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National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teach Your Way: September
Stay organized this school year using this editable teacher planner from PBS KIDS including:A monthly calendar with timely resources aligned to early learning themes and skills for PreK-2 students. A weekly planning page to schedule...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Find the Rhyme: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A game in which students are given a word and must hunt around the classroom for a word that rhymes with it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
University of Oregon
Official Dibels Homepage
This assessment focuses on phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge. Free downloads available on the website.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hop 'Til You Drop
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer; "Hop 'Til You Drop" to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teacher Leaders and Teacher Teams
Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 01: Kindergarten Exploration Tubs
Early childhood students will develop their understanding of language, letters, numbers, sequencing, print concepts, and phonics. Students will investigate assorted tubs that are filled with items and picture books associated with names,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Huac: Backlash and Implications
These videos and support materials explore the intense division experienced by those who testified before and blacklisted by HUAC during the Cold War, focusing on the testimony of Elia Kazan. The videos are from American Masters None...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lord Byron, Poe, and Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Explore the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and "the most poetical topic in the world" in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating a Caring Classroom Community
Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer...
Starfall
Starfall: A House in a Tree
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
Starfall
Starfall: Dragon Goes to the Farm
Dragon Goes to the Farm is an online storybook for the early reader. The site also provides a list of all of the words in the story.
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Compound Words
This interactive language arts skill-building site provides a fun activity for creating compound words. Challenge student understanding of compound words and engage in the creation of compound words.
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Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
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