Mad Libs can help teach students parts of speech. They are one page stories where certain words have been left out and the name of the part of speech that needs to be filled in is given. Mad Libs work well as whole group lessons. Ask the students to give the necessary words and talk about each part of speech as you do. After all the words have been filled in, read the story aloud to the class.
Make up cards with grids that are five boxes across and five boxes down. In each box place a different genre of book such as animal fiction, science fiction, historical books, fantasy, realistic fiction, adventure, mystery or non-fiction. You can also add in a few free choice squares so students can pick whatever they like. The student selects a row, column or diagonal and reads all the types of books in that row over several weeks, filing in each square as she completes a book. When the student is finished, she can claim a prize.
This is an online game that teaches students sight words. There are three levels: easy, medium, and hard. The game is played in rounds. At the start of each round, a seal tells the student what word to look for. A school of fish with words written on their sides then swims by. The student looks for the word that the seal said aloud and clicks on the fish with that word each time he sees it.
In this online game, the student listens to the first line of a poem. She then hears three possible lines that could follow, listening for the ones that rhyme with the first line. She picks the line that both rhymes and that should logically follow the first. She then hears the next line in the poem and does the same thing. After she has picked all the lines of the poem, the game plays them all back in order so she can hear the poem she helped create.