Here are some free resources for Pre-K through 1st Grade:

Create Your Own Tracer Pages - Create custom tracer pages to print out – letters and/or whole words

Word Search Generator- from Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker. Create and print out your own, customizable word search

Vocabulary Bingo Card Generator - download the excel worksheet, enter 25 vocabulary words and definitions, and click “Print Bingo Cards” - generates 25 different Bingo cards and a call sheet. This can be used for sight words as well. Instructions included. (Enable Macros to generate the Bingo Cards)

Computer Labs Favorites- Online Learning Activities from Scholastic. Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes

Orson’s Farm - phonemic awareness - games include:

• Meet the Gang – Rhyming and Sound Matching
• The Chicken Coop – Blending and Segmenting Syllables
  • Printable Follow up Activities for The Chicken Coop
• Orson’s Waller – Phoneme Blending  
• The Hayloft – Phoneme Segmentation
• Lanolin’s Greenhouse - Phoneme Deleting and Substituting
• The Pumpkin Patch - Phoneme Deleting and Substituting
• Download the .pdf Teacher’s Guide to Orson’s Farm

Garfield’s Island - phonics – games include

• Fishing with Phonics - focuses on beginning and ending sounds
• Match of Mystery - focuses on the identification of vowel sounds, including digraphs and diphthongs

Free Printable Activities – from Professor Garfield

Easy Reader Books- printable books to help build sight word fluency. There are two versions of each book – the unedited version which can be used to gain familiarity with the text, and  the ”altered,” or ”fill-in-the-blank” version. The site also offers Flash Card and Bingo-type games that allow for practice with the words independently or in groups.

Click the image and view carefully. What is the theme of this Wordle? Answer correctly and you will win a handy-dandy printable Certificate of Acheivement to display (and proudly!) in your classroom!

(Be sure to log in or include your email address in the email field when submitting your comment/answer so you can receive your oh, so cool certificate)

If you look at the bottom of the right side bar on my blog, you will notice that I have added some feeds for free online lessons for Spanish, French, Latin, and ESL. Some of these include some nicely done podcasts – check them out!

What is this Wordle about?  Click to enlarge, look closely, and try to be the first to figure it out!  (Hint:  American History)

What is this Wordle about? Click to enlarge, look closely, and see if you can figure it out! (Hint:  American History)