A Whale of a Tale

In this long a sound worksheet, students examine 18 words and sort them into the "ale" group or the "ame" groups. Students also fill in the blanks in 6 sentences with "ale" or "ame" words from the word bank.

Combine art, math, language arts, drama, and delicious Jell-o with a instructional activity based on the African folktale Anansi and the Tug o' War. Kids make predictions and discuss plot points of the story before joining in...

For this literacy worksheet, students look for the words to complete each blank word. They focus upon the given blends for each of the six pages.

In this set of phonics worksheets, students will circle and write 4 words that have the long a sound, choose the best long a words to complete 4 sentences, use "wh" to complete 4 words, circle objects in a picture that have the long a...

In this spelling worksheet students will analyze words that contain the long a vowel sound. Students will complete nine tasks using the eight words in the word list provided.

The children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale tells an amazing tale of a community joining together for a common cause. Read this book with your class, making connections between the events in the story and personal experiences of young...

If friendship were a soup, what ingredients would be in it? As part of a study of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, kids engage in a series of friendship-themed activities using materials contained in this richly...

Learners explore phonemes in a word. They explore the vowel a_e=/A/. Students identify words with the /A/ sound. They read words with the a_e=/A/ and read Jake's Tale. Learners identify words with the a_e spelling from the story.

Some problems are so big it takes an entire community to solve them. So was the case in the children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall. This primary grade lesson uses a class read-aloud of this...