Novelinks
Touching Spirit Bear: The Literary Mandala
Even someone with a dark side can make a good decision—and vice versa. Readers explore Cole's traits and decisions in Ben Mikaelson's Touching Spirit Bear and analyze his sunside and...
Lakeshore Learning
What's Next? Sequencing Story
First, next, then, and, finally are the words in focus of a sequencing lesson plan. Scholars listen to a read aloud of the tale "Lost in the Fog," and take part in a grand conversation about the story's sequence...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
Kiz Club
Long Vowel "U"
How long have you been looking for a worksheet that focuses on the long /u/ sound? You've found one here! Pupils add in the letter u to six words. They then match the words to the images along the left side of the paper.
Freeology
Abraham Lincoln
Six witty quotes from Abraham Lincoln make up a worksheet that challenges scholars to examine the words and state their meaning in one to two sentences.
Bantam Books
The Tempest: Think-Aloud Annotation
It can be difficult to refer back to a text when analyzing it, so annotation is a great tool for kids to track what they are reading. A thorough and well-organized lesson guides learners through the process of annotating William...
EngageNY
Poetic Tools in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Scholars listen to a reading and answer probing questions about If We Must Die by Claude McKay. Readers annotate their personal copies of the poem as they discuss its figurative language, vocabulary, and meaning. They then transfer...
Curated OER
The Honeycomb Challenge: Shapes and Colors
Play this game with young English language learners to help them learn color and shape vocabulary. As they make their way around the game board, they talk about the colors and shapes they pass and land on. Add math skills practice by...
Curated OER
Hailstones & Halibut Bones: Using Color to Teach Adjectives
Learners write a color poem with a color, a noun, and their two adjectives in each line. They can start each line with the color or the noun, as long as the adjectives are put where they make sense.
Curated OER
Word Recognition
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
Curated OER
Color Descriptions
Young scholars create a book about colors. In this exploring colors lesson, students read the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones. Young scholars select a color and describe how the color looks, feels, tastes, and smells like. Students...
Curated OER
Yellow Daffodils
In this early childhood yellow daffodils booklet worksheet, students color the 9 pictures, cut the pages out, and assemble the daffodil booklet that may be read again and again.
Curated OER
Long Vowel Words in a Coloring Picture
In this long vowels activity, students read the long vowel words in a picture. Students color the picture of the bird according to the directions in the key.
Curated OER
What Color is Your Colony?
Young scholars conduct an experiment to change the color of E. coli bacteria using genetic engineering. They work in small groups to add a plasmid containing a gene for red pigment to the bacteria and culture the bacteria to see if it ...
Curated OER
Matching Words and Colors
In this language arts worksheet, students read and identify color words and then fill in twelve butterflies with the matching color.
Curated OER
Rudolph, Rudolph
In this early childhood Rudolph booklet instructional activity, students color the 7 pictures, cut the pages out, and assemble the Christmas booklet that may be read again and again.
Curated OER
Word Recognition: X, Y, Z
In this letter X, Y, Z activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letters. A word bank is provided.
Curated OER
Short Vowels Coloring Page
In this short vowels learning exercise, students analyze a picture of a dog who is fishing. Students read the words that are typed in different parts of the picture. Using the key, students color the short vowel word areas the correct...
Curated OER
Letter A Picture and Word Match
For this initial /a/ worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities in the word bank.
Curated OER
What Can Be Orange?
In this reading worksheet, students learn the color "orange" sight word. Students examine 6 pictures and read the sentences which accompany them. Example: "A starfish can be orange." Students color the pictures in shades of orange.
Curated OER
Colorful Fractions
Students use charts to show fractions. In this fractions and percents lesson, students review fractions, percents and ratios. Students create tables and color the cells to make different fractions. Students answer...
Curated OER
On the Seashore
Young scholars read the book On the Seashore and complete activities such as reading a book, color and cut out animal cards, model rock making, shell graphing, shell patterns, and more. In this seashell lesson plan, students use the...
Curated OER
Starlight, Star Heat
In this stars worksheet, students read how astronomers calculate the temperature of a star by measuring its color. Students use a chart showing star temperatures and colors to complete 3 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Phonics and Vegetable Books
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...