Literacy Websites
The Patchworker: Can You Make Sense of a Sentence?
In this game, the student must arrange the given words to create a correct sentence. Students need to use semantic and syntactic skills to help them make sense of the sentence. Semantic means what makes sense. Does, "Patchworker the helped Anneena" make sense? No. Syntactic is what is gramatically correct and what is acceptable construction in our language. Look for clues! The students can tell that if there is a period with the word it goes at the end, or if the word begins with a capital letter it could be at the beginning.
Word WorldIn this game, students will go on an adventure in Word World, the place where words come to life. Students will have to spell a word by matching the given letters correctly. Then the word becomes the actual object! Look for yourself on the picture to the right. This will be so helpful to students because they will be able to see the word and picture together, construct meaning, and be able to visualize the spelling.
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Tina's World: Real or Make-Believe? |
In this game, students will have to determine whether the story being told is real or make-believe. Students will listen to the story and watch the illustrations. In the story being told on the right, Tina is flying on a dragon and a vaccuum cleaner is chasing them trying to suck them up. This story would be an example of a make-believe story. Students will learn to determine between reality and fantasy. |
River RhymingIn this game, students will guide Max across the river by choosing a rhyming word. Rhyming words help students with onset and rime and with grouping words that have similar patterns or endings. In the picture to the right, "had" and "bad" rhyme because they both have the ending -ad, which is a rime.
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What's In the Bag? |
In this game, students will need to choose what they think is in the paper bag based on the three descriptions given. What's In the Bag? is a wonderful game to teach students about using descriptive words. Descriptive words will help students communicate better and will help them be good writers. Descriptive words are colorful, they give life to writing, and they paint a picture. |