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Language Arts 

Reading

Word and Letter Recognition, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Assessment

Word and Letter Recognition

Alphabet LottoLetters, Pictures, and Words to Print on Labels Use the menu on the left

Printable Alphabet Posters with Pictures

Alphabet Book Covers from Jan Brett Use the Alphabet Tracers or the Coloring Alphabet Tracers for the inside

Alphabet Flashcards from Jan Brett

Alphabet Print Practice Worksheets Each page contains upper and lowercase letters

More Alphabet Worksheets

More Alphabet Worksheets

Match Upper and Lower Case Letters (on bears) These could be used for a matching game or other activity

My Printing Alphabet Book Each page has a picture and traceable lowercase letters.This is also from Zaner Bloser. Another format of the book is here

D'Nealian Printing Alphabet Book Each page has a picture and a traceable letter. Another format of the book is here

Animal Alphabet Flashcards Alphabet flashcards with an animal photo beginning with each letter

Free Printable Beginning Reading Posters, Flashcards, and Worksheets

Jan Brett Colorful Dolch Word Lists These would be great to use as individual charts. Put a star next to each word as a child learns it

Dolch Kit Information on organization, record keeping, practice books, flashcards, gameboards, and more

Dolch Word Search Puzzles, Lessons, and Flashcards

Dolch Word Concentration Cards

Dolch Sight Word Games and Ideas  This page also has a story which contains all 220 Dolch words

Dolch Words Bingo (nouns) These are large enough that you could print two sets and make several memory games from them

Dolch Flashcards  Print Dolch flashcards for kindergarten - third grade

Dicey Dolch Words Use your Dolch flashcards (or other flashcards) in this game

Color Me Children learn color words with this activity

Word-Search Maker Make your own word search puzzles or search the database of pre-made puzzles

Intervention A A small group intervention program for K - 1 students who need extra help

 

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Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines

Dr. Seuss Activity Book This colorful 20 page activity book is from Seussville.com and has a variety of activities to help children with various sounds

Reading Workshop

Phonics Flash Cards, Posters, and Ready to Read Cards

Phonics for Free Free phonics lessons and tests for grades 1-3

Free Phonics Posters Twenty-one great phonics posters for word lists

Short Vowel Posters  Print out these short vowel posters with or without the breve

Printable Rhyming Words These could be used for a variety of activities. Choose a few feom each family and play concentration

Zac and Deb Beginning Reader Worksheets

Consonant Clusters Activity Sheets

Long Vowel Sounds

What Picture Begins With?  A book for students to match pictures with beginning sounds

Words and Pictures Phonics worksheets

Phonogram Worksheets

Free Reading Resources Picture cards, decodable passages, and more

 

Tools - Informal Reading Assessments and More

Free Language Arts Presentations in PowerPoint These powerpoint presentations are a great timesaver for teachers. Some of the presentations are for kids and some are for teachers to use. You will need to right click and "save target as" and save it on your computer. You will also need Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (free)

Cool Tools Informal tests for phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It includes Florida Comprehension Assessment Test (FCAT) sample test booklets and answer keys as well as passage comprehension questions from several different reading series.

Informal Reading Assessments: Examples  Assessment examples for Concepts of Print, Rhyming, Identifying Initial Sounds, Blending Words, Phoneme Segmentation, Phoneme Manipulation, and Phoneme Deletion

Goals for Kindergarten: Experimental Reading and Writing

What Kids Should Know Before Entering First Grade

Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing

Goals for Second Grade: Transitional Reading and Writing

Goals for Third Grade: Independent and Productive Reading and Writing

Reading Tutors Free Sample Packets

Free Reading and Grammar Worksheets and Tests  Complete access to the site requires free membership

 

Sight Word and Phonics Games

Reading (Phonics) Games from Adrian Bruce to download and print

More Reading Games from Adrian BruceThis page includes some sight word games

More Reading Games from Adrian Bruce

Reading Matching Games from PBS You will find rhymes, synonyms, opposites, short vowels, initial letters, and categories

Word Memory Match a word and picture. There are six printable games here

Race to the Lighthouse Phonics Game

Word Walls and Word Wall Activities

K - 3 Word Wall Lists and Printable Cards (pdf)

