A 67-page packet provides instructors with a complete course in the history of Jazz. Lessons look at the roots of jazz in early 20th century African American communities in the southern United States and continues to the New Orleans...

Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...

Students participate in an ongoing writing project about the seven world continents. In this continents writing lesson, students work on an interactive game to write about the seven continents. Students locate the continents on the map....

Students investigate the games that children used to play to nursery rhymes. They explore the role of illustrators and illustrate their own book of rhymes in this unit.

Students explore the stories of "William Tell, The Husband Who Was to Mind the House, The Little Match Girl, and Three Words of Wisdomare" in the five lessons of this unit. The understanding of folktales is highlighted in this unit.

This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....

This spelling lesson on words that end in the shun sound includes flashcards, opportunities to practice, a test, and two games, all designed to reinforce learning the meaning and spelling of these words.

A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

This interactive spelling and vocabulary site allows students and teachers to type in their own list of spelling and/or vocabulary words, or choose from featured vocabulary and a spelling list. Students master concepts through games,...

In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.

This activity collection allows students to master the concepts of sight words through games, flash cards and a test. A voice reads, spells and uses each word in a sentence to ensure comprehension. Flash cards can be printed.

Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...

In this activity, students are asked to type in the beginning letter sound of a word, based on a picture provided.

Wonderful site for Spanish speaking ELL. Beginning level has instructions in Spanish and an excellent variety of activities focusing (in this section), on alphabet, numbers, time, classroom vocabulary, school subjects, titles. Auditory...

This site you can practice writing numbers as words and changing numbers as words to digits. Excellent resource to practice spelling and writing of numbers.

A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.