Gross motor literacy activities that get kids moving. Combining literacy and movement together is a great way for kids to have fun while learning.
Kids will have fun practicing math and literacy skills while learning about the Vikings for Kids with these FREE Vikings Worksheets!
Storytelling is a wonderful way to build creativity and imagination in your students. How can storytelling activities be beneficial in the classroom? There are so many ways! inspires purposeful talkingraises enthusiasm for reading textsinitiates writingenhances communityimproves writingengages students Want to see how each of these activities work? Watch the Storytelling Activities video on my YouTube
Aloha friends! I have been enjoying the last day of my Fall break and now I am prepping for the next few weeks of school. This is a busy month with lots of fun happening. We will be starting out Nocturnal animal unit this week. I am doing many of the same activities as I did last year. {Click Here For My Post}{Here Is Another} I am also prepping for Halloween. We will be making these cute Ghost Riddles together. This template is available in TpT store and comes with other activities. I am adding some fun crafts to our Word Work and Writing centers for the last few weeks of October. These simple paper crafts are much more fun than worksheets and your kids will love making them. I just sketched them out and used construction paper and google eyes. We will be working on contractions so this Contraction Spider will be perfect. Another skill that we will be covering are prefixes and suffixes. These ghosts are a fun way to get kids to write and create. You could brainstorm some ideas together before they create their own. How about using Frankie to write synonyms? You can make some fun shape poems using any kind of Halloween or holiday shape. Have you been to Target lately? They have some pretty amazing goodies in the Dollar section!! I am going to use those little stickers for rebus stories and the pumpkins are perfect for the shape poems. Those post-its are great for some fun bookmarks and can be used by my students to write bucket-fillers. I seriously had to put many of the items that I originally found back, I was WAY over budget!! I love Halloween and I know my kiddos are going to be so excited for these activities. To top it all off ...
This post is long overdue! It's been brewing for a while. :) Phonemic awareness is a huge part of my kindergarten curriculum. I wanted to s...
Do you know what I love? When I witness little ones overcome something that was once tricky. We all have challenges and things that don't come easily for us. But that moment when we can once do what we hadn't been able to do before—that is a magic moment. I just so happened to catch
Preschool opposites worksheets FREE printable. Teach your kids basic concepts with these pdf preschool worksheets.
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Sounding It Out is a universal concept when teaching a child how to read and spell. These activity cards make the activity so much more fun!!
Print your free rhyming bingo boards and play this game to build phonological awareness skills.
Compound words worksheets, games, activities and more for kids! SuperStarWorksheets.com
This free printable game is a great rhyming activity for kids in preschool and PreK. Just move around the board, say the picture, and name a rhyming word. It's a fun way to build phonological awareness!#phonologicalawareness #rhyming #preschool
My toddler has begun to take a big interest in rhyming words. Just a few weeks ago, I happened to mention the fact that her name rhymes with her absolute favorite cartoon character. I kept saying the two names back-to-back, saying, “They rhyme.” Ever since then, we have made a lot more rhyming word pairs ... Read More about Roll a Rhyme – Rhyming Activity {FREE}
Amazing activities to practise English alphabet - ESL worksheets
Download high quality ending sounds worksheets and activities on d, g, n, p, t, x for preschool or kindergarten class. Free printable included!
Spelling Made Fun is a new and innovative fun, multi-sensory spelling programme developed specifically for Primary schools and has been extensively reviewed by practising teachers nationwide. Features: 18 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings, wordsearches, phonic activities, cloze procedure exercises, opportunities for colouring, drawing and generating their own sentences using the words in the spelling units. Spelling lists with practice sheets for each unit. Using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check technique. Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupil writing. CVC words, high frequency words, word families – old, -ing, -and, -ent, -ook, - all, -ill, -ive, -ike, -eep, -een. Self-evaluation weekly record sheets. Revision sheets. Tricky word bank to record pupils’ own personal errors. An overall record grid to record scores for each unit for both teachers and pupils to monitor and track progress.
Strategies for teaching WH questions to hyperlexic kids (by playing to their strengths)
8 spring ad libs word games for kids, free to print and in full color!
These hands-on beginning sounds activities are awesome for helping kids to learn about letter sounds! Highlight and Hole Punch This a fun activity
Just click the following link to download this list of homophones: Homophones Word List 2 A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word or words, but has a different meaning and spelling. Homophones can really trip up our young readers and writers. It’s sometimes difficult for them to know for sure which […]
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My son started kindergarten this year. He’s been most excited to learn how to read. In fact, he was a little bit disappointed his first day that he “didn’t even learn to read one word yet”. The boy has loved books all his life, and I know that as soon as he learns to read...
Compound words worksheets, games, activities and more for kids! SuperStarWorksheets.com
How to solve letters b-d reversal problems with simple tips and activities.
