In this early childhood reading text activity, students read a brief selection with a caregiver, on their own, and to their teacher in order to practice reading smoothly, without stopping.

Third graders play a football spelling game where two teams spell words and gain yardage for each correctly spelled word. This clever spelling game will be highly motivational for your class! Each team gains ten yards every time they...

Building upon prior lessons in the series, this reading and writing exercise requires pupils to look back at their own writing, track character development in the novel The Cay, and analyze how Phillip has changed. The reading focus is...

The language of the Constitution can feel quite ominous to young learners, but there are a variety of strategies you can utilize to help your class grasp the important concepts and ideals in our nation's founding document. This lesson...

Is this an interactive resource I see before me? Fret not. Here's a resource filled with sound, and a bit of fury, sure to engage learners in a study of Shakespeare's Scottish play. User can view an interview with Shakespeare, examine...

This is an absolute must-have resource for early elementary teachers! Here you'll find a collection of activities and worksheets for each day of the month of June, with topics ranging from ordering numbers on a calendar or identifying...

Planning a unit on simple machines? Save some time and energy with this collection of lessons and activities that explores how these devices are used in the real world to make life a little easier. 

Students review vocabulary from the story they are reading. Students receive 10 sentence strips that depict the story. Students then need to place the sentence strips in sequential order and discuss with their other classmates. Students...

Practice place value skills with this instructional activity. Learners put numbers in order from greatest to least, identify the values of particular numbers, and engage in an activity to compare numbers using manipulatives.

Students build a realistic sense of geological time, seek clues of transition fossils and find them.  In this investigative instructional activity students complete several activities and worksheets on fossils. 

In this fill in the blank/drawing worksheet, students select words from a wordbank in order to respond to the 5 questions and draw a picture for the last question.

Science equipment can be handy for math class, too. Scholars learn to solve one- and two-step linear equations by using the concept of a balance. They solve real-world problems in a variety of contexts by writing and solving linear...

Students discuss the influence of foreign languages in their everyday speech after reading an article from The New York Times on language legislation in Brazil. Students are divided into 4 groups in order to research languages spoken...

Young scholars create a time for technology glyph using Kidpix4. They complete a circle map on things they like to do on while on the computer and write about their favorite thing to do while on a computer.

Pupils solve simple math problems in the target language using words instead of numberals. They use the appropriate interpretive strategies to compute in the taget language. Students use complex language structures to solve the...

In this multiplication worksheet, students fill our four times table grids.  All of these numbers are mixed up, and they are not in order.  The students can also be timed while completing. 

In these worksheets, 1st graders will construct two itty bitty word books. Students will create a book of words pertaining to the zoo and the farm and color the pictures in each.

The memoir A Long Way Gone tells the story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. A crossword puzzle helps reinforce key ideas found in the memoir. The puzzle addresses characters, key events, and other details...

Practice reading with fluency by blending words together. To start, prepare flash cards with pseudowords on them (words that can be pronounced but have no real meaning), and work with the class to sound out the words using known...

Knowing idiomatic phrases gives learners a better idea of a language and its people. Introduce your scholars to idioms using the word vez. Answers are provided, but be sure to discuss some of the more difficult ones with your class!

What do you do when you don't think you have enough information? You look for another way to do the problem! Pupils combine what they know about finding the area of a triangle and trigonometry to determine triangle area when they don't...

Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...

Explore the structure of narrative writing with this fun, collaborative instructional activity. Start by reading aloud a short story, asking small groups of learners to fill in key events on a large story board prepared on the class...

Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...