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Preliteracy # Beginning Reading and Writing Activities Students interact with activities that help them learn the basics of reading and writing. # Letter Sounds Students interact with activities that help them learn the basics of reading using words and pictures. Practice with the English Alphabet Students match upper and lower case letters. Putting letters in their correct order Students put letters of the alphabet in correct order. They then put words seen on tests in alphabetic order. Learning the English Alphabet Students practice the English Alphabet by seeing and hearing the sounds of the letters. # Letter TV Audio Alphabet Students use the keyboard to hear and learn the alphabet. # Literacy Center Education Network™ Online activities for letters, shapes, numbers, colors, and keyboarding. # Identifying Letters Students find letters from among a series of 39 other letters. This is a good letter discrimination activity. # SEEK A useful game to reinforce letter recognition for English Language Learners and young native-English speakers. The player is shown a letter, and has to click on the same letter in an ever-increasing collection of letters. # Phonics Zone Students practice letter sounds. |
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# Letter Sentences Students practice letter sounds with sentences. |
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# You Tube Videos Alphabet Flash Cards Students hear the names and sounds of letters. They then see a word and a picture that begins with the letter. New Phonics 1 Chant Students listen to a song that says the name and the sound of each upper and lower case letter. They also see a picture and a word that begins with the letter. The Sky The video introduces students to the following words by using a picture and spellings: sky, sun, rainbow, wind, moon, star, cloud, rain, snow, and storm. Reading Chant - Sounds to Words 1 - Reading Basics "FUNKY" The video introduces students to the following letter combinations by using a picture and letters: at, ap, ack, eg, ed, en, iss, ix, ig, op, om, ock, un, ug, and utt. Reading Chant - Sounds to Words 2 - Reading Basics "Reggae" The video introduces students to the following letter combinations by using a picture and letters: ack, ap, ant, ab, ink, id, op, in, ock, nts, ants, and. Phonics Song 1 - Acoustic Guitar Version Students listen to the names and the sounds of each upper and lower case letter. They also see a picture and a word that begins with the letter. Colors The video introduces students to the following colors by using pictures: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, pink, purple, brown, black, white, and gray. The Rainbow Colors Song The video introduces students to the colors of the rainbow through song, pictures, and words. The Butterfly Colors Song The video introduces students to the following colors by usingsong, pictures, and words: red, green, yellow, pink, purple, and orange. |
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New Words - 1 Students practice words related to food, shopping, and eating. New Words - 2 Students practice verbs and verb agreement used in "Shopping Day" in Very Easy True Stories by Sandra Heyer, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1998. Review Words - 2 Students review the words they learned in New Words - 2 by listening to sentences and unscrambling them. New Words - 3 Students practice words used in "Elevator Romance" in Very Easy True Stories by Sandra Heyer, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1998. Review Words - 3 Students review the words they learned in New Words - 3 by listening to sentences and unscrambling them. New Words - 4 Students practice words used in "Mary Walks Home" in Very Easy True Stories by Sandra Heyer, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1998. Review Words - 4 Students review the words they learned in New Words - 4 by listening to sentences and unscrambling them. New Words - 5 Students practice words used in "Fast Money" in Very Easy True Stories by Sandra Heyer, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1998. Review Words - 5 Students review the words they learned in New Words - 5 by listening to sentences and unscrambling them. Review Words - 5 Challenge Activity Students review "Fast Money" by putting the sentences of the story in correct order. Grocery Shopping Students work with the story "Grocery Shopping" from Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. Shopping for a Coat Students work with the story "Shopping for a Coat" from Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. At the Doctor's Office Students work with the story "At the Doctor's Office" from Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. Time to Clean House Students work with the story "Time to Clean House" from Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. Good Morning Students work with the story "Good Morning" from Action English Pictures by Alemany Press, Inc., Hayward, CA ©1985. |
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Record "Time to Clean House" Students listen to and read the sentences from this story and then record each sentence. |
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Where is it? Students practice reading sentences based on pictures reading questions about the sentences, and answering questions about them. Based on SF Intro - Unit 3. |
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# Learning Chocolate This web site aims to help students to memorize vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. | |
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Listening Practice Students listen to three, easy conversations and answer questions about them. |
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 U.S.A. Learns is a free Web site funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support immigrants who want to learn or improve their English skills as they become part of American society. Designed as an online tool for learning English outside of a classroom, the site offers contextualized practice activities in listening, reading, writing, speaking and life skills necessary for success at work and in the community. |
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Sight Words Students learn The Dolch List of Basic Sight Words. |
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Alphabetizing Practice Students click on names of items to put them in alphabetical order. |
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Numbers Students match numbers and words. 1 - 9 10 - 19 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59 60 - 69 70 - 79 80 - 89 90 - 100 Students type the words for numbers. Start here. |
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How Many? Students look at pictures and type answers to questions about how many objects they see. |
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How is the weather? Students listen to sentences related to the weather and match them with pictures. Then they practice typing the weather-related sentences. |
