Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to...

Young readers develop their phonetic skills by using a nifty tool called a word pocket. They use the tool to help them organize individual letters that they have at their desks to spell entire words and to construct beginning and ending...

The unicorn uses Uncle's underwear! Practice saying this tongue twister with your young learners to illustrated the /u/ sound. After comparing pairs of similar words (like cut and cat) and their sounds, learners will read Fuzz and...

Explain to your readers a variety of decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. They observe the teacher modeling blending, then in pairs take turns reading the book Clifford the Big Red Dog. Learners then time each other...

Give your Latin learners a list of verbs and have them complete this basic verb chart. Make things challenging and give them verbs in different tenses (so that they have to practice different verb forms), or pair this chart up with a...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /o/...

In this long e and short e practice worksheet, students study 16 examples of word pairs that feature the long and short e sounds.

Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...

Concerned about your learners forgetting what they've learned during summer vacation? Use a learning guide to keep them busy every day of the week. With activities about writing, drawing, counting, adding, and time, your kids will be...

There's a pot of gold at the end of the school year! Use a month's worth of reading, writing, and counting activities to keep kids learning through the month of March.

Lois Lowry's The Giver is one of the most engaging and thought-provoking works of literature in the middle school curriculum. Round out your novel unit with a collection of reading activities, comprehension questions, memoir and...

Speed read with your third, fourth, and fifth graders. Learners pair up and work together to improve their oral fluency. Use the technique of covering up unknown words to isolate the vowel and decode the word. There's a sheet included to...

Here's the perfect resource for anyone using Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story the "Tell-Tale Heart." The packet includes five worksheets that provide skills practice exercises focusing on spelling with consonant blends,...

Studens identify the variety of services available to them at their local medical facilities. In pairs, they role play different conversations that can take place during a medical emergency. Students create a brief description of the...

First graders imagine the sticky feeling of getting glue or gum stuck on their hands. They listen to the phrase "icky sticky" and repeat emphasizing the /i/ sound and work on recognizing the sound in several different word pairs and...

When do you use a or an before a noun? What about the? Learn about indefinite and definite articles with a brief grammar presentation, which focuses on using context clues to determine proper article usage.

Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion. 

Students explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the correspondence u=/u/. Students identify a meaningful representation for the phoneme and practice identifying /u/ in both written and spoken words. Students learn a tongue...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter "I" and the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister and write the letter "I." Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word in each pair that...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a short /i/ tongue twister, then spell words containing the short /i/ sound using letter manipulatives. In pairs they read the book "Tin...

Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They practice writing lower and uppercase U's. In pairs, they create and recite tongue twisters with short /u/ words.

Students practice reading with fluency and accuracy, as well as remembering what they have read in order to interpret the meaning of the text. They read a story several times to become fluent reading faster each time read. Finally,...

In this word search worksheet, 1st graders will find and circle twelve words which belong to the -ain word family. The words are listed at the bottom of the word search and vary in decoding difficulty.

Students view different vocabulary cards with personal information words. They match pairs of cards with personal information vocabulary. They complete an information form and read their information to the class.