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Read and Draw: oo and ue
In this vowel instructional activity, students read about the "ue" and "oo" sounds, then read words that contain these sounds and draw their pictures in provided boxes. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Read and Draw: Silent e
In this silent e worksheet, students read about words ending in silent e, then read words with a silent e ending and draw pictures of them. Worksheet includes a link to additional activities.
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Short Vowels: Read and Color
In this short vowel worksheet, students read words found inside a picture of a cow, then use a color key to color words with given short vowel sounds their assigned colors.
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Writing With Dolch
Middle schoolers increase their skills in word attack, fluency, and spelling of words and research and find information on topics from the Internet. They then use the Quick Cam with the computer and will increase cooperative skills in...
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"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury: Questions
These questions are designed to accompany Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," and could be used to guide and focus readers or as an assessment of reading skill and knowledge of the elements of a story. Page one focuses on questions of...
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Author's Purpose
Read each of the three short passages and decide whether the author's purpose is to persuade, inform, and entertain. After they have identified the purpose, fourth graders explain why they believe that each passage fits that purpose. You...
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Life before Humans Roamed the Earth
In this sequence worksheet, students read the story, then they place the number, starting with 1 on the lines in the correct order as they happened in the story.
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Short Vowel Sounds
Some vowels make the same sound, like the vowels in grow and both. Read the words on the left hand side of the page (there are six) and match them to a similarly sounding word on the right hand side.
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Short Vowel Sound
Use this creative way to review words that have short vowel sounds. Learners read a word and then identify the words in the group that have the same vowel sound. It is a motivating way to have learners explore this topic.
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A Word Path
In this sorting words learning exercise, learners read 30 words in a grid. Students color red all things found in a cupboard, blue all things found in a castle, and green all things found in a forest.
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Missing Short Vowels
Younger learners can practice reading and spelling words with short vowel sounds using this resource. They fill in the blanks to form simple words like bag, bed, and fox. With only twelve questions, this resource could be used as a quick...
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No Place Like Home
Students analyze photographs of high plains sod homes and read accompanying narratives. They then choose one photograph and, using the copy and paste features and simple drawing tools available in Microsoft Word, students identify...
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Using the Internet - Art and Design
An interesting resource that might work best in an upper level art course, this handout provides a list of nine websites where young artists can read and study about all forms of art. These online resources range from a dictionary of...
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The Schoolyard Safari
Students engage in a lesson plan to find out more information about insects. They collect and observe different insects found on school property. They research the insects once they have been classified. Also a video is used to create a...
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Read & Draw -ai-
In this phonics practice learning exercise, students examine 6 words that feature the "ai" sound and then draw pictures to represent each of them.
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Read and Draw: Hard and Soft C and G
In this hard and soft C and G instructional activity, students draw pictures to illustrate each of 6 words. Each word has a hard or soft C or G.
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Africa - Not Just One Big Safari
Students draw a picture of an African city that includes places similar to those found in U.S. cities. After listening to Somewhere In Africa, students identify places or buildings from the book and apply them to the creation of their...
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Africa - Not Just One Big Safari
Students draw a picture of an African city that is similar to a U.S. city and discover how other parts of the world have the same types of buildings. In this global similarities instructional activity, students create a map of an ...
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Read and Draw- Silent E
In this long vowel O activity, students illustrate six words. Students draw a picture to go with words containing long vowel O with a silent E.
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Dancers
In this reading comprehension activity, students read two paragraphs about dancers and dance. Students answer 5 multiple choice questions about the text.
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Time and Metric Measurements
In this comparing times and measurements worksheet, students read times in seconds, minutes, and hours and metric measurements of mass and length to compare groups of two and write the symbols for less than, equal to, or greater than....
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The Smallest Metric Measurements
In this recognizing metric measurements worksheet, students read groups of three measurements and identify the one that is the smallest. Students solve 15 problems.
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Dolch Primer Word Search
In this vocabulary word search worksheet, students read the one-syllable words in the word bank and find them written from left to right in the crossword. Students locate 9 words.
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Spelling
For this recognizing the correctly spelled words worksheet, students read rows of words spelled four different ways, identify the ones that are spelled correctly, and write them. Students circle and write 15 answers.