Literacy Skills Practice Activities
First Grade

 

Alphabet

  1. Alphabet Garden
    Make the flowers grow in the garden by clicking on the correct letter of the alphabet in sequence

  2. Alphabet Zoo
    Match uppercase and lowercase letters

  3. Letter Match  (click on Games and then click on the A)
    Animated alphabet memory game; reads name of letter aloud

  4. Education Network's Literacy Center  
    Learn upper and lower case letters, colors, and more

  5. Paw Park Kangaroo Confusion
    Match upper and lower case letters 

  6. Starfall's ABCs click on the letters of the alphabet to hear words said aloud that begin with that letter

  7. Leo the Letter Loving Lobster

Phonics

  1. Paw Park Sassy Seals
    Identify initial letter sounds of words

  2. Picture Match 
    A matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short-vowel sounds; lets students print their matches when finished

  3. Pounce
    Listen to the word that Cleo says and click on the word that matches

  4. Ending Sounds
    Play with Digby to find words with different ending sounds (3 levels of play)

  5. Beginning Sounds
    Play with Digby to find words with different beginning sounds (3 levels of play)

  6. Rhymes
    Play with Digby to identify rhyming words (3 levels of play)

  7. Beginning Consonants Choose ahead of time which practice activity for students to do

  8. Ending Consonants Choose ahead of time which practice activity for students to do

  9. Fearless Frieda Goes Skating
    spell words with short vowel sounds

  10. Loosey Goosey Rhymes
    Practice with initial consonant sounds

  11. Clifford Sound Match
    Find the words that begin with the same sound as the picture name.

 

Sentence Building

  1. Monkey Business
    Put words in order to make a sentence

  2. Silly Sentence Machine
    Create silly sentences by choosing who, where, when, how, and type

  3. Penguins on Ice
    make sure to choose "Big Screen with Sound"; put words in order to make sentences and punctuate sentences

  4. Spot the Sentence

  5. Noun Dunk

  6. Capitalization and Punctuation

Spelling and Vocabulary

  1. Look, Cover, Write, Check
     
  2. What's in the Bag?
    An online activity designed to give students opportunities to explore descriptive words; uses sound
     
  3. Supermarket Spree
    "Read" the list and then fill your cart with the matching items