An online learning activity where students read four titles and choose what the author's purpose for each text would be: to inform, to entertain, or to persuade.

A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Young scholars stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.

A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.

A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.

An activity where students investigate the sounds created by the friction of fingers moving along a wet string.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.

This is a hands on activity to get the students thinking about how to describe data sets.

Teachers and students can find activities for the Southwest, the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. The grade is based on the number of activities and the quality of work.

Students will be able to practice their integer and fractions skills by completing hands-on activities. Some examples are crisp cookies, fracturing fraction, and two by two.

Students will be able to practice their integer and fractions skills by completing hands-on activities. Some examples are crisp cookies, fracturing fraction, and two by two.

Eighteen different graphing activities will teach students how to plot points, draw lines, compare graphs, and problem solve.

Eighteen different graphing activities will teach students how to plot points, draw lines, compare graphs, and problem solve.

This site gives and teachers and students ideas for research topics about the northeastern states. Topics range from economics to science. The content is geared towards elementary level students.

Through this experiment, students are challenged to lift a book (and other items) with just air. Requires simple household items, gallon-size, zipper-lock plastic bag, book, pencil, drinking straw, and tape.

This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...

This activity is designed so that the students create their own Around the Room activity. They will be collecting data, displaying it in a stem and leaf plot, and then developing questions around their display for other students to answer!

A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...

In this lesson plan, students will learn about the season through decriptive words and phrases incorporated in two different books, Have You Seen Trees? by Joanne Oppenheim and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons. They...

A game in which students are given a word and must hunt around the classroom for a word that rhymes with it.

A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.

This site is a real find for teachers working with ELL students and all students who want to read great books! The Bookhive presents 100's of reviews of books recommended by librarians associated with the public libraries in Charlotte,...

Online lesson plan for facilitating student exploration of culture and how culture shapes the individual.