Resources for Literacy Centers: Third Grade
Kellie Doubek, Presenter
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Great Independent Literacy Activities

Check out Puzzle Center for puzzles to play and/or create! The word shape puzzle is great for primary grades. Enter your word wall words, vocabulary words from stories or content areas, or find a puzzle that correlate with other classroom activities.

Stellar Speller quizzes students on commonly used first grade words. It checks student answers. The same words are repeated in the same order each time the game is played. A plus for those students who need the repetition but a drawback for your students ready for a challenge.

 

Starfall has many leveled online activities that teachers love. Check out their print resources, too.

 

Enter the appropriate parts of speech to create a Wacky Web Tale.

 

Power Proofreading will help students improve their grammar skills.

And please... spend some time at ReadWriteThink! Whether you check out What's in the Bag?, Word Build and Bank, Word Family Sort, or the Word Wizard, you'll find great working with word activities. But don't forget about the numerous tools for writing poems, as well as the Stapleless Book, Story Map, Comic Creator and the Printing Press for writing opportunities. There are too many to list!!

BBC's Words and Pictures

Choose the right vowel phonemes to build a sandcastle in Sandcastle Quiz.

 

Play the Crankophone! Listen to the words from the Crankophone. After each word sound, choose which of the 2 vowels you can hear in the middle of the word. If you get it right the word is added to one of the lists.

The Word Blender will help student make words by bl-bl-blending the start and end sounds of a word.

Choose the vowel sound you want to practice in Poem Pack. Ten colorful animated poems with voice over and activities.

 
Work with high frequency words in Star Words! Change settings in the teacher control panel to customize the activities.

Favorites from Read Between the Lions

Pounce on the word that makes the sound.
Blend words in Gwain's Word. Using the featured rhymes, kids can practice the most common English spelling patterns.
Type in the missing letter of the alphabet in AB Cow.
In Chicken Stacker, stack five hens by clicking on words with short vowel sounds. The game starts with letter A. Click on "Next Game" to get to letter e, i, o, and u.

Choose from three letters to complete the word. Fuzzy Lion Ears is great for letter/sound recognition.

Find out what the books have in common in Flood!

Available in Spanish!

The Picture Pairs Memory Game features everyday vocabulary words. Go on a Supermarket Spree. Drag and drop the items on the grocery list.
Find the hidden words in Alphabet Soup. Loads of bilingual activities from RIF's Spanish Activities.