Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...

Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a...

Prepare your learners to identify figurative language in poetry. Tips for reading poetry and what to look for are listed on these slides. Rhetorical devices are defined and plenty of examples are given. 

Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...

Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...

Students demonstrate how to alphabetize animal names. In this word study lesson, students identify animals that live on the farm and conduct a favorite farm animal survey. Students order animal pictures in alphabetical order.

Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...

Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for H. They practice writing the letter H and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /h/. They associate the phoneme /h/ with its letter representation and identify it as the...

Second graders explore their vocabulary by participating in a dictionary word find activity.  In this vocabulary lesson, 2nd graders locate words in a dictionary based on the beginning letter which must match the teacher's...

In this phonics worksheet, students answer 6 questions in which the given sound is circled in all of the words in a sentence. Students draw a picture about each sentence.

In this measurement words worksheet, students find measurement words in a word snake maze. Students find 6 words.

In this data words activity, students search for data words in a wordsnake which looks like a word search. Students look for 7 words.

Young scholars identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. Students practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in words by identifying pictures containing the sound. They decode and spell words in...

Sixth graders participate in a word study activity to increase vocabulary and spelling accuracy. In this digraphs lesson, 6th graders understand how the letter "h" changes and initial sound. Students complete a crossword using digraphs...

First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.

Sixth graders brainstorm and write common nouns beginning with a given letter, then using one word from the list write as many proper nouns for that word, correctly capitalized.  In this proper nouns and capitalization lesson, 6th...

In this printing practice and reading worksheet, students print the number 3, the words three with upper case and lower case beginning letters, and a sentence about three triangles plus color the triangles yellow. Students write 17 answers.

First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise the /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...

In this short e worksheet, students copy the words given to them containing the short e sound. Students copy 6 words with the short e sound.

Young scholars participate in various shared reading and writing activities related to the book "The Selfish Crocodile" by Faustin Charles. They identify descriptive words from the story, and write sentences describing how the crocodile...

Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...

Learners develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print lesson plan, students build word recognition in every day print. Learners decode words and discover new...

In this literacy worksheet, learners look for the words that correlate to the pictures that are listed. They are all words that are consonant clusters.

Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter A. Students then view a stack of picture cards and identify the words containing the short...