On this page, I will post descriptions of specific games from cool websites according to skill area. Many of these skills will be focusing on receptive/expressive language skills, vocabulary building, and social-emotional skills. I have provided the “navigation” instructions to tell you what to click on to get to the actual online activity. I will try to add a couple each week if I can keep up! Enjoy, – Jill 
Attribute and Describing Game
This is a fun site where you can build little monsters with varying arms, legs, eyes, ears, horns, etc. Students could each build a “beast” and then describe the attributes to have a partner guess which beast was theirs from a group. Students could also describe attributes to a partner as the partner controls the computer mouse to indicate which body part they would like. You could even do some multi-part direction following with this site.
Describing and/or Categorization Site
This is really a spelling website, but it has 5 great categorization groups with several pictures for each categorization area. I would use this site to have kids describe a picture from a category with 2-4 attributes and have speech-language partners guess which picture they are describing. The person who guesses could then”spin” the dial to spell out the word.
Pronoun Interactive Game Sites
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html
Pronoun Clubhouse – custom build a clubhouse by choosing between 2 pronouns
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/pronouns/index.shtml
Traveling Pronouns Game – choose between 2 personal pronouns to fit the sentence
http://e-learningforkids.org/courses.html#langarts
Pirate Pronouns game – good to introduce personal pronouns
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/pronouns/
General pronoun game – a bit of a “treasure theme” – 3 levels.
Describing/Listening for Details
http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/activity/houses.html
Find Our House Game– listen to details that describe a house. Choose the correct house after listening to the description (description has about 4-5 parts) from a field of 6 choices.
Skill Area: Describing and Comparing Attributes
Site: www.pbskids.com
Description: The “Arthur” game, “Effective Detective” is a great game to match descriptions and attributes with characters. It requires some deductive reasoning skills as well, so it might be tougher for children in kindergarten or 1st grade.
Recommended Grade Levels: grade 1-4
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- www.pbskids.org
- Click on Arthur’s picture
- Click on games on the left hand menu bar (a little ping-pong paddle)
- There are 3 pages of game – click the arrow for “More Games” 2 times
- Choose the game, “Effective Detective” – it should be the last game on the list
Skill Area: Antonyms and Synonyms
Site: www.pbskids.com
Description: watch 2-3 minute cartoon clips staring WordGirl containing exposure to 2-3 words and their synonyms.
Recommended Grade Levels: 4th- 7th
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Word Girl
- Games
- Huggy’s House of Fun
- Power Words
- Choose a character for Word Girl to face. I like to use the Granny May clips.
Skill Area: 3 part sequencing
Site: www.pbskids.com
Description: View 3 part stories starting “Arthur” characters with one sentence descriptions. Child can read the sentences themselves, or push a button to hear the sentence. Use the mouse to drag the pictures into the correct order.
Recommended Grade Levels: Pre K – 1st
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Arthur
- Games
- Story Scramble (one of Binky’s games)
Skill Area: Describing absurdities in pictures
Site: www.pbskids.com
Description: Choose from about household themed picture scenes to click and describe what is “wrong” or silly in each picture scene. 5 errors per picture scene.
Recommended Grade Levels: Pre K – 2nd
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Berenstein Bears
- Games
- What’s Wrong?
Skill Area: Verb Tenses
Site: www.crickweb.co.uk
Description: Sort verb tenses for present tense, regular past, present progressive, and irregular past tense verbs
Recommended Grade Levels: 2-5
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- When arriving at the site, click on Key Stage 2 from the blue menu bar
- Scroll down to the game, Verb Links
Skill Area: Auxillary verbs: is/are/am, was/were
Site: www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html
Description: Read sentences and choose which verb fits the sentence. The game has a “bumble bee” theme.
Recommended Grade Levels: Pre K – 2
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Click on All Games
- Choose, Words
- Click on, 2Bee or NottoBee
Skill Area: Comparing and Ordering basic concepts
Site: www.crickweb.co.uk
Description: There are 2 parts to this game. The first part you choose from 3 pictures to represent the concept given such as “shortest, tallest, thickest”, etc. In the second part, students have 3 pictures to compare that they click and drag to put them in the correct order.
Recommended Grade Levels: PreK – 1
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Choose Early Years from the blue menu bar
- Scroll down to, Compare & Order
Skill Area: Comparing and Contrasting using Venn Diagrams
Site: www.pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/html
Description: Players compare cute, fictitious animals by 2-3 attributes to place them in the correct habitat in a zoo. There are 4 different zoo areas to play with about 6 animals per zoo area to compare. The habitat is designed to look like a Venn Diagram comparing 2 attributes.
Recommended Grade Levels: 2-4
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- At the site homepage, click on “See all Games” in the middle
- Scroll down, looking for the pink bunny picture about 2/3rds the way down the
right hand column
- Choose “Logic Zoo”
(Hint: if the animal does not fit into any portion of the Venn diagram, drag it to
the outer ridge of the zoo enclosures. If you click on the help button it
will tell you this too.)
Skill Area: cr- and gr- practice for /R/ articulation work
Site: www.pbskids.com/electricompany
Description: This game is a fun way to have kids practice the /kr/ and /gr/ blends at the single word level. Players also use phonemic awareness skills to discriminate which phonemes to switch out to form a new word. There are other sound types in this “Word Chain Game”, but I use the /kr/ and /gr/ options of the game for /r/ work.
Recommended Grade Levels: 2nd – 5th for /r/ articulation work, K-1st grade for phonemic work.
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- www.pbskids.com
- Choose Electric Company from the “wheel” of television shows
- Click on the Games tab
- Choose the Chain Game
- you will see several rectangles with different versions of the game. Look at the
text near the rectangle to find the cr- and gr- versions.
Skill Area: Identifying the Main Idea from a Paragraph
Site: http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/mainideaprac.htm
Description: There are 8 short stories written as a single paragraph each. Students choose the main idea from a field of 3 choices for each story.
Recommended Grade Levels: 1-3
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Cut and paste the entire web address in your browser. You should be able to
acess the site immediately.
Skill Area: Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives
Site: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/poss.htm
Description: There is a short little “lesson” and a list of possessive pronouns and adjectives – about 1 page long. Students then proceed through 3 different kids of practice activities. The first activity has the student click on the correct pronoun from a choice of 4 to complete the sentence. The second activity is a fill-in paragraph with a pronoun word back. The final activity has students work on pronoun adjective agreements. If you search around on other pages of this site, you will find several reading comprehension and grammar activities for all ages.
Recommended Grade Levels: 2-5
Navigation Sequence: (click on these headings in this order)
- Cut and paste the entire web address in your browser. You should be able to
acess the site immediately.
