Poetry is all about sound and rhythm. The sound of the words, the rhythm of the lines, and the emotional atmosphere created by these elements and the literary devices poets use, compress whole stories into a few stanzas. The specialized...

Fun from A to Z! Use a collection of alphabet worksheets to help kids practice their letters. Kids can color and trace each letter, and draw items from a word list to indicate each letter.

Students practice combining consonant-vowel-consonant sounds to form words. They read closed and silent "e" syllables. Students construct two-syllable words. They arrange syllables to form three and four syllable words.

Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...

Who says your budding readers are too young for crossword puzzles? Scholars use visual clues instead of written ones to complete single-syllable words. They fill in the initial letter for each of six words, and a second letter for one of...

In this beginning and ending sounds worksheet, learners fill in the first and last letter blanks in six CVC words. The vowels are all given, so writers are practicing consonants. Use the picture clues provided in order to complete the...

Help your learners practice proper article usage with this informational handout and brief exercise. After reading information about articles and their uses, including details about when to omit articles, scholars complete fourteen...

Three poems, “Under the Mangoes” by Jacqueline Bishop, Eleanor Wilner’s “What It Hinges On,” and Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” provide the text for an examination of alliteration, consonance, and assonance. After...

Study words and word choice with this resource. Although the presentation is overwhelming, several topics are covered here. Alliteration, root words, parts of speech, and word meanings are just some of the topics! There's also a...

In this vowel and consonant spelling worksheet, students rewrite the vowel-consonant-e words on the lines. Students rewrite 20 words.

In this vowel sounds activity, students say the names of 9 pictures. Students put an X on things that have short A names and circle the pictures that show short O words.

Students blend sounds together to form consonant/vowel/consonant words to create their list.

In this language arts learning exercise, students recognize the difference between vowels and consonants by tracing a path through a maze. In this frog-themed page students follow the trail of consonants to the end of the puzzle, which...

In this ESL worksheet, students fill in the gaps to spell twenty different suburbs and villages around Derby, UK. The vowels are given but students must determine the needed consonants to complete each word.

For this compare and contrast graphic organizer worksheet, students choose 2 different topics to compare and contrast using the graphic organizer to organize their information.

In this language arts activity, students use the flashcards and worksheets to become familiar with the alphabet. They work with flashcards, recognition pages, alphabet tracing sheets, vowels and consonants mazes, and alphabet mazes.

Practice the oo digraph with a quick text and related questions. The short poem includes plenty of examples of the digraph. After reading, learners respond to the three reading comprehension questions.

Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...

In this cvc worksheet, students use pictures and consonant-"a" vowel-consonant patterns to write three letter words and then read three letter words and draw them. Students complete twelve words and drawings.

In this reading worksheet, students complete a chart about two characters from a book. Information includes the character names, how they look, how they act, how they interact with others, and how the student might relate to them.

For this phonics and vowel sounds learning exercise, students examine 25 CVC words and identify those that begin with the initial consonant /h/.

In this beginning and ending sounds for grade 2 instructional activity, 2nd graders look at the picture and fill in the beginning and ending letters, not interactively, for 6 pictures;  pictures can be changed and answers are...

In this vowel u worksheet, students trace several times, read, write each word once, find and circle the words bug, bus, cup, mud and gum.

In this mid vowel O learning exercise, students trace and write six, three lettered words and then draw a line from the word to its actual picture on the right of the learning exercise.