Websites for Students 1. ABC Teach – D’Nealian Style Coloring Letters – Activity that students can use to learn the alphabet letter by letter. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/abc_activities/dnealian_style_coloring_letters/ 2. ABCow - Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet the cows have been eating! This is a keyboard exercise. The mouse is not used to select the letter. http://pbskids.org/lions/games/abcow.html 3. ABC Gulp - Cute Frog game requiring Shockwave. Students listen to what letter Frog wants to eat and chooses the correct letter from a group of letters. http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/?main=bc/gulp 4. ABC Ordering - Very good interactive audio activity that asks what letter comes next with immediate feedback. http://www.learningplanet.com/act/abcorder.asp 5. ABC Tracing Pages - These pages allow children to trace the letters to help with the learning process. http://www.dltk-kids.com/alphabuddies/trace.htm 6. Alphabet Garden Activity - Fill in the missing letter by clicking on the flower that has that letter. This is a very good activity for sequencing the alphabet. http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/garden.html 7. Alphabet Match - Match capital to small letter. Find the Mommy Kangaroo for each Joey. http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark/pawpark.html 8. Alphabet Order - Students click on the letters in ABC order to correctly stack books. http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/alphabetGame/ 9. Alphabet Tracing Sheets - Dnealian or Zaner-Bloser style available. Trace letter and color picture. This has multiple choices of pictures to choose from for each letter. http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/menu_basics/alpha_zaner.html
10. Alphabetize words - Read the words on the bears' shirts, then click and drag the bears so they are in alphabetical order. http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark2/pawpark2.html 11. Bear Wear - Help Bear get dressed by listening to the letter sound and selecting the shirt that matches the sound. http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/?main=bc/bear 12. Dictionary - Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with links. Some of the links are pages to color; every entry has a link to a definition. The site also has a link to classroom activities that use Little Explorers. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html http://www.littleexplorers.com/classroom/ 13. Memory Match - Match capital to small letters in the concentration game style to reveal a surprise picture. As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so the student can go back and read the matches later. http://www.dositey.com/language/mgamelet.htm 14. Rapid Naming- How fast can you name an object, a letter, a color, a number? Get your hand on the mouse and get ready! Shockwave needed. A letter is named and you must find it and click it with your mouse. This game is excellent for practicing colors, numbers and letters. http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/?main=bc/rn 15. Type Me - From Fun School. This is an interactive typing activity. http://games.funschool.com/game.php?g=arcade/ptypeme1,f&3&21 Websites for Teachers and Parents 1. Tracing Paper- Type in your child's name or any word. The program automatically opens a new window and then fills the page of the name or words to be printed out and traced! http://www.mymoondrops.com/spelling.html 2. KidzClub - Go to the Alphabet area to find several printable activities
http://www.kizclub.com/ 3. Ms. Alphabet - Alphabet Mystery http://mrsalphabet.com/alphabet.html 4. Animal Printouts to color and to learn about the animal. Everything from Aardvark to Aye-Aye and that's just the A's. There are hundreds of printouts here. This site also has instructions for using your computer to color. Copy a printout (they have instructions for doing that) and paste it into a painting program (like Paint) and color the animal there. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/ 5. Alphabuddies - Groups of crafts designed to help teach children their ABC's. http://www.dltk-kids.com/alphabuddies/index.html 6. Alphabet worksheets from LearningPlace.com http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/menu_basics/alpha_dnealian.html 7. Alphabit Games - 6 games to test student knowledge on letters. http://www.edu4kids.com/alpha/ 8. Alphabet Sequencing Activity - Very good interactive activity for sequencing the alphabet. Students put library books up in sequence. http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/library.html 9. Alphabet Match Game- Three games to test child's ability to match capital to lower case letters. http://www.quia.com/jg/1859.html 10. ABC Teach - Has 5,000 + printable worksheets and activities for teachers to give students. ABCteach.com 11. The Alphabuddies - a list and description of many crafts that would be helpful in teaching students the ABC's. www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/index.html
12. Teach the Children Well - Early Learning - this is a website with many activities for the children to use to understand better the abc's. www.teachthechildrenwell.com/early.html 13. Surfing for ABC's Lesson Plan - This is a sample lesson plan that teachers can use. www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/abc/abcless.htm 14. We learn our ABC's - this website shows how taking children to the library and working on certain things can help them learn their abc's effectively. www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/105.shtml. 15. Lesson Plans for Language Arts - this website shows many helpful lesson plans and activities for teachers. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/language_arts/alphabet/