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Here are some free resources for Pre-K through 1st Grade:

Create Your Own Tracer Pages - Create custom tracer pages to print out – letters and/or whole words

Word Search Generator- from Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker. Create and print out your own, customizable word search

Vocabulary Bingo Card Generator - download the excel worksheet, enter 25 vocabulary words and definitions, and click “Print Bingo Cards” - generates 25 different Bingo cards and a call sheet. This can be used for sight words as well. Instructions included. (Enable Macros to generate the Bingo Cards)

Computer Labs Favorites- Online Learning Activities from Scholastic. Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes

Orson’s Farm - phonemic awareness - games include:

• Meet the Gang – Rhyming and Sound Matching
• The Chicken Coop – Blending and Segmenting Syllables
  • Printable Follow up Activities for The Chicken Coop
• Orson’s Waller – Phoneme Blending  
• The Hayloft – Phoneme Segmentation
• Lanolin’s Greenhouse - Phoneme Deleting and Substituting
• The Pumpkin Patch - Phoneme Deleting and Substituting
• Download the .pdf Teacher’s Guide to Orson’s Farm

Garfield’s Island - phonics – games include

• Fishing with Phonics - focuses on beginning and ending sounds
• Match of Mystery - focuses on the identification of vowel sounds, including digraphs and diphthongs

Free Printable Activities – from Professor Garfield

Easy Reader Books- printable books to help build sight word fluency. There are two versions of each book – the unedited version which can be used to gain familiarity with the text, and  the ”altered,” or ”fill-in-the-blank” version. The site also offers Flash Card and Bingo-type games that allow for practice with the words independently or in groups.