Here is an opportunity for your first graders to take a close look at plants: what they need to survive, how they grow, and the names of each plant part. The book, Corduroy's Garden is used to open the lesson. Then, youngsters utilize...

In this collection of -ain word family worksheets, 1st graders will create mini books of -ain words and sentences, fill in missing letters to create -ain words to match pictures, select -ain words from a word bank to properly complete...

In this rhyme worksheet, students see 16 full color cards and word labels for the rhyme pattern ---at. This is an independent center activity and there are directions for sorting, writing, and classifying.

Students play various games to help create a classroom community. In this name recognition lesson, students combine their name recognition skills with newly learned art and geometric vocabulary. First students discover vocabulary that...

In this recognizing words with the long "E" sound worksheet, students pronounce a group of words and identify the ones that contain a long vowel E. Students circle 12 words.

In this recognizing words worksheet, students read a list of words, cut and paste the matching words, and practicing writing them. Students complete three word recognition activities for four words.

In this word recognition instructional activity, learners must unscramble 20 words that have 'ay' somewhere in the word. Some of the scrambled words are only three letters while some are as much as seven letters.

For this word search worksheet, students find the hidden "oo" (long u) words. Students are given 20 "oo" words to find in the word search.

In this transportation recognition worksheet, students read the names of four forms of transportation and match them to the appropriate illustration.

Students practice their handwriting and word recognition. In this letter C instructional activity, students identify 4-8 words with pictures and use lowercase letters to complete an elementary word search.

Get to know eight shapes by name: square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon. Young geometers write the correct name below each of these shapes, using a word bank for guidance. Then, they draw two of the...

Can your first graders identify a cone? What about a cube? Or a prism? Help them find the differences between these shapes with this instructional activity, which provides a word bank for three-dimensional shapes. For extra practice,...

Learners view a series of images, then choose digraphs, consonants, and vowels to spell out the object's name on each card.

Learners roll two die; die one contains various onsets, and die two contains different rimes. They write down the onset and rime pair they get, then blend and read their word.

Scholars use the provided pack of alphabet cards to construct basic CVC words, then write down each word they make in one of two columns. Column one is for real words and column two is for nonsense words.

Teaching your primary learners how to ask questions? Then look no further. This worksheet introduces the six essential question words: who, what, where, when, why, and how. Children begin by practicing how to write these words, before...

An activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards based on the number of syllables they count as they say the item's name on each card. Depending on how many syllables they count, they place the card in the corresponding box...

Kids use their phonological know-how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as the k sound for a cat and the h sound for a...

What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...

Scholars practice identifying and counting syllables. Images of classmates are cut out and placed on a chart. Learners clap and count the syllables in each child's name. They finish by writing the number of syllables under the...

An informative word search includes the names of six famous African American civil rights leaders. The list includes Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass.

Scholars use a set of onset and rime cards to construct and write various simple words. Pairs take turns pulling cards from a bag and blending the onset card with the rime card to create a word. They record the onset, the rime, and the...

Help readers develop phonemic awareness, the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words, with an exercise that asks kids to identify and highlight the /a/ sound in a list of 39 words. They then read the words to an adult.  

Singular or plural? Primary graders are asked to circle the singular or plural form of the noun illustrated on a colorful worksheet.