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Two teachers created this resource. Useful high frequency lists of words and phrases (a little dated--you will note lots of "he" and "his" in phrases but no "she" and only a few "her." Good resource of word wall content for different purposes and grade levels.

Dana, a master's student in my class, had us create 6-word memoirs with the poetry section of Storybird.com and then import the final product into Padlet.com where they can be shared in a variety of ways.

Another teacher and I at my old school spend hours typing all the words from the Words their Way books into spelling city. We completed the red, yellow, green, and blue books. This website has several free activities for students to work on to help them with their word patterns. The other teacher that helped me was Allison Eckard and the site link is under her name as she was the computer teacher who helped me set the account up. For now, the site is still up and running- I no longer teach at the school she is at, and I just hope she wont delete everything I had typed in for the patterns. Enjoy while it is still up and running :-)

Free interactive reading games, perfect for using with your interactive whiteboard or on a computer. Words that rhyme, full stops, capital letters, high frequency words and much more... Nine part online guided reading story, comes with literacy worksheets and discussion sheets. You can use it in the classroom on your smartboard or computers.

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

Share something important about your life in six words. Perfect text structure for kids with complex communication needs and significant physical disabilities.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

I used this with my 5th graders last year. They seemed to enjoy using the site to study their spelling words. Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity!Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

Gives you a word and students get to drag and drop the letters to make as many new words as they can

Sue Buckley and colleagues research-based intervention. Unfortunately focused to narrowly on word level decoding and meaning.

Reading games that can be used on smartboards.

I love this! We have been working on word families for awhile now- and I wish I would have had this when we were working on the -at family. This is so fun for the children- much more entertaining than listening to me try to explain -at words!

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

Vocabulary is Fun! Whether you're learning or teaching analogies, antonyms and synonyms, compound words, figurative language, homophones, parts of speech, root words, prefixes and suffixes or contractions to your English speakers or your ESL students, Vocabulary *is* fun!

I didn't realize this was already shared. It is a really neat site.

If you do have a Nook- or maybe a Kindle- this app sounds great! This is a free app and is great just to check out with all of our vocabulary talk recently!

Visual Dictionary, where words are defined as pictures, for leaning the exact names of objects. Different from a traditional dictionary or from encyclopedia because the images replace the words.

You Are Your Words, allows you to add a self portrait of yourself and create a "wordcloud." You can copy and paste previous information you have about yourself or create something new to express who you are. I found it very easy to use!

Probably one of the coolest and easiest story starter sites I have seen for grades k-6!! This is like a slot machine that you see at a casino. It has different sections on the slot machine depending on your grade level. The first slot being the genre, the second slot is a describing word for the subject, the third slot is the subject, and the last slot describes what the subject is doing or does. For example, one that I just got on there was: "Write a postcard from a balding carnival clown who explores a newly discovered planet." From here the kids can change the individual slot if they want to. Once they finish they click next and can pick the type of format (newsletter, letter, postcard, and notebook). Once that is selected they can type their story on the format they selected. If they want to write they can just pick a format and print a blank page. Or, you don't even have to use any format and can do a whole class prompt and they write on paper or just type in a word document. I showed my students the machine today and they were very interested in trying it during their writing station. It is too easy to not try- so I am going to give it a shot next week!! I think it is very creative and can make some very silly stories!

Closing the middle school vocabulary gap with students performing below grade level takes just 15 minutes a day.With Vocabulary for Success students master the basic, academic and content area word lists that lead to high achievement. Learn More North Carolina preschoolers soon to be investigators!

This big huge thesaurus is perfect for every day use! It's very easy to use and can be used in your classroom every day! Put it as a shortcut on your desktop to make it more easily accessible! :)

A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. This website has a glossary that you can search to show your students a video of what a particular word means.

Here is a site with lots of resources for reading- especially sight words and other links to reading sites for games! This is geared toward K-2 students.