Curated OER
Making More Words With "at"
Students explore phonetics by identifying words with one specific sound. In this rhyming words instructional activity, students discuss the sound "at" and the many words that contain the same sound. Students utilize index cards to...
Curated OER
Detective Game
In this book report worksheet, students answer questions about a book report asked in detective language. Students complete 5 questions.
Curated OER
Is the Underlined Word an Adjective?
In this adjectives worksheet, students read 10 sentences that have an underlined word. Students determine if the word is an adjective and circle true or false.
Curated OER
Playing with Language
Try these parts of speech games and activities that will help your learners tackle using correct grammar.
McGraw Hill
Phonics Teachers Resource Book
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
Curated OER
Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 4
In this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight word bingo game where they match up the sight words away, blue, come, down, funny, jump, make, play, three and two to sentence strips on a game board.
Curated OER
Bingo Game: -ER Words
In this recognizing words with -er endings instructional activity, students use Bingo cards to match the base word with the words with the -er suffixes. Students use 16 answers.
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Bingo: -ING Words
In this recognizing words with -ing endings worksheet, learners use Bingo cards to identify base words with -ing endings. Students use 16 answers.
Boys Town
Teaching Social Skills, Creating Successful Students “Following Instructions” and “Listening”
With the help from learning games and holiday-themed coloring pages, scholars learn the importance of listening carefully and following directions. Coloring pages celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. Learning games include Simon...
K12 Reader
Using Collective Nouns
What do you call a group of soccer players? Or a bunch of bees? Young grammarians review eight sentences and add the correct collective noun based on the context clues they observe.
Curated OER
Vocabulary through Text
Explore word meanings. Sixth graders identify examples of words with affixes while listening to the story Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg. They participate in the game "Pass the Parts" and practice separating given words into their root...
Curated OER
Introducing Synonyms to Early Writers
Upper elementary schoolers examine the concept of synonyms and how using a variety of vocabulary through synonyms can expand their writing skills. They revise a paragraph using synonyms located on the Visual Thesaurus and participate in...
Curated OER
Homographs
There are eight homograph riddles here: can your scholars figure them out? For each, there are three definitions and a picture. Learners use the picture and multiple meanings as clues, recording a word that matches all three. They read...
Curated OER
Introduce Vocabulary: Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Take your budding readers on a literary trip to pick blueberries as they learn vocabulary from Robert McClosky's book, Blueberries for Sal. By pre-teaching the words pupils are prepared to raise their hands when they hear the words in...
Curated OER
Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend (Bourgeois)
Franklin the turtle makes a new friend as youngsters learn vocabulary in context using Paulette Bourgeois' story (tip: this strategy can be applied to any book). Brief kids on the new words so they can raise their hands when they hear...
Curated OER
Student Dictionary
Third graders practice dictionary skills. They use a digital camera and insert pictures from a floppy disk into a document. They play a game in which they are handed an anonymous definition of each other and must find each other in class.
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There, They're, Their
Accompany a there, they're, and their lesson or test your pupils' comprehension with a grammar activity where scholars read sentences and fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the word.
Curated OER
Latin Roots: spir, viv/vit, vid, vis
Young readers rewrite the Latin root words on the blank lines and then mark the roots spir, viv, vid, vit, and vis in the 20 word list.
Curated OER
How to Teach Dolch Words with Kid Pix
Students use KidPix computer program to learn Dolch sight words. In this technology and language lesson, students type their Dolch sight words into KidPix to create a quasi-sentence.
Curated OER
Snake and Sight Word Board Game
Students practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
Curated OER
Football Spelling
Third graders play a football spelling game where two teams spell words and gain yardage for each correctly spelled word. This clever spelling game will be highly motivational for your class! Each team gains ten yards every time they...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Final Phoneme Pie
Words are interesting things—you can change them by adding or subtracting phonemes. Here, emergent readers change the pictures on their phoneme pie by removing or adding various final phonemes. A fun way to build phonetic competency!
Bierbaum Elementary School
Practicing Patience
As teachers, we have a lot of patience. Our scholars, on the other hand, may need some support. Give your pupils the emotional intelligence instruction they desire with a lesson designed to teach patience through grand conversation,...
Egmont
H.O.R.S.E.
Extend your lesson on Christopher Myers' H.O.R.S.E with a series of activities about basketball. After kids read the book, they match basketball terms with their definitions, find as many words as they can with the letters H, O, R, S,...