Offer vowel review activities to children still struggling with writing and reading. Keep in mind that young readers who rely heavily on visual cues may get stuck on vowel sounds.
Offer vowel review activities to students still struggling with writing and reading. Keep in mind that young readers who rely heavily on visual cues may get stuck on vowel sounds.
Short Vowel Bingo
Short Vowel Bingo, an educational twist on a favorite classroom game. This game helps kids differentiate short vowels from long vowels.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Long and Short Vowels: "A"
Long and Short Vowels: "A"
With this worksheet, your child will match picture names to creatures representing short "A" and long "A" vowel sounds, then glue the pictures to the page.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Long and Short Vowels: "E"
Long and Short Vowels: "E"
With this phonics worksheet, kids match picture names to items representing short "E" and long "E" vowel sounds, then glue the pictures to the page.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Long and Short Vowels: "I"
Long and Short Vowels: "I"
With this phonics worksheet, kids match picture names to items representing short "I" and long "I" vowel sounds, then glue the pictures to the page.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Long and Short Vowels: U
It takes a long "U" sound to make "music"! On this worksheet, learn to distinguish long and short "U" sounds.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Short Vowel Sort
What short vowel do you hear? Kids must sort by sound in this phonics game.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Go on a 3-D shapes scavenger hunt in your home! See if your child can find cones, cubes, and other 3-D shapes among your household objects.
Start a classroom collection of solid shapes to refer to throughout your 3-D unit by asking students to bring in examples of everyday items, such as soup cans and boxes of cereal.
Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing
Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing
Boost geometry knowledge and enhance creativity with this fun math worksheet.
Sort 2D and 3D Shapes
Can your kid tell the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes? Kindergarten is a good time to start!
Play with Shapes 3
Can your kindergartener arrange the shapes to make a truck? Let her practice her shapes with this colorful and hands-on math game.
3D Shapes in Real Life
To get a better handle on 3-D shapes, ask your kid to match them up to real world objects.
How Many Shapes Are There?
How Many Shapes Are There?
How many shapes are there? They're all mixed up! Can your kid count how many there are of each type?
2D and 3D Shape Match
Kids match common 2D shapes with their 3D partners in this interactive memory game.
Solid Shapes: Identifying 3-D Shapes
Solid Shapes: Identifying 3-D Shapes
Introduce your students to 3-D solid geometric shapes and encourage them explore their everyday space for these shapes. In this lesson, they will learn to look at a ball as a sphere!
Help your child talk about books by using prompts such as: I notice... I wonder... I think...
Offer students "book talk" sentence frames to use when reading with buddies: I notice... I wonder... I think...
Today I Read
What do you think of your book? Write an opinion and back it up with this worksheet.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
"ip" Word Family
Zip and dip in time to the "ip" word family. Use this word slider for rhyming and reading, along with the other word family sliders.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Beginning Sentences
How does this paragraph start? Learn to read for context clues and use inference with this worksheet on topic sentences!
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Preposition Words
How do you explain prepositions? For kids, keeping it visual and fun helps. Try this!
Vowel Sound Clean Up
Children practice their spelling as they organize the objects on the page by vowel sound.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Fantastic Fiction Retelling Stories
Fantastic Fiction Retelling Stories
Use this fun lesson plan as a stand alone or pre-lesson when introducing the concept of retelling a story to your ELs.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
A Day at the Zoo
Your class will have so much fun reading books about the zoo and sharing reactions about the story that your they will be itching for a class field trip to the zoo!
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
This week, have your child write a letter to a friend or family member. It's great writing practice!
Ask students to write a letter about a real-world problem. A great way to introduce this is to have students write letters to the principal about extra things they would like for recess (chalk, bubbles, jump ropes). Give them the framework: "We need more things for recess because..."
Write a Letter to Martha
What would you say to a dog if that dog could talk? PBS KIDS' Martha Speaks can do just that, and you can writer her a letter!
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Write a Spring Story
Grab your colored pencils and your crayons and get your creative juices flowing with a story starter worksheet that lets you add the illustrations!
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Sentence Skills Practice
Stretch a sentence with these clever prompts! Kids will learn all about sentence structure as they come up with ways to expand the sentence.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Learning Sight Words: "Like"
Learning Sight Words: "Like"
Looking for a phonics worksheet to help your child with sight words. This printable will him practice with the word "like".
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Opinion Octopus
Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Weekly Boost
