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A 60-page collection of classroom-tested lesson ideas and blackline masters for elementary teachers, spanning drama/games, math, literacy, outdoor activities, whole-school activities, art/craft, and general project ideas.
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Essay Research Guide: Significant Filmmakers
A scaffolded research-writing project guiding students through selecting a filmmaker and researching, outlining, drafting, peer-reviewing, and finalizing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay about significant filmmakers in movie history.
"I See Food" | Early Reader Book #2 | Guided Reading Level A
An early emergent-reader booklet (#2 in a Guided Reading Level A series) designed to build beginning reading skills (sight words, print concepts, sounding out words) using a food-themed, heavily repetitive sentence pattern with photo/rebus picture support.
Letter A Tracing Worksheets
Practice fine motor and handwriting skills by tracing pictures and sentences related to letter-A vocabulary words.
The Great Monster Hunt: Language-Literacy Book Companion Packet
A speech-language book companion packet built around the picture book The Great Monster Hunt, providing shared-reading, language, and early-literacy activities for students with emergent literacy skills or communication delays.
Apple Letter Cards for Games and Centers
Provide a set of apple-shaped uppercase and lowercase letter cards for hands-on letter-recognition games.
Sight Word Fun Printable Workbook
A 34-page workbook that helps students recognize 46 high-frequency sight words through tracing, word puzzles, and sentence practice, alongside parent/teacher-facing phonics activity suggestions.
‘Pom Pom Goes On Holiday’ A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity about going on holiday (vacation) with a dog, covering transportation vocabulary, packing, and diary writing, modeled on a sample diary entry from the 'naughty dog' character.
Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | The Exciting Class Trip
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a school field trip, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - UNO - Cards Game
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on "UNO" - Cards Game This ESL EFL (English Second or Foreign Language) Teaching Resource on "UNO - Cards Game" (3 PDF Slides; Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity) can be ideal to train Language skills in English. Suitable participants for this ESL EFL TESOL Reading + Writing Activity are…
Phonics Reading Comprehension with Word Families and Dolch Sight Words
Phonics Reading Comprehension with Word Families and Dolch Sight Words The Phonics Reading Comprehension with Word Families and Dolch Sight Words is a comprehensive language arts tool geared towards the needs of primary students, English learners, homeschoolers, and special education students. This resource endeavors to construct an unshakable foundation…
Free download Tragedy Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide
Step-by-step guide and project materials for writing a tragedy narrative, including planning tools, a peer/self checklist, and a scoring rubric aligned to Common Core writing/reading/language anchor standards.
Easy DIY Lowercase Alphabet Flashcards + Color the Letters Activity
A DIY lowercase-alphabet flashcard set (three items per letter, a-z) plus letter-coloring/tracing activity sheets, for early letter recognition and fine-motor practice.
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Sight Words Games: Word Search, 9th 100 Fry Words, [SET 6]
Practice recognizing and spelling Fry's 9th 100 high-frequency sight words through four themed word-search puzzles, each with an answer key.
Answers included
Rocks and Minerals Task Cards
Give upper-elementary/middle-school students practice demonstrating knowledge of rocks and minerals vocabulary and concepts through a set of task cards usable in small groups or as a whole-class game.
Answers included
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheet on Harry Potter
A two-page article introduces J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series before thirteen comprehension and vocabulary questions. Students explain word meanings and consider the reading, then respond to two opinion essays about the series and its popularity. The format combines informational reading with a longer personal response.
Free download CVC Reading book 2
A decodable early-reading book ("a man") that gives beginning or struggling readers repeated practice sounding out CVC words within a short story, building toward reading fluency and confidence.
Free download a-e decodable Reading Book Level 1: 23
A decodable phonics reader (Level 1, Book 23) introducing words with the split digraph a-e, paired with a board game to reinforce the target vocabulary after reading.
Letter E Worksheets and Flashcards | Back To School Activity
A set of letter E activities (coloring page, flashcards/coloring cards, and handwriting practice) built around vocabulary words that begin with E.
Dolch Sight Word Cards - Level 3
Printable sight word flashcards for young readers to practice recognizing common Dolch words at Level 3 (primer level).
Sight Word Fluency Packet - help
No-prep sight word fluency practice for the high-frequency word "help" — reading, filling in the blank, and reading/writing/drawing for beginning readers.
Superhero Activity Bundle
A creative-writing and art activity where students design their own original superhero, plan a narrative through structured graphic organizers, and present the finished story as a comic strip.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity on Minecraft
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity on Minecraft This ESL Reading Comprehension and Writing Teaching Resource on Minecraft (3 PDF Printable Slides worksheet) is great to train Language skills in English. High Schoolers + late middle schoolers (7th-12th graders; teens) can be suitable learners/students to this ESL Activity. Newcomers or any…
"Click Clack Moo" | Picture Book Study
A no-prep picture book study for 'Click, Clack, Moo' providing discussion questions, hands-on projects/crafts, and supplementary video links to deepen engagement with the story.