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Students read the included story 'Three Free Wishes' for inspiration (optional), roll a die three times to pick a character/setting/problem from a chart, record their picks on a planning sheet at their level (key words and pictures, key words and sentences, or full sentences), then write a titled story using…
English vocabulary flashcards teaching games, sports/competition terms, and fun-activity vocabulary for ESL/EFL learners.
Students race to identify and 'swat'/cover the sight word the teacher calls out among a spread of printed Fry 2nd 100 word cards; teachers may also fill in blank editable cards with additional words.
A picture-book study companion for William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, offering a large set of literacy, comprehension, and craft activities to use alongside a read-aloud of the book.
Free download For each of three artists (Michelangelo/Mona Lisa, Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh), write about the artist and then draw what the subject/artist would look like if alive today, responding to guiding questions about whether their art style and subject matter would be the same now.
Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (example picture book): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on color/animal vocabulary, predictions…
Trace and write uppercase/lowercase A; identify, color, sort, and find the letter A; complete an A maze, puzzle, and connect-the-dots; complete a color-by-code page; use a geoboard for the letter A; practice sight words 'a, the, is'; assemble craft extensions (crown, bracelet, flipbook, finger puppets, word wheel)…
Free download Trace the letter C's path of motion, connect dots 1-25 to reveal a picture, cut and paste puzzle pieces in order, color and build a scene (stacking colored caps on Glimmercat), navigate a letter C maze, cut and paste C words with matching pictures (car, candle, carrot, clown, cupcake, crab, caterpillar, cactus), and…
Trace, color, sort, and identify the letter D; complete mazes/puzzles/dot-connecting activities; read and write short -ad/-id/-ed word-family words (e.g. 'lid', 'kid', 'mad', 'sad'); match sentences to pictures; build a booklet/crown/bracelet/word-wheel/finger-puppet craft; complete a digital Boom Cards deck.
A comprehensive 'letter of the week' activity pack for the letter E, covering recognition, tracing, phonics, and craft-style extension activities, provided in parallel US and British-English spelling versions plus a linked digital Boom Cards deck.
Introducing Letter F Flower Craft, an interactive phonics resource for teaching letter recognition and beginning sounds. Students create colorful flower crafts focused on the letter F, with three templates to choose from. The materials provide a hands-on way to learn the letter's sound, capital and lowercase…
Provide blank letter G/g outline mats for hands-on alphabet crafts, sorting, and letter-recognition activities.
Color, cut out, and assemble three flower template pieces into a whole flower.
Search for hidden printed capital O and lowercase o cards around the house or classroom, gather them, and (per variations) match capital and lowercase pairs, tape them to objects that start with letter O, or sort found letters alphabetically.
A printable hide-and-seek game: letter cards for J/j are hidden around the house or room for the child to find, reinforcing letter recognition through play.
Trace, color, sort, spin, find, glue, and maze/puzzle/dot-connect the letter S; assemble a booklet, flipbook, word wheel, crown, bracelet, and finger puppet; complete sight-word practice sheets ('and, at, an'); optionally play a linked digital Boom Cards deck.
Comprehensive letter-of-the-week pack teaching uppercase and lowercase letter U through tracing, sorting, coloring, mazes, puzzles, crafts, and digital Boom Card games.
Practice letter Z recognition, letter formation, and fine motor skills by assembling cut-and-glue puzzles.
Using printed, cut-out colored shape pieces, construct/assemble the form of each upper- and lowercase letter (A-Z) on its instructional task-card mat.
Practice recognizing a specific Fry high-frequency sight-word list through a color-by-word matching game.
Students assemble a 3-folder lapbook base and complete more than 20 individual foldable/cut-and-glue booklets (including Map, Warfare, Slavery, Philosophers, Science, School, Religion, Who's Who mythology, Women, Homes, Home Life, Clothing, Food, Art, Music, Olympics, Timeline, Literature, Parthenon, and Vocabulary)…
Students fill in category blanks (e.g. character name, job, personality trait, age, pets/family, setting, protagonist/antagonist, problem) with a partner or alone, draw a spiral to generate a 'special number,' then count down the list crossing out words until one word per category remains, using the surviving words to…
Practice ESL/EFL vocabulary for the theme "CRAFTS/AIRCRAFTS" through a set of word-game worksheets (anagram, crossword, matching, word search).
A multi-file Letter K phonics and handwriting activity pack: letter recognition, tracing, sorting, mazes, cut-outs, crafts, and early sight-word/CVC-word reading and writing practice centered on the letter K.