Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: High-Frequency Words, Word Fishing
To practice reading high-frequency words fluently, learners play a fishing game at a learning center. They take turns fishing; each fish contains a single high-frequency word. To keep the fish they caught, they must be able to read the...
Curated OER
Jellybean Emergent Reader Worksheet
Do you like jelly beans? Beginning readers create this tiny booklet about jellybeans, illustrating each simple sentence provided. Consider passing out jellybeans and having your learners categorize the colors on top of this worksheet...
Curated OER
The Apple And The Worm - An Emergent Reader Book
Kindergarteners color and compile their own take-home book! The short story, The Apple and The Worm contains short, simple sentences for beginning readers.
Curated OER
Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
Curated OER
Missing Pumpkin Emergent Reader
In these emergent reader worksheets, students create a booklet to help them learn numbers one through fifteen. Students fill in the missing numbers in the pumpkins.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Tips for Parents From Top Researchers
This site features tips for parents from top researchers about developing your child's reading skills.
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Penguin Publishing
U.s. Penguin Group: Welcome to the World of Ezra Jack Keats! [Pdf]
This is a collection of information about Ezra Jack Keats and his books for young readers. It includes biographical information, an annotated listing of his books; activity suggestions for four of his books; book suggestions by theme for...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Does It Make Sense?
Two reading games where students are given two sentences, and will choose the sentence that makes sense. For each correct answer, students will be given puzzle pieces to put in place.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Environmental Print
This lesson introduces students to the concept of reading through common items from the community. Through examining these items (environmental print), students will practice their reading skills and begin to see themselves as competent...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "How to Delay Your Bedtime" Poetry Theater
In "How to Delay Your Bedtime," students will participate in a poem in four voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who tries to delay his bedtime.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "When I Was a Baby" Poetry Theater
This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read...
Other
Mother Goose: Simple Simon
Simple Simon is one of many Mother Gooses' nursery rhymes that students can enjoy reading.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.