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Color Code
Don't let your brain play tricks on you! Learners test brain reaction rates while it is receiving multiple stimuli. They time each other reading a set of color words written in different colors and again when they are written in black....
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter Recognition: Tap Stack
Practice letter recognition using this fun alphabet game! Focusing on a suggested six target letters, this partner activity has learners saying and recognizing letter names as quickly as possible. Using a randomly chosen letter as the...
K12 Reader
1st Grade Spelling Lists
If you're looking for spelling lists, check out this resource! Included here are 36 spelling worksheets, each with eight words to study. The worksheets include sight words, and each list also focuses on a particular word...
Curated OER
Dr. Seuss - Make Time for Rhymes
Read the story Green Eggs and Ham to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an...
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Reading Sight Words
In this sight words worksheet, students work with parents to read 10 sets of words and 5 sets of word sounds and circle what does not belong.
Curated OER
Let's Learn Sight Words: Boy an Girl
In this French and English sight word worksheet, young scholars look at the pictures, say the words boy and girl in English and then in French. Students also trace the French words.
Curated OER
Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #16 Picture / Phrase Match
Students practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson, students arrange sight words to the appropriate picture or phrase cards that match.
Curated OER
Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #3 Dolch Silly Sentences
Learners practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson plan, students arrange sight words to create silly sentences that are grammatically correct.
Curated OER
Initial I: Multiple Choice
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and match the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities
Curated OER
List 10 Sight Words
In this early childhood sight words activity, students practice word recognition as they cut out the 20 word cards and use them to learn the words.
Curated OER
Kindergarten Sight Words
The recognition of some of the basic sight words is the focus of this presentation. Young readers view 16 slides; each one has one sight word on it. This basic presentation should lead to the recognition of words such as: a, and, is,...
Curated OER
Read The Words and Copy The Words
This worksheet offers young readers and writers a chance to read ten sight words, then try their hand at writing them in empty boxes at the bottom of the worksheet. Not the most exciting worksheet in the world, but could be used for...
Curated OER
Sight Words
Use this resource to help your class practice site words. This presentation, featuring one hundred and twenty-three sight words, could be used at a center.
Curated OER
Short i Sound Words
If you are teaching your young readers about the short vowel sounds, this presentation could be for you! Sixteen simple, 3-letter words appear in this basic PowerPoint. The i's are colored differently than the other two letters in each...
Curated OER
Sight Words
There's nothing fancy here; simply a collection of 46 sight words for early elementary learners. The words are in alphabetical order and go from the letter A through the letter H.
Curated OER
The Color Purple: K-W-H-L Strategy
Learners can chart what they know, what they would like to know, how they plan to learn, and what they have learned from Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Using questions about women's rights, kids study the themes of the novel...
1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1
I Can Read! Sight Words Set #8
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.
1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1
I Can Read! Sight Words Set #10
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.
Curated OER
Red is the Word!
Through the use of stories, artwork, and the KidPix program, youngsters explore the color word red, and engage in activities around the word. Teaching kindergartners about the color words can be so much fun. This could be adapted for any...
EngageNY
Vocabulary: Finding the Meaning of Words in Context in The Boy Who Loved Words
Here is a lesson plan that invites learners to engage in a kinesthetic activity that allows them to physically move and manipulate words in order to think about ways to understand vocabulary in context. After that activity is complete,...
Novelinks
The Color of Water: Family History Assignment
To conclude their study of James McBride's The Color of Water, class members create their own memoir, focusing on a family member who help shape their life.
EngageNY
Identifying Supporting Reasons and Evidence for an Opinion: Exploring Why Jackie Robinson Was the Right Man to Break the Color Barrier (Promises to Keep, Pages 26–29)
Breaking barriers is not an easy thing to do. Scholars read a section in Promises to Keep and summarize how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. They write the gist of the passage in their journals and then complete...
Achieve3000
Oral Reading Fluency
Accuracy, phrasing, flow, and pace, the four traits of of oral reading fluency, are the focus of a series of exercises that are designed to help readers develop these comprehension and literacy skills.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 1: Contemporary Fiction - They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles is the focus of a five-week language arts unit unit. Fifth graders listen to various poems and participate in thoughtful discussions, examining vocabulary and learning new words in...