Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game for primary students that reinforces letter sounds and how sounds combine to form words.

ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.

This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.

Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.

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