Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.

Put on your pirate hat and get ready to teach r-controlled syllables. Learners practice using words that contain ar, or, er, ir, and ur. Instructors model how to decode words to isolate vowel teams, as well as combine r-controlled sounds...

Surprise! is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Cover an array of topics such as where we live, different times of day, shapes, the city and the country, what we do for fun, jobs, and games, all while practicing how...

Family and Friends is the theme of a unit consisting of English language development lessons. Reinforce language proficiency, particularly in family vocabulary, basic needs, feelings, short vowel sounds, blending, reading high frequency...

Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...

Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...

Scholars analyze the poem My Puppy Punched Me in the Eye by Ken Nesbitt in order to locate examples of alliteration and assonance. After reading the poem, alliterative words are underlined and assonant words are circled. 

Just like scholars plug something in to close a circuit, they must plug a consonant onto a word to make closed syllables. Help learners distinguish between open and closed syllables with a series of activities that emphasize open...

Lois Lowry's The Giver is one of the most engaging and thought-provoking works of literature in the middle school curriculum. Round out your novel unit with a collection of reading activities, comprehension questions, memoir and...

Parades are a joy to watch and learn about. Class members read about a child who attended a parade with her mother and brother, match past tense verbs from the reading, identify and fill in blanks for sight words candy,...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will label pictures with words that contain short /i/ and long /i/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "i_e" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will sort words that contain "y" to form the long /i/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable -ing learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures that contain -ing in them. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will solve riddles with words that end in the -ink root. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a long /i/ reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read a fill-in-the-blank paragraph and write missing words that include long /i/ words in the blanks....

This printable vowels instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read several words and identify the ones that possess the -ire. An answer key and lesson extension...