Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Miss Nelson Is Missing [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Harry Allard, Miss Nelson is Missing, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Diane Stanley's children's book, Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken" [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Helen Lester's early childhood book, The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Dentist [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for The Dentist, is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Snowy Day [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Ezra Jack Keats' children's book, The Snowy Day, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Snowballs [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Lois Ehlert's early childhood book, Snowballs, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Puppies for Sale [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of the early childhood book, Puppies for Sale, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Senses
In the following activities students can learn about the basic characteristics and structures of the brain, skull and sensory system; investigate sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and discover how the brain and the senses are...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the students what is different.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Other
National Foundation for Educational Research
Offers an impressive collection of educational research publications and practical guides across a wide range of subject areas.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Luisa Builds a Model"
[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"
[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...
Read Works
Read Works: Cats Need Care by Rachelle Kreisman
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage provides tips on how to take care of cats followed by a comprehension question set. A vocabulary worksheet for the word "fur" is also provided.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Skip Counting
A definition of skip counting followed by interactive examples and links to exercises that will help your skip-counting skills. Learn to skip count by 2, by 3, by 4, by 5, and by 10, and challenge yourself with backwards skip counting.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Indian Ocean: What Kind of Natural Forces Do We Recognize?
Learn about forces (push or pull), gravity, and friction in this module by training dolphins.
Other
National Center on Intensive Intervention: Identify and Sort Common Objects
This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Asthma Tips for Kids
Use these tips to help kids understand asthma in this guide from Arthur: "Buster's Breathless."