Expose your secondary special education class to the importance of belonging and feeling accepted. They define self-esteem, pride, and appreciation. Then create a self collage and share what they like about themselves with the class. A...

Make learning Latin roots a game! After you have introduced the roots fin, sed, and fer, learners can use this word search to build their vocabulary. (Within the word search are words containing these roots.) You can further the activity...

How many words can you find? Use this word search towards the end of the unit to reinforce the new vocabulary words. Consider making it a game and timing it to see who can locate the words first.

Plankton isn't just a tiny cartoon character, it's also a very important food source for animals around the world. Budding scientists discuss the types and functions of plankton, including where they are found, how they are caught, and...

Help your kindergarteners identify the main idea in a story. Small groups work with the teacher to make predictions and draw conclusions. They are able to determine cause and effect relationships. The instructional activity is divided...

For this counting leaves worksheet, students assist EarTwiggle in counting all the leaves found within a piece of art and then place their answer in the box provided at the lower right hand corner.

Listen to the book Madeline, and identify rhyming words with learners as they hear them in the book. Learners will engage in a class discussion about rhyming words. After listening to Madeline, they will circle pictures of words that...

A scripted lesson can be a big help for new teachers. This fully scripted three-day learning activity provides teachers with the means to demonstrate how to compare and contrast two topics in two texts. Learners will work as a class to...

In this letter recognition worksheet, students point to the "j" at the beginning of the story and draw a box around the first word in the story. Students underline all the "c's" and circle each word in the story.

In this language arts instructional activity, students examine a word search grid with no word bank. Students look for 29 three letter words which all begin with letter P and circle them and write them down.

Through this simple word search, learners can practice their reading skills. This 7 question activity requires students to take a letter puzzle and form words.

In this alphabet awareness worksheet, students circle each picture that begins with the long or short /Ii/ sound and then make an x on each picture that does not begin with the /Ii/ sound.

Students play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts lesson for early-elementary classrooms. The lesson includes an idea on how to evaluate student comprehension.

In this vowel digraph worksheet, students print "au" and "aw," circle words that match pictures, circle words that have the letters "au" and "aw," and write 3 words for each digraph.

In this patterns worksheet, students find the missing number, shape, or letter needed for the patterns. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.

In this Winter Olympics word search puzzle activity, students use problem solving skills to find the 19 winter sports terms in the word puzzle.

Students explore phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /m/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify the phoneme /m/. They read "If You Give A Moose a Muffin." Students search for /m/ words while reading the story. They...

For this orange worksheet, students write, count, color, and sort different things that represent the color and the fruit of oranges. Students complete 4 problems.

Students interpret graphs and research events to identify links between events in the world and the arrival and plight of immigrant groups. They discuss the myths about immigration.

In this suffixes word search, students circle 15 words hidden within a word puzzle. Each word ends in the letters -ng and include such words as "swing" and "wrong". 

For this D worksheet, students review and discuss eighteen words that begin with the letter D and circle each one in a word search puzzle.

In this sentence writing worksheet, students read the rules for capitalizing the first letter of a telling sentence, and for placing a period at the end of the sentence. They read 10 telling sentences, circle the first letter and draw a...

In this sentence review worksheet, students examine 7 sentences and circle the first letter in each sentence and draw a line under the ending punctuation in each sentence.