What's in a Name?

Read What's Your Favorite Color? with your second or third grade class. Interest learners by asking them what their favorite color is before beginning the reading. Then identify difficult vocabulary words and complete the suggested...

Build conversation skills for your English language learners in this spoken language development lesson. In it, learners listen to descriptions written by the teacher prior to the first day of class which include predictions about the...

Get in the reading spirit on Read Across America Day while celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with four printable instructional activity activities. Included is a word search using story character's names, a quiz to test how many Dr. Seuss...

Adjectives can appear anywhere in a sentence, so spotting the nouns they describe can be tricky. Practice identifying parts of speech with a quick review worksheet in which learners circle the nouns in eight sentences that each adjective...

What do messy, dreamy, and lucky have in common? They are all adjectives that trade their -y for -ier in the comparative form! Learners practice the vowel shift with twenty adjectives, all of which end in -y.

What happens when a species becomes extinct? Sharpen your reading skills with a passage about how koalas have gotten close to being an endangered species.

What are memories? Find out with the help of the book, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox. Through a stunning read aloud and picture walk, discuss the story's key details and how it defines a memory. Then, using the tale's...

Second graders read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. They then discuss where various names come from. They create a individualized biopoem and publish it on word processing software. Their poems are compiled into a class book and presented...

Explore pond life and action words through Denise Fleming's In the Small, Small Pond, which you can find online if you don't have it on hand. Learners explore the following verbs: doze, hover, plunge, scatter, swoop, and wade. Go over...

What shape is this? Young mathematicians learn their shapes by tracing in this 4-part exercise. The shapes include an octagon, a rectangle, a triangle, and a heart. Each is outlined with a dotted line, as is its name below it. Students...