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,...

A cute set of pocket chart pieces can help you sing about "Five Green Speckled Frogs." The resource includes lyric strips for the song, as well as five frogs (one is eating a most delicious bug), a log, and numbers one through five.

Reinforce both uppercase and lowercase letters with a series of handwriting worksheets. Each page features one letter of the alphabet and multiple ways to practice writing it, including tracing and filling in missing parts of the letter.

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...

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....

Practice printing, matching, tracing, cutting, coloring, and more with a packet full of penguins! Allow these perky winter animals to help your kids out as they work on these skills.

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.

Move to the left! Move to the right! Kids will definitely get moving with a lesson on directions. They review left, right, forward, and back before playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey and singing some songs about movement.

Students explore and react to the painting The Road to Santa Fe. In this interacting with art activity, students locate various objects in the painting.  Students copy the angle of objects by using their bodies.  Students...

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. 

Learn about how the seeing eye dog program began with a reading lesson about Eva Moore's chapter book, Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog. With vocabulary words, discussion questions, and extension resources, the lesson is a...

Kindergartners and first graders create a chain of word cards with this fun activity. Participants read the word on the right side of a card, and match the word to the corresponding picture on the left side of another card....

Don't be left out in the cold, ensure young learners are prepared for the winter weather with this clothing activity. After introducing them to different clothing items using the provided picture cards, students sing a song before...

Switch things up with rendition of If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. Students should enjoy reading this story on the projector screen, or on their own computer in the lab. This PowerPoint includes 17 slides, filled with large text and...

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...

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose! Practice the names of body parts with a lesson based on the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". Kids sing the song and read a story with the same vocabulary words before finishing a worksheet to...

Does the fastest one always win the race? Look deeper into The Tortoise and the Hare with a set of discussion questions for before, during, and after reading the story.

Looking for a straightforward app for practicing high-frequency words? You've found one here! This app includes all 1000 Fry words and several ways for kids to practice with each and every one.

Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n,...

Spruce up a class reading of the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this fun series of activities. Starting with a list of reading comprehension questions and key vocabulary to address during a teacher...

This only has three problems, so consider simply projecting it and doing it with the whole class. First, they examine two baseball bats and circle the shorter one. Then, they consider which of two containers will hold more. Finally,...

Through the use of stories, artwork, and the KidPix program, youngsters explore the color word red, and engage in activities around the word. Teaching kindergartners about the color words can be so much fun. This could be adapted for any...

Everyone needs help being a good listener! Play a round of "Have You Ever?" with your youngsters, letting them walk around the room and find others who have or haven't done things on your self-created sheet. This game can get really...

Learners explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Learners identify the origin of individual...