Help your students master compound words with compound words creations! Using an arts-integrated approach, this lesson incorporates diagrams and illustrations that can lead to understanding the fuller meanings of compound words.

To celebrate Black History Month, students will spend time studying Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as they practice important comprehension skills through journaling and art.

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.

Your students will “eat up” this salad of sight words! In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing words that are tricky to spell.