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Days of the Week Students identify and spell the days of the week and their abbreviations. |
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Calendar Activities Students practice the months in the calendar through matching and spelling activities. |
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Driver's License Students practice reading the information on a driver's license. |
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Spelling Basic Words Students listen to words related to the calendar or contacting people and unscramble them. Then they listen to the words and spell them. |
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May I Please Have Students work on sentences in which they ask for something. They begin by matching pictures to requests and finish by typing their own sentences. |
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Basic Information Students listen to or read basic sentences and match pictures with them. |
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More Basic Information Students do a series of matching activities that focus on basic skills information. Focus on numbers, dates, time, words, abbreviations, and signs. |
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Basic Word Matching Students see a word and match it with an example of the word. |
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Basic Practice Students answer multiple-choice questions on basic concepts. |
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Basic Sign Matching Students look at a sign and match it with its meaning. |
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Matching Questions and Answers Students read a question and try to find the answer to it. Focuses on basic words and feelings. |
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Telling Time Telling Time: Clocks and Numbers Students match a clock with the numbers. Telling Time: Clocks and Words Students match a clock with the written time. # The Whole Class Clock This activity allows teachers to set any time and transfer between analogue and digital displays. The teacher also has complete control of the movement of the hands and can therefore pose questions such as 'What will the time be in....?'. Great for the SmartBoard. # Stop the Clock Five interactive games to support the year objectives set out in the Primary Strategy. Players must drag the digital displays to the matching analogue clock. All against the clock of course! # Bang on Time Read the time in words then stop the hands in the correct position. |
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Identifying Colors Students listen to the name of a color and then select the correct color. |
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# Basic Forms Students practice filling in common forms on line. No data is collected from these forms. |
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Opposites 1 Students play Concentration to practice antonyms. Opposites 2 Students play Concentration to practice antonyms. Opposites TPR Verbs Students play Concentration to practice TPR verbs. |
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# Opposites Students play Concentration to reinforce their understanding of many different topics. Twenty-four different games range from upper and lower case matching to homophones to irregular verbs. # Opposites Students play Concentration to learn and/or reinforce their understanding of antonyms. Ten different games beginning with words like hot and cold and continuing to lenient and strict. |
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 This is the Marshall Adult Education Site. Students listen to and read grade level stories. After reading, they write answers to questions about the reading. |
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365 Short Stories This site has 365 short stories that students can listen to and read. After reading, students can engage in various follow-up activities based on the stories. There are three other components to the site: conversations, easy reading, and super easy reading. |
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Pronunciation Practice Students hear common words with these sounds: b, f, and v. After listening to these words, they record them and compare their recording to the teacher's recording. |
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Commonly Used Words Test Students see one of the commonly used words and then spell it correctly. |
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What's the Question? Students read an answer and select the correct question. Then they see the same answers and type the correct question. |
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 Students work on reading exercises and practice main idea, details, and inference. Students may also work on cloze activities. |
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Students read Aesop's Fables and answer multiple-choice questions about the stories.
They go on to cloze activities and then do story reconstruction activities. The Rabbit and the Turtle The Frog and the Ox The Mice in Council The Rooster and the Fox The Wind and the Sun The Trees and the Ax The Lion and the Mouse The Cat, The Rooster, and the Young Mouse The Dog and the Manger The Fox and the Crow The Fox and the Grapes The Donkey in the Lion's Skin The Dog and His Reflection The Rooster and the Jewel The Travelers and the Bear The Lion and the Gnat |
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Students listen to one of Aesop's fables and see the fable's sentences in mixed up order.
As they listen, they put the sentences in correct order. Crow and the Fox The Dog and His Reflection |
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The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills of reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults. The stories are based on real life situations of interest to adults. Many came from television news stories. Some of the stories are now more than a year old, however, and things may have changed in that time. |
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# The Learning Edge offers interactive, online newspapers with learning activities. Issue 1 - Health and Dr. Appointments Issue 2 - Emergencies Issue 3 - Miscellaneous Issue 4 - Health Issue 5 - The Changing Face of Work Issue 6 - Pay Issues and Schedules Issue 7 -Communication in the Work Place Issue 8 - The Goal Setting Issue Issue 9 - Transferable Skills Issue 10 - The Apprenticeship Issue |
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# American Stories
Students read short stories and answer comprehension questions. From The Centre for Language Training and Assessment in Ontario, Canada. |
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A Writing Tutorial
Students listen to and view a tutorial on how to organize, write, and revise a paragraph or, by extension, an essay. Topics include: A theory, finding a topic, generating details, explaining the details, and revising. After each section, students apply what they learned |