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#14 Riddles
Students listen to riddles and identify Dolch sight words in the riddles. In this sight words instructional activity, students listen to riddles and guess the sight word for the riddle. Students solve sight word riddles.
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Red Circle, Red Circle, What Do You See?
Young learners explore shapes and colors. They listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and use the same language pattern to create a color and shape book of their own. After that, with the leftover magazine...
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...
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Seeds
In this reading learning exercise, learners study and learn the sight word "they" by making an 8 page book about seeds. Students color and read the pages which have frequent use of the word "they." For example, "They will need water."
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Dinosaurs
In this reading worksheet, students study and learn the sight words "does" and "may." Students make a 6 page book about dinosaurs. Students color the pictures and read the sentences which contain the sight words. Example: "What does a...
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Phonics: Foot (Printing Practice)
In this sight word and printing practice worksheet, learners learn to recognize and print the word "foot." Students write the word in DeNelian letters and color the picture.
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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites
Students investigate color words. For this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology lesson, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Students listen to Eric Carle books and observe the illustrations,...
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Vocab Quiz: Grade One Vocabulary List One
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners read 15 words in a list and draw lines to match them to the definitions in another column. Words are common sight words.
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Down By the Bay
In this "Down by the Bay" worksheet, students read the poem, respond to 8 short answer question, review 16 sight words, and color and arrange the 14 pictures in chronological order.
Leadership Challenge
Rock the Clock
Watch young leaders as they totally rock this activity! Pupils partner up and set appointments with one another during the third in a series of 12 character-building lessons. Instructors call out the appointment time, then partners meet...
Discovery Education
Urinalysis
What do lab tests reveal about a patient's health? Scholars perform a simulated urinalysis on two different patients by testing color, pH, glucose levels, and protein levels. Then, they compare their findings to what they know passes...
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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...
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You Feel Wet!
In this reading worksheet, students learn the sight words for texture: wet, dry, soft, smooth and prickly. Kids staple together an 8 page book with an animal theme. Students read and color. In the end of the book, students list animals...
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Safety Words
Students with limited verbalization practice word and sign recognition of safety words using flashcards and signing.
Poetry4kids
Evoking the Senses in a Poem
Budding poets choose a topic for a sensory-filled poem. Authors describe that topic using detailed language based on the five senses. Then, switch the senses to create a fanciful poem intended to add a touch of fun to the objective.
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Identifying Minerals
Young scholars compare and constrast a wide variety of minerals and rocks. They test them for streak, luster, color and other characteristics. They view an exhibit and compare their answers to them.
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Word Wall Words
Students use the basic required 200 words by sight in sentences of three to six words, use the words to play bingo and rhyming word activity.
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The City in Black and White and Color: An interdisciplinary approach to teaching life in the city using literature, social studies, art, and photography.
Young scholars design an artistic and literary collage of contemporary urban life that seeks to interpret, analyze, and evaluate its mettle. They integrate their impressions of urban life with established views, thereby enriching their...
Kelly's Kindergarten
March Daily Activities
There's a pot of gold at the end of the school year! Use a month's worth of reading, writing, and counting activities to keep kids learning through the month of March.
Kelly's Kindergarten
January Daily Activities
Start the year right with a series of activities about phonics, reading, winter exercises, and writing. Focused on snow and winter items, a month's worth of short lessons address various skills and keep your kids practicing language arts.
Curated OER
Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
Eleventh graders describe and analyze the effects of poetry on readers. They participate in an Internet scavenger hunt, an exercise involving interpretation of poetry through visual art, and an opportunity for students to create their...
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Bugs
In this reading activity, students analyze the sight word "some" by making an 8 page book about bugs. Students color and read the book with sentences containing the word "some." Example: "Can some bugs crawl? Yes, some bugs can!"
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Yellow Cut And Paste
In this color word worksheet, students learn the sight word "yellow." Students read 8 sentences and cut and paste the object which corresponds to the sentence. Example: " Bananas can be yellow."
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Rain
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading activity, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by...