Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...

This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.

Use this interactive site to enhance students' spelling and vocabulary while refreshing their memories in history, geography, language, science, and entertainment. It is available to use on line or you can purchase leveled apps for the...

This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.

This site focuses on resources and activities to teach Dolch sight words to 1st graders. These include a list of Dolch sight words for 1st graders and links to online resources for teacher resources, activities, interactive games, and...

This site from the Tex's French Grammar is a wonderful site with clear explanation of the possessive adjectives/determiners, with usage examples (written and audio) and interactive practice exercises.

A video of the book "I'll Teach My Dog A Lot Of Words", written by Michael Frith, and illustrated by P.D. Eastman. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.

Check out this informative site featuring homophones. Students will enjoy the illustrations and activities found within this resource.

Contains plans for four lessons that use an ocean theme to teach about alliteration. Uses the book "Look Who Lives in the Ocean" by Allen Baker or another similar book. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...

Contains plans for three lessons that teach about sound and letters using Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

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

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...

This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...

This personal site is a good resource page for teachers who are teaching about word meanings, slang, synonyms, antonyms and word contradictions.

Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to write feature news stories and the difference between feature and hard news articles. Students interview each other as prewriting for writing their own human interest stories. In...

At this site, math word problems are presented in an exciting and creative format. Students attempt to find solutions to hilarious situations using their mathematical skills. To do this they must solve various math problems in a certain...

Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "j" & "y". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge," for suggested...

Extensive site from Ingles Mundial focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "s" & "z". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...

This site discusses easy ways to have fun teaching time skills. These activities, games, and books will help your students master reading and measuring time.

How do you teach vocabulary instruction in your classroom? This site offers some suggestions to accomplish this mighty task.

At this site students will practice collecting data and transferring the data into percentages. Lesson plan indicated for 6th grade.

This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...

This site contains 13 lesson plans that are designed to address that standards of emergent readers. Each lesson engages students in adding or substituting individual sounds (phonemes).