Explore the story The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph using this resource. Learners answer comprehension questions, fill in graphic organizers, and write a poem.

Immaculate, accumulation, dissipation. Vocabulary drawn from chapter 16 of James McBride's memoir, The Color of Water, can prove to be challenge for readers. To help kids understand the meaning of these words and what they add to the...

To conclude their study of James McBride's The Color of Water, class members create their own memoir, focusing on a family member who help shape their life.

Introducing concepts in multiple contexts is a great way to build recognition skills. Each slide in this presentation contains an image of an item of a particular color and a sentence that describes that image, the word representing each...

Considering using James McBride's autobiography/memoir The Color of Water with your class? Check out this seven-page informational packet that includes background information on McBride, the organization pattern of the book, and...

Can colors help to convey a mood in writing? Explore this question with your class using the songs "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band and "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell. After analyzing the effect of the color words in these songs...

Have you heard of the QAR strategy? If your class is reading The Color Purple, provide them with this two-page worksheet to get them thinking. With the strategy, readers are introduced to four types of questions (right there, think and...

Young learners create a book of words that use the letter combination ake. Six pages are included for them to cut and color, and there's a space for them to trace the letters of the word as well as write the word independently. The...

Focus on the fundamentals of reading with a series of sight word activities. Kids work with the words a, and, see, and the by connecting the dots, playing bingo, and finding the words in a mixed-up list.

Reinforce color words, word recognition, and color identification with this train-themed color book. Each page contains an image of a colored train and a sentence describing that train. Additional pages show the same trains but ask,...

Copy all pages to create a book of poems during a poetry study. From alliteration to cinquain to acrostic poem, your class won't run out of templates for writing poems! Each sheet serves as a template for an entire book of poems. Other...

Now, there, of, and say are the sight words in focus in a printable packet in which you can use all, or some, of the activities to reinforce your early readers' sight word proficiency.

What can you think of that is orange? Bring this word recognition activity to your special education class. Learners can view this resource as many times as necessary to learn about items that are the color orange. They can also build...

Pretty in pink! Share the color pink and build word recognition skills with your special-needs or autistic students. This resource includes nine different items to recognize, their corresponding words, and five questions which prompt...

Use a traffic light to model a very basic paragraph plan. The Go, or topic sentence, is written in green and expresses an opinion about the topic. Information that supports the opinion of the Go sentence is written in yellow and the...

Let's get colorful! Scholars use the Painted Essay technique to analyze and color code the conclusion of a model essay. Working in small groups, pupils then write a conclusion paragraph for their draft editorials about offshore...

Work on the fundamentals with your little learners. A packet that focuses on four sight words (not, make, funny, and am) guides kids through reading activities such as matching, tracing, and word recognition.

Practice sight words with an array of fun activities. Kids focus on like, is, my, and it with bingo games, connecting the dots, and tracing activities.

Learn to read, step by step! A series of activities focuses on the sight words yes, that, he, and get, with matching games and flash cards to practice their word recognition.

Work on sight words with a series of fun reading activities. Kids connect the dots, match words, and play bingo while studying the words for, jump, help, and look.

Master four sight words with an array of teaching tools. As kids work on recognizing away, she, this, and who, they trace letters and match flash cards to improve their reading skills.

Study the sight words but, have, will, and into with a series of reading activities. With tracing lessons, matching games, and flash cards, the packet is a great first step to a successful reading education.

Take the first steps to reading fluency with a set of language arts activities. Kids work on the sight words pretty, ran, so, and out with tracing worksheets and matching games.

Identify four sight words with an extensive reading packet. After kids learn the words under, new, was, and be, they work on tracing and finding the words in fun new ways.