Combine letter sounds, pronunciation, recognition, and word examples in one exercise by following these strategies. Scholars examine the letter b and identify it if they can. As they listen to you make the /b/ sound, youngsters try...

Combine letter recognition, sound, and pronunciation using this strategy for pre-readers. Use these letter cards or write the letter v on the board, asking scholars to identify it. Then, model the /v/ sound as you explain how...

Connect letter recognition, pronunciation, sound, and word examples to give scholars a solid grasp on the letter l. They watch you draw a large l on the board and make the /lll/ sound. Using your tips, they try the sound on...

These inventive strategies help emerging readers focus on the letter e, forming sound associations along with letter recognition. Explain the mouth movement in making the /eee/ sound, asking learners to try it. Can they think of words...

What words end with /x/? Unite several alphabet concepts as scholars learn all about the letter x. After identifying it, they listen to you pronounce the /x/ sound and try it themselves (use these tips to explain how you do this)....

Learning Greek and Latin roots is an important way to develop vocabulary, but it does get quite boring. Use this list of ideas to add some fun to your daily lessons. Lots of games are suggested to get your kids up and moving. Note: no...

Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.

Provide the building blocks to a strong education with a packet about sight words. Kids work on the words little, we, do, and all with tracing and matching activities, as well as games and flash cards.

Your kindergartners will be reading before you know it after practicing their sight words! Work on and with an array of fun reading activities, such as bingo, connect-the-dots, and matching games.

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.

Focus on sight words with a series of worksheets for beginning readers. Kids can work on where, are, did, and no with matching games and tracing activities, and many more.

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.

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House introduced the novel idea that women are independent people, and that their first duty is truly to themselves. Review the important details of the dramatic play with a short crossword puzzle activity.

The world in Lois Lowry's The Giver is one without pain or suffering. Similiarly, your classroom review of the novel can be painless with a simple and straightforward crossword puzzle that covers characters, details, and setting...

Sherman Alexie's coming-of-age social commentary is the focus of a review worksheet. Learners use clues from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to complete a crossword puzzle about the novel.

Adjectives can't exist without something to describe! Young writers find nouns to match ten short adjectives in a straightforward grammar worksheet.

In this reading for information worksheet, students read a one page text about the ancient Olympic games. Students answer 9 true and false questions.

Students say and spell vowel digraphs by playing a board game. In this vowel digraphs lesson plan, students make a single sound with 2 vowels.

Young scholars create a PowerPoint show illustrating two types of figurative language. They demonstrate understanding of personification by creating and interpreting simple examples. They also demonstrate understanding of alliteration.

Learners read eight sentences and fill in the blanks with the correct simple present tense verb needed to complete it correctly. Thanksgiving theme could help out in those antsy days before the holiday break.

Students prepare for a test on punctuation and characterization by completing practice assignments. While completing the assignment, they note the difference between direct and indirect characterization and explain how punctuation...

Prepare a gameboard and die-cut race cars to play a fun fluency game. Also create several flash cards to review the long /i/ sound. Then, model reading smoothly and with expression, emphasizing the importance of re-reading...

Kids gain a deeper understanding of mathematical symbols, by playing an interactive game using flash cards. They complete an attached Missing Symbols Worksheet, flash card and an assessment are also included.