The reading foundational skills taught in these first grade reading games are crucial in developing a level of understanding students can build upon throughout the rest of their educational journey.
Our team of former educators has created these effective and engaging resources you can use to help your students master key standards, all while fostering a love of reading! All of the games listed below are tailored to state standards, and can be found within eSpark’s differentiated reading curriculum. Try out these games with your students for free!
1. Suzy Sloth’s Sentences
In this interactive game, Suzy Sloth helps students learn how to recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence, like capitalization and punctuation.
- Standard Alignment: Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation)
- Assign the Small Group Skill
2. Olive vs. The Dragons
Your students can play this game to learn how to differentiate long and short vowel sounds by helping Olive the Knight keep her castle safe from dragons!
- Standard Alignment: Long and short vowels
- Assign the Small Group Skill
3. Digraph Nature Walk
This fun game takes students on a trip through nature as they learn spelling-sound correspondences for secondary consonant digraphs -wh, -th, and -ck.
- Standard Alignment: Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
4. Magic ‘e’
Students will develop an understanding of final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds, all while putting together a magic show!
- Standard Alignment: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds
- Assign the Small Group Skill
5. Chef Duck’s Word Cafe
In this game, your students can help Chef Duck serve up tasty recipes by filling in the missing long vowel sounds and learning common vowel team conventions.
- Standard Alignment: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds
- Assign the Small Group Skill
6. Quincy’s Sight Word Dig
This interactive game will help your students recognize and read irregularly spelled words, so Quincy the Dog can find all of the bones she has buried!
- Standard Alignment: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- Assign the Small Group Skill
Playfully personalized instruction
eSpark’s unique, holistic approach to math and reading instruction is both fun and effective, and it spans far more than just first grade reading games. See for yourself why eSpark’s strong mix of games, stories, videos, and AI-powered experiences is the students’ choice. Browse our full library of activities here, or sign up using the link at the top of your screen to get your students started.