Curated OER
You and the U.S. Constitution
Fourth graders write new rules of their school. In this rules and U.S. Constitution lesson plan, 4th graders discuss why we celebrate the fourth of July and examine the U.S. Constitution. Students discuss the differences between people...
Education World
Every Day Edit - Miranda Rights
In this everyday editing, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Miranda Rights. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Education World
Every Day Edit - President John Adams
In this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President John Adams. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
Harper Collins
The World of Ramona
Bring the fun and whimsy of Beverly Cleary into your classroom with a teaching guide created to accompany the Ramona series. The guide offers several ideas for classroom use, including independent reading, reading aloud, and literature...
Curated OER
Adding -ing
Review the rules involving the use of the -ing ending. Learners discuss a list of words, engage in activities, and learn spelling rules. This presentation provides a comprehensive review of this topic. It is a good tool for the classroom.
Curated OER
Improving Your Spelling with the Virtual Thesaurus
Students study spelling words. In this word study lesson plan, students use the Visual Thesaurus and play the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee.
McGraw Hill
Phonics Teachers Resource Book
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Kindergarten Skills Unit 10
A six-week unit wraps up kindergarteners' skills practice in beginning reading skills. Twenty-nine lessons focus on long vowel sounds and 11 tricky high-frequency words. Scholars participate in warm-up activities, introductions to sounds...
Curated OER
Vocabulary Building: Final -E Rule 3
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, 2nd graders spell from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words scale, airplane, froze, hole, whole, and awhile. Students write eighteen answers.
Curated OER
Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule III
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, students spell the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words pipe, mule, skate, care, size, and wise. Students complete...
Curated OER
Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
Digital History
The Age of Constitution Writing
Was the United States significantly more democratic in their governing structures and laws after the overthrow of British authorities? Compare and contrast summaries of the country's constitutions under British rule and after...
American Museum of Natural History
A Nature and Nurture Walk in Mendel Park
We are what we make of ourselves ... sometimes. Learners play a game to come up with the answer to a riddle. The game consists of determining whether different scenarios are due to nature or nature and nurture. With each correct answer,...
McGraw Hill
Irregular Verbs
It's no secret that the English language doesn't always follow clear sets of rules. Help your class adapt to these inconsistencies with this collection of grammar worksheets that teaches children the past tense form of many common...
Curated OER
Elementary Reading: Five Passages with Questions
Five brief readings with questions support practice with various literacy skills. In some cases, learners identify whether underlined words are spelled correctly. Other times, they answer reading comprehension questions about the text or...
Curated OER
Editing Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students read fourteen sentences and find the spelling mistakes in each one. Students correct each spelling mistake found.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 2: Bedtime Tales
A unit covering second-grade skills reviews 16 letter-sound correspondences, tricky words, and punctuation. Readers provide context for examining story elements, and pupils participate in close reading and write narratives retelling a...
Curated OER
Practice Spelling Plurals
Fourth graders review the rules for spelling plural nouns. In this plural nouns lesson plan, 4th graders review the six rules for making nouns plural. They apply the rules as they complete the associated worksheet.
Curated OER
Spelling List 7: Sight Words, "Shun" words, and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, shun words, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
Curated OER
Word Center
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
Mathed Up!
Sine and Cosine Rules and Area of Triangles
Learners discover how to find missing sides and angles using trigonometry. Scholars first watch a video covering the Law of Sines and Cosines, as well as the area formula for a triangle. To test their knowledge, they complete a worksheet...
Curated OER
Adding -s/-es to Verbs Ending in -y
Explore irregular verbs by practicing the rule for adding -s/-es to verbs that end in -y. There are 15 sentences provided to practice changing words like play, study, try, and buy.
Curated OER
Spelling Exercise: Affect or Effect
Fifteen example sentences need to be completed with either affect or effect. This printable exercise focuses on a discrete skill and could accomplish the mission if your class struggles with this particular distinction. Answer key is...
Essential Skills Software
Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...