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Phonics skill development games and a few other reading development games
Nursery Rhymes are an important foundation for reading. Click and print out and color rhymes and learn about why they are so valuable to new readers! Click here to see the word families in Nursery rhymes. This site also has music for each rhyme!
Letter Recognition Learn to recognize matching upper and lower case letters!
AlphaBears - Put the bears in alphabetical order
Fearless Freida - combine letter sounds to create words. Children type simple three letter words to match the sounds.
Matching Game - with Arthur! Play against Arthur and match multi-cultural symbols!
Dynamo's Den - lots of fun learning games.
Magic Key - Seeing patterns in poems and rhymes
Reading along with a story and learning to follow directions is a great learning activity for beginners. These stories are from the BBC so it is a good time to talk about cultural differences. Try these as well. Animal Stories, Fairy Stories, World Stories, Paint and Color Stories. Create a story here.
Pounce is a great game for learning phonics -- it also helps students learn to recognize words and know meaning!
A.B.Cow lets young students find the missing alphbet letters.
Fuzzy Lions Ears - hearing the sound and completing the words is this games goal.
Alien Scavenger Hunt- combine vowels and consonants to make words and earn points.
Chicken Stacker (vowel sounds) let students match vowel sounds by stacking up the chickens!
Consonant Blends - click on the blend and read a fun rhyme.
Long Vowel Sounds - practice long vowel sounds with these cute poems!
Use phonemes to build a Sand CASTLE
Story Scramble -- Put the screens in order to make a story!
Digby Mole's Word Activities - Matching, rhymes, beginning and ending sounds
Story Bear - 3 interactive stories develop listening skills and following directions.
Fraser the Eraser helps students develop listening skills, learn how to describe things and follow directions!
HMS Sweet Tooth - lets students put periods (full stops) at the end of sentences!
The Patchworker lets students patch together sentences so that they make sense!
Dragonland lets students identify the questions and win the jewelled question mark from the Dragon!
Look Out Below ( make small words from the letters of a big word in this game)
Be a Descriptive Detective - Describe carefully and help Arthur find the missing person.
Squanky the Tooth Taker - find the opposites.
Monkey Business - help monkey build a bridge by putting words in order and making sentences.
Gawain's Word (word blends) you can make words in a joust!
Look Out Below ( make small words from the letters of a big word in this game)
Words and Pictures These games from the BBC have many activities will make learning phonics fun.
Code Calling lets kids find words that have similar meaning to replace in sentences.
In Floppy and the Puppies you must fill in the sentences using context clues.
Creamcake Cake Mystery is a game that uses rhyming skills.
Word Play lets you child see and hear the word as it does exactly as it says!
Alphabet Soup sounds simple enough but don't be decieved. It is for older elementary students and the reward of finding the words in the soup is a fun riddle!
Game Goo - 13 interactive games covering a range of skills. practice antanyms (opposites) with Squanky the toothtaker, Poetry Pickle lets you practice alliteration, rhythn, and rhyme, Fearless Freida let you practice making words with your knowledge of letter sounds - good keyboarding practice! Alien Scavenger Hunt lets you crete words by finding the missing letters and shooting them from the sky! Monkey Business lets kids build a bridge so the monkey can cross by constructing sentences,
Puzzle Room - an interactive word puzzle. Place words where they make the most sense. This helps kids reason and rhyme!
Billy Bear's Cookies - the "kind" hangman game (Primary, Junior)
ReviseWise Reading - from BBC Education. Practise and test your skills in the following reading areas; Reading, Writing, Poetry, English, Spelling, Grammar, Math Science -- there is even a game zone here!
Wacky Stories is great to learn how nouns, verbs, and adjectives work
Surfing for Good Stories - Electronic Library of Links to the Best Animated Picture Books and Comics Online for Elementary and Middle School Students and Teachers- Created by: Liza Kruyff, Teacher-Librarian, Integrated Technology, Toronto District School Board
Bembo's Zoo - A delightful on-line animal picture book. Click on a letter of the alphabet and watch an animal form on your screen made from the the letters in the name of the animal! You have to see it to believe it! (requires Shockwave)
Kids Corner Enjoy this assortment of Beatrix Potter stories, recreated as online texts, complete with her lovely illustrations. (Primary)
Aesop's Fables created by John R. Long, contains an alphabetically arranged collection of over 654 online fables for grades 4-12. Each tale includes the moral of the story and many are presented on RealAudio. The site also offers online the 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. (Junior, Intermediate)
FunSchool is full of great games by grade level!
Science Bob's adventures!
Masters of Mathematics Practice On-Line
Telling Time and Counting Money
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
15 math related games from addition to volume.
money, time, pattern blocks, fraction bars, integer bars, and more...
Measurement Games -
learn mass, length or capacity!
Learn equivalent measures - quarts, tons, pounds, yards etc.
Money Counting Games
Number Sense
Bobber's Farm - odds and evens, composite and prime numbers
Count by twos - coloring fun
Try the MONSTER SQEEZE GAME to learn about greater than and less than
Cats in a Line - teaches ordinal numbers with cute kitties!
Use reasoning to GUESS THE NUMBER
Telling Time
Learning to use the Clock
Clockworks is fun
Kindergarten
GameAcquarium addition fun
Division
GameAqcuarium Division Games
Fraction Fun
GameAcquarium - Fraction Games
Multiplication
Multiplication games
GameAcquarium multiplication games
Place Value Games
GameAcquarium place value games
Subtraction
Challenge
Practice EVERYTHING - rounding, estimation, word problems -- difficult stuff!!
Ask Dr. Math anything (relating to math)
Help kids manage money and learn math with this fun game, Escape from Knab! 4th grade and up.
Flood is a great game to help children think about organizing information by subject.
Math fun - a weekly brain teaser!
Try this fun geography game
Help the Alienz get to their destinations in this game that helps kids find their way around the globe!
Teaching Tolerance helps us talk with our children about global violence and issues of hatred here at home. Teaching Tolerance, helps us understand many points of view. On a world-wide scale tolerance is difficult to come by. The two sites below focus on the Palestineian and Arab disputes and what some creative people in those two countries are doing to bring about understanding and peace.
An American summer camp brings Israeli and Palestinian youth to the States and offers some hope, as does a joint settlement of Israelis and Arabs at Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam.