Identifying Theme Activity
Reading response activity that helps students determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem by working through guiding 'cloud card' questions.
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Reading response activity that helps students determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem by working through guiding 'cloud card' questions.
This activity is great for helping students understand figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. It's a great way to help them improve their reading comprehension skills.
Creative writing activity where students plan and write a story about what happened during their school break, framed as planning a book.
A narrative writing craftivity in which students choose one of three Easter Bunny-themed prompts, write a response, and assemble a movable bunny craft.
A creative writing and craft activity in which students imagine being a knight for a day and make a foldable armor craft over their writing.
If You Take A Mouse To School Reader's Theater is a great way for students to build their reading fluency and accuracy skills. By acting out different parts in the story, students will be engaged and have fun while they learn.
A phonics matching-mat activity for practicing the IG word family, letting students read IG words both in isolation and in sentence context.
A phonics center activity for practicing the -IN word family, letting students read and match IN words both in isolation and in sentence context.
A cross-curricular ocean/volcano themed activity packet combining a hands-on volcano-building project with math, grammar, phonics, and writing activities tied to ocean animals, aligned to Common Core per the cover.
Here are 6 print, cut and play games to help teach initial phonic sounds. All children need lots of practice hearing and identifying the letters that make the initial sounds in words as a foundation for future phonic learning.
The Initial/Beginning Sounds Matching Activity is a simple activity for those just starting to learn the initial/beginning sounds. This game provides 2 activities in one, either an activity for one player, or a game for two or three…
The Initial/Beginning Sounds Matching Game is a simple activity for those just starting to learn the initial/beginning sounds. This game provides 2 activities in one, either matching letters (initial sounds) to pictures or pictures to…
Engage your preschool and kindergarten students in a delightful insect activity with these charming letter puzzles. Designed to reinforce letter identification skills, these puzzles provide a fun and interactive way for students to…
Teach the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing) and support informative, narrative, and opinion writing aligned to Common Core writing standards for grades 3-5.
A phonics activity pack that teaches the 'ck' word ending through cut-and-sort games, a sentence maker, fill-in-the-gap words, and sentence-building word cards.
A phonics resource that introduces triple consonant blends and digraph endings (squ, scr, str, thr, tch, shr, spl, dge) through illustrated sentences, a card-making activity, and a short decodable story.
A multi-day (4-day) ELA study unit built around Brandon Stanton's 'Humans of New York' photoblog/book, guiding students through picture analysis, discussion of photoblogging, a class photoblog activity, and exploration of NYC's cultural diversity.
A comprehensive, ready-to-use full-day substitute-teacher plan for 5th/6th grade centered on inventors and inventions, integrating science content with literacy (independent reading response) and math (invented computation problems) activities.
A phonics center activity teaching the -ip word family (CVC/CCVC pattern) through word and sentence matching mats.
Digital book-study slide deck (companion activities) for the picture book Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber, targeting reading comprehension skills.
Phonics center activity for practicing the 'IT' word family (CVC/CCVC words) in isolation and in sentence context.
Teach the parts of a book (author, title, illustrator) through a cut-and-glue matching activity, as part of a fall-themed kindergarten math and literacy center.
This activity is a great way for students to learn and understand common idioms. It also helps them to be able to use them in their own writing.
Teach the parts of a book (author, title, illustrator) through a cut-and-glue matching activity, as part of a spring-themed kindergarten math and literacy center.