University of Pennsylvania
The Reading Road
Practice r-controlled vowel sounds and words with a series of phonics activities. Ranging from straightforward instruction sheets to a fun rhyming story about video games, the exercises will interest all of your learners, regardless of...
Curated OER
Blending Board Game
Work on sounding out blends with this fun snake visual! Learners can start at the head of the snake and roll a die to move along his segments. Each segment has a different blend in it such as sm, cl, and bl. Use this game in stations...
Melanie Giovannone
Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating initial sounds as they...
Starfall
A Is For...
Fun from A to Z! Use a collection of alphabet worksheets to help kids practice their letters. Kids can color and trace each letter, and draw items from a word list to indicate each letter.
ESL Kid Stuff
Christmas Lesson 1
Little ones sing Christmas carols, complete craft projects, and play word games while learning new vocabulary in part one of two-part ESL lesson series.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Upper and Lower Case Concentration
Play a wild game of memory with your youngsters. These adorable animal-themed tiles include every uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet. Kids match the uppercase and lowercase letters to remove them from the board.
ESL Kid Stuff
Vegetables
Help your learners exercise healthy eating habits with a series of activities about vegetables. Kids learn about common vegetables with songs, matching games, flashcards, and crafts.
Kindergarten Mom
Animal Alphabet Chart
Engage young children in learning the letters of the alphabet with a fun animal alphabet chart. With the letters written in both upper and lower case and accompanied by pictures of animals beginning with each letter, this is a great...
ESL Kid Stuff
Christmas Lesson 2
Wrapping presents, singing Christmas carols, writing Christmas cards and learning holiday vocabulary are all wrapped into this one exciting ESL lesson.
ESL Kid Stuff
Clothes
How would your kids react if they saw a big pile of clothes in the middle of their classroom? Learn about different types of clothes with a lesson that includes songs, games, and a fun dress-up activity.
ESL Kid Stuff
Zoo Animals
Let's go to the zoo! Take a pretend trip to the zoo with a lesson plan about animals that live at the zoo. Kids sing, match animals, practice animal sounds, and read about Sammy the Snake's birthday party.
Early Childhood Education
Christmas Lesson Plan: Gross Motor & Fine Motor Skills
Practice gross and fine motor skills with fun Christmas- and holiday-themed activities. These holiday lessons include songs, games, and other engaging activities for both gross and fine motor skills. Kids will love pinning the nose on...
ESL Kid Stuff
Toys
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
Curated OER
Getting to Know Us
Students discover pictures are worth a thousand smiles. In this early childhood language arts lesson, students use their growing powers of observation and language skills to get to know their classmates.
Curated OER
Reintroduce /s/
What letter is this? As you introduce pre-readers to letter sounds, keep them entertained with this fun game. Start by drawing the letter s on the board, large enough for all to see. Once you've demonstrated the sound it makes, use these...
ESL Kid Stuff
Classroom Stationery
What's in the bag? Learn about classroom items, such as pens, glue, pencils, and books, with a series of fun activities. Kids sing and play games to practice their new vocabulary words.
ESL Kid Stuff
Weather
What's the weather like today? Learn fun weather songs and play games with your class in a lesson about the different types of weather. Kids prepare a weather board and talk about the weather outside, in addition to other educational...
Curated OER
FUN-damental movement!
Students move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. In this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...
Curated OER
Matching Game: Fish and Turtles
Students participate in a matching game. In this memory activity, students conduct a memory experiment by playing a matching game with pictures of fish and turtles. Students sing songs about the animals during their activity.
Curated OER
"I Can't" Said the Ant Activity Card
In this language arts worksheet, students respond to the book "I Can't" Said the Ant by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students listen to a parent read an unfinished rhyme from the book. They cut out 6 pictures and paste...
National Education Association
Read Across America Classroom Activity Guide
Celebrate the legendary Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day with a plethora of activities set to five stories—The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and Green Eggs and Ham. Activities include...
Curated OER
Story-Hour Kit
Students explore four picture books. For this early childhood lesson, students are read the books, discuss them, and then complete extension activities. These include writing and illustrating their own experiences, practice with...
Curated OER
Letter L
Students will have fun learning about the letter "L" with the activities in this lesson plan. The author suggests reading "Lightning Bug" from the McGraw-Hill reading book. However, you may find other poems that are fitting for this...
Curated OER
Alphabet Fun 1
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students examine 10 series of 6 letters each. Students identify the letter in each series that does not belong in the series of letters.