Letter Sounds/ Letter Recognition
Stickybears's ABC Deluxe
By Stickybear Software
Children from grades K through 1 are introduced to the fun and adventure of learning with Stickybear's ABC Deluxe, providing a variety of instructional modes for every letter of the alphabet! Stickybear's ABC Deluxe combines four engaging learning activities with two modes of operation for useful and motivating skills practice. In Pick It, children practice freely by pressing the keyboard letter or clicking the on-screen alphabet, which provides a spoken and displayed animation. With several words for each letter, this activity is fun and a great vocabulary builder! Write It introduces children to writing letters of the alphabet by writing the letter displayed and reinforcing the code breaking with keywords. Students identify words and letter, initial sounds, and keywords in Find It. Say It builds word recognition and vocabulary skills while students increase their letter comprehension.
Available from www.stickybear.com
Tactile Letters
The child’s learning of the tactile letters is reinforced using a visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic approach. The child sees, hears, and says the sounds and touches and forms the letters.
Available from www.best-edu.org/early.htm
A to Zap!
By Sunburst Software
Prepare your early learners for reading and math challenges ahead with this action-packed program featuring 26 engaging activities – each connected to a letter of the alphabet! With A to Zap! students: explore letters and sounds, build sight word vocabularies, understand number concepts, and learn about shape, color, and position.
Available from www.sunburst.com
Curious George Pre-K ABC's
By Sunburst Software
Your young students will go on an lively adventure with Curious George visiting five multi-level activities that provide an animated introduction to the alphabet! Children discover letter names and shapes, initial letter sounds, letter pronunciations, the order of the alphabet and new vocabulary words during the fun excursions with the mischievous Curious George.
Available from www.sunburst.com
Upper/Lower Case Letter Stamps
Letter stamp to help students learn how to spell words and learn letter identification/letter sounds.
Available from www.onionmountaintech.com
Writing/Reading (Language Arts) Games from www.funbrain.com
Here are some neat writing and reading games and lesson ideas from www.funbrain.com. Just click on the link below and start surfing for the game that best matches your lesson.
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=la&A4=4&A7=4
Unique Lessons That Are Developed by Fellow Teachers
By Track Star
Trackstar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. One can find information about any concept of any content area. All one has to do is go to the Trackstar main page (link is provided below) and perform a search by keyword, author, or themes/standards. One can choose to view the information from their search in either frames or text.