PreKinders
Wild Animal Word Cards
Take a walk on the wild side with a set of animal vocabulary cards! Each card includes a picture of an animal and its name in large print for kids to read.
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Word Family - Long Vowel 'u'
In this printing practice activity, students trace the 13 words with long /u/. Students then practice printing the words independently.
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Ricky Week 3 Word Family Printing
In this personalized printing practice worksheet, students practice their handwriting skills as they trace and independently write the 5 listed words.
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Family Quilts Keep Us Warm
Students explore different types of families and cultures. They create a paper quilt with geometric designs of similar colors to show unity and pictures of each of their families to show diversity.
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Family Lesson Plan
Kindergarteners discuss families with this resource. They talk about human families, explaining how they grow and change, and focus on vocabulary words. Then, they talk about animal families, discuss the vocabulary involved, and match...
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The Purple Cow
Young scholars read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry lesson, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
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Dr. Seuss Hat Printable
Inspired by The Cat in the Hat, this printable can be used in a number of ways. The hat is made up of five stripes and a brim that kids can write on, color, cut out, and more.
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Home & School: School
What are some of the essential items and words students need to know for going to class? Designed for special education students but with a variety of applications, here you'll find a set of 12 picture cards that include images and terms...
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Words With Short A Sound
While just a series of slides with lists of words containing the short A sound, this resource would be a handy tool in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. You could use this resource as a quick review of this sound. This...
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Hen/Pen
In this word family worksheet, students create a double-sided card. Each side shows a word ending in -en with an illustration.
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Sam Worksheet -am
In this printing practice worksheet, students trace and re-write the given sentences that include words from the -am word family. There are seven sentences to trace and re-write.
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Bossy ur and ar Words
In this phonics activity, students cut out 8 small pictures before pasting them in the correct bossy Rr team column. They paste them in either the column labeled with the ur or the column with the ar.
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Syllables
How many syllables? This practice activity starts with a brief introduction on segmenting words, encouraging kids to say words aloud. They categorize 12 words into lists based on number of syllables: one, two, or three. Next, scholars...
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Move the Sounds
Use cut out letters to make beginning sounds, blends, and word families that ultimately make new words. Learners move around physically as they hold the letters to make the specified blend or word. Assessment suggestions are included.
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African American Poetry: Family and Traditions
Young scholars are introduced to the elements of African-American poetry. As a class, they are read different types of poems to discover there are different styles of poems and practice rhyming words. They share information on their...
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Rosie's Walk Activity Card
In this language arts worksheet, students play a game in order to learn words that describe location. Students move a picture of a hen according to six different captions.
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Noun Suffix "er"
Here is a worksheet whose focus is having young readers learn that when "er" is added to a noun it changes a "doing" word into a "doer." Learners write six nouns and bracket the "er" at the end. Example: jump-jump(er).
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The At family
In this trace and write worksheet, learners trace and write words that contain the at sound. Students trace and write 8 lines total on this worksheet.
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Inspire a Life of Reading
Making letters out of goop, sight word bingo, tic-tac-toe vowels. Download this packet loaded with activities designed to engage beginning readers. Although designed for adults, many of the activities are appropriate for any age group.
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Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills.
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Color the Nouns: Tulips
Colorful tulips fill a worksheet designed to reinforce parts of speech. Scholars identify and color shapes that contain nouns pink.
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Short Vowel Sound
Use this creative way to review words that have short vowel sounds. Learners read a word and then identify the words in the group that have the same vowel sound. It is a motivating way to have learners explore this topic.
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Sound Boxes
Students explore language fluency by identifying word segments. In this word structure lesson, students utilize words from their vocabulary lesson, dissect them into syllables and sound out their individual parts. Students participate in...
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners create vegetable super heroes,...