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Activity
Math Cats

Math Cats: Cat Tails and Other Animal Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for kids stories about animals and mathematics with numerous links to the stories.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Piece of Pie

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken" [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Polar Express [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Chris Van Allsburg's illustrated children's book, The Polar Express, is provided on these pages. Eight narrators are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Gingerbread Boy [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for The Gingerbread Boy is provided on these pages. Nine character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Snowy Day [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Snowballs [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Kevin Henkes' Sheila Rae, the Brave [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Puppies for Sale [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: No Bath Tonight [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Senses

For Students K - 1st
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...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"

For Students K - 1st Standards
[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...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.