In this January icebreaker instructional activity, students reveal their personal preferences and experiences. There are bubble letters at the top spelling the word January. There are 8 directions below. Students color the letters in...

Students examine artwork and create their own.  In this writing and illustrating lesson, students view illuminated letters from the Getty Museum's collection and discuss art vocabulary.  Students examine the visual elements in...

For this parallel and perpendicular worksheet, students complete 4 problems, identify parallel and perpendicular line segments and completing an 'extend it' question.

In this word configuration puzzle activity, students analyze 12 commonly used Dolch words and fit them into a word configuration puzzle.

Have your class create acrostic poems for characters in The Hobbit. First, define acronyms and work together to complete sample acronyms for their own first names. Students then research specific characters in the novel and create...

Eighth graders take a stand on a variety of controversial topics with a lesson on argumentative writing. As they view an informative presentation and work with collaborative groups, they decide which side of each argument they want to...

Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...

The unicorn uses Uncle's underwear! Practice saying this tongue twister with your young learners to illustrated the /u/ sound. After comparing pairs of similar words (like cut and cat) and their sounds, learners will read Fuzz and...

Students review personification and alliteration. In this literary devices lesson plan, students use personification and alliteration in a sentence. Students draw a picture reflecting personification.

Set your pupils straight with spelling and sounds by using these materials for practice. Included here are three booklets and workbooks that cover just about any sound or blend you could think of!

First graders recognize the short vowel U in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...

In this letter recognition worksheet, students point to the "j" at the beginning of the story and draw a box around the first word in the story. Students underline all the "c's" and circle each word in the story.

Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to build...

In this letter matching game worksheet, students cut apart and use 6 Bingo cards that will be used in a game of matching upper and lower case letters. Students match the lower case letters on the 16 call cards to the upper case letters...

Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

In this alphabet worksheet, students reinforce the order of the letters by examining 10 letters inside large crumbs carried by ants. Students write the letter that comes before each letter on the crumbs.

Students recognize the short vowel "A" in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...

Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...

Students discover that letters and their correspondences will lead to successful decoding, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. They recognize the letter u and the correspondence u=/u/. They repeat the tongue twister with the...

In this phonics worksheet, learners identify each alphabet letter and say the sound of the letters. Students complete 26 letters and sounds.

Learners recognize the short vowel O in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...

In this Middle Ages vocabulary terms worksheet, students participate in a game that deals with four game cards and the unscrambling of letters to create Middle Ages terms of interest.

In this reading comprehension worksheet about the book, Biscuit , young scholars complete a missing letter vocabulary 10 question section. Students then complete a word hunt and answer questions about the book.