English Activities to Assist with Reading

BEENLEIGH STATE SCHOOL

The activities on this page have been chosen because they will help students (from Years 4-7)

to READ and understand the ENGLISH language.

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1. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Wacky Web Tales	1						x		x
Puzzlemaker (children make their own activities)	2	x	x		x			x
Sink it ‘n Solve it		x
Spellbinder	4	x							x
Create Your Own Story	5								x
Word Central – Word Coding	6	x			x
Word Central – English Experiments	7	x	x		x
	8									x
	9
Odd One Out	10	x	x
Fake Out - definition Guessing Game	11		x			x
Spellcheck from FunBrain (easy and hard levels)	12	x
Spelling Test - 50 most misspelled words	13	x
Grammar Gorillas - parts of speech	14						x
Boeing - Space words	15		x
How to Make a Cup of Tea	16								x
2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
	17
Fairground Spells – click on the Grab sign to practise punctuation, particularly apostrophes	18						x
Fairground Spells – click on the Fruit Machine to practise spelling up to 8 letters	19	x
3. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Fairground Spells – click on the Ferris Wheel for focussed practise with vowel pairs	20	x
Fairground Spells – click on Test Your Skill to find short words in long words	21	x
Fairground Spells – click on Dodgems to practise suffixes and prefixes	22	x
	23
4. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Swanky the Tooth Taker (synonyms)	24		x
Fearless Frieda (surfing)	25	x
Fearless Frieda (skating)	26	x
Wizards and Pigs (poetry skills)	27		x			x		x	x
Swanky the Tooth Taker (opposites)	28		x
Tina’s World (fact vs fantasy)	29					x
Make Your Own Characters	30								x
5. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making books
Word Builder	31	x	x
Create a Story	32								x	x
Create Your Own Adventure	33								x	x
Phonics’ Activities	34
Story Sequencing	35
Instruction Ordering	36
Writing Dialogue	37
6. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Collective Nouns	38
The Word Wheels	39
Labelling a Scene	40
In Step with Idioms	41						x
Alphabet Soup	42	x	x		x				x
Parts of Speech - What are They and How to Use Them	43						x
Parts of Speech Game	44						x
FunBrain Quiz - identifying nouns	45						x
Make Faces	46	x	x		x	x
FunBrain Quiz - The Grammar Gorillas - Parts of Speech	47	x	x		x		x
7. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
FunBrain Quiz - homophones	48	x	x				x
FunBrain Quiz - well vs. good	49						x
FunBrain Quiz - four sentence types	50						x
FunBrain Quiz - syllables	51	x					x
FunBrain Quiz - plural of nouns ending in 'y'	52	x
FunBrain Quiz - 'ei' vs. 'ie'	53	x
8. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
FunBrain Quiz - irregular plurals' spelling	54	x
FunBrain Quiz - word meaning	55					x
FunBrain Quiz - words often confused	56	x	x			x
FunBrain Quiz - analogy fun	57					x		x
FunBrain Quiz - suffixes 'ous' and 'or'	58	x
FunBrain Quiz - sentence or not?	59
9. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
FunBrain Quiz - Scramble Saurus	60	x	x			x
FunBrain Quiz - Spell-a-roo	61	x
FunBrain Quiz - What's the Word	62		x
FunBrain Quiz - WordConfusion	63	x	x			x
FunBrain Word Turtle - make your own find-a-words	64	x	x
FunBrain - 2Bee or Nottoobee (verbs/tense)	65					x
FunBrain - Rooting out Words	66					x			x
FunBrain - Stay Afloat	67	x	x						x
FunBrain - Wacky Tales	68						x		x
FunBrain - The Plural Girls	69	x
10. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
KnowPlay	70	x	x		x	x			x
Play 20 Questions	71		x			x		x
Paragraphpunch.com (how to structure a paragraph	72						x		x
Quia - A Feast of Homonyms	73						x
Quia - Contractions	74						x		x
Quia - Past tense of irregular verbs	75						x		x
Quia - Idioms	76						x
Quia - Homographs	77						x
Quia - Past tense and past participles or irregular verbs	78						x		x
Quia - More contractions	79						x		x
Quia - Prefix skills	80						x		x
Quia - Roots and prefixes	81						x		x
Quia - Singular and plural nouns	82						x
11. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
How a Book is Made	83									x
Kid's Carnival (comparative/superlative words)	84						x		x
Write your own Dinosaur Story	85								x
The Cartoon Factory - make your own cartoon	86								x
Cambridge Idioms	87							x
Superkids Word Scrambler	88	x	x
12. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Blank Word Magnetic Board	89								x
Magnetic Word Board	90								x
Voycabulary	91		x		x	x
Opposites’ Crosword	92		x
Homonyms’ Crossword	93		x
Plurals’ Crossword	94	x
“u_e’ words Crossword	95	x	x
Mice Nibbled Tales	96					x	x	x	x
Wise Up - Spelling	97	x
	98
Adjectives and Adverbs	99						x
13. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
Plurals	100	x
Fridge Magnets – Persuasive Text	101							x	x
Internet Picture Dictionary	102	x	x	x	x				x
Parts of Speech	103						x
Words with Double Meanings	104					x		x
Reading Comprehension	105					x
King Arthur and the Enchanted Sword	106	x	x			x		x	x
Speech Marks and other Punctuation	107	x (punct.)
Commas in Lists	108	x (punct.)
Alien Worlds (inspiration for descriptive writing)	109		x						x
The Labour of Heracles	110	x	x			x		x	x
Sticky Letters	111								x
Teaching Resource for teaching full stops	112	x (punct)
Teaching Resource - Handwriting Lines for Board	113
Synonyms	114	x			x		x
Comic Creator	115								x
Eye on Idioms	116		x			x	x
Suffixes and Root words	117	x				x			x
14. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION	No.	spelling	vocab.	cloze	word recog.	meaning	grammar	compre- hension	word/ story building	class- ification/ making of books
SHOCKWAVE ACTIVITIES
Flood	S1									x
Between the Lions - Alphabet soup	S2	x		x
Let's Gizmo	S3				x	x
Word Play	S4				x	x


Spellbound (click on Spellbound, then Spellbound ABC, Level 1)	S7	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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Mice Nibbled Tales

Wise Up - Spelling

Adjectives and Adverbs

Plurals

Fridge Magnets – Persuasive Text

Internet Picture Dictionary

Parts of Speech