Lesson Plan
Scholastic

What Happened Next? (Grades K-4)

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Explore the structure of narrative writing with this fun, collaborative lesson. Start by reading aloud a short story, asking small groups of learners to fill in key events on a large story board prepared on the class whiteboard....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce /g/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
As your emerging readers are learning the alphabet, set them up for success with strategies like these that incorporate multiple contexts and learning styles. Focusing on the letter g, write it clearly on the board. Model the /g/...
Printables
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #10

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Focus on sight words with a series of worksheets for beginning readers. Kids can work on where, are, did, and no with matching games and tracing activities, and many more.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #18

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Identify four sight words with an extensive reading packet. After kids learn the words under, new, was, and be, they work on tracing and finding the words in fun new ways.
Printables
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #17

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Take an important step into the world of reading with an activity about sight words. Kids review the words on, too, they, and must with tracing worksheets, flash cards, and reading activities.
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Curriculum Corner

Beginning Letter Mats

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sixteen colorful images make up a phonics worksheet focusing on initial sounds. Scholars name engaging images and identify what letter the word begins with.    
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #11

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Work on the fundamentals with your little learners. A packet that focuses on four sight words (not, make, funny, and am) guides kids through reading activities such as matching, tracing, and word recognition.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #7

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Your kindergartners will be reading before you know it after practicing their sight words! Work on and with an array of fun reading activities, such as bingo, connect-the-dots, and matching games.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #1

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Focus on the fundamentals of reading with a series of sight word activities. Kids work with the words a, and, see, and the by connecting the dots, playing bingo, and finding the words in a mixed-up list.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #12

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Master four sight words with an array of teaching tools. As kids work on recognizing away, she, this, and who, they trace letters and match flash cards to improve their reading skills.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #13

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Take the first steps to reading fluency with a set of language arts activities. Kids work on the sight words pretty, ran, so, and out with tracing worksheets and matching games.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #9

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Work on sight words with a series of fun reading activities. Kids connect the dots, match words, and play bingo while studying the words for, jump, help, and look.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #6

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Master the sight words big, said, come, and in with a packet of helpful reading activities. Kids work on their reading skills with tracing pages and bingo activities, as well as flash cards, connect-the-dots, and a short word...
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #3

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice sight words with an array of fun activities. Kids focus on like, is, my, and it with bingo games, connecting the dots, and tracing activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Alphabetize Letter K Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this letter Kk alphabetical order worksheet, students examine the 10 words that begin with letter and them print them in alphabetical order on the lines provided.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Words We Know

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore environmental print.  In this emergent literacy concepts of print lesson plan, students bring examples of environmental print from home which are put on display in the classroom. Students view websites to locate and...
Organizer
Student Handouts

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Hunt through your classroom or around your school's campus for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet! Learners can record the words on this page, which lists the alphabet and provides lines to write on.
Lesson Plan
English Enhanced Scope and Sequence

Identifying Synonyms

For Teachers 2nd Standards
"Let the hunt begin!" As an introduction to synonyms, second graders generate a list of word pairs that have similar meanings. The words pairs are written on sentence strips, cut apart, shuffled, and distributed to class members who must...
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ReadWriteThink

Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Word Climb

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Just like climbing a mountain, little learners read to reach the top. They take turns picking high-frequency word cards, reading them, then matching them to the words on their mountain worksheet. They race to reach the top of the...
Interactive
Curated OER

Slang Words Beginning with K

For Students 4th - 6th
In this slang word worksheet, students complete 5 multiple choice questions, selecting the correct meaning of slang words/phrases beginning with K. Students may click an "answer" button for immediate feedback, worksheet is labeled ESL,...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
Interactive
Curated OER

Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: A

For Students K - 2nd
In this word recognition instructional activity, students examine 6 pictures and match them to the appropriate words that begin with /a/. Students may submit their answers to be scored in this online interactive format.
Interactive
Curated OER

Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: P

For Students K - 2nd
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and match them to the appropriate words that begin with the letter P. Students may submit their answers to be scored in this online interactive format.