J M's List: Teaching materials generator

"Math Mammoth offers affordable, yet quality math worktexts and workbooks for grades 1-8, available as both downloads and printed books. These books concentrate on conceptual understanding and are strong in mental math. The directions in the worktexts are written directly to the student, and are often self-teaching, thus requiring little preparation and involvement from the teacher."

"Homeschool Math has several worksheet generators that can create a variety of free printable worksheets for you. These worksheets can be printed out for use in the classroom, home, tutoring center—anywhere you might be teaching.

You can customize the worksheets with many varied options, so can make them easy or difficult according to the student's level, with lots or less problems, with big or small fonts, etc. Each time you get a different worksheet since they are generated randomly. Choose a topic from the menu below."

Gives lots of help for teachers to teach math and science at the secondary level of middle school. I like the visuals for math.

"Welcome to The Teacher's Corner Printable Worksheets! We have developed several printable worksheet makers for your to use to make your own worksheets quick and easy. You will have options to print premade worksheets, or make your own using our free worksheet generators. Check back often as we are always working on new ideas!"

"These games were created in PowerPoint.  Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs."

'This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising. TESL/TEFL teachers may want to recommend this site to their students."

Scattergories, Taboo, and Catch Phrase are some of the common games I thought of to research for creating content review or vocabulary games among the other games listed here.

A list of games online.

Graphic organizers and other things to help with teaching.

Education website with fun facts and worksheet creators. I am focusing on this site for now for pre-writing (under preschool/kindergarten) and other preparatory activities for school.

If you go into the phonics section there are ideas on games for learning phonics (mostly through matching).

"A phonogram is a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound. For example:

ck is a phonogram that says /k/ as in clock.

s is a phonogram that says /s/ as in sat or /z/ as in has.

oy is a phonogram that says /oi/ as in boy."

Long list of spelling and reading rules and information.

"The Phonogram Page, a free service of Johnny Can Spell, is designed to promote phonics and handwriting awareness, parent involvement, and student mastery of the 70 common phonograms of the English language."

"Here’s a simple, cheap way to practice rhyming words and word families with your preschooler. It’s also a great way to review phonics. Don’t go out and buy word family review cards at the homeschooling supply store or teacher’s store! It’s so easy to make them yourself. Using a set of 3x5 notecards, or even just 3x5 pieces of paper you’ve cut yourself, you can have an instant learning activity that’s fun and fast, and provides a meaningful learning experience for your child."

This teacher makes a lot of primary games for learning reading and writing.

"It’s a fun way for children to practice Word Families.

Not all of the letters you slide through the window will create “real words”. This will help your child to learn to distinguish between real and nonsense words (an important reading trait. Difficulties with this in an older child could indicate Dyslexia).

It would take me forever to make…

You will only have to make the letter slides once as they can be inserted into any family slider that you create.

After that you will only have to make one or two sliders per week to match your child’s spelling list. If you are feeling lazy you could put a sticker on the slider and write the family with your pencil. You could then rub out and re-use the same slider."

"This "wizard" is actually a set of power tools for power users. This page is designed to save you time, not to do your thinking for you. Some ideas:

Use a concordance tool to get the most common words in a book, text file, or web page. For example, a French teacher could get the common words in Le Petit Prince; an American Lit teacher could do the same for To Kill a Mockingbird. Paste the words into the text box. Then, use a dictionary, thesaurus, or translator tool to make an answer list appropriate for your students.
Get ready for a unit by "growing" a list of related words. For example, type Iron, Clay, Magnesium, Sulfur in the Word List box (one word per line). Click on Google Sets to find a list of related words, then copy and paste the new list into the Word List box.
Make your own math problem set for your students.
Do you like an answer list, but not a word list? Use the Wand to "Cut" the word list; the answer list remains.
In most cases, the tool pops up a window from which you can cut and paste into the word list box. You may need to "allow active content" on your browser.
This is a "beta" version of this page, which means it is still in development and might have some problems. Please feel free to send me comments; mail them to webmaster, then the "at" sign, then edcuationalpress.org."

"Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply:

1. Choose a word list below,
2.. pick an output style from the left menu,
3... tailor your worksheet below, then
4.... click Create Print Window!"

"Today I am going to share with you a word family game that I just whipped together with paint chips. If you don't have a paint chip collection, it is time you started one! Paint chips can be used for all kinds of things. I will be sharing another handmade activity from paint chips in my next post."

I had the epiphany you could use the paint chips to make letter tiles as well.