Villa Cresta Elementary School
For Kids
Practice Your Reading Skills!
Type of Activity
Name of Activity
URL of Website
Phonics
Letter sounds, letter identification
ABCs
www.starfall.com/
Alphabet skills
ABCow
pbskids.org/lions/games/
Upper and lower case letter identification
Kangaroo Confusion
www.cogcon.com
Identifying beginning sounds (drag upper and lower case, beginning letters)
Leo the Letter Loving Lobster
teacher.scholastic.com/
Matching pictures with same beginning sounds
Clifford’s Sound Match
teacher.scholastic.com
Type missing short vowel
Kidport - Missing letters
www.kidport.com/
Blending sounds into words; reading short stories
Starfall - Learn to Read
Matching written to spoken word
Pounce
pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html
Short Vowel sounds in words
Chicken Stacker
pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html
Name the Picture
www.sadlier-oxford.com/
Consonant Blends
Gawain’s Word
pbskids.org/lions/games/gawain.html
Extension activities
Reading Resources – correlates with Reading text book
Eduplace
eduplace.com/kids/hmr/
Rhyming words
Gus and Inky
www.getreadytoread.org
Literature
Listen to and read online stories
Reading Planet
www.rif.org
Read online stories
Book Pop
www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html
Online magazines
BCPL E-Zines
www.bcpl.info/kidspage/ezines.html
Poetry activities
Giggle Poetry
www.gigglepoetry.com/
Read Fairy Tales online
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
Identfying Main Idea
Tutorial and practice activities for identifying the main idea
Kids’ Lab - Main Idea
www.manatee.k12.fl.us
Vocabulary
Find rhymes, antonyms, synonyms, definitions, etc. for a word
Rhyme Zone
www.rhymezone.com/
Play crossword, word find, hangman, etc.
Learning Vocabulary can be Fun
www.vocabulary.co.il/