Word-Level Games

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Segmenting Words
  1. Compound Words - A compound word is made up of two or more words.  Use this website to try to uncover matching pairs of cards.
  2. Elephant Compounds- Help Mrs. Droegmoeller's favorite animals make compound words.
  3. Prefix and Suffix Fun - Use prefixes and suffixes to create new words, with new meanings, from words you already know.
  4. Easy Match - Match the root words with their prefixes and suffixes.
  5. JigWord - Drag the prefixes on the right to what it means.
  6. 2 Player Prefix Game - A game of knowledge and memory.  Players take turns finding matching pairs and earning points.
  7. Prefixes Make New Words - Complete the many levels of prefix games to test your knowledge of segmenting words.
  8. Play Root Words 1 or Root Words 2 to identify word roots, and spelling patterns.
  9. Fish 'Em Up! - Are you ready to fishing for words? Use fishing rods to catch the correct words in the water. Do you need to double the consonant or change the Y? You'll find out if you Fish 'Em Up.
  10. Flashcards, Matching or Concentration - Try your skills at compound words.
  11. Drag and Click - Can you complete these compound words by dragging them to their correct partner?
  12. Look Out Below - Have fun finding words within words with this crazy cartoon man!

Syllables

  1. Syllables Quiz - Take this quiz to check your knowledge of syllables.
  2. Syllables Factory - This site will help you practice how to break up words into chunks of sound. This will help your spelling!
  3. Space Station - Have fun dividing the words in blue into syllables and enter it into the box with a "-" between the syllables.  Example fi-nal.
  4. Breaking Up - Breaking up is hard to do, unless you're breaking up syllables of course!  (Uses Bridge to Terabithia words!)
  5. Syllables on Youtube - This video shows how to break down a word using syllables so you can sound it out.


Phonemic Awareness

  1. Phoneme Sandcastle - Build a sandcastle by clicking on the sand-pie with the correct spelling to fill in the gaps in the words written in the sand.  Be careful of the English accent!
  2. Missing Letters of the Alphabet - Position the cursor inside the box, then use the keyboard to fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.
  3. Letter Blends - Click on the pictures that begin with the letters shown on the left.
  4. Blending Bowl - Pick digraphs and watch them battle it out, football style.
  5. Missing Letters - Position the cursor in the box, then use the keyboard to enter the missing letter in the word.
  6. Fast Phonics - Fast-paced and FUN! A phonics tutorial with sound and cartoons for all ages.
  7. Sadlier-Oxford Phonics - Use your knowledge of letters, sounds and words as you try out the games and activities. 
  8. Fruit Phonics - FruitPhonics makes learning to read a fun adventure. Using an online video, mobile devices and the interactive 3D animation platform, they are developing Fruitphonics into a unique early learning experience for children and their parents.
  9. Kid Done - Check your skills with this interactive phonics website.
  10. Internet for Classrooms - This site offers 40 different links to various phonics pages.
  11. Picture Match - Choose your game, beginning letter sounds, short-vowel sounds or long-vowel sounds, and have fun.
  12. CVC Maker - How many words can you make?
  13. Quia Games- Over 30 games to play!
  14. Match of Mystery -  Pick from the 5 levels of short, long, digraphs, dipthongs or VCE pattern games.
  15. Phoneme Flop- Have fun clicking on the correct matches so they fall in the collector bin.
  16. Word Endings - Create new words using word endings using magnetic letters.
  17. Word Wheels- Push the buttons, stop the wheels, make words and put them in the correct context.  Don't have too much fun!
  18. Word Dropping - Listen to the sentence being read and click on the missing word.

Word Recognition

  1. Dolch Word Games- Various games for instant word recognition - can you handle it?
  2. Have an underwater adventure on The Reef of Lost Words. These classic word search games are great exercises in word recognition, spelling, and reading.
  3. Star Words - A new consignment of Star Words is being delivered to your sector - can you match them to the right shape?
  4. Word Search - Play a word search using your knowledge of various school subjects.
  5. Sight Word Practice - Use the drop down box to identify the correct spelling of the picture. 
  6. High Frequency Words Games - Pick a level and fill in the blank with the correct word.
  7. Spellbound- This game shows a word, then the letters get jumbled up. You have to rearrange the letters to make the word.
  8. Flashcards - Type in a list of words, then choose either flashcards or a spelling practice game.
  9. Bembo's Zoo - Check out what graphic artists can do with letter-forms and punctuations.  
  10. Story it - This site offers word games such as letter bounce, blocks, cubes and magnets.
  11. Game Goo - 15 games to learn and enjoy.  Don't get grossed out!

