ALEX Learning Activity Resources

ALEX Learning Activities

Title: Crawling with Words
Digital Tool: Read Write Think Word Wizard
Web Address URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/word-wizard-30002.html
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 23:

23 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.1.4]

a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.1.4a]

b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.1.4b]

c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.1.4c]

Digital Tool Description: Students start by choosing puzzles based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They are then prompted to use clues to identify words from a list of scrambled letters. The final clue is based on an event or theme from their chosen book, which supports story comprehension and makes the activity meaningful and fun.

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Title: Crawling with Words
Digital Tool: Read Write Think Word Wizard
Digital Tool Description: Students start by choosing puzzles based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They are then prompted to use clues to identify words from a list of scrambled letters. The final clue is based on an event or theme from their chosen book, which supports story comprehension and makes the activity meaningful and fun.

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Title: Let's Dance to Phonics!
Digital Tool: YouTube Video
Web Address URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agbQRQN_SHc
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.1.3]

a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. [RF.1.3a]

b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.1.3b]

c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. [RF.1.3c]

d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word. [RF.1.3d]

e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. [RF.1.3e]

f. Read words with inflectional endings. [RF.1.3f]

g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.1.3g]

Digital Tool Description: The phonics dance interactive video introduces students to letter combination sounds also known as "hunking" and "chunking" all while dancing to the rhythm of letter sounds.

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Title: Let's Dance to Phonics!
Digital Tool: YouTube Video
Digital Tool Description: The phonics dance interactive video introduces students to letter combination sounds also known as "hunking" and "chunking" all while dancing to the rhythm of letter sounds.

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Title: We're Going On A Name Talk
Digital Tool: Voki
Web Address URL: http://www.voki.com/
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 21:

21 ) Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). [RF.1.2]

a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words. [RF.1.2a]

b. Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. [RF.1.2b]

c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. [RF.1.2c]

d. Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes). [RF.1.2d]

Digital Tool Description: Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone. Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms. You will also be able to download it to most video supported phones.

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Title: We're Going On A Name Talk
Digital Tool: Voki
Digital Tool Description: Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone. Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms. You will also be able to download it to most video supported phones.