Learn to Spell Word Songs Word Activities
Favorite Books and Authors Online Stories to Read
Reasons Why The English Language is Hard to Learn
Check out these Weird Words!
Word of the Week and Other New Words Introduced
We will do word activities, make easy books to read, play games,
sing songs and have some fun learning these words this year.
| Word of the Week | New Words |
| May 27 -ell word family | bell fell well tell |
| May 19 "ot" word family | not dot got hot lot |
| May 12 thank you | mother |
| May 5 museum words | shell mammal bird fish dinosaur |
| April 28 Phillies | photo phone graph |
| April 21 chin | inch teacher |
| April 14 she | shell wish short vowels |
| Apr 7 this | zip zero zoo pizza |
| Mar 31 can | come cousin |
Mar 25  buzz of was |
went with brown "ow" word family list |
| Mar 3 some | see saw said so Fun with Dr. Seuss |
| Feb 25 like | black kite "ack" word family list Do some "ack" activities. |
| Feb 19 look | little Lakeview "all" word family list Read Let's All Play Ball |
| Feb 11 have | love valentine |
| Feb 4 for | from flashlight fun |
| Jan 28 am | my me mitten Mom "am" word family list |
Jan 22  up  |
fun us you "un" word family list |
Jan 14 where  |
my ? question mark |
| Jan 2 you | yes yellow snow |
| Dec 10-19 me | we he she |
| Dec 3 do | Dad day |
| Nov 26 are | red green |
| Nov 12-21 go | get gobble ending "ing" going |
Nov 5  of is |
if it is in |
| Oct 29 no | name and |
| Oct 22 he she | hot hop |
| Oct 15 by | boo ! bat |
| Oct 9 the | job October |
| Oct 1 on | off Mom Mom |
| Sept 24 play | pop Pop Pop |
| Sept 17 at | a apple |
| Sept 10 to | exit tree |
| Sept 4 I | cat dog |
This is a list of some of the words we see frequently when we read and write.
Click here to print the list by itself.
| I | a | is |
| it | we | to |
| me | at | go |
| am | my | in |
| an | up | he |
| so | by | of |
| on | do | no |
| see | the | not |
| you | his | cat |
| can | was | her |
| are | and | saw |
| pop | job | dog |
| like | book | play |
| with | going | today |
Word Activities
Here are some activities to do with your child if he/she is really anxious to learn to read and write some sight words. Learning to read should be fun, but if your child can't remember the letter names or the sounds each letter makes then some of these activities may be too difficult or frustrating. Try some letter activities first then come back to these word activities another time.
Play "What's the Word?" in your car or in a line anywhere!Say a one-syllable word sound by sound (not letter by letter)
and see if your child can hear the sounds and blend them into a word.
| Parent: "c...a...t" What's the word?" Child: "c...a...t" "cat" |
| Parent: "s...t...o...p" What's the word?" Child: "s...t...o...p" "stop" |
Print the list above and play "What's The Word?" You sound out one of the words sound by sound and your child guesses which word it is and points to it. (Skip the sight words for this game since their letter sounds don't make a word that makes sense. Instead, you can say a sight word such as, "the, you, of, do" etc and ask your child to point to it and say the word.) Word Card Gameshttp://shi85.org/whitlock/Parent-Guides/WordCardGames.pdf
Printable Word Wall Word Game: I have (and). Who has (zoo)?http://www.jmeacham.com/docs/time.filler.games/I.HAVE.word.wall.words.gamecards.doc
Online Word Activities
Play "What's The Word" online. Picture-Word Matchhttp://www.saxonpublishers.com/activities/phonics_1e/activity_1/
Online Word GamesColor Word Match and Word Searches for 100 sight words
http://www.crawfordthecat.com/games/
Play What's in the Bag? online. Choose Which Shape Each Word Matcheshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/hfwords/starwords/index.shtml
Online Learning Activitieshttp://www.geocities.com/pattib203/online-activities.html
Sight Word Funhttp://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/sightwords/default1.htm
Online Word Gameshttp://pbskids.org/lions/games/
Learn to Read Some Sight Words!You can hear the pronunciation of a word when you move your mouse over it. Primer Level Words or Grade One Level Words
Lots of Word Activitieshttp://carlscorner.us/word_way.htm
Online Stories to Read
Starfall Online Word Games and Interactive BooksThe Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension. The program is designed to instill confidence and enable the child to proceed as quickly as possible to a balanced reading program.
Online Stories and Morehttp://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/reading.html
http://www.geocities.com/pattib203/Onlinestories.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn2000/
http://www.beartime.com/children_stories.htm
http://www.goodnightstories.com/stories.htm
http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/adlib.cgi
http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp
http://www.kizclub.com/storylinks.htm
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
Read to Me, Read Alone, Read With Helpand Links to More Online Stories
http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Read Long Vowel Stories OnlineScroll down for more choices.
Sight Word Stories to Read Onlinehttp://www.netrover.com/%7Ekingskid/dolch_store/indexstore.html
200 Dolch words in one storyhttp://www.theteacherscorner.net/reading/dolch/story.htm
Learn to Spell Word Activities Learn to Spell Word SongsThe One 1 Letter Word Song
The Two 2 Letter Word Song
The Three 3 Letter Word Song (CVC)
The Three 3 Letter Word Song
The Four 4 Letter Word Song
The Five 5 Letter Word Song
The Six 6 Letter Word Song
Here are different tunes you can use when spelling words
from 3 - 12 letters compiled from the 'net by The Reading Lady.
http://www.readinglady.com/ww/Word_Wall_Songs/word_wall_songs.html
Phonics HandbookLists of words for blends, digraphs, letter sounds, r-controlled vowels, short and long vowel sounds, vowel combinations, and vowel diphthongs.
Fry's List of 300 instant words
Favorite Books and Authors
Check out all the fun printable activities at Jan Brett's homepage.
Visit other authors like Dr. Seuss and favorite characters
such as, The Berenstain Bears, Franklin the Turtle,
Arthur, Clifford the Big Red Dog and others!
Don't miss these fun and educational websites with printable activities,
crafts, songs, online games and activities geared towards children!
Alphabet Math Science Fun Things to Do Kid's Links
Mrs. Jones' Room Kdg Program Info
Letter of the Week Sing Along Songs