Literacy

**Literacy Resources** ** Please add links/upload files and write brief description of the resource e.g. excellent for noun practise ** || **Alphabet Activities** ** [|www.starfall.com/n/skills/alphabet/load.htm?f] ** **movie showing how the letters of the alphabet got their name** ** []  ** **On-line Books** ** [] ** **lots of stories to practise short and long vowel sounds, y as e and sight words** ** [] ** **wide variety of on-line reading materials: poetry, riddles, tongue twisters, fiction, non-fiction...** ** [] ** **Clifford the big red dog audio story** || || || ** Blends ** **Compound words** ** [] ** **click and drag two small words to make one compound word** || || || ** Contractions ** ** Sight words ** **Word Families** ** Opposites & Synonyms ** [] **http://www.kizclub.com/**
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 * [|www.tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=28] & **
 * alphabet soup - choose correct initial sound **
 * [|www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/zoo_a/zoo1x.htm] **
 * match upper and lower case letter **
 * [|www.teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index.htm] **
 * Clifford the big red dog - choose correct initial sound ** ||
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 * first sounds game **
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 * cluster buster - click on the correct blend to match each picture ** ||  ||   ||
 * [|www.quia.com/mc/86241.html] **
 * concentration game ** ||  ||   ||
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 * memory match high frequency words **
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 * listen to 4 different sight words then click on correct one **
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 * listen to each sentence then identify a particular word ** ||  ||   ||
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 * links to different word family games ** ||  ||   ||
 * opposites game **
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 * synonyms game ** ||  ||   ||
 * ** Writing ** || ||
 * [|http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/staticactivities/online_activities/speakup] [|/] **
 * Cartoon comic strip ** || ||
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 * interactive random story prompt **
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 * poetry idea engine for cinquains, haiku, limerick, free verse ** || || ||
 * ** Smartboard Xmas Activities ** || ** [|www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/New+Zealand/Primary/R-3/English/Christmas+Activities.htm]  ** || || ||
 * ** Varied Websites ** (covering different areas) ||
 * ** Smartboard Xmas Activities ** || ** [|www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/New+Zealand/Primary/R-3/English/Christmas+Activities.htm]  ** || || ||
 * ** Varied Websites ** (covering different areas) ||

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