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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 5 - Sea Animals (Slides)
Read slide-based passages about sea animals, then complete comprehension, vocabulary and writing activities.
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Blueberry Plant Flipbook Craft DIY Science Study Writing activity
A DIY flipbook craft activity teaching students about blueberry plants - their habitat, parts, growth, and trivia - while practicing reading comprehension and writing.
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Reading Comprehension and Questions Fiction Set 4 - School (PDF)
A no-prep collection of 10 short fiction stories set at school, each paired with post-reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities to build Grade 4-5 reading comprehension skills.
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Phonics & word readingResponse & discussion
Beginning Sound Words Phonics Activity
Worksheets for practicing writing the beginning-sound letter of a pictured word and coloring the picture.
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Reading Comprehension and Questions Fiction Set 4 - School (Fillable)
A no-prep collection of 10 short fiction stories set at school, each paired with post-reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities to build Grade 4-5 reading comprehension skills.
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Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference
Berenstain Bears' Pet Show Activity Guide
A book companion activity guide for 'The Berenstain Bears' Pet Show' by Stan Berenstain, for preschool-1st grade, combining comprehension discussion with early literacy practice.
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Reading comprehension
Martin Luther King Jr. Reading Comprehension for 1st & 2nd | MLK Day
Read an 'unseen passage' about Dr. King and answer a mix of multiple-choice and short-written-response questions; complete a January calendar and locate MLK Day (third Monday); complete a 'Who? Where? Problem? Solution?' story-structure activity with multiple-choice options; do a home-based 'Kindness Dream Jar' bonus…
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or Decodable Phonic Reading Book Level 1: 21
Give emerging readers decodable practice with the 'ar' phonics sound through a short illustrated story.
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Northern Lights DIGITAL Unit Study (Aurora Borealis)
Provide a digital, self-checking unit study on auroras (northern/southern lights) covering their origin, causes, characteristics, types, and sounds.
Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference
Learn Silent Letters: Zoggy Is A School Teacher
A phonics/spelling storybook (Guinea Pig Education 'Zoggy' / 'Mission Spelling Zero' series) in which an alien, Zoggy, shrinks down and secretly accompanies a boy, Dan, through a school day, helping him spell tricky words and do maths, while teaching a kindness lesson after a playground confrontation.
Phonics & word readingVocabulary & language
S Consonant Blend Activity Packet and Worksheets
A phonics activity packet teaching recognition, spelling and use of S-consonant blends (sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw).
Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference
‘Rainbows And Clouds’ Snakes And Ladders (4-7 years)
A snakes-and-ladders style board game for young learners themed around rainbows and clouds, built around a phonics-style rhyming character story (Zoggy the alien).
Response & discussion
DIY Music Podcast
Multi-week project-based unit in which students plan, script, record, and edit their own music podcast, integrating music analysis and literacy/media skills.
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CVC Words Family Early Phonics Fun Activity
A set of 10 matching worksheets, one per CVC word family (ad, at, ag, et, en, ip, ig, og, in, eg), where students match letters to pictures within each family.
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Frogs Decodable Reading Book for Guided Reading
A decodable early reader that teaches beginning readers basic digraphs/trigraphs and sight words while introducing the frog life cycle as informational content
Reading comprehension
Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 1 - Birds (Fillable PDF)
A set of six no-prep nonfiction reading comprehension lessons about birds (No Fly Zone/flightless birds, Ostrich, Chickadees, The Owl, Turkeys, Oil Spill), each with post-reading activities, for grade 4-5 readers, delivered as a fillable PDF for digital student response.
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Flash Cards: At the Zoo
Build English vocabulary related to zoo animals, facilities, and visiting a zoo, using a fictional zoo map, mock tickets, and picture flash cards; also models several classroom activities for using picture cards to teach vocabulary.
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Vocabulary sheet: Fruits
An independent-work vocabulary booklet teaching fruit names through picture-word matching, paired with a wide range of open-ended literacy and creative activities using the same word list.
Phonics & word readingResponse & discussion
Phonics Cootie Catchers - Set B
Practice reading, writing, and spelling words with a specific vowel/consonant sound focus using an interactive paper fortune-teller (chatterbox/cootie catcher) activity.
Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference
Letter M Beginning Sound Sort
Phonics sorting activity focused on the beginning /m/ sound (file text title: 'LETTER M Beginning Sounds ... SORTING').
Phonics & word reading
AGE Word Family Sorting Activities
Practice recognizing AGE-family words versus other words/nonsense words in a hands-on sorting literacy center.
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Vocabulary sheets: vegetables
An independent-work vocabulary booklet teaching vegetable names through picture-word matching, paired with a wide range of open-ended literacy and creative activities using the same word list.
Phonics & word readingVocabulary & language
Missing Letters Worksheets Animal Phonics Spelling Practice
A set of phonics/spelling worksheets using animal and object pictures to practice filling in missing letters in words.