Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Guessing Game
An activity challenges scholars to show what they know about onset and rime. Learners choose from a stack of picture cards and give onset and rhyming clues to see if their partners can guess the word they are holding.
PBS
Reading Adventure Pack: Archaeology
Readings of fiction and nonfiction texts followed by a series of activities put scholars in an archaeologist's shoes. Learners read two texts, Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke and The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
Civil War Trust
Civil War Photography: Photography as a Primary Source
Can we learn a thing or two about history by looking at pictures from the past? As young historians view 2-D and 3-D primary source photographs, they respond to a series of worksheets that guides them toward unveiling clues...
Exploratorium
Thread the Needle
If you are setting up a rotation lab where learners are investigating vision at different stations, this activity can be used to explore depth perception. Setting up a giant needle eye, students attempt to pass a pencil through it with...
Dick Blick Art Materials
Ball Point Engravings
Turn simple pencil sketches into colorful engravings. After first creating hand-drawn pictures, young artists then trace over them will ball point pens, etching the images into cold press illustration boards, before rubbing...
Curated OER
Oral Activity: Camping
Review camping vocabulary terms with your French language learners. Pair your learners up to practice the brief dialogues provided here. Each member in the pair gets a different sheet, and learners practice asking and answering...
August House
How Tiger Got His Stripes
How did the tiger get its stripes? Kindergartners read a Vietnamese folk tale, "How the Tiger Got His Stripes," retold by Rob Cleveland, and work through several reading comprehension and literary analysis activities.
Curated OER
Folk Tales for ESL Students
Using the folk tale "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey" (linked in the lesson) and a SMART board, teachers can help pupils access multiple skills. Reading the story allows learners to create a timeline of the sequence of events based on...
Curated OER
Expressing Ideas
Before a child can write in detail, he/she needs to be able to identify what the details are. To build an understanding of how to add or express details in describing an object, place, or person, learners match the detail cards to the...
Center Science Education
Paleoclimates and Pollen
Demonstrate for your earth scientists how plant pollen of the past has become part of sedimentary deposits, providing clues about ancient climates. Then give them simulated sediment layer samples to analyze for different types of paper...
Curated OER
Short Vowels With Clifford
Phonetic masters identify and recognize short vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights select words. They use picture clues to aid comprehension and construct a story by actively choosing and identifying...
Curated OER
Hidden Picture: Back-to-School "Puzzle"
In this language arts worksheet, learners examine a detailed picture of a school and playground with 17 hidden pictures. Students locate the objects that are hidden by reading a story with highlighted words that give clues about what to...
Curated OER
Visual Addition
In this math worksheet, students solve 14 addition problems in which visual clues are given. Students look at the pictures and write the addition equation which matches. Students add the numbers.
Curated OER
Picture Lincoln
Students analyze Alexander Gardner's photograph of Abraham Lincoln and complete related activities. In this Abraham Lincoln lesson, students describe Abraham Lincoln as he is presented in Gardner's photograph. Students read a biography...
Curated OER
What Can You See?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What can you see?" using the 6 picture clues and the scrambled word answer bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Transport - What is He Driving?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What vehicle is it?" using the 9 picture clues and the word answer bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Tools - What is This?
For this ESL tools names activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What is this?" using the 9 picture clues and the word answer bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Countries - Where Are You From?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What is he or she from?" using the 12 picture clues to assist them. Students answer using complete sentences.
Curated OER
Animals 1 - What Animal is It?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What animal is it?" by using the 9 picture clues and word bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Birthdays and Parties
In this ESL birthday and parties activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What's this?" by using the 9 picture clues and word bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Furniture - What is in Your House?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "What is in your house?" using the 9 picture clues and the word answer bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Places in a City: 1
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to the question "Where would you like to go?" using the 9 picture clues and the word answer bank to assist them.
Curated OER
Numbers Crossword Puzzle
In this numbers words crossword puzzle, students use the 12 picture clues to correctly complete the word puzzle that pertains to the number words.