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These are my favorite resources
for independent literacy practice. They are most effective when students are completing activities to reinforce skills at
their instructional level. They are in no way meant for drill and practice in a computer lab, but rather for one, two, or
small groups of classroom computers where the activities are appropriate for the learner.
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Check
out Puzzle Center for puzzles to play and/or create! The word
shape puzzle is great for primary grades. Enter your word wall words, vocabulary words from stories or content areas, or find
a puzzle that correlate with other classroom activities.
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In
Poetry Splatter,
students choose words to create poems. They can print their poems when they're finished. Collabor-O-Write
gives students the chance to enter a story, add to an existing story, illustrate a story, or write a story about
an illustration... all online! Enter the appropriate parts of speech to create a Wacky
Web Tale.
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Check out Clifford Games for making words, matching
letter sounds and words, and more! Everything for emerging and beginning readers. Check out the games from Read Between
the Lions! Pounce on the word that makes the sound. In Chicken Stacker, stack five hens by clicking on words with short vowel sounds. The game
starts with letter A. Click on "Next Game" to get to letter e, i, o, and u. Choose from
three letters to complete the word. Fuzzy Lion Ears is great for letter/sound
recognition. The
BBC site has some great interactive tools for word study. Check out the Sandcastle Quiz, Poem Pack, and the other word activities. And please spend some time at ReadWriteThink!
These online tools include everything from word study activities like Picture Match, as well as Literary Elements Maps to use with text.
Check out some of the poetry writing activities like the Acrostic Poem to get even your most reluctant
writers drafting poems of their own. Open-ended tools like the Book Cover Creator are a great way to respond
to reading. This is a great one-stop-shop!
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These interactive sites are great resources for individualized grammar activities. Power Proofreading
Choose the grammar skill you'd like to practice and correct the errors in the sentences. There are activities
by grade level. The Grammar Gorillas
I wish there weren't advertisements when you first load the activities! Once you close them, the
activities are pretty good. Word Sorts and Activities to Support Words Their Way
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