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Grades PreK-2

Starfall -Excellent Site for Emergent Readers

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PBS Kids - Learning Games

ABC Match
ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.

Acrostic Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

Construct-a-Word
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.

Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

Picture Match
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.

Story Map
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

What’s in the Bag?
What's in the Bag? invites primary students to play with vocabulary common to their environment.

Word Family Sort
This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

 

Grades 3-5

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PBS Kids - Learning Games

Acrostic Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

Picture Match
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.

Story Map
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

Timeline
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).

Word Family Sort
This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

Grades 6-8

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Educational Games for Middle School Students

Acrostic Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.

Story Map
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

Timeline
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).


Grades 9-12

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Educational Games for High School Students

Acrostic Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

Doodle Splash
Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.

Story Map
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.


Timeline
Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).

 

 

 
             
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