Word Wall Resources These ideas are from Education World

Word Wall Activities from Cheryl Sigmon Thirty-six activities here


A Colorful Word Wall

 

Make a Word Wall

 

Onomatopoeia Posters Use these colorful posters to teach onomatopoeia from instantdisplay.co.uk

 

Contraction Posters from instantdisplay.co.uk

 

 

 

Reading Comprehension / Vocabulary / Prereading Strategies

Free Reading Presentations in PowerPoint These powerpoint presentations are a great timesaver for teachers. Some of the presentations are for kids and some are for teachers to use. You will need to right click and "save target as" and save it on your computer. You will also need Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (free)

Kid's Lab Grades 3 - 5 Comprehension Practice

Building Fluency: Do it Well and Do it Right

Five Finger Strategy For Informational Text A preview strategy

Reading Comprehension Strategies Reading comprehension strategies supported by research and recommended by The National Reading Panel

Comprehension Strategy Posters

Reading Strategy Posters

Five-o A vocabulary game in which students use logic and deductive reasoning to guess a word 

Book Adventure Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes

Reading Comprehension Stories A large collection of short reading selections with questions. Separated into informational and fictional, with levels from pre-k to high school

Reading Comprehension Printables for Grades 
1 and 2

Reading Comprehension Printables for Grades 
3 - 5

Synonym Crossword Puzzle

Awesome Antonym Finder Print this antonym finder on cardstock. I would glue a solid piece of cardstock on the back. Make your own antonym sheets to slide through it

A Beginning, Middle, and End Form In this form for lower elementary students will illustrate and summarize the beginning, middle, and end of stories they read

Vocabulary Development  Grades 3-5

Simile Cards from instantdisplay.co.uk  

ABC Order Practice

Compound Word Cards These are from instantdisplay.co.uk

Vocabulary Worksheets from edhelper.com

Vocabulary Matching Games Created for ESL students, but could be used by other students to expand vocabulary

Silly Sentences Children can build sentences with these cards. Set of 120 cards to use for making sentences.  Includes 30 objects, adjectives, verbs and animals/people cards. These are from instantdisplay.co.uk

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Literature Ideas and Activities

Venn Diagram for Character Comparison

Literary Reactions Students write events that happened in the story and then write their reactions to it

Literature Based Reading Lessons These lessons were prepared for second grade students at Dallas Christian School, but can be adapted for other levels. They include phonics and comprehension activities 

Biographies for Kids -Famous Leaders for Young Readers from Garden of Praise

The Little Red Hen Lessons, crafts, and printable activities

The Three Billy Goats Gruff Visuals Use these visuals for telling, retelling, or sequencing activities

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site Ideas for literature lessons and activities listed by theme or subject on this page

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Click on the pictures to view a larger picture

Poet's Corner A large collection of poems to print, study, or discuss with your class such as "All Things Bright and Beauteous" by Cecil Francis Alexander and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Charlottes's Web Crossword Puzzles

Aesop's Fables Wordsearch

Aesop's Fables Crossword Puzzle

Home Reading Log

Artist's Storyboard Have students visualize the important story elements in guided reading (from Cheryl Sigmon)

Compare and Contrast Different Stories

Prove It Chart Make predictions about a selection and then mark your predictions true or false and add proof

Reading Units Specific books and different grade levels

Literary Genre Posters

 

Book Reports

Bedtime Book Report Students read a book about sleep and then craft a bed from a recycled box. Book suggestions are given (requires free registration at Crayola)

Book Report Forms A variety of book report forms from abcteach.com

91 Ways to Respond to Literature If you're tired of the same old book reports, get some new ideas here

Book Cover Creator Students can use this tool to create book covers for books they create, book reports, and more.

Book Report Gallery Bulletin Board

Book Response Form

Book Chat Checklist (from Rhonda Reed) A checklist to use for teacher conference for SSR

Make a No-Staple Book

Shape Book Patterns

 

Other Reading Resources

Put Reading First A publication from the National Institute for Literacy.This guide, designed by teachers for teachers, summarizes what researchers have discovered about how to successfully teach children to read.