Is it "in", "on" or "under"? Learning has just become a bit easier with a help of these free printable Prepositions Worksheets for Kids that we prepared. These simple prepositions exercises will certainly be useful for your
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*This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know I’m a huge fan of making literacy as hands-on as possible. To teach my oldest reader (2nd grade), we mainly use the Words Their Way word sorts and the letter tiles from All About Reading/All About Spelling. But every once ... Read More about Open and Closed Syllable Games
The H Brothers activity is a fun way to introduce your students to digraphs. Remember, digraphs are two sounds coming together to make an entirely new single sound. Because this is sometimes a confusing concept for kids, multisensory props and gestures are crucial. Below are a few ideas to get you started: CH: wear a plastic finger and tap on your chin. SH: gesture /SH/ (like you are shushing someone). WH: disable a party whistle and blow. PH: make a hand gesture like you are talking on the phone by holding your hand up to your jaw and extending your thumb and pinky. Make character puppets for the kids to hold (see picture). Tell your students The H Brothers story (below). THE H BROTHERS STORY Let me introduce you to five brothers. They are called the H brothers because they all have the letter H in their name. Ch, Sh, Wh, Th, and Ph. Each brother likes to make a special sound. Wondering Charlie goes around all day thinking about stuff. He wanders around for hours and hours just thinking and wondering. He constantly taps his finger on his chin and makes the /CH/ /CH/ /CH/ sound over and over again. This drives the second brother, Quiet Shawn, absolutely nuts!! Quiet Shawn likes silence. He goes behind /ch/-/ch/-Charlie all day saying /SH/, /SH/, /SH/ to remind him to keep quiet! Meanwhile, the third brother, Whistling Whit, wants nothing else in the whole wide world but to learn how to whistle. He spends all day blowing and blowing…. /WH/ /WH/ /WH/…. but no sound ever comes out! The fourth brother is Impolite Theo. He is the bad boy of the family. He likes to go around sticking his tongue out at anybody who comes close to him. He makes the sound /TH/ /TH/ /TH/ as his tongue comes out. Sometimes, when adults are around, he just sticks his tongue behind his teeth, thinking no one will see what he is doing …/TH/ /TH/ /TH/, but everyone knows what he is doing! He gives a double “thumbs up” because he is so proud of himself! Finally, there is the fifth brother, Chatterbox Phil. He just loves to talk. He is always on the PHone and talks for a long time. When he is looking for his phone, he goes around making the sound /F/ /F/ /F /and asks, “where is my “PHone?” It is no wonder the H brothers’ mom is so exhausted every day. The H brothers make life around their house very exciting!!! For a free download and pictures of a slightly different version of the story of the H Brothers, go to /content/blog_images/2014/03/h-brothers.pdf Samantha Brooks, MSE, Dyslexia Therapist Samantha Brooks is an Intern Instructor with Brainspring Educator Academy. (Original version of this article was posted in May 2017) Learn more about Brainspring’s accredited Orton-Gillingham professional development Learn more about Brainspring’s Michigan-based Learning Centers Accreditation:
Hi everyone! As a teacher using the Orton-Gillingham approach, I am constantly looking for phonics activities that my students will find fun and engaging. Using Orton-Gillingham methods does NOT mean the instruction has to be
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Identifying Antonyms worksheets for preschool and kindergarten students where they read the words and match with the opposite ones. Such activities help kids with word recognition and opposite words.
Kids will have fun looking for nouns all around them in this Grammar Activity for Kids. Simply print the Noun Hunt printable and head out for fun learning.
Hi everyone! It's Bex from Reading and Writing Redhead. Before my school vacation started, I had been thinking a lot about movement. In New England we had a VERY long winter in which we rarely went outside for recess. I had come up with new ways to get my kids moving and new brain breaks, but I had been thinking of ways to get movement involved during the academic blocks. Why save it just for breaks? Today I have compiled a resource of some activities that will get your kiddos moving while they are working on their reading skills. Sometimes it is just a little movement, but if you want to really go all out, some of them require you actually going outside to the playground! Most of the ideas are not mine - many have been around for years, so I have no idea who came up with the ideas originally. Some I found recently so I will share with you where and give you a link and a few I thought up myself, although I am sure the idea came from somewhere - someone did something similar or with the same material but I am using it in a different way. You also may have your own great ideas or ones that are not here so please comment and let us know! Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Catch it! For this, students stand in a circle (or sit) and the teacher says a one syllable word. She tosses a bean bag or small soft ball to a student, who catches it and says the initial sound, tosses it to another student who says the medial sound, and tosses it to another student who says the final sound. The whole group says the whole word again as the bag gets tossed back to the teacher and she picks a new word to try. Dribble the Sound or Syllable: Dribble a ball (and say each phoneme in a word or each syllable in a word. Dribble ball, switch from left to right hand, as say phonemes in a word or syllables in a word for extra challenge and brain work, switch hands as you say each sound or syllable). I'm Going on a Camping Trip: You know the song! Sit in a circle and clap with a steady beat. Go around the circle and everyone repeats the sentence - "I am going on a camping trip and I am going to bring (fill in blank)". At each student's turn, he says the word of what he is bringing. Each student could think of a word with the same initial, medial or final sound as a word you are working on, or a rhyming word. Twister with Blends: I have found phonics and other reading games for Twister all around the web, but this is a new "twist" (haha!) on it. Head over to Apples 4 Bookworms to get the simple and easy (and really fun) directions! Walk this Way: The teacher says a simple sentence like"The lion roars". Students repeat it and take one step forward for each word in