What Did You Say Relay

Learners 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...

In this guided reading lesson students read Did You Hear? by Karen J. Guralnick. Students discuss how something someone says can change when it is repeated several times by other people like in the game of Telephone.

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

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.

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 activity 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. Learners 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...

If you give your teacher a book, she'll probably want an activity guide to go with it. Have fun learning with a wonderful selection of hands on activities created for the book, If You Take a Mouse to School. Each activity focuses on...

What a fun way to practice segmenting words into syllables! Engage learners by using their own names, spoken by Mico the puppet (or one of your favorites). Mico announces names slowly, syllable by syllable. If scholars have a...