ONLINE LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Games from Game Goo
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Beginner, intermediate and advanced games covering such topics as antonyms, synonyms, letter-sound correspondence, ABC order, etc.
Games from Play Kids Games.com
Important Note: When the game box comes up, pull on the arrow in the bottom right corner of it to make it fill the screen.
**Alphabet Whack-A-Mole**
Whack the moles in ABC order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/wam/default.htm#
**The Frog Game**
The frog eats letter bugs in ABC order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/frog/Flash/default.htm
**Spring Bee**
Help the bee take the letters to its hive in ABC order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/beeGame/default.htm
**Alphabet Tunnel Blaster**
Blast the wall that has the correct letter in ABC Order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/tunnel/LETTERS.HTM#
**Go Fishing**
Catch the fish in ABC Order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/fishing/default.htm#
**Alphabet Book Game**
Put the books in ABC order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/alphabetGame/default.htm#
**Letter Fire**
Matching Letters
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/letterFire/default.htm#
Games from Primary Games
**Slate**
Practice writing upper and lowercase letters and numbers (mouse skills)
http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/slate/start.htm
**Treasure Trove**
Contractions
http://www.primarygames.com/contractions/start.htm
**See 'N Spell**
Spell words: short vowels, long vowels, digraphs, blends, plurals
http://www.primarygames.com/see-n-spell/see-n-spell.htm
**Squigly's Apples**
Ordinal words
http://www.primarygames.com/squigly/start.htm
**Color Words Word Search**
http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/word_searches/colors_/start.htm
**Months of the Year Word Search**
http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/word_searches/months_/start.htm
**Alphabet Zoo**
ABC order
http://www.primarygames.com/ABC%20Zoo/start.htm
**The Number Game**
Match numbers to number words
http://www.primarygames.com/Number%20Game/start.htm
Activities from Read Write Think
**Word Maker**
Word Families
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordmaker/
**Alphabet Organizer**
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/
**Picture Match**
Beginning letter sounds, short and long vowels
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/
**What's in the Bag?**
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html
**Word Wizard**
A Making Words activity
http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordwizard/
Activities from Sadlier-Oxford
**Long Vowel Sounds**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/long_vowel_grk1_nav.htm
**High Frequency Words**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/high_fre/hifreq1.htm
**Rhyming Words Memory Game**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/rhyming_k_1/hifreq.htm
**Name the Pictures Short Vowels**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic1.htm
**Name the Pictures Long Vowel Sounds A, I, O**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_66/long_vowel_2_3a.htm
**High Frequency Words**
more difficult
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/frequency/highfreq2_3.htm
**Long Vowels E and U**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_76/long_vowel_2_3b.htm
**Name the Picture Long Vowel Sounds**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic2.htm
**R-Controlled Vowels**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/r_vowel/r_vowels.htm
**R-Controlled Words**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/begin_dia2.htm
**Blends**
Beginning and ending consonant blends
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_106/blends.htm
**Beginning Digraphs**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/begin_dia.htm
**Final Digraphs"
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/final_dia.htm
**Vowel Digraphs**
Vowel digraphs such as oo, ea, au, aw, etc.
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_142/middle_dia.htm
**Vowel Dipthongs ou and ow**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs.htm
**Dipthongs oi, oy, and ew**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/dipthongs/dipthongs2.htm
**Fly By Contractions**
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/flyby/flyby1.htm
Miscellaneous Activities
**Look Cover Write and Check"
You can use the words already there, but you can also highlight each word and put in your own.
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html
**Interactive Literacy Activities for Kids from Woodlands Junior School**
Extensive list of literacy activities (need to check out British activities for different pronunciations: e.g., shore/sure and caught/court are considered homophones)
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#9
**Starfall.com**
Excellent alphabet activities, short and long vowels, books with activities,
and much more
http://www.starfall.com
**Between the Lions Games**
Word play, vowels, word families, etc.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
**BBC Words and Pictures**
Phonics and high frequency word activities
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml
**The Magic Key Adventures**
games about punctuation, rhyming,
making sentences, etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml
**Blast the Rocket**
Practice past tense
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/blastrocket.shtml
**Penguins on Ice**
games (Make a sentence, Which mark? and
Make it Interesting)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/penguinsonice.shtml
**Scholastic's Building Language for Literacy**
Word sorting and rhyming
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm
**Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybooks**
Interactive storybooks and games
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
**Scholastic I Spy Games**
http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/play/
**Monster Hangman**
http://www.scholastic.com/play/premore2play.htm
**Space Hangman**
5 levels of play
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacyresources/files/alpha/alpha.htm?s=44244157da
**School Express Word Finds**
challenging
http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/wordsearch/word_finds.php
**Little Animals Activity Centre Word Games**
Beginning and ending sounds and rhymes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml
**Little Animals Activity Centre Storybooks**
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac//story/sbi.shtml
**Down by the Bay rhyming activity**
http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/english/edservices/pedresources/webquest/bay/bay.htm
**Long and Short Vowel Mix & Match**
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/phonics-mm.htm
**Long Vowel/Silent E Word Search**
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/phonics-ws.htm
**Phonics Endings Level 1**
Word families: ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub
http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics1.htm
**Phonics Endings Level 2**
Same word families as above
http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics2.htm
**Phonics Endings Level 3**
Same word families as above
http://www.dositey.com/language/phonics/phonics3.htm
**Look Cover Write and Check**
Spelling activity
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html
**Missing Letters of the Alphabet**
ABC Order
http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/LanguageArts/Workbook/Lang1_missingAlpha.htm
**Word Magnets**
Short and Long Vowels
http://www.storyit.com/magnets/wmagnets.htm
**Don't Wet the Bear**
hangman type game with color words,
number words, days of the week, etc.
http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/bear/bearintro.html
**Discovery School's Puzzlemaker**
Make your own word searches and other kinds of puzzles
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
**Reading First games**
ABC and sound practice and complete the
nursery rhyme
http://roe.stclair.k12.il.us/reading1st/Games/just_for_kids.htm
**Online Literacy Games with Roy the Zebra**
Punctuation, sight
words, rhyming, blends, days of the week, etc.
http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games-word-level.html
**Poetry board**
Make rhyming words with a magnetic poetry board
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
**Word Wheels**
Make simple words with onsets and rimes (and 11 other literacy resources)
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html
**Professor Garfield**
Various activities by grade level
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_kbkids.html
**Professor Garfield Reading Ring**
Sequencing and answering questions
(more challenging)
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
Last updated 8/18/11
As of 7/26/06