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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Students identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister and identify the words in it that contain the short /e/ sound. They then read the book "Red Gets Fed" and...

Students identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They say a tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read "Peg and Hen" and identify the words in the story with the short /e/ sound.

Students recognize the short /e/ sound in spoken and written words. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes words with the short /e/ sound. They then listen to the story "Red Gets Fed" and identify the words in the story with the...