English Activities to Assist with Reading

BEENLEIGH STATE SCHOOL

The activities on this page have been chosen because they will help students (from Years 1-3)

to READ and understand the ENGLISH language.

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1. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Vegetable Labelling	1	x					x
Create Your Own Story	2							x
Alphabet Connect the Dots	3				x
Word Builder	4		x
Phonics' Activities	5			x	x
Pounce	6	x		x
Poem and activities featuring 'ee' sound	7	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'ai' sound	8	x		x			x
2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Poem and activities featuring 'ea' sound	9	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'oa' sound	10	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'ay' sound	11	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring long 'a', lazy 'e' sound	12	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'oo' sound	13	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'y' sound	14	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring 'igh' sound	15	x		x			x
Poem and activities featuring long 'i', lazy 'e' sound	16	x		x			x
3. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Transport Labelling	17	x	x				x
Dinosaur Words	18
Shopping Spree	19	x					x
Alphabet Soup	20	x	x
Which Picture Starts With - initial sounds	21	x		x
4. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
What’s in the Bag?	22						x
Word Family Sort	23	x	x	x		x	x
Drag and Drop Game	24	x
FunBrain - What's the Word?	25	x	x				x
Word Maker	26		x			x	x
TampaReads - Phonics Worksheets	27		x	x
Kid's Carnival (Spelling)	28		x
7. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Kid's Carnival (comparative/superlative words)	29	x
Kid's Carnival - Which Picture Starts with the Letter...	30			x	x
8. ACTIVITY/ DESCRIPTION	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Literacy Centre (numbers, letters, words)	31	x	x	x
Enchanted Learning, Little Explorers' Dictionary	32			x	x
Word Blender - blend together start and end blends	33			x
Write a Postcard - Vowel Phonemes	34			x			x
9. ACTIVITY	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Sandcastle Quiz - Vowel Phonemes	35			x			x
Fun Brain - animal vocabulary fruit vocabulary tools vocabulary machine vocabulary shapes vocabulary	36	x					x
Fun Brain - Word Turtle	37	x					x
Scenario Creator	38	x	x				x
Fruit Labelling	39	x	x				x
10. ACTIVITY	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Plank Walk, Find Floppy, Scene Maker	40	x					x	x
Aliens – Imaginative Dialogue	41	x	x				x	x
Word Wheel 1	42	x	x	x			x
Word Wheel 2	43	x	x	x			x
Saxon Publishers - Phonics Activities	44			x			x
Magnetic Words (unscramble Nursery Rhymes)	45	x	x	x		x	x
Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures (click on red button, games, Language Arts)	45	x	x				x

11. ACTIVITY	No.	word recog.	spelling	phonics	alpha- bet	rhyme	reading	writing
Phonic Fighter	47			x
Look, Cover, Write, Check	48		x
CVC Maker	49	x	x	x			x
Alphabetic Order	50	x	x				x
Let's Spell	51	x	x	x		x
Click and Spell	52		x
Items Around the Home	53	x	x				x
Old McDonald’s Farm - Labelling	54	x	x				x	x
Traditional Story Labels – 3 Little Pigs/Cinderella	55	x	x				x	x
Memory - matching upper and lower case letters of the alphabet	54				x

Gwain's Word	55	x		x
	56
Chicken Stacker - short 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u' sounds	57	x		x
Fuzzy Lion Ears - consonant sounds at end of words	58	x		x
Home Rhyme Derby (click on 'Games Street', then 'Home Rhyme Derby')	59	x				x
Phonics Endings - ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub	60	x		x
Songs with sound themes	61			x			x
Phonics endings - ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub - Level 1	62			x
Phonics endings - ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub - Level 2	63			x
Phonics endings - ag, an, ap, ar, at, en, ate, all, ail, ub - Level 3	64			x
Spellbound (click on Spellbound, then Spellbound ABC, Level 1)	65		x

These activities have been compiled by Cheryl Kerr, Beenleigh State School, Queensland, Australia. Please feel free to email me if you have anything to add or any links become inactive.

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