Make letter sounds a game for pre-readers using these letter cards. After you demonstrate, learners take turns drawing letters out of a bag. Weight them for the letters they have been practicing most recently. Once they've chosen a...

Once kindergartners have learned the letter m they are ready for this sound correspondence activity. Start with a stack of letter cards including mostly m and a few other letters they haven't learned yet....

How fast can you go? Test scholars' letter sound recognition with a timed game. Using letter cards of all the letters you've learned so far, learners take turns flipping cards and correctly saying the letter sound. Model this first,...

Using a character map, learners assign traits to characters from Nicholasa Mohr’s El Bronx Remembered: A Novella and Stories. In addition, groups record evidence from the stories to justify the labels and use these sheets to prepare for...

Classic fairy tales are great! They have memorable characters, present interesting story lines, and lend themselves to art projects. Grab a copy of "Rumpelstiltskin" and get ready to participate in several early literacy activities. The...

Practice gross and fine motor skills with fun Christmas- and holiday-themed activities. These holiday lessons include songs, games, and other engaging activities for both gross and fine motor skills. Kids will love pinning the nose...

Review all things Homeric with this quiz! It covers the plot of The Odyssey, along with technical questions about poetic meter and stressed syllables. The Greek language is on display with Homer's writings and with this quiz.

Many activities related to the Chrisitan religion are included in this instructional activity about storytelling; students create their own Bible related art from stickers, stamps, t-shirts and hats. Puppets also help to to retell Bible...

Students examine the concepts of organization and classification. In this library skills lesson, students practice ordering and sorting skills by playing an interactive Internet game. Students then practice their classification skills in...

Help your class improve their spelling skills. Learners take a test, are given a particular spelling rule to practice, and play a Bingo game. This employs various methods for practicing spelling skills.

Check specific recall of events and phrases from Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan. Questions focus on exact language, numbers, places, and character names. Be sure your readers know the book by giving them this...

Create a game out of learning vocabulary. The Latin roots dict, vent, and duct are part of the words used in this crossword puzzle. Definitions are given as clues; no word list is included but the answers are available so you can provide...

Word roots can help your class find connections between vocabulary words and develop language skills. This resource asks learners to fill in a synonym and antonym for six words, keeping word roots in mind. There is a word bank for...

COA? EFC? FAFSA? These terms and more are part of a list of terminology essential for college survival used in a Bingo game. The Bingo template is provided, as is an extensive of terms and their definitions.

It's time to identify these sentences as interrogative, exclamatory, or declarative based on their ending punctuation.

Sometimes the simplest ideas foster a lot of different skills. To boost social skills, group participation, identifying others by name, and dressing skills, learners play the hat game. They take turns wearing a hat while...

A is for airplane and B is for banana! Practice the alphabet with your class using this set of cards. There are two copies of each card, each of which shows the uppercase and lowercase versions of a letter and an image of something that...

Bingo! Combine the thrill of bingo with Lois Lowry's The Giver in a fun vocabulary lesson. Kids write selected vocabulary words from the novel onto a bingo chart, and then listen for the correct definitions in order to mark off...

You'll be so glad to have had this rad worksheet for your youngsters to practice identifying what words belong to the -ad family!

Young biologists examine the concept of scarce resources with a reading comprehension passage. After finishing the paragraphs, learners turn to the questions to demonstrate what they have learned about what is beneficial and what is...

The final resource in a series of 16 phonemic awareness activities, designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words, features the /ue/ sound. Kids identify and highlight the /ue/ sound in a list of 13...

Son, sum, sun.The /u/ sound is featured in this phonemic awareness activity that asks learners to identify and highlight the /u/ sound in a list of 39 words. The purpose here is to help readers develop the awareness skills needed to...

Phonemic awareness is the focus of an activity that asks kids to identify and highlight the /ou/ sound in a list of 32 words. The exercise is designed to not only develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in...