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 * 1) **The Alphabet** - States the Alphabet in order. This is a British site and the Zis not called a Z. When you click on the letters across the top, you have a choice of listening to the name, listening to the sound, learning how to write the letter. Would be good to use on phonemic awareness.
 * 2) **Alphabet Bang** - Hit a key on the keyboard and hear the letter names.
 * 3) **Alphabet Match - Paw Park** - Match capital to small letter. Find the Mommy (or Daddy) Kangaroo for each joey.
 * 4) **Alphabet Action** - Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture.
 * 5) **Beginning Phonics** - Select a letter, listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter.
 * 6) **Big Bird's Letters** - Press a letter key to see and hear that letter.
 * 7) **Keyboard-O-Rama** - Type a letter on the keyboard and hear a word that starts with that letter.
 * 8) **Letterella** - Meet the letters of the alphabet. Listen as Letterella sings each letter and pronounces each phoneme in words beginning with the letter.
 * 9) **The Literacy Center** - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing component in the Keyboard Section.
 * 10) **Nursery Tutor** - Click on letters and set a time. Flash cards on line!
 * 1) **Bear Wear** - Help Bear get dressed by listening to the letter sound and selecting the shirt that matches the sound.
 * 2) **Beginning Phonics** - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter.
 * 3) **Begins With** - Click on items in a picture which begin with specific letters.
 * 4) **Big Bird Gets a Letter** - Find the pictures that start with the indicated letter.
 * 5) **Fishing for Phonics** - Select a level and find the missing beginning or ending sound and drag the card into the missing space.
 * 6) **Gus and Inky** - A story with activities in it that asks the students to help them identify beginning sounds.
 * 7) **Hedgie's Alphabet** - Listen to the name of the picture and find the word that matches. This is a click and drag activity.
 * 8) **Letters and Pictures** - Click on the objects that start with each letter of the alphabet shown on the left.
 * 9) **Loosey Goosey Rhymes** - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what letters are missing.
 * 10) **Match of Mystery** - 5 levels, short, long, digraphs, dipthongs and vce pattern.
 * 11) **Phonic Fighter** - Click on the picture that starts with the letter shown.
 * 12) **Sound Buttons** - Make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
 * 13) **Sound Dominoes** - Students listen to parts of word and use domino game style to match up the same phonemes.
 * 14) **Sound Fun** - Match sound with the letter. Click on the letter that matches the sound that is said.
 * 1) **Boople's Colors** - Click on the objects that match the color.
 * 2) **Color Match** - Put the items in the boxes with the matching colors.
 * 3) **Color Me** - Pick the color to paint the object by clicking on the colored square on the right. Then click on the object to paint it with the given color. (Objects can only be painted with the stated colors). Clicking on the square again clears the object to be repainted with the selected color.
 * 4) **Color the Rainbow** - Freda the Frog shows objects, you name the color before clicking on the arrow.
 * 5) **Color Train** - Click 'Next' to see a train and then click on the cars until you match the colors of the other train. Keep clicking on a car to change the color.
 * 6) **Colors and Shapes** - States color and shape of objects. Sound effects helps students remember. Press a letter on the keyboard to go to the next shape. Gets students used to using the keyboard as an input objects instead of the mouse.
 * 7) **Colors** - Click on the objects that are the color named.
 * 8) **Drag and Drop Color Names** - Drag the color name to the matching colored box.
 * 9) **Dress the Doggie** - Follow the directions at the bottom, select the clothing item, drag it on the dog and he will tell you what color to choose.
 * 10) Find and Put Away - **All the Blue Things** - **All the Red Things** - **All the Green Things**
 * 11) **Kinderweb Color Game** - Match the spoken color to one of the colored shapes - This site is completely audio so children can work at their own pace independently.
 * 12) **Lecky's Picture Painting** - Match the pictures that Lecky the Alien displays by selecting colors and painting the picture.
 * 13) **Match Fish Colors** - This is a practice activity, not a game - select a color, run your mouse over the white fish with color names until you find the one that matches the larger fish.
 * 14) **Nursery Tutor** - Click on colors and set a time. Flash cards on line!
 * 15) **String of Beads** - A color and sequencing activity - select level I or level 2 and then color the beads.
 * 16) **Tom's Color Game** - Click on a color name and drag it next to the matching color. Get three right and you can give Tom one of his bed time bits.
 * 1) [|**Are You Listening?**] - Online lesson with practice.
 * 2) **Can You Follow Directions?** - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
 * 3) **Rapid Naming** - How fast can you name an object, a letter, a color, a number? Get your hand on the mouse and get ready! Shockwave needed. A letter is named and you must find it and click it with your mouse. This game is excellent for practicing colors, numbers and letters. Caution: This activity goes on for 60 seconds which is a long time for students.
 * 4) **Spatial Concepts** - Many whole class discussion sites to teach the concept, along with interactive sites where the children can drag and drop the animals according to directions given to them. i.e.: Put the dog through the doghouse.
 * 1) **Chicken Coop** - Phoneme matching.
 * 2) **Frog Jump** - Player must pair like sounds to allow frog to jump from lily pad to lily pad to reach his home. Shockwave is needed. Click on the word play to start.
 * 3) **Hay Loft** - Click on the object that matches the two sounds when they are combined.
 * 4) **Kasounds** - A Simon Game - musical memory game that gets you to copy the sounds you hear.
 * 5) **Letter Bugs** - Go on an Alien Scavenger Hunt and collect the individual letters to create a whole word you hear.
 * 6) **Memory** - In the memory game, listen carefully and find the matching animal sounds. Click on the window to make the animal appear and hear its sound. Click on the other windows to find its match. When you match all of the sounds, play again or go to the next level.
 * 7) **Musical Instrument Match Game** - Listen to the sound the instrument makes and match the instrument with the sound.
 * 8) **Phoneme Match** - Students listen to parts of word and use domino game style to match up the same phonemes.
 * 9) **Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution** - Lanolin's Greenhouse - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement.
 * 1) **Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution** - Pumpkin Patch - Click on the object that matches the new phoneme without the beginning letter sound. Excellent practice for students that have a hard time hearing individual phonemic parts!
 * 1) **Counting Vowels** - [Click on **Continue** to start] Can you discriminate between a consonant and a vowel? [Site unavailable as of 8/24/10]
 * 2) **Learn to Read - Starfall** - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
 * 3) **Long Vowel Sounds** - Drag pictures with the long vowel sound into the box.
 * 4) **Long and short Vowel practice** - Listen to the word by clicking on the button to the right. Find the word that has the stated vowel sound.
 * 5) **Picture Match** - Listen to the word and pick the correct vowel.
 * 6) **Poem Pack** - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
 * 7) **See 'N Spell - Short Vowels** - Spell out the CVC word that names the picture. Self-check the answers.
 * 8) **Sorting Vowels and Consonants** - [Click on **Continue** to start] Click and Drag Activity. [Site unavailable as of 8/24/10]
 * 9) **Vowel Boot Camp** - Video lesson.
 * 10) **Word Family Sort** - Click on a vowel to begin, then sort words according to their family. Students can read the words they see and create sentences with them once back at their desks.
 * 11) **Write a Postcard** - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus phonemes. When you have them all correct the next sentence appears, but this time there are gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word.
 * 1) **ABC Ordering** - Very good interactive audio activity that asks what letter comes next with immediate feedback.
 * 2) **ABCD Watermelon** - Pick the letter that is missing.
 * 3) **Alphabet Order** - Click and drag the letters in the correct order.
 * 4) **Alphabetical order** - Drag the words over into their correct place. Pictures are included by the word and several levels are available.
 * 5) **Alphabetical order** - Little Mo has found a word plant, but they are out of order. Click and drag words into order.
 * 6) **The Book Game** - Organize the out of order books. Click on the picture of the books to play. Click each book to put it in alphabetical order.
 * 7) **Connect the Dots** - Create a Winnie the Pooh character.
 * 8) **Find the Missing Letter** - This is not a mouse activity. Use the keyboard to fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.
 * 9) **Order the letters** - [Click on **Continue** to start] Put the letters in alphabetical order. [Site unavailable as of 8/24/10]
 * 10) **Spring Bee** - Help the bees take the letter flowers back in the correct order.

