"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" | Picture Book Study
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.
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Make reading practice active with games, short passages, discussion, and creative responses. Choose the reading skill first, then a task that suits your learners. Resources range from early word reading to longer texts, so check the reading level and preparation before using an activity.
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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.
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.
A guided-reading lesson plan for Kindergarten built around a simple beginner-level book (referenced as "The Cat and the Hat" or similar), focused on phonics, sight-word recognition, and reading comprehension.
A no-prep picture book study companion for Robert McCloskey's 'Make Way for Ducklings,' providing discussion questions, extension activities, crafts, and literacy worksheets tied to the book.
A comprehensive letter-of-the-week activity pack for uppercase/lowercase P, covering recognition, tracing, phonics sorting, and craft-style review activities, provided in a US edition (British English edition also present per scan_meta).
A print-and-go picture book study companion for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle, combining discussion questions, hands-on crafts, and early literacy practice.
Provide a large multi-activity letter-S practice pack covering recognition, tracing, sorting, phonics and fine-motor skills, in both a US-spelling and a British-English-spelling printable set, plus supplementary crafts and a digital activity.
Practice recognizing and matching 100 high-frequency ('pre-primer' through common Dolch/Fry-style) sight words using a construction-themed digger/sand matching activity for a literacy center.
A phonics activity packet teaching CCVC (consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant) words through posters, worksheets, and games.
A pick-and-choose activity set to accompany a read-aloud of the folktale 'The Little Red Hen', covering discussion, crafts, a printable mini-book retelling of the story, and literacy/fine-motor practice pages
End-of-year Grade 1 ELA review workbook covering phonics, sight words, reading comprehension, grammar, and writing, aligned to Common Core (CCSS references shown, e.g. RF.1.2, RF.1.3).
A UK-curriculum-aligned science unit on grey/red squirrels for Reception and Year 1 children, combining nature observation with literacy (phonics, vocabulary, writing, reading comprehension).
A comprehensive letter-of-the-week activity pack for uppercase/lowercase H, covering recognition, tracing, phonics sorting, and craft-style review activities, provided in parallel US and British English spelling editions.
A collection of 30 leveled early-reading passages (Levels C-I) that pair beginning-reader phonics/sight-word practice with short social studies topics (US civics, history figures, holidays, geography terms).
A three-part literacy resource bundle (story book, snake/spider fact summaries, and a differentiated 128-page activity booklet) built around the Sammy Snake and Sally Spider story, providing tiered reading, writing, vocabulary and comprehension activities for Prep through Year 6.
Build reading fluency and comprehension with ACK-family words through a sentence-and-picture matching activity.
A comprehensive letter-of-the-week activity pack for uppercase/lowercase O, covering recognition, tracing, phonics sorting, and craft-style review activities, provided in a US edition (British English edition also present per scan_meta).
A 1st-grade back-to-school ELA review workbook that revisits kindergarten-grade reading, grammar, phonics/word study, vocabulary, and writing skills across 20 structured daily lessons, plus print-and-play literacy games, to rebuild routines and confidence at the start of the year.
A hands-on pre-primer sight-word recognition matching activity using burger and fries themed counters, for phonics/literacy centers, aligned to CCSS RF.K.3 and RF.K.3c.
A 109-lesson phonics workbook teaching early reading skills sequentially: letter recognition/sounds, short vowel CVC words, consonant blends, digraphs, long vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, sight words, and simple story reading with comprehension.
A comprehensive, multi-activity picture book study built around 'Are You My Mother?' by P.D. Eastman, covering discussion questions, craft/project ideas, non-fiction extension reading, retelling, phonics/letter practice, and writing activities for preschool through grade 1.
A sentence-and-picture matching literacy center using decodable sentences built from 'an' word family (CVC) words and early sight words, for reading comprehension and fluency practice.
Provide a bundle of editable ELA morning-work worksheets covering multiple literacy skill areas for daily practice, early finishers, or literacy centers
A comprehensive letter-of-the-week activity pack for uppercase/lowercase C, covering recognition, tracing, phonics sorting, and craft-style review activities, provided in parallel US and British English spelling editions.