There are fun ways to practice language and math skills to help your child get ready for first grade. Here is a list of skills kids need to develop for first grade in reading, writing, and math.

Students explore the Iran-Contra Affair using a timeline and related documents, and practice critical thinking about US foreign policy during the late Cold War years, and about the actions of officials of Ronald Reagan's government. They...

Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...

This lesson walks teachers through a strategy for teaching word building skills to early elementary students. The site includes links to a page on preparing the materials needed for word building lessons, and to a page which explains the...

The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...

In this lesson, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.

The "letterbox lesson" is a phonics lesson in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.