Math Cats
Math Cats: Cat Tails and Other Animal Stories
A great resource for kids stories about animals and mathematics with numerous links to the stories.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Piece of Pie
This is a tutorial for creating and practice interpreting pie charts. They use the example of number of people in each of 24 families to demonstrate how the pieces of pie are created. Then questions were asked and students input the...
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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 Gingerbread Boy [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for The Gingerbread Boy is provided on these pages. Nine 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: Kevin Henkes' Sheila Rae, the Brave [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Kevin Henkes' children's book, Sheila Rae, the Brave, 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: 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.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: No Bath Tonight [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Jane Yolen's children's book, No Bath Tonight, is provided on these pages. Four character roles are needed in this activity.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy
Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...
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: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
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: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
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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: "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...
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...