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STAR Early Literacy Activities & Games
This webpage is designed to be a one-stop-shop of
free, online games and activities to help students learn and practice important
early literacy skills specified by the Renaissance STAR
Early Literacy program! Most of the links below - when in - contain
links to other games and activities, so students may need to be
advised to use only the activities you specify from this webpage. Also, some may need guidance while using these
awesome
programs.
Please click here for the Renaissance Early Literacy Skills Definitions.
Please click here for the Renaissance Early Literacy Skills Definitions.
*Special note: We are no longer using STAR Early Literacy, however, we will leave this web page up for early practice.
General Readiness
General Readiness
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Differentiating Letters | 1 | Literacy Center | Sky Riding | ||
Differentiating Words from Letters | 2 |
Reading Roundup | Word Magic | ICT Games | |
Comparing Word Length (written) | 3 |
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Differentiating Shapes | 4 |
Krog's Shapes | Loading Shapes | Same or Different | |
Recognizing Position Words | 5 |
Location of Objects | PBS Stories Pig and her house |
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Matching Numbers & Objects | 6 |
Fishy Count Big Sea Count |
Count to 10 Thumble Dots |
Count 11 to 20 with Mrs. Chong!
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Caterpillar Count Literacy Center |
Differentiating Word Pairs | 7 |
Sight Words | Magic E Adventures Use second portion |
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Completing sequences | 8 |
What Comes Next? | Color Sequence | ||
Identifying word
boundaries (Number of words in a sentence) |
9 |
Graphophonemic
Graphophonemic
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Naming letters |
10 | ABC's with Sound & More |
Alphabet Practice | Literacy Center |
Sounds Fun |
Recognizing
alphabetic sequence |
11 | Alphabet Bears |
Watermelon ABC Recognition |
Place the letters in order |
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Using alphabetical
(word) order |
12 |
Choose Alphabetical Order 1 Game |
Alphabetical Adventure |
Alphabetize | |
Recognizing letter sounds | 13 | Loosey Goosey | Chicken Coop w/sound | ABC Match Beginning Sound |
Pounce |
Matching uppercase and lowercase letters | 14 | Match baby letter to parent letter |
Literacy Center | Monkey Match |
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Blending Word Parts | 15 | Syllable Split | Break it up | My Reading Tools Worth the extra time to follow along |
Syllable Lesson Baseball |
Blending phonemes | 16 |
Blending Bowls |
Fuzzy Lion Ears | Letterella | The Pig Waller Sandcastle |
Comparing word length (oral) | 17 |
Popcorn Words | |||
Discriminating beginning, medial and ending sounds | 18 |
Clifford: Sound Match | Picture Match Choose: Beginning Letter Sounds |
Trampolini Game |
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Identifying rhyming words | 19 |
Reggie Loves to Rhyme |
Professor
Garfield Meet The Gang |
Loosey Goosey Rhymes | Whirlyword Machine Rhyming River |
Identifying missing sounds | 20 |
Fuzzy Lion Ears |
Phonics
Phonics
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Replacing beginning and ending consonants | 21 |
Make A Word Construct A Word |
Wordblender | Greenhouse | Pumpkin Patch The Word Wheels |
Matching sounds within word families | 22 | Word Family Sort |
Deep Sea Phonics |
Clifford Concentration |
Hay Loft Pumpkin Patch |
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Identifying consonant blends | 23 | Word Search Beginning Video |
Owl & Mouse Ending Video |
Sadlier-Oxford | |
Substituting consonant sounds | 24 | Construct A Word | The Quiet Machine | Hayloft | |
Identifying beginning consonant sounds | 25 | Clifford Letter Match | Sound Match | The Quiet Machine Phonic Fighter |
Garfield Fishing Phonics |
Identifying consonant digraphs | 26 | ICT Games | Sadlier | Video-Scroll down and play | Phonics Song |
Identifying medial short vowels | 27 |
Clifford Make A Word |
Picture Match Choose: Short Vowel Sounds |
Word Family Sort | |
Replacing vowels | 28 | Clifford Make A Word |
Drag n Spell | ||
Identifying ending consonant sounds | 29 | Garfield Fishing Phonics |
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Identifying medial long vowels | 30 |
Magic E Adventures Clifford Long Vowel |
Match of Mystery Choose: Vowel Digraphs or Vowel D&D or VCE Pattern |
Picture Match Choose: Long Vowel Sounds |
Drag & Spell |
Matching and recognizing short vowel sounds | 31 | Chicken Stacker | Match of Mystery Choose: Short Vowel Sounds |
Picture Match Choose: Short Vowel Sounds |
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Matching and recognizing long vowel sounds | 32 | Long A sound Snap It |
Long Vowel Sounds | Picture Match Choose: Long Vowel Sounds |
Match of Mystery Choose: Long Vowel Sounds |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Matching words and pictures | 33 |
Choose: Picture Words |
Crickweb | Crickweb 2 | Dinosaur Words Word Reader |
Recognizing antonyms | 34 | Choose: Word Frog |
Hopposites |
Game Goo Tooth Taker 2 |
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Recognizing synonyms | 35 | Choose: Word Frog |
Synonym Toast Monkey Match Choose last one |
Synonym Sam's Lab |
Bitesize Game Goo Tooth Taker |
Structural Analysis
Structural Analysis
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Finding words | 36 |
Word Find | Alphabet Soup | ||
Building words | 37 | Word Family Sort | Word Wizard | Puzzle Me Words | |
Identifying compound words | 38 | SoftSchools | Learning Games | Drag N Drop | Make a Compound Word |
Comprehension
Comprehension
SKILLS | NO. | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY | ACTIVITY |
Reading and understanding words | 39 | My Reading Tools Worth the extra time to follow along |
Flood Word O Rama |
Choose: Picture Words Around Your Home |
Professor Garfield Toon Book Reader |
Reading and completing sentences | 40 |
Game
Goo Sentences Sentences 1 |
Spelling Connection Choose a level |
Choose: Sentence Building Making Sentences |
Choose: Sight Word Stories Joining Words |
Reading and understanding paragraphs | 41 |
Professor Garfield Choose: Story Book Reader |
Story Scramble | Three Little Plays | PBS Stories The Describing Game |
Rock Creek takes no creative credit for any of the learning links of games and activities contained on this page.
TO OTHER
INSTITUTIONS: Many hours were spent organizing and
sifting through hundreds of online sites in order to fill this
webpage with the BEST and most appropriate
activities. If you find this Early Literacy webpage
useful for your students, you may copy the table above in its
entirety as long as you also include:
Courtesy of Mari Chong from RocklinUSD - strictly for the
organization and putting together of this webpage.
Another option is to simply link to this webpage! Thanks!
(If you have a pertinent link you'd like to see placed in a certain location on this webpage, feel free to send it to my attention - mchong@rocklin.k12.ca.us.)