The Poky Little Puppy Activity Guide: Vocabulary + Comprehension
Companion guide to the book The Poky Little Puppy building vocabulary and comprehension skills for early learners.
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Companion guide to the book The Poky Little Puppy building vocabulary and comprehension skills for early learners.
Display posters listing short-u CVC words for early phonics recognition and spelling practice.
A hands-on center activity where students build Dolch Pre-Primer sight words using printable caterpillar head and body pieces.
A life skills and applied math lesson that walks students through the real-world steps of renting their first apartment or house, combining financial literacy with percentage/arithmetic word problems.
Provide printable flash cards for practicing and memorizing Fry high-frequency sight words 801-900.
Build reading fluency and word recognition with AGE-family CVCe words in isolation, sentences, and a short passage.
An independent English literacy/vocabulary work booklet built around the topic of landforms and landscapes; students build and practice topic vocabulary through matching, writing, and game-based activities.
An independent English literacy/vocabulary work booklet built around the topic of Inuit culture and Arctic life; students build and practice topic vocabulary through matching, writing, and game-based activities.
An independent English literacy/vocabulary work booklet built around the topic of household/everyday hazards and safety situations; students build and practice topic vocabulary through matching, writing, and game-based activities.
An independent English literacy/vocabulary work booklet built around the topic of mass media and communication technology; students build and practice topic vocabulary through matching, writing, and game-based activities.
Provide a no-prep printable activity packet and memory book for elementary students to reflect on, celebrate, and review vocabulary related to the end of the school year and the last day of school.
An ESL/EFL intermediate (B1) reading and vocabulary lesson about media (TV, journalism, internet, social media) for language-development or ESL learners.
Display posters listing short-e CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words for early phonics recognition and spelling practice.
A complete full-day set of substitute-teacher lesson plans for a K-1 classroom built around a bugs theme, covering morning/afternoon meeting messages, independent reading with reader-response, math, science reading comprehension, and writing activities, with a Common Core standards-aligned activities grid for the substitute teacher.
Phonics Presentations: OR Lesson This is a simply taught, phonic lesson, to teach the sound 'or'. The video format can be easily shared. There is no distracting music, or any unnecessary pictures. Who is the Or video lesson for? It is suitable for all ages and abilities, including those with special needs. An adult should sit with the child for maximum…
Literacy and Bible-based activity pack about fruits, combining handwriting/reading practice, a memory matching game, and Bible study activities (per table of contents in file).
A decodable early-reading storybook ('The Black Truck and the Fire') for practicing the 'igh' phonic sound and building reading fluency through a controlled-vocabulary story.
A full-day, butterfly-themed substitute-teacher lesson packet for 2nd grade, providing a complete Common Core-aligned schedule of reading, writing, math, and science activities so a substitute can run the whole school day.
A 5-day, no-prep homeschool/co-op unit study on the endangered West Indian (American) manatee, combining videos, reading passages, discussion, worksheets, and hands-on activities.
A phonics activity that teaches syllable counting and syllable division using an original nonfiction song-lyric passage on the history of breaking (breakdancing) as the reading text.
Provide a digital, interactive reading-comprehension activity built around an alphabet story for the letter N, intended for Google Classroom / distance learning.
5-day no-prep novel study companion for the book 'Revolutionary War on Wednesday' (Magic Tree House #22).
A phonics practice booklet focused on the 'oy' sound, part of the Reading Made Simple phonics programme.
A 25-part reader's-theater play about students who wish school away and learn a lesson at a chaotic summer camp, used to build reading fluency and story-element understanding.