Third graders utilize technology to access, analyze, interpret and communicate information about Earth Day.

Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.

Middle schoolers read about the first computer and discuss it.

Fifth graders reorganize comic strips to have them make sense, complete outline and organize their thoughts into outline form to explain directions, and use that outline to complete their own directions for geometry activities.

Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.

This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify and distinguish between words that contain short /e/ and long /e/. An answer key and lesson...

This collection looks at an image and phrase used widely in abolitionist materials, and at how that symbol was adopted and adapted by Sojourner Truth and/or other women's rights activists. Students will examine an abolitionist medallion...

This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.

A song that students can listen to and sing along with to introduce the short e sound and to hear examples of words using that sound.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...

This printable vowel letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden pictures by identifying words that contain short /a/ and long /a/. An answer key...

Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and write words that contain short /u/ and long /u/. An answer key and lesson extension are...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures with words that contain short /i/ and long /i/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This lesson engages students in making short words. Students will regroup the short words into word families and discuss the findings with classmates.

A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...

Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.

This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a fill-in-the blank paragraph. Students will choose a long /o/ word that ends with the silent -e...

A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."

A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."

An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.

Text of the short story "The Ninth Vibration" by L. Adams Beck, a Canadian author with British roots. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)