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School-Home Links elling, self-to-text connections, writing lists, author
Engage families in at-home practice using this 100-page worksheet packet for elementary school English Language Arts practice. Each worksheet briefly explains the objective to parents so they can guide their child through the activity....
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School - Home Links: Parts of a Book
Parents or learning partners assist emergent readers with a School-Home Links activity. The children complete a matching activity about the parts of a book which include a table of contents, title page, and glossary. They match the word...
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School-Home Links/Book Links
Get youngsters reading at home and their parents involved with this at home reading assignment. This resource consists of a ready-to-use handout for documenting at-home reading. Formatted as a letter home to parents, this activity calls...
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School-Home Links
Engage parents in their child’s learning process with a School-Home Links worksheet. The one-page resource offers a definition and an example of a book with chapters. With the guidance of their parent or learning partner, the child...
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School-Home Links
In this school home links CVC words instructional activity, students practice sounding out the words dog, pot, sat, cat, cap, hit, box, cup, and bed.
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Listening to a Story and Answering Questions School/Home Links/Book Links
Youngsters start by picking out a book to read with a home learning partner. They write the title and author on the worksheet before reading the book. After reading, they write the setting and main character on the blank lines. They tell...
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School-Home Links: Uppercase Letters
Young writers use a pencil to identify the first letter of each sentence in a brief paragraph, and locate sentences in books at home. This fine worksheet should provide effective practice for letter identification. It could be used in a...
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School-Home Links: Compound Words
What is a compound word? Have young learners review compound words, identify the two independent words in a compound word, and look for examples through reading and listening. Send this home for independent practice, and make sure to...
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Naming Letters School/Home Links
Send your kindergarten class home with this review sheet. They should read the name of each letter shown and point to it. Then have them identify their favorite letter and write it five times.
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School-Home Links: Describe Your Family
Choose a familiar topic to practice writing. A prompt is given asking learners to write two complete sentences that describe their families. Pointers are written at the bottom to help writers check that they started each sentence with a...
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School-Home Links/ Book Links
In this reading response worksheet, students first read a book at home with their families. Students complete a simple book report form in which predictions are made about the rest of the story.
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School-Home Links
In this school-home links reading practice worksheet, students, under the guidance of their caregivers, follow the 5 steps to getting out a book and reading it.
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School-Home Links: Book Links
In this school-home book links learning exercise, learners and their caregivers select a book to read together, share the name of book and the author, and write about how the book is like other books they have read.
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School-Home Links: Alphabet
In this school-home links alphabet worksheet, students and their caregivers practice reading the 26 alphabet letters and practice writing the initials of their first and last names in uppercase letters.
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School-Home Links: Alphabet
In this school-home links lowercase alphabet instructional activity, students and their caregivers practice reading the 26 alphabet letters and identify the first letter of the alphabet and the last.
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School-Home Links: Mixed Alphabet
In this school-home links mixed alphabet review worksheet, students point to each of the 36 uppercase and lowercase letters and identify them with a caregiver.
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School-Home Links: Printing Practice
In this school home links printing practice worksheet, students practice writing the words we, like, and books on the lines provided. In addition, students copy a sentence from a book they are reading.
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School-Home Links: Rhyming
In this school home links rhyming worksheet, students write 5 words that rhyme with the 5 listed words. In addition, students read the rhyming pairs aloud.
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School-Home Links: Texts
For this school home links life and text worksheet, students complete 6 activities with the help of a caregiver. The activities require students to tell stories, make lists, and draw stories.
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Taking Visual Impairment to School
What is the world like when you can't see, or when your vision is impaired? Learn about how Lisa communicates with the world around her with Taking Visual Impairment to School by Rita Whitman Steingold. Learners answer discussion...
Harper Collins
If You Take a Mouse to School
If you give your teacher a book, she'll probably want an activity guide to go with it. Have fun learning with a wonderful selection of hands on activities created for the book, If You Take a Mouse to School. Each activity focuses on...
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School-Home Links: Breaking Words into Syllables
Involve the whole family in syllable division with this resource, which has parents helping their children practice a new skill. Learners look at 6 words, which are visually divided, and write down their syllable count. There are 2...
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School-Home Links: Compound Words #2
Provide elementary learners additional practice with compound words. First they identify the two independent words used to create a compound word, and then they search for examples in their daily life. Where can you read or hear compound...
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School-Home Links: Reading 2
In this early childhood reading text worksheet, students read a brief selection with a caregiver, on their own, and to their teacher in order to practice reading smoothly, without stopping.