Teaching Reading to Young Learners
Hotlist
created by Beth Cammarata

Games, activities, printable materials, and lesson plans to teach and reinforce letter-sound correspondence, sight words, and spelling to children reading at levels K-2.  This is a great hotlist for Special Education teachers, and Remedial Reading Teachers for all grades.

•Grade(s):      Primary (K-2)

•Subjects(s):  Language Arts
                 Special Education

List of Sites:

1. Primary Games.com

Site Location: http://primarygames.com/default.htm
More than 85 games reinforcing spelling, decoding, matching, and problem-solving, printable word searches, and themed writing paper.

2. Do to Learn

  
Site Location: http://dotolearn.com/welcome/sitemap.htm
Special Ed site with informational links specific to disabability; printable games, graph paper, math tables, picture vocabulary cards (680!), lined paper.

 

 
3. Wiltiky.com
Site Location: http://wiltiky.com
Site for children featuring slide puzzles, pattern play, crosswords, and printable coloring pages.

4. All Mixed Up

·        Site Location: http://allmixedup.com
A game site that includes word searches and Hangman as choices.

 

5. Live and Learn

·        Site Location: http://liveandlearn.com
An amalgamated site for parents and teachers of children aged birth - 6 featuring detailed lessons on developmental skills (colors, shapes, matching, patterns) and articles on a wide range of subjects, from child care to vaccines, discipline to children's book reviews.

 
6. Edsitement


Site Location: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/playwithwords.html
Teaches language skills through rhyme and verse; provides links to poetry for you to choose from and detailed activities to use in teaching rhyming, syllabication, and creative writing of verse.

 

 
7. Teachers Helping Teachers


Site Location: http://pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html
Provides lesson plans on a variety of subjects, as well as behavior/classroom management plans, techniques to use in helping students get organized, and mainstreaming.

 

 
8. AbcTeach


Site Location: http://abcteach.com
Free printables to use in teaching the abc's, themes, basic skills through games.

 

 
9. Kid Zone Fun Facts for Kids


Site Location: http://kidzone.ws
Printable word lists and flashcards, photo-illustrated info articles for reading levels 3-4 on topics from mammals to magic tricks to Egypt. Also has math worksheets ready to print covering skills used in grades K - 5.

 

 
10. Learning Page


Site Location: http://learningpage.com/free_pages/home.html
Leveled readers, phonics readers, accompanying worksheets, skill drill - all printable!