the sentence. Then, students say how many words or steps there are in the sentence. It might help for students to hold up a finger for each word to help them count the number of steps/words. A variation is that students can also walk backwards or sideways for this activity. Sight Words Move, Groove, and read: This game is from the blog Mom to 2 Posh Lil' Divas. She has some terrific, creative ideas for learning games. Head over to her blog for details but it involves target words, music, and lots of moving. I want to play this one! Word Family Slam: This one was spotted over at the blog Toddler Approved, but I think kids well into elementary school would enjoy it. You could even do it indoors with a free wall and a soft ball. Head over to get the info. Twister Sight Words: A variation on the Twister game I mentioned that would work well for phonics skills. You use sight words instead. I am not claiming this idea either - A Year as a Reading Teacher has a great post on it. Head over to her blog to read it. Beach Ball Sight Words: You probably have seen or heard of this idea before, but grab a beach ball, a permanent marker, and write your target words. Toss the ball and read whichever word your finger (or thumb - choose one in advance) lands on! Hopscotch: Have hopscotch on the playground? Why not use chalk and on each spot, write a sight word, then toss a pebble, read the word it lands on, and hop away, skipping that space. Bean Bag Toss: If you have bean bags and one of those bean bag toss goals with the holes in it, try labeling each hole (with a taped on sticky or index card) with a target word and kids have to read the word they are aiming for and then read the word (it might be a different one!) that they actually toss the bag into. What else could you use if you don't have something with holes in it already? I bet someone has a creative and easy idea - let us know! Sight Word Bowling - use dry erase markers to write sight words on an indoor bowling set, and after knocking pins down, students read the words on the pins they have to stand back up for the next player. Grammar Jump Roping Rhymes: With your group, create a jump rope rhyme with antonyms, synonyms, homophones etc. (or words from a word family you are working on), then go outside and try it. Kids can teach their classmates at recess, too! Step Forward/Back: Group could line up and students could suggest antonym pairs (students would take one step forward and one step back for each word in the pair) or synonyms (2 steps forward) Syllables Sound Marching: Teacher says, "We are going to say some words that have more than one syllable. We will march as we say each part of the word." Model by saying the whole word, such as "doorknob" , marching first with your right foot as you say "door" and then with your left foot as you say "knob." Practice together and then try some words with students. After each ask them "How many marching steps did you take for the word? That is the number of syllables." Raise Up: Teacher says a two (or more) syllable word. Students repeat the word as they raise both their arms above their heads. Students drop one arm as they say each syllable. Vocabulary and Comprehension Students move like the animals in the story they are reading Teaching prepositions using movement Using body language to show how characters are feeling in the story Playing charades to review main ideas Role play or pantomime to retell important story parts Letter Recognition Alphabet Hunt on the Go: With clipboards, pencils and papers walk around the school looking for examples of each letter of the alphabet. Kids could write the letters as they see them or you could provide them with a checklist. Also, any of the Read the Room and Write the Room activities you see all over the web, at TPT and so on are great for getting students up and moving. Here are a few other resources I found with some terrific ideas: RMC Health - great post on the importance of exercise and movement based learning opportunities in schools Reading.org - useing movement andmusic to improve insttuction Ascd.org - resources on movement and learning Pbs.org - lesson plan resources that involve movement Dr. Martha Eddy's resources for incorporating movement in the classroom Please comment and let us know how you use movement in your language arts lessons. The more ideas we have, the better our instruction can be!
B and D reversals are something I see often in my students reading and writing. I've posted before {here} about some of the errors that I often see in struggling readers and how I correct the errors while reading {here}. Today, I'm sharing with you some of the activities that I use to help students practice differentiating between the letters B and D. Sometimes it seems like my students really just need so much practice and lots of visual cues to help them out. I like to give my students consistency with how I describe the formation of B and D. I always use the sayings "bat before the ball" for B and "doughnut on a stick" for D. This helps my students remember what part of the letter they need to form first. I keep some of these types of activities handy all the time. I can easily pull them out whenever we have a few extra minutes or if I just think my students need some more discrimination practice between the two letters. You can check these activities out by clicking on the picture below or {here}. One of my students favorite games is this B and D Zap! game that's a freebie in my store. We play this game as a "speed" game. I set my timer for 3 minutes and students must quickly say the correct letter to keep a card. We try to do as many as we can in 3 minutes. There are special cards that students can pull, such as the Zap! card. The Zap! card means students must give all of their cards back to me. There is also a skip and reverse card to keep the game fun. My students love playing Zap! You can check it out by clicking on the picture below or {here}. I hope this gives you some helpful ideas for your students!
Practicing sight words can be fun when you squish them! Combine sensory fun with sight words for some great, hands-on reading practice!
As a teacher, one of the things I get asked the MOST about is teaching kids to read. For some children, it comes so quickly and naturally. And for others... it doesn't. So this post is for the mama of one of those "others" (and I say that in a kidding and kind way, of
Free phonemic awareness worksheets for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Printable, interactive and picture-based with answer keys!
Here's a fun worksheet to match the correct compounds to create a compound word.
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