Confused Words 2 10 sentences variety of homophones
Quia Homophone Game  

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Main Idea

Online Quizzes -  Main Idea
2 Online Reading Comprehension Stories

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Grammer

Schoolhouse Rock: Grammer Rock Songs & Lyrics for A Noun is a Person Place or Thing, Unpack Your Adjectives, Verb! That's What's Happening, and more

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Mad Libs

Fun with Words

A Thinkquest site. Click on Visit site and then Madlibs. Four different ones to do.

Main Street Mom Mystery Madlib

1 madlib to try

Harper Children's:  wAckY WoRdS

8 wacky tales to do.

sunWacky Web Tales

geared for grade 3 and up

Madlibs!

3 madlib stories to try

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Writing

Young Writer's Workshop

Submit your own stories

Kid's Story 

Kids Writing for Kids

Kid Authors

You can submit your own stories and poems on this site.
Create and write about your own monster - see and read about  monsters other kids have made
PBS Kids Silly Sentence Machine create a silly sentence by clicking on a picture from each column.

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