Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Awe Inspiring, Extraordinary, Erudite Kids
Using complex language, including rich descriptors, is necessary for mastery of the CCSS Standards. This lesson is a great lesson in using adjectives to enrich speaking and writing. Included are a video demonstration and printable...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs
In this lesson, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving them...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intevention for Reading: Peer Tutoring in Sight Words
This is a lesson for peer tutoring of sight words including training, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase learners' sight word vocabulary and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Homophone Site
Check out this informative site featuring homophones. Students will enjoy the illustrations and activities found within this resource.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Animals
Given pictures of animals, students must select the word that fits the picture. A link to other games is provided.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 11 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic present progressive tense verbs that are needed in beginning English.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems
In this activity, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "J" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "J"...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Reading Power Bingo!
This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Super Why! read aloud a word. Then students must click on "the opposite" of the word read aloud. Students continue clicking on the opposite of each word read...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Adjective Game for Kids
Students use this writing prompt generator to choose a writing topic and three adjectives to use in an original piece.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City:lakewood 1st Grade Vocabulary & Spelling Resources
This site offers 30 vocabulary and spelling lessons. Each lesson provides a word list; when the words are clicked on, it is pronounced and used in a sentence aloud. For the quizzes, the words are pronounced, and the students type in the...
TES Global
Tes: Vocabulary Sorting Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.
abcteach
Abc Teach: Verb Skill Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides worksheets to use with students explaining the different types of verbs and how to use them. There is one five page mini-unit on simple present, past and future tenses. Also included are a cut...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Reading With Our Eyes, Fingers, Toes, Ears and Nose
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Shapes
In this game, students identify shapes by choosing the words that fit the pictures. Links to other games are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Sight Word Spelling
In this instructional activity students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words. This instructional activity primarily focuses...
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with animals and vocabulary words that describe.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess vocabulary words that are adjectives and words associated with map directions.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess vocabulary words that are adjectives.