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Parts of Speech - Identify and use adjectives (i.e., descriptive), nouns (i.e., singular and plural, possessive), pronouns (i.e., substitution for nouns), and verbs (i.e., tense, subject-verb agreement) correctly. 0101.1.1
| Advanced | Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade (the lowest grade available) then select; Ad for a Clubhouse Kit, TV Program Guide, Meet the Authors, Memo to the Staff, Nick's Mobile Parts, or any one of the mixed practice exercises.
Verbs
Correct Tense - type the correct tense of the verb in the sentence
| Advanced | Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade (the lowest grade available) then select; Play-by-Play Sports, Moose on the Loose, On-the-Spot News, Mystery Hour, The Daddy Awards, Bubbles Toy Shop, Letter to Ross and Rosa, or any one of the mixed practice exercises.
Capital Letters - Use capital letters correctly (i.e., in the first word of a sentence, first and last names, pronoun I, proper nouns). 0101.1.2
Capitalization - [advanced] type the correct capital letter of the words in a sentence
Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade (the lowest grade available) then select; Talk of the Town, or any one of the mixed practice exercises.
Common-Proper Nouns - online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.
Common - Proper Nouns - set two online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.
Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.
End Punctuation - Identify and use correct punctuation at the end of declarative sentences and questions. 0101.1.3
Wall of Words - Choose 5 or 7 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark.
Contractions - Form contractions using apostrophes. 0101.1.4
Contractions - Treasure Trove - Find the correct contraction to fit with the treasure chest.
Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words.
Homophones - Understand that some words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things (homophones-flower/flour). 0101.1.5
Homophones - video that introduces the word to young students.
Homophone matching game - match the air of words, gives clues as to the meaning of he word and also says the word the student selects [concentration style game]
Homophone - Circle the word that matches the picture - for a Smartboard activity or a printable worksheet
Sentences - Understand that groups of words make sentences. 0101.1.6
Wall of Words - Choose 5 or 7 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark.
Word Order - Understand that word order determines the meaning of a sentence. 0101.1.7
Reading Comprehension - Read the sentence, then find the picture that matches the meaning.
Wall of Words - Choose 5 or 7 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark.
Complete Sentences - Identify and write complete sentences correctly. 0101.1.8
Literacy Center - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing component in the Keyboard Section.
Fearless Frieda - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. [From Game Goo (learning that sticks]
Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts with four letter words in this game. [From Game Goo (learning that sticks]
High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences.
Look, Cover & Spell - This spelling site has 30 pre-built lists of words, but you can create your own list. Double-click any word on the list and type a word appropriate for your grade level. Your student gets to see the word, then it is covered and they must type the correct spelling.
Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type the missing letters.
Sight Words - from Quiz Tree - interactive site reads the words to the students when clicked on.
Sight Words - Dolch Words, if you don't know the word, move your mouse over it and it will tell you what it is. Practice the words, then take the quiz.
Spell Check - TCAP format, select word that is spelled incorrectly.
Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present]
Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing]
Alphabetizing - drag and drop words in correct order
Alphabet Game - Round One-Student drags lower case letters to uppercase letters to match. Round Two- reverse process. Round Three- Drag letters to correct alphabetical order.
The Book Game - Organize the out of order books. Click on the picture of the books to play. Click each book to put it in alphabetical order.
Find a Word - Drag and drop each word onto the correct dictionary page. Use the guide words to help you organize the words alphabetically.
Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
Looking Up a Word - drag each word into the right column in alphabetical order
Magnetic Nursery Rhymes - Put the poem back together again. Identify the words and drag them to recreate the nursery rhyme. Use this to practice spelling.
Memory Match - Match capital to small letters in the concentration game style to reveal a surprise picture. As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so the student can go back and read the matches later. [concentration style game]
Paw Park: Alphabet Bears - bears wearing words on their shirts must be put into alphabetical order
Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order.
Show evidence of expanding language through vocabulary growth. 0101.1.10
•Build Vocabulary - Build vocabulary by reading, listening to, and discussing a variety of
literature.
Crossword Puzzles for Young Children - Each week a new puzzle with Dolch words. Clues and hints included. Excellent first start for children learning to work crossword puzzles!
•Word Families - Use word families and word walls.
4 Blocks Literacy Framework - Provides templates, lesson ideas and plans which would assist in the implementation of 4 Blocks. Be sure to check out the Word Wall Grade Level