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Write Away!

Voices In the Park

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Dictionary Digs

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Young scholars dig through dictionaries to uncover the wealth of information they provide. Using the included graphic organizer, children learn about target words by finding their parts of speech, pronunciation, definition, synonyms, and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, All For One

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Given a deck of cards with different words printed, pairs draw cards and work together to locate definitions for each multiple-meaning word. Learners complete a worksheet that challenges them to write the word, two of its definitions,...
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Curriculum Corner

Suffix Match

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Knowing the meanings of common suffixes is a powerful tool for expanding the vocabulary of young learners. This set of word cards focuses on the suffixes -or, -ly, -ful, and -able, providing two words that include...
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Curriculum Corner

Digraph Word Sort Recording

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young readers sort their way through a deck of word cards in order to become familiar with four common spelling patterns. Focusing on the ch-, sh-, wh-, and th- consonant digraphs, students draw cards and write...
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K12 Reader

My Trip in a Time Machine

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
What would happen if you took a trip in a time machine? Have kids craft narratives about a trip to the past or the future. The prompt includes questions to consider in the writing, as well as lines for kids to jot down ideas on or use to...
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Curated OER

See, Say, Write and Read!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Support children with developing their reading, writing, and spelling skills. Children start by reading and writing the words the, can, and jump before reading three sentences describing animals that can jump.
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Curated OER

Reading Readiness 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Support young learners with developing their reading, writing, and vocabulary skills with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet. Provided with a word bank including the words book, chair, hat, bike, and dog,...
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Freeology

Lowercase Letter a Coloring

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Help young learners master their alphabet with this simple series of worksheets. Including a separate worksheet for each letter of the alphabet, children first trace the letters four times before writing them on their own and...
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Curated OER

The Goldilocks Rules for Choosing a Book That Is “Just Right”

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
With so many books to choose from, it can be hard for young readers to find the right one. Help children overcome this problem with this list of rules for identifying books that are too easy, too hard, and those that are just...
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Education.com

Prewriting: Back to School

For Students Pre-K - K
Firm up those writing hands with an exercise on tracing lines. Perfect for back-to-school time, it features a road for kids to trace in order to get the school bus to school on time.
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All for KIDZ

Giraffes Can’t Dance Concepts: Giraffes Can't Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Teach young children that with a little perseverance and the help of a good friend, anything is possible. This two-part lesson series based on the book Giraffe's Can't Dance starts with a shared reading about Gerald and...
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Spelling City

Card Flip Game: Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Match words to their synonyms and antonyms with a card flip game. Kids turn over two cards on their turn and determine if they are synonyms or antonyms; if not, they replace the cards and try again.
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Kiwi Crate

Story Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Inspire your class to tell some creative stories with a series of story cards. They arrange cards that feature pictures of various items (a robot, a jeep, a ladybug, etc.) and narrate a story about each item.
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Free Reading

Letter Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Turn spelling practice into a game with this letter card template. Including domino-sized cards for all of the upper- and lower-case letters, as well as common digraphs, this resource can be used in a variety of ways and is a...
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Curated OER

Identify the Parts of a Newspaper features of informational text, newspaper format

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Young readers make sense out of the wealth of information in newspapers with this helpful reference document. Pointing out basic features like headings, articles, bylines, and captions this resource is a...
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Curated OER

Summarizing with Somebody Wanted But So

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Teach your young readers how to summarize a text using a strategy called Somebody Wanted But So. Kids identify the character (Somebody), the motivation (Wanted), the conflict (But), and the resolution (So). The resource comes with...
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Scholastic

Owl Moon Teaching Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Capture the engagement of young readers with this collection of activities based on Jane Yolen's book, Owl Moon. Following a shared reading of this children's story, the class explores the geography of the American Northeast,...
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PreKinders

Pet Picture-Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Talk about the furry members of your family with pet word cards. Each card is a half page, and shows both the name and picture of a pet, including dogs, snakes, horses, and hermit crabs.
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University of Pennsylvania

The Reading Road

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
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...
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Teresa Evans

Bird and Shark Rhyming Match: r Controlled Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
What do a bird and a shark have in common? Work on r-controlled vowels with a phonics matching game. Kids examine the 12 words on a game board, then add the card that has the correct matching r-controlled vowel. 
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Pearson

Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Practice proper apostrophe use with a grammar worksheet. After reviewing contractions, plural names, and possessive nouns, kids fix and rewrite 10 incorrect sentences.
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Homeschool Creations

Gingerbread Baby and Lapbook Printables

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The perfect companion to Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby is a series of printables featuring several different types of activities. Kids can practice handwriting, spelling, matching, and drawing with gingerbread baby cutouts....
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Scholastic

Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...

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