ELA teaching resources for Canada
Safari Literacy Packet
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Safari-themed literacy packet for early learners: students count syllables in animal names, fill in the missing first letter of words like zebra and giraffe, and write about the safari animal they most want to see.
Author Katie Maurice
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Tags Safari, Animals, Literacy Packet, Reading, Spelling, Writing Prompts, Syllables, Beginning Sounds, Phonics
Which Object Is Different? Picture Comparisons
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Look at each group of pictures and identify the object that does not match. Explain a similarity or difference you notice.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Spot the Different Picture: One-Page Worksheet
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Compare each row of pictures and circle the one that differs from the repeated set.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Same or Different? Picture Comparisons
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Compare groups of pictures and identify the one that differs. Explain the detail that helped you choose.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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George and Ginny in the Sandbox: Reading Questions
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Read about George and Ginny’s sandbox play, then answer five questions about what they like and create.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Scary Similes and Metaphors: Grades 3-6
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Monster-themed writing frames give students a single Metaphor or simile line with four ruled lines and a Name line beneath it, three to a page, alongside two extended sheets that add a twelve-line descriptive paragraph and a set of oversized display letters spelling out the title.
Author The Simplistic Teacher
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Tags Halloween Writing, Similes, Metaphors, Similes For Scary, Halloween Similes
School Choir word search puzzle worksheet activity
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Vocal and ensemble terms range from singers and voice parts to melody, harmony, rhythm, pitch, conducting, auditions, and applause. Learners scan a dense grid to locate each music term and reinforce spelling. The second page shows marked word placements. The bank connects music-making actions with people and performance settings.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble , Puzzles, Worksheet, Activities, Vocabulary, Red Ribbon, Red Ribbon Week
Scientific Method word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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A crossword, a word scramble, and a word search all drill the same fifteen scientific-method vocabulary terms -- from hypothesis and variable to conclusion and theory -- each puzzle paired with its own solved answer page.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
Script Writing Template – Elementary Play Practice
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Character, Dialogue and Stage Directions columns structure a blank one-page table where students draft an original play scene.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Playscripts, Script Writing, Writing Template, Script Template, Graphic Organizer, Writing Chart, Reading Chart, Writing Process, Drama, Script Writing Templates
Script Writing Template – Characters and Dialogue
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A blank play-script frame opens with scene, setting and character fields, then a two-column table lets students pair each speaker's name with dialogue and actions. Scene, setting and character fields head a blank script frame, followed by a two-column table pairing each speaker's name with their dialogue and actions.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Writing Templates, Research Report, Research Template, Drama, Play Writing, Playscripts, Script Writing, Script Templates
Self-Editing COPS Cards- Help your Students Proofread Their Own Work
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The COPS acronym (Capitals, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling) organizes a one-page self-editing checklist students can use to proofread their own writing.
Author LessonFull.com
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Tags Self-Editing, COPS Cards, Proofreading, Writing Skills, Language Arts, COPS, Editing, Primary Writing, Grammar, Punctuation
Self-Esteem Vocabulary word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
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The grid introduces affirming terms visually before learners reconstruct words from short descriptions about valuing oneself, facing fear, recognizing individuality, accepting imperfection, and speaking up. The crossword requires the same vocabulary through intersecting clues. Completed versions support checking all three activities. Because the theme touches wellbeing, the resource is framed as vocabulary practice and makes no therapeutic or efficacy claim.
Author Lapiiin Art Activities
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Tags Word Search, Word Scramble, Printable Puzzles, Educational Games, Activity Sheets, Brain Teasers, Kids Puzzles, Classroom Resources, Teacher Resources, Crossword
Sentence Scramble – 12 Grammar Worksheets
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Twelve themed worksheets scramble six or seven words at a time, asking students to reorder each set into a correct, capitalized, punctuated sentence about a different everyday topic.
Author Clever Crafters
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Tags Sentence Scramble Worksheets, Kindergarten Grammar, Literacy Centres, Word Order Practice, Sentence Structure Activities
Sentence Sort - Grammar Practice
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Cut-and-paste sentence sort: students read phrases and complete sentences, then glue each one under A sentence or Not a sentence, across three pages of six items each.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Grammar, Grammar Worksheets, Back To School, Back To School Activities, Sentence Structure, Phonics, September Activities, Writing Activities
Sentence Starter Cards: Eight Writing Prompts
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Choose sentence openings such as If only and Swiftly from eight cut-apart cards to help begin or vary a piece of writing.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Sentence Structure Quiz
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Independent and dependent clauses, coordinating conjunctions, and the four sentence types are tested across a 20-question quiz.
Author NOT HERE
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Tags Sentence Structure, Quiz, Compound Sentence, Complex Sentence, Grammar, Sentence Type Practice, Test, Sentences, Simple Sentences, Grammar Review, Grammar Practice, Conjunctions
Sentences - Lower Primary (4 x A3 Posters)
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Sentence structure is set out on four display posters — what a sentence tells, how word order carries meaning, the simple sentence and the compound sentence — each built around a single labelled example.
Author E & R Publications
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Tags Sentence Structure, Sentence Types, Literacy, Grammar, Writing
Sentences to Infer
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A blank inference graphic organizer, repeated three times, prompts students to explain what they can infer from a sentence using why/where/when/what-will-happen questions.
Author Elementary Resources 4 U
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Tags Infer Sentence, Making Inferences, Reading, Strategies, Reading Strategies, Language Skills, Literacy Centers, Making Predictions, Sentence Using Infer, What Can You Infer From This Sentence, Sentences, Inference
SH Phonic Worksheets for Early Years/Intervention/dyslexia
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The SH consonant digraph is practiced at the beginning, end, and mixed positions of words across a phonics packet.
Author Lilibette's Resources
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Tags Special Needs Phonics, Dyslexia Phonic Worksheets, Phonic Worksheets For Dyslexics, Reading Intervention, Sh Worksheets, Sh Digraph, Phonics, Dyslexia
Shades of Meaning Activity
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Shades of meaning task cards: students choose the best of three related words, such as warm, hot or burning, to complete 12 sentences, then sort raindrop word cards from weakest to strongest.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Synonyms
Shades of Meaning Worksheet
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From a scrambled word bank, students sort three closely related words for each of seven base words — like big, tiny, and happy — to practice how similar words carry different shades of meaning.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Shadows Worksheet
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The directions explain that a shadow forms when an object blocks sunlight and note that sun height affects shadow length. Learners examine several object-and-sun arrangements and draw the shadow each would cast. This requires translating light direction into an opposite-side projection rather than copying a supplied example. A short public-domain poem also appears on the page.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Cause And Effect, Light
2D Shapes Word Wall: Sixteen Labels
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Display sixteen plane-shape and polygon labels across three pages as a geometry vocabulary reference.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Short or Long i? Sound and Meaning
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Distinguish short and long i in four sentence prompts and six individual words, including sit, kite and ride.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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