Reading

Practice Your Reading/Typing Skills!

  

 

 

Type of Activity

Name of Activity

1

Phonics

Letter sounds, letter identification

 

Starfall ABCs

2

 

Matching pictures with same beginning sounds

 

Clifford’s Sound Match

3

 

Type missing short vowel

 

Kidport -  Missing letters

4

 

 

Blending sounds into words; reading short stories

 

Starfall main index

5

Punctuation

Find and correct capitalization and punctuation errors

Sentence Clubhouse

6

 

Select the proofreading skills to work on (skill varies by story)

Power Proofreading

7

Parts of Speech

Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives

 

Grammar Gorillas

8

 

Identify parts of speech (choose grade range)

 

Rats!

9

Extension activities

Reading Resources, by grade level

 

Eduplace

10

Comprehension

learn and practice specific reading strategies

Into the Book

11

Poetry 

Write poetry online

Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutzky

12

Spelling

Study your spelling words online

 

Spelling City

13

Vocabulary

Find rhymes, antonyms, synonyms, definitions, etc. for a word

 

Rhyme Zone

14

 

Play crossword, word find, hangman, etc.

Learning Vocabulary can be Fun

15

 

Practice vocabulary or grammar while donating rice to needy people

 

FreeRice.com

16

TYPING SKILLS

“Trick or Type”, “Desert Typing”, “Keyboard Triathlon” etc.

 Typing Games

17

 

online Typing Tests – select from Lessons #2 - 8

  Typing Test

 

18

 

Fun, colorful site introducing typing skills to children

Dance Mat Typing