Students study Nutrition Facts labels. For this life science lesson, students explore Nutrition Facts labels, then determine and analyze the nutrients found in a variety of foods. Additionally students construct bug boxes used to collect...

Students research Ben Franklin's inventions. In this invention lesson, students see the relationship between a need and an invention. Students will engage in a class discussion, read a handout, and play a match the invention to its...

Students participate in playing online games. In this practice lesson, students play online games to practice skills learned throughout the week.

Students discuss some of the different vocabulary words associated with books.They take note of the cover picture and attempt to guess the content. They listen to a book read to them by the teacher. They write their own title to the book...

Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...

Students participate in fluency activities related to farm animals. They discuss counting sheep and view clips from the video "Babe." They create a short dialogue between Babe and Fly. They role play as animals providing the sounds...

Students research a variety of fairy tales on the internet. They experience their magical settings and imaginative context. Students look at the vocabulary of each tale in depth. They access a mystical atmosphere to enhance their...

Students study colors. They listen to poems, identify their favorite colors, and describe objects that are pink, red, and orange. They collect pictures from magazines of objects that are their favorite color and create a class dictionary.

Students practice story related vocabulary. They create a list of adjectives to describe objects. They predict the outcome of the story while listening to it. They memorize an elephant rhyme.

Students study their school and school-related topics. They review the days of the week, telling time, and school symbols and objects. They create a timetable of their subjects, practice telling time, and discuss the important people...

For this literacy worksheet, students look up words related to the theme of birthdays and find them in the word search puzzle.

In this activity learning exercise about "Green Eggs and Ham," students cut and color a picture frame, then attach or draw a picture of themselves and paste so that they are "seen through the yolk" of the egg. Students cover the frame...

Kinesthetic activities simulate animal activity as the seasons progress in a lesson that introduces climate change to primary pupils. The kids role-play maple trees collecting what they need to survive, but as each year comes...

Young scholars give oral definitions and descriptions. Each student takes a turn describing the contents of a plastic egg with a category plus attribute format. Other members have an opportunity to guess contents of the egg after...

Second graders use resources such as dictionaries and glossaries correctly to build word meaning and to practice all uses of their references; students also practice alphabetical order while locating information.

Young scholars work together while they use various locomotor skills to practice beginning sounds of words and the letters of the alphabet. They walk, run, skip, gallop (or any locomotor skill that the teacher requires be used)...

In this grade one vocabulary instructional activity, students use a word box to fill in blanks and correctly complete 5 sentences. Page has links to answers and additional activities.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn the names for household furnishings by cutting apart 16 full color Bingo cards and the 16 words that match. There are no directions but this appears to be a Bingo game.

Students play a game. In this synonyms lesson, students play a synonym review game. Students go on-line to learn more about frogs and then complete a worksheet.

Second graders participate in a spelling activity using clapping and rhythmic patterns. In this ongoing spelling lesson, 2nd graders practice various spelling words in groups and using rhythms.  Students then independently spell words.

In this scrambled sentences activity, students make sentences using all words in a given set. Page has several links to additional activities and answers. 

Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.

Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete three timed assessments...