Spelling

  1. Spelling City - Type in your spelling words for this week and listen/study them, play games with them and take an auditory spelling test on the computer!
  2. Cliffhanger - Guess the missing letter in the word to move up to the next level.
  3. Have an underwater adventure on The Reef of Lost Words. These classic word search games are great exercises in word recognition, spelling, and reading.
  4. Hangman is the classic word game. In this version you have to save Broose Kaboose from falling off his track and meeting watery misfortune.  Broose Kaboose is perched on a crumbling bridge. Your goal is to prevent him from falling by guessing the right letters to solve the mystery word.
  5. 8 Letters in Search of a Word- How many words can you make using only 8 letters?
  6. Play a little Monster Hangman.  :-)
  7. Play Word Morph by changing one letter the in the starting word to form a new word.  Repeat the process until you spell the ending word.  This game is challenging, but all puzzle pieces can be solved.
  8. Popword is too much fun!  Highlight the letters to make a word, but all of the letter balls have to touch.  Beat my score and win a prize!
  9. The aim of Eight Letters is to gain points by creating words from the selection of eight letters given to you on the screen. Longer words are give more points.
  10. Look, Cover, Write, Check - Practice your spelling words using this site.
  11. By playing Spell Check you get to be the teacher!  Place a check next to the word that is spelled wrong.
  12. Stay Afloat is similar to hangman, but in this version you get to pick the kinds of words that you'll play with such as sports words, science words, social studies words.
  13. Twin sisters Pearl and Flora lost their friends in the bubble machine! Help them get their friends out by choosing the correct plural form of the given word.
  14. Word Confusion is a game that plays around with homophones.  Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
  15. Pixie Pit - You can make fridge magnet poetry or play scrabble for fun.

Vocabulary Games

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All Purpose
  1. Vocabulary Carnival - Use the definition to figure out the vocabulary word.
  2. Multiple Meanings - Multiple meaning words are ones with more than one definition. In this activity you will be asked to find the word given two common meanings.
  3. Ball Hogs - Identify the synonyms of words that you know.  Can have up to 8 players.
  4. Escape Planet Zug - Use your knowledge of words to escape the scary purple planet.
  5. Words in Context - Figure out the meaning of the word in the sentence to throw a pie at Mr. Duck Von Fly.

Semantic Mapping

  1. Categories Battleship - Try and sink the computer's battleships by naming the correct category for the words listed!
  2. Columns - You are given three things on one side and a list of categories on the other. Can you match the items with their correct category?
  3. Rags to Riches - You will be given either 3 or 4 members of a certain category. Name the group or category these members belong in and climb the ladder!

Cross Curricular Extensions

  1. Use your Social Studies, Science, Math or ELA vocabulary to make a Jeopardy game for your class to use.

Comprehension Games

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All Purpose
  1. Mr. Nussbaum's Stories - Click on the story that you want to read and answer questions to check your comprehension.
  2. Story Scramble- Use your sequencing skills to unscramble the story.
  3. Storybooks Online - Read a story on your own or have it read to you.
  4. The Moonlit Road - Stories for older students that can also be read aloud.
  5. Storyline Online - Famous actors and actresses will read you their favorite picture books. 
  6. Starfall Greek Myths - 6 interactive Greek myths to read.

Fluency Games

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All Purpose
  1. 12 Angry Pigs - Work together to perform this play.  It is about a jury of pigs who must decide on the guilt or innocence of the so-called Big Bad Wolf.
  2. Terri and the Turkey- Another play to perform and practice your fantastic fluency.  In this short Thanksgiving play, a young girl saves the life of a Thanksgiving turkey. A family-friendly Thanksgiving skit.
  3. Kidsinco.com - Plays for you to perform.  Be sure to click on "Page 2" at the bottom for more choices.
  4. It's fun to read!  Here are some plays, stories, comics, folk tales Greek myths and Chinese fables to read.  Click on the picture of an ear to have the computer read it out loud.
  5. Homework Excuse Creator - Spin the wheel to find an excuse for not doing your homework.  Remember to practice your fluency for a believable delivery to your teacher.


Semantics Training

  1. Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.
  2. Apostrophes Games - There are two games to help you practice using apostrophes.
  3. Punctuation Splat - Squirt the goo (punctuation marks) into the various sentences.
  4. Punctuate the Sentences- Let the computer read to you as you follow along and punctuate the sentences.
  5. Gameaquarium - Pick from the list of punctuation games to practice your skills.