Working With Words Links

• http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/curriculum/spelling/spelling-words.html This site lists the 1200 most frequently spelled words used by the Sitton Spelling Program.
• www.gardenofpraise.com/spell1.htm Most common spelling rules put to music and rhythm. – 1-1-1, silent e, plurals.
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111282/ Fun with words website with games.  Try the word magnets game or check out the spoonerisms and anagrams.
• www.auburn.edu/~murraba/ The Reading Genie – a site full of lessons on how to teach phonemic awareness, spelling, fluency, etc.
• www.literatureforliterature.ecsd.net/rhyming_books.htm A wonderful list of rhyming texts to use for rounding up rhymes or to teach phonemic awareness.
• www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies/ A site that lists common rimes (word families) and then lists all the nursery rhymes and the rimes found in each one.
• www.rhymer.com/- an online rhyming dictionary – will generate thousands of rhymes – very helpful resource for rounding up rhymes or word sorts etc.
• http://wordplays.com/- a site where you can find out all the possibilities for a making words lesson.  Click on “Words in a Word” enter your word and poof!! Like magic all the possible words will appear that can be made from that word.
• http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm This a wonderful site that uses common nursery rhymes to teach common rimes.
• www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/ This site lists several categories of anagrams.  It would be a resource if you were to have a word wizard of the day (student) figure out the anagram lots of possibilities here...
• www3.bc.sympatico.ca/teachwell/ The Wacky World of Words site. This is a site that lists all kinds of word games with examples.  (i.e.. anagrams, rhyming buddies, mystery word)  It includes instructions for how to use in the classroom.