Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Oral Language
A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Exploring Adjectives Through Art and Creative Writing [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use adjectives to describe artwork and to develop descriptive language in creating interesting and unique stories.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using knowledge of geometric shapes. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Other
Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!
Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.
Quia
Quia: Por and Para
This online story collection allows students to read, listen to, or watch a story. Uses popups.
Other
Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Using Complete Sentences
This interactive focuses on complete sentences; it provides notes explaining what makes a complete sentence and two practices identifying complete sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Words Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart makes students put together a string of words to make sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Find the Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] A variety of Language Arts activities including finding common words, practicing penmanship etc.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Joining Telling Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides practice for combining telling sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Language Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that reinforce language skills such as vocabulary, handwriting as well as alphabet cheer, songs, and poems.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Other
Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Game: Does It Make Sense? Game 5
This reading game offers young readers two sentences; they are to click on the one that makes sense. Then they are to drag a piece of a rocket puzzle into place. When the puzzle is complete, the game is over.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent Schools: Six Steps to Effective Vocabulary Instruction [Pdf]
Help students build vocabulary by following these six steps based on a book Building Background Knowledge by Robert Marzao. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Order: Creating Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move words from the bottom of the page to create sentences.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Does It Make Sense?
This reading game offers young readers the opportunity to correct word order of a sentence so that it makes sense. They click and drag words in the correct order into the sentence. Then they are to drag a piece of trash into the recycle...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students can interact with the board while learning about complete sentences. They can use the Activotes for the answers if the teacher chooses.
Other
Tsl Books: Farm Questions and Statements [Pdf]
Students write two statements and two questions about the farm picture they see. They may color the picture after they have written the sentences.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Kindergarten
Kindergarten flash cards that have words and names with questions and some pictures on the flip sides.
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This is an online story for early readers about things that can go into motion, and things that can't. It offers help for readers as they can click on a words and it will say the word aloud. It also provides a list of words used in the...