Terry Kawas
One Hundred Shoes
Practice counting and patterns in one fun activity! After discussing the word cent and what it means, kids count the number of body parts on the centimeter and add two legs to each. They then determine if there is a faster way to...
Novelinks
The Tempest: Vocabulary Bingo
Bingo! Practice vocabulary from William Shakespeare's The Tempest with a fun matching game. As you call out the definitions, class members mark the new vocabulary words that match and try to get five in a row.
Curated OER
The Metamorphosis: Vocabulary Bingo
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is one of the most fascinating pieces of literature from the 20th century, and its rich vocabulary is one of the reasons it has endured for over a century. Help learners of all levels work...
Curriculum Corner
Coniferous and Deciduous Trees
What are the differences between coniferous and deciduous trees? Supplement your tree lessons with a set of activities that has learners describing, naming, comparing, and reading about deciduous and coniferous trees. The activities are...
Planet e-Book
Crime and Punishment
Can an action be so bad that you are sickened with guilt? Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the main character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, believes that committing a crime could be the answer to his troubles. However,...
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.
Novelinks
Touching Spirit Bear: Directed Thinking Activity
Can you guess what is going to happen in a story just by looking at the cover? Readers engage in a directed-reading activity in which...
Reading Resource
Painting Sentences
Paint with the colors of reading! Learners in special education classes or mainstream classes practice decoding basic and advanced code with a series of sentences on paint blobs. Once they read the sentence, learners cover one spot on...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Comprehension: Expository Text Structure, Text Feature Find
Scholars explore an expository text to answer questions about its structure.
AtoZ Teacher Stuff
Pumpkin Life Cycle
From seed to jack-o-lantern, young scholars walk step-by-step through the life cycle of pumpkins with this fun art and science activity. After first participating in a shared reading of the children's book Pumpkin,...
DK Publishing
Learning 4 - Write the Word
Focus on the number four as youngsters complete several exercises to solidify this number concept. Note pre-readers will have a hard time with this, as it requires reading instructions. Consider doing together as a class or...
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...
Montclair Art Museum
Eric Carle: Animals and Friends
Celebrate Eric Carle’s beloved children’s books, especially those about animals. Teachers and readers alike engage in Carle’s books as they explore the art and color in each of his stories, and how these elements support comprehension.
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
Subject-Verb Recognition: Natural and Inverted Order Sentences
In this subject/verb worksheet, students read about natural and inverted order sentences, then locate the simple subject and simple predicate in a set of 10 sentences.
Curated OER
Sight Words
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the list of sight words and locate them within the word search puzzle. Students locate 8 words by sight: are, in, like, my, on, ride, see, this.
Curated OER
Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the list of sight words (one, two, three, have, new, want, play, with) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
Curated OER
Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words learning exercise, students look at the list of sight words (and, the, down, up, find, little, will you) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
Curated OER
Read and Color
In this coloring and reading worksheet, students read each sentence and color the picture. Students then write the word of the picture on the line.
Curated OER
Sight Words Handwriting Practice
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine the words want, was, well, went, what, and white. Students write each of the words independently.
Curated OER
Number Recognition Games
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Students practice...
Curated OER
Color, Play, Podcast
Students encounter the format of a podcast and plan what content they will include. They work in small groups or with the whole class to develop an outline. Students practice reading their scripts to other students.
Curated OER
Picture And Word Cards-- Long Vowel O-- Full Color
In this language arts activity, students learn the long sound of vowel O by cutting apart 72 full color word and picture cards. There are 2 suggested games for students to play using the cards.
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.