What do a man, a can, and a fan have in common? They are all in the same word family! Young readers practice adding the first letter or letters to each word within a particular word family.

"Words, words, words." Despite Hamlet's opinion, words can be significant. In this inquiry lesson, middle schoolers learn how the words in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, in the view of many, lead to the American Civil War. To...

Get all your blends organized into neat little boxes! This resource provides pages and pages of words that you can print out and place into labeled boxes so that you can find the exact words you want to work on with your class...

Readers of Tuesdays with Morrie are directed to use a K-W-H-L chart to record what they know, what they want to learn, how they will find information, and what they learned about a particular topic related to Mitch Albom's book.

Here is a word search that has more educational value than most. After finding the 14 words that have to do with natural resources, learners must then use the words in context. They answer 14 questions on the second page of the...

The attached resource is no lie! The K-W-H-L activity, which is fourth in a series of seven, serves as a pre- and post-assessment. First, pupils brainstorm what they know about a specific topic, then they list what they want to know, how...

The intent of this resource is not clear. However, it contains five rows of five pictures of words that begin with W. Kids could use these to play a game of bingo, memory, or sort by secondary phoneme. 

In this letter W worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures and four words that begin with W. Students circle the word that best describes each picture and use that word in a sentence.

Use the well-known KWHL chart as a tool for building up to a research project and oral presentation related to Willa Cather's My Antonia. Starting with a class brainstorm, pupils research and gradually narrow down topics relating to...

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...

Readers of Twelfth Night use a KWHL chart to record information about what they know about Shakespeare's play, what they want to find out, how they plan on finding this information, and what they have learned or still want to learn about...

What does your class know about the 1960s? Introduce your unit on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders with a K-W-H-L chart, which encourages kids to list what they already know about the time period, what they would like to know, how they...

Explore the theme of release and death in Lois Lowry's The Giver with a K-W-H-L chart. After noting what they already know, kids come up with a list of questions about topics that they would like to know about, as well as how they...

Prior to reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, class members use the provided worksheet to list what they know about the Holocaust, what they want to know, and how they will find the information they seek. After...

This activity, which could be used in the lower grades for reading comprehension practice or with older students as part of an ESL lesson, has learners read a short story and answer six comprehension and vocabulary questions. As part of...

In this letter f worksheet, students trace both the upper and lower case f, using numbered arrows on the first letter of each row to guide them.

In this word configuration puzzle worksheet, students analyze 12 commonly used Dolch words and fit them into a word configuration puzzle.

In this word construction worksheet, learners use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write the words on.

In this finding words written across, backward, up, and horizontally activity, students use words and phrases defining the words and shaded letters showing the first letters of the words to find the words in the crossword. Students...

In this words worksheet, students complete a variety of worksheets dealing with words and including a configuration station, missing words, sentence sense, words word search, rhyme time and putting words in alphabetical order. Students...

For this words worksheet, students complete a variety of worksheets involving configuring 11 words, completing sentences with 10 words, writing 4 words in complete sentences and locate and circle 14 words in a word search puzzle....

In this creative working with words worksheet, students work their way thru a configuration station to master a list of everyday words.

The interpretation of a poem often lies in the mind of its reader, especially when reading the tone. Focus on author's word choice, middle schoolers read four different poems and briefly state a perceived tone for each, along with the...

Prejudice is the theme of this Pudd'nhead Wilson KWHL chart. Learners fill out their charts, discuss how to find the answers to their questions, and spend some time researching a topic they want to know more about.