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Week 9
Syllables
Syllables
Children love to clap. Make learning syllables even more fun by encouraging your child to clap on different parts of their body as the count out the number of syllables in words.
Young children love to clap. Make learning syllables even more fun by encouraging them to clap on different parts of their body as the count out the number of syllables in words.
Fruit Salad: Phonemes and Syllables
Lesson plan
Fruit Salad: Phonemes and Syllables
Stay active and encourage healthy eating with favorite fruits. This lesson emphasizes multiple core learning competencies including phonological awareness and greater than and less than number concepts.
preschool
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Syllable Sea
Lesson plan
Syllable Sea
Familiarize your preschoolers with syllables by taking them under the sea with this interactive lesson about creatures of the sea.
preschool
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Syllables Quiz
Worksheet
Syllables Quiz
Practice clapping out the beats in each word with this syllables quiz. Say each word out loud to help you identify the syllables.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Writing and Comparing Numbers 11-20
Writing and Comparing Numbers 11-20
Your child already knows how to form all the basic shapes they need to write numbers 11-20 from their experience with numbers 0-10. Model how to write these numbers using tracing worksheets as a guide. Then continue to work on numbers from 11-20 by comparing quantities to 20.
Your class already knows how to form all the basic shapes they need to write numbers 11-20 from their experience with numbers 0-10. Model how to write these numbers using tracing worksheets as a guide. Then continue to work on numbers from 11-20 by comparing quantities to 20.
Comparing Numbers Song
Song
Comparing Numbers Song
Make math practice fun with this catchy comparing numbers song.
kindergarten
Math
Song
What's Hiding in the Numbers?: 20
Worksheet
What's Hiding in the Numbers?: 20
This preschool math and coloring worksheet focuses on the number 20. Kids color all of the spaces with the number 20 to reveal a hidden sock picture.
preschool
Math
Worksheet
Comparing Numbers Quiz
Game
Comparing Numbers Quiz
Kids must use a number line to compare numbers in this simple math game.
1st grade
Math
Game
Picture Walk
Picture Walk
Model how to preview a book before reading. Begin by showing your child the front cover of a book, pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and picture. Read the title and look at the front cover, ask your child, "What do you think this book is going to be about? Does the title or cover give us any clues?"
Model how to preview a book before reading. Begin by teaching about the front cover of a book, pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and picture. Read the title and look at the front cover, ask the class, "What do you think this book is going to be about? Does the title or cover give us any clues?"
Going on a Picture Walk
Lesson plan
Going on a Picture Walk
Use this helpful introduction to going on a picture walk and making predictions as a stand alone or pre lesson for the Reading Without Words lesson plan.
preschool
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Reading Without Words
Lesson plan
Reading Without Words
Playing make-believe and telling stories are favorite childhood pastimes. Thus, no matter their reading level, students will love the opportunity to “read” to others and explore pictures as they take a walk through books.
preschool
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Take a Picture Walk
Activity
Take a Picture Walk
Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.
kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Activity
Early Writing Practice
Early Writing Practice
Support early writing by providing lots of open ended writing practice. Offer your child a variety of worksheets, activities, and writing prompts to encourage writing exploration.
Support early writing by providing lots of open ended writing practice. Offer children a variety of worksheets, activities, and writing prompts to encourage writing exploration.
Fill it Up Journal Page
Worksheet
Fill it Up Journal Page
Help your students practice their writing skills using this journal page about their weekend. Challenge them to fill the entire page!
kindergarten
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Emotions Journal
Worksheet
Emotions Journal
This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to create an emotions journal cover to place on a notebook and includes a prompt for students to complete a drawing on the first page of their new journal.
kindergarten
Worksheet
How to Make a Sketchbook
Activity
How to Make a Sketchbook
Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.
preschool
Science
Activity
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