Letter Matching

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 * 1) **Alphabet Game** - Round One: Student drags lower case letters to uppercase letters to match. Round Two: Reverse process. Round Three: Drag letters to correct alphabetical order.
 * 2) **Alphabet Letter Match** - Match lower case with upper case letters.
 * 3) **Alphabet Word Match** - Match lower case word with upper case word.
 * 4) **Coloring Pages** - Match up letter with same letter on color page to color the picture. This activity includes matching a number with like number.
 * 5) **Kangaroo Confusion** - Click on the kangaroo with the matching letter.
 * 6) **Literacy Center** - Match upper case letter to lower case letter using the red arrows.
 * 7) **Lug and the Giant Space Storks** - Find the capital letter that matches the flashing letter.
 * 8) **Match the Letters** - Find the letter that matches the letter on the right and type it.
 * 9) **Match Beginning Sound** - Type the beginning sound of each picture.
 * 10) **Matching Letter Game** - [Click on **Continue** to start] Match lower case with upper case letter. [Site unavailable as of 8/24/10]
 * 11) **Missing Letter** - Type the letter that is missing.
 * 12) **Special Names** - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.
 * 13) **Teddy Bear Picnic** - Match the capital letter with the matching lower case letter on the bear. Sit him in the chair and if it is correct he will drink out of the straw.
 * 14) **Upper and Lower Case Matching** - Color the shirts with the lower case letters to match the color of the upper case letters.
 * 15) **Zara's Capital Letter Game** - Capitalize the first letter using the looking glass without waking up Zara.

Rhyming Words

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 * 1) **Animal Muddle** - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre.
 * 2) **Concentration-Style Matching Game** from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match.
 * 3) **Digby Mole's Rhyming Game** - From Little Animals Activity Centre - start with level 1.
 * 4) **Help Reggie Find the Rhyme** - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture.
 * 5) **Loosey Goosey Rhymes** - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what letters are missing.
 * 6) **Professor Garfield's Barn** - Find rhyming words to match the animals.
 * 7) **Rhyme-bot** - Pick the word that rhymes with the robot's song - some reading required.
 * 8) **Rhyme Time** - Match the word with the image it rhymes with.
 * 9) **Rhyme Time with Gisele** - Read one of four poems along with Gisele. After the poem has been read, click on any word to hear the word read to you.
 * 10) **Rhyming Words** - [click **Continue** to start] Student reads the CVC words and find the match that rhymes. [Site unavailable as of 8/24/10]
 * 11) **Rhyming Words** - Help Gus find rhymes to help him finish his song.
 * 12) **Rhyming words** - Pick the word that rhymes like the word pronounced - some reading required.
 * 13) **Rhyming words** - Pick the word that rhymes with the pronounced word - some reading required.
 * 14) **Rhyming Words Match Game** - Click on the pictures that rhyme.
 * 15) **Rhyming Words** - Listen to the words and drag and drop the red x on the word that doesn't rhyme with the others!
 * 16) **Whirlyword machine** - Spin any wheel and sound out the word.
 * 17) **Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle** - Students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration.