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LANGUAGE ARTS GAMES

This section contains more than 50 language-arts themed games. To sort these by grade level, use the filters on the left. These are sorted by popularity. When you arrive on the game page, most have instructional videos in the related items slider underneath the game.

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Spellerz - Customizable Online Spelling and Typing Game

Description: Spellerz is an application in which users can practice their spelling and typing. Users must save the world from invading “spellerz” by using their typing skills to type the words that flash on the screen. The user can choose from eleven different word lists and select the number of words to be included in the game. The time limit of the game is proportional to the number of words included. Teachers can also create their own words lists for students to use in the game. Simply click on “create your own invasion” type your words and click “save invasion.” You will then receive a code in which your students can enter to access the game with your word list. Please note words with apostrophes might cause problems in some browsers.

Type: Spelling Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - Homophones

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on homohpones. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Make your own Wordle-like games with YOUR spelling lists

Description: This great game allows teachers to upload their word lists so students can solve Wordle-like puzzles. When a word list is uploaded, the system generates a code that teachers can give to their students.

Type: Spelling Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 2, 4, 5, 6

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Letter Quest - Online Game

Description: Can you find the letters hiding in the alphabet classroom? Find the letters and drag and drop them to the correct order in the alphabet chart at the top of the screen. Make sure you check cabinets, drawers, and backpacks as your elusive letters can be hiding anywhere!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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Alpha Baby Races - Online Game

Description: How well do you know your alphabet? Choose and name your baby and then race to the finish line by dragging and dropping the correct letter block to the question mark block in alphabetical order. Be careful! The wrong letter block will slow you down and sometimes cause tantrums. Defeat all of the other babies and earn your golden pacifier!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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ABC-a-Pillar - Online Game

Description: The ABC-a-Pillar wants to learn the alphabet and the alphabet song! Re-arrange his segments so that the ABC song can be sung in its correct order. There are two skill levels. For ages 2-3, the letters show on each segment, and for ages 4-5 the letters do not show.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Torture the Teacher - Online Game

Description: Torture your teachers by clicking on the INCORRECT spellings of the words that appear on the chalkboard! Try your hardest to make Mrs. Applecrab, Mrs. Cornpop, and Mr. Nussbaum resign by frustrating them so much with your poor spelling skills! It’s you versus the teachers! You will have the opportunity to make three teachers resign! Be careful though, it gets harder as you move from classroom to classroom as the teachers in later rounds have incredible patience!

Type: Spelling Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Homophones on Halloween - Online Game

Description: In this neighborhood, you’ll only earn your Halloween candy if you know your homophones. Go from house to house in this neighborhood full of haunted houses and earn full-sized candy bars for identifying the correct homophones for each sentence. How many candy bars can you earn in two minutes? Can you earn each type of candy bar such as Butterthumbs, Skitters, and Milk Ways?

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Deluxe Paralaughs - Online Game

Description: Create a hilarious story using your knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, plural nouns, and adverbs. First, choose the shark story or the farm story. Create the story by catching farm animals or eating fish labeled with a word that matches the part of speech in the story. Move your character by clicking or tapping on the screen where you want the character to go. When you are finished, print out the story.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Word Ops - Online Game

Description: In Word Ops, players are presented with a word and have three minutes to make as many words from that word as possible. The longer the words you form are, the more points you get! You’ll have three minutes to play. If you can achieve 50 points, you’ll receive a bonus minute.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Incredible Word Scramble

Description: This super fun game requires students to unscramble as many words as possible in three seconds. They can choose from nouns, animals, and geography, in easy or hard modes. Addictive!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Fun Word Jumble - From ComputerMice

Description: Fun Word Jumble Games from Computer Mice allows you to jumble words from any word list, including your own list, and insert them into any of 15 embedded games including target practice games, ninja baby games, spinning wheel games, and many more. Look throughout our games, math, and language arts section for more games from Computer Mice soon.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Fun Spelling Games - From ComputerMice

Description: Need to practice subtracting spelling ? Fun Spelling Games from Computer Mice is the perfect solution. You can practice spelling lists for any grade level, or, you can make your lists. There are 15 embedded games including target practice games, ninja baby games, spinning wheel games, and many more. Look throughout our games, math, and language arts section for more games from Computer Mice soon.

Type: Math Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Incredible Word Scramble - Spanish Version (Palabras a Montones)

Description: This super fun game requires students to unscramble as many words as possible in three seconds. They can choose from nouns, animals, and geography, in easy or hard modes. Addictive!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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BDPQ Bandit - Online Game

Description: Perfect for kids with letter reversal, this game helps to reinforce the identification of lower and upper-case Bs, D's, P's and Q's as students face off against an angry bandit trying to foil their efforts.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Bash a Letter or Number- Online Game

Description: Simply click "play." When you hear the voice call the name of a letter or number, bash the correct letter or number with your digital hammer. There are 35 rounds, one for each letter and number 1-9. At the end of the game, you can see which letters and numbers you need to practice. Get all 35 and earn your gold medal certificate.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Word Blocks - Online

Description: In this fun activity, students must evaluate a block of letters and use the "divider stars" to divide them into 25 words as quickly as they can. Word lists for grades one through seven are available in addition to Dolch, Ayers, and commonly misspelled words.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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ABC Order Workshop - Online

Description: These interactive ABC Order exercises are perfect for elementary school students. Simply choose a word list from those provided and then select individual words, or, have the program generate random words from the list. Students must drag and drop the words on the left to their correct ABC order positions on the right. The "hint" button will help students focus on the first letters of similar words. Teachers and parents can also generate and save their own lists words for students to use in ABC order practice.

Type: Phonics Workshop

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sight Words Audible - Online

Description: n Sight Words "Audible," parents and teachers can choose from dolch words, first grade words, or second grade words. In this program, the sight words are narrated and the student must drag and drop the correct letters in the blank boxes to correctly spell each word. If a student gets stuck on a letter, he or she can click the question mark below the blank box and the program will narrow the choices to two letters. The program gives immediate feedback and students can exit at any time. Upon exit, parents can print out a report that indicates student performance during the session. This program is great for students who excel at reading sight words but need practice spelling them.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Fun Sight Word Games - From ComputerMice

Description: Need to practice counting with sight words? Fun Sight Word Games from Computer Mice is the perfect solution. You can practice sight words for any grade or level, or, enter your own words, by playing any of 15 embedded games including target practice games, ninja baby games, spinning wheel games, and many more. Look throughout our games, math, and language arts section for more games from Computer Mice soon.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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The Semicolon Wars: the Fight for Punctuation Island - Online Game

Description: Throughout history the semicolons of Punctuation Island have been forced to live on the swampy side of the island by their more powerful neighbors, the period, comma, and the dreaded colon. For thousands of years the semicolons have endured the abuse. Not until the present have they had the kind of leader to help them rise up and conquer their neighbors. Luckily, you have arrived. Lead the semicolons to stirring victories over their neighbors by using semicolons, periods, commas, and colons correctly by blasting them into their correct places in the sentences that appear! If you succeed, you can print out your semicolon supreme ruler certificate.

Type: Punctuation/Grammar Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Spelling Central - Online Game

Description: This awesome resource allows students and teachers to create printable or online activities out of their spelling lists such as word searches, ABC order exercises, missing letter exercises, and word scrambles.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sight Words - Online

Description: This cool program is designed to be used by a teacher and parents with a student or child. As the child reads each word that appears, simply check the green or red box for correct or incorrect. You can print a performance report at any time. Choose from a dozen different sight word lists and even make your own list that can be saved and used later.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Fun Alphabet Games - From ComputerMice

Description: Fun Alphabet Games from Computer Mice allows you to practice identifying letters with any of 15 embedded games including target practice games, ninja baby games, spinning wheel games, and many more. Look throughout our games, math, and language arts section for more games from Computer Mice soon.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Letters! - Online Game

Description: Simply click "play" and choose game play options. When you hear the voice call the name of a letter, click on the correct letter. See if you can correctly select all 26 letters.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Sweet 16 Word Madness - Online Game

Description: Do you like the NCAA Basketball Tournament, commonly referred to as “March Madness?” If so, this game is for you. First choose your team. Then, use your word recognition and spelling skills to click on the basketball that completes the word at the top of the page. Choose correctly and you’ll hit a basket or three-pointer, choose incorrectly or too slowly and your opponent will score. Be careful, though, each round gets progressively tougher. You will have to be an expert in word completion to win the National Championship.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Polly - An Introduction to Two, Three, and Four-letter Words - Online Game

Description: Polly is a parrot that narrates words. When Polly says a word (in his parrot accent) the student must select the text version of the word fro four choices. Players can earn parrot friends for Polly by selecting correctly.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Letter the Sky - Online Game

Description: n Letter the Sky, students draw letters using their touch screen or mouse. The game is outstanding practice for young writers as "smart" arrows guide each letter stroke in its correct order. Students can choose to write the entire lowercase or uppercase alphabets, or specific words or letters. Students can use different color "highlighter" strokes for each letter and the program determines accuracy by the number of times the student traces outside of the guidelines. All student letters (including alphabets)can be printed out on a single page.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Alpha Poster - Make your own online letter poster

Description: This activity allows students to make their own letter posters by choosing and coloring pictures that start with each letter. Students can save their work at any time. The end-product poster prints out beautifully!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1

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Alpha Train - Online Game

Description: You are the conductor of the alphabet train and it is your job to pick up the animals at their stops. Your train has12 cars the A, B, C, D, E, L, M, P, R, S, T, W cars. At each stop there are five or six animals that need to be directed to the correct car (because animals can’t read). For example, the eagle needs to be in the “e” car and the duck needs to be in the “d” car. There are six total stops and 40 total animals. Your job is to get as many animals in their correct cars as possible before you reach the train station. If you see an animal you don’t recognize, click on it and the answer will be revealed. You get four free answers per game!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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Everglades Spelling

Description: This fun game allows students to choose one of four Everglades marine animals (turtle, manatee, crocodile, sting ray) to race against the others through the Everglades using nothing but his or her spelling skills. Students must identify the word that appears and then click its missing letter to move the chosen animal forward. For example, for the word tom_rrow, students would click the "o" button.

Type: Spelling Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Two Letters - Online Game

Description: This fun game reinforces digraphs and blends. Students must match the picture with its beginning sound.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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The Hungry Hangman Games

Description: This is a specially designed hangman game that includes idioms and proverbs. Very fun!

Type: Figurative Language

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sight Birds - Online Game

Description: This fun game requires students to identify the "sight birds" with their binoculars. When a sight word is narrated, students must use their binoculars to point to the correct winged word. The game includes up to 80 sight words. Students can print out a certificate that shows correctly and incorrect identified sight words.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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Tic Tac DOUGH - To, Too, and Two

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the to, two, and too. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Terminator Turkeys and the Rise of Tanksgiving - Online Game

Description: For almost 400 years, the turkeys of North America have been gathering intelligence and secretly collaborating to plot their revenge on the dreadfully carnivorous human race. Finally, on the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, they're ready to unleash their ultimate weapons: The Terminator Turkeys on a holiday they've renamed Tanksgiving. Combining superior technology with 400 years of rage, these turkeys have secretly engineered indestructible turkey-friendly tanks to rumble through the continent's most turkey-hungry cities in an attempt to turn as many frantically fleeing humans into turkeys by blasting them with magically powered thanksgiving day sides. New York | Washington | Pittsburgh | Chicago | St. Louis | San Francisco Rumble through each of the cities listed above and blast the running humans with your sides. Look for the word located above your targets and type in the correct letter that is missing. Be careful, however, if you click the wrong letter, you'll lose precious ammo. Watch the timer as well! When you run out of ammo, or, if you run out of time, your timeless mission will result in failure.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Wordquake - Online

Description: Oh No! It’s a Wordquake! Drag and drop the labels that have been mixed up by the wordquake back to their correct pictures. Click or touch the green “ready” button when you want to start. There are two rounds. You have two minutes to complete each round.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Ant-O-Nyms - Online Game

Description: You are an ant with your ant friends. Your goal is to navigate through the grass and dirt paths back to your ant home. Your knowledge of antonyms will guide you. Choose the correct antonym for each word that appears and your swarm will move in the right direction. Be careful though, you have limited time! If you take too much time, you’ll become dinner for a hungry anteater.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Extreme Sentence Surgeons: Saving Critically Injured Paragraphs - Online Game

Description: Do you have what it takes to become an Extreme Sentence Surgeon? Your paragraph surgery skills will be put to the test as critically injured paragraphs enter your emergency room. Their injuries are significant: poor spelling, no punctuation, wrong word usage, and much more. It will be gruesome. Use your superior skills to fix the bad spelling words, add commas, capital letters, periods, apostrophes, and change words used incorrectly. The paragraphs are counting on you. Be careful, though. You only get three incorrect fixes before your paragraph dies. You must completely fix two paragraphs before earning your Ph.D. in extreme sentence surgery. Good Luck! Click on the words that need to be fixed and edit them below.

Type: Punctuation/Grammar Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Grilled Cheese Please - Online Spelling Game

Description: This fun game requires students to choose a food character and to win a race across a ketchup pool by using their spelling skills.

Type: Spelling Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

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Personality Pumpkins - Online Game

Description: This fun game requires students to match the pumpkin face with its correct adjective. Students will see nine different pumpkin faces, each with different expressions. Students must match words such as tricky, smitten, bored, studious, and many others to the correct face. Great way to practice adjectives.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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The Curse of the Farm Fox - Online Game

Description: This hilarious game features the "farm fox," who curses the other animals of the farm by rearranging their sounds. Students must reverse the curse, by dragging and dropping the correct sounds to the correct animals. For example, for a barking cow, the student would have to drag the "bark" sound to the dog.

Type: Science Games

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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The Wrong Name Game - Online Game

Description: This fun game requires students to select the farm animal with the wrong name that appears on each screen. On each screen, five animals will appear. Four will have the correct name (e.g. sheep, chicken) and one will be named incorrect (a cow might be labeled as a pig). Students have three minutes to identify as many misnamed farm animals as possible. Great sight word exercise.

Type: Phonics Activities

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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Vowel Sound Man - Online Game

Description: In this game, students must "eat" the words with the correct vowel sound while avoiding the deadly letter ghost. It's sort of like pac-man.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4

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Alpha Switch - Online Game

Description: This fun game requires kids to make letter charts by matching the picture with the first letter of its name.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2

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Hawkabulary - Online Game

Description: This game challenges students to select the word that completes the sentence in order to catch a tasty meal for the hawk!

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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