Free Celebrity Get Caught Reading Posters 51 Free posters to order or print with photos of celebrities reading. Includes such personalities as Veggie-Tales, Laura Bush, Miami Heat, Abraham Lincoln, and more

The Open Court Resource Site An excellent site for use with Open Court. Many of the templates and ideas can be used with any series

Biographies to Purchase Have your students read about the lives of missionaries and other heroes of the faith whose lives have made a difference

Read*Write*Now! Reading activities for preschool- grade six

Reading Partners The Read*Write*Now! partners tutoring program. Guidelines for effective strategies for tutoring reading

Little Plays

Free Readers Theater Scripts

Readers Theater Scripts (Gr. 1-3)

Reading Bulletin Board Ideas

Printable Reading Medals, Bookmarks, Certificates and Bookplates

Reading Awards and Incentives to Print Use these awards with these
online books

Printable Bookmarks from Jan Brett A variety of colorful bookmarks to print

Reading Medals   Gold, Bronze, and Silver medals to print and cut out

Butterfly Bookmarks to Print Print out these colorful bookmarks

Bookplates from Jan Brett

Printable Bookmarks from KidPrintables

Printable Bookmarks from Alenka's Printables Some of these bookmarks are in black and white for the children to color. Some pencil shaped bookmarks are in color

National Geographic Bookmark Factory Choose colors, pictures, border, and words.Prints only one bookmark on a sheet

Colorful Shell Bookmarks from Jan Brett

Printable Book Adventure Awards Print bookmarks, ribbon, book ranger badge, or certificates

 

Printable Stories and Books

Free Downladable Books Reading A-Z features thirty  free books and worksheets. 

Printable Stories from PBS A variety of stories from PBS. Many are their versions of well known childrens's stories  such as The Fox and the Crow. This one has another version at the end with the fox learning a lesson 

Free Phonics Readers, Worksheets, and Printable Books

Free Storytime Read the stories online (Flash) and/or print and color the stories

Printable EWE Books and Mini Books from Learning Page. Membership required (free)

Lively Butterflies A counting book to print, read, and color

Books Online   

*Note* I am not able to read every story at these sites. Parents and teachers should preread stories before assigning to children. Please read copyright information for each site.

Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room

Jungle Eyes (K-1)

If I Were a Little Fish

Children's Books Online The Rosetta Project

International Children's Digital Library

Aesop's Fables Traditional fables with the moral listed

Storybooks Online Free storybooks to read online

Aesops Fables Traditional and modern versions of Aesops Fables (requires Flash)

Project Gutenberg Downloadable books in the public domain

Classics for Young People A variety of downloadable books here

Learn to Read Several books to read online for beginning readers with auditory review of sounds

Spelling

Spelling Lessons

Bible Based Spelling Lessons Spelling lessons to go with Bible stories from Garden of Praise

 Musical Spelling Rules Children will learn the spelling rules effortlessly by using these songs from Garden of Praise. Each song has sheet music you can print 

Spelling Strategy: Learning High Frequency Words

More Spelling Ideas and Activities


Spelling Games

Musical Spelling Words

Spelling Cheerleading (visual-kinesthetic activity) I did this activity with second graders last year. It is a fun way to review spelling words and is a great help to students who need the kinesthetic connection.

A Spelling Cheerleading Poster is here 

Spelling Scramble (game)

Sparkle  (game) We played this game in my classroom the day before the spelling test each week. I had the children stand behind their desk and went down the rows. The children loved it.

Bing (game)

Spelling Worksheets

Free Spelling Worksheets from Spelling it Right

Spelling Worksheet Creator Create spelling worksheets from pre-made lists or from your own lists (requires registration)

Spelling Activities

Free Printable Spelling Worksheets

Spelling Worksheets from Teachnology

More Spelling Worksheets (site contains pop-ups)

 

Writing, Grammar, Capitalization and Punctuation

Grammar

Grammar Songs This is from Garden of Praise and is a great way for kids to learn about grammar and punctuation

Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin Students can proofread and correct a passage you choose. When the student quits, a score sheet can be printed. This is fun and saves you from having to write a passage on the board

Color Coded Parts of Speech A kinesthetic lesson

Grammar and Punctuation  Ideas for teaching grammar and punctuation

Daily Grammar Lesson Archives Short daily lessons on grammar and punctuation. These could be used for quick review, centers, or beginning of day activity

English Grammar Exercises for All Levels These are online activities using flash or java

English Verb Exercises Online activities using flash or java

Verb Charades Just print the cards and play

Writing

Sentence Strips Lesson - Exercises in paragraph writing. This is a great idea!

Book Cover Creator

Make a No-Staple Book

What Happens Next Story Starter (lower elementary)

Letter Generator Students will learn letter parts as they write their letter

Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin Students can proofread and correct a passage you choose

Writing Conference Form

Sentence Worksheets

100 Journal Ideas

Simile Lesson - Busy as a Bee

Can You Haiku?

Build Custom Proofreading Activity You type in your story or sentence, and then check the types of errors you want. (requires signup to use)

Writing This site gives information about the writing process and also gives a variety of teaching ideas

Citation Machine for Students The primary goal of this tool is to make is so easy for elementary, high school, college, and university students and other researchers to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to

Student Writing Rubric This rubric is for the student to fill out after writing. It would also be useful in a student conference about their writing, or could be made into an overhead or poster to show how their writing is graded (for grades 2 - 4

Pen Pal Letters

Lined, Decorated Paper for Younger Writers

 

Capitalization and Punctuation

Pasta Punctuation 

Stop Talking Edit and correct a paragraph for punctuation and capitalization

Punctuation Made Simple  This site has the rules for the comma, colon, semicolon, apostrophe, and the dash

 

Miscellaneous Language Activities

Daily Edits Every day language practice

Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin Students can proofread and correct a passage you choose

Language Testing Practice

 

 

Drama

Plays, Skits, and Puppet Plays

*Please Note - I am not able to read every script listed at these sites.  I expect you to do that and decide if a script is suitable for your situation. Also, holiday scripts are on the section for each holiday here

Fools For Christ A great site with plays, monologues, skits, melodrama, and mystery dinner theater. This site was created by Kathy Applebee

Free Readers Theater Scripts

Readers Theater Scripts (Gr. 1-3)

Dramatix Scripts A large selection of scripts written by Christians for drama in churches and Christian schools. Some require royalties, but many are free to use

Free Christian Scripts Over 760 free scripts for stage and radio

Let's Skit Crazy

His Company This drama site has plays, sketches, monologues, and more for free performance by Christian groups

Royalty Free Performance Scripts These are from Whiteslade Drama

Christmas Plays and skits

Thanksgiving Plays and skits

Easter Plays and Skits

Valentine's Day Plays and Skits

Puppet Scripts

 

Costumes

Easy to Make Costumes These  costume ideas from family fun could be used for classroom plays

Christmas Costume Ideas Some of the ideas here could be used for any biblical play

Wings Pattern Two different wing patterns here

Cape patterns

Vest Costume Pattern

 

Miscellaneous Drama Links

Drama Workshop: Ideas for teaching drama

Drama Games Drama improvisations and activities. Choose carefully for your age group

Kids Sunday School Place Skits A variety of skits for Christian school or church presentation 

Arts on the Move Drama information for teachers in an elementary school. Information about drama in the secondary school is here

 

Choral Speaking and Reader's Theater

Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide Information for teachers on using choral speaking or choral reading in the classroom 

Readers' Theater The purposes of using readers' theater are given here along with guidelines for before, during, and after reading


Readers' Theatre Collection A collection of short, easy to read poems and more


The Old Woman and Her Pig This script is from Storycart Press

A Mystery Message A play with a coded message for students to decipher at the end


Readers' Theater Script Adapted from Jan Brett's Book, The Hat


Rumpelstiltskin

Miscellaneous Language Arts

English Puzzles A large variety of puzzles having to do with parts of speech, homonyms, prefixes, spelling, and more

Make a No-Staple Book Make these books in any size you want for a variety of purposes 

Language Arts Mini-Lessons Columbia Ed Center collection of lessons

Language Arts Activities

 

Languages

Latin Studystacks Stacks include flashcards and games

Spanish Studystacks

Other Language Studystacks

 

   

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