What Did You Say Relay

Students complete pre reading, writing, post reading activities for the book What Would You Find At The Library. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have...

Learn about ants and printing in one fun worksheet! After you read some interesting facts about ants, practice writing the word ant on a tracing line. Then, draw a picture of an ant in a space provided.

What would happen if you woke up one day and had become a housefly? What kinds of things would you do? Use the facts at the top of a worksheet to write a paragraph or short story about being a housefly.

A please and a thank you go a long way. Instill the importance of those two words with a music video featuring two hand-drawn individuals being kind to one another and using their manners.

Learners examine the letter 'e'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the short /e/ sound and recite short /e/ tongue twisters. They use letterboxes to write 'e' words and identify the short /e/ sound in passages read to them.

Work on punctuation such as placing quotation marks around direct quotes, and inserting commas to set off a quotation. The lesson plan includes a printable activity sheet and additional practice sentences.

Students practice the strategy of phonics instruction to become better fluent readers. They study how sounds are made and how vowels influence those words. This lesson focuses on the phoneme e=/e/ in spoken and written words.

What does it mean to be a good reader? Young readers use their own words to define reading fluency as well as what it means to be a good reader. They also demonstrate their knowledge of fluency by reading, Brown Bear, Brown Bear aloud to...

Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Students listen to the book Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle, then echo read, choral read, and independently read...

Clapping out syllables gets more engaging when you're using learners' names. Model some names first, then have the class join you in chanting names with each syllable clapped out. Bring up the difference between multiple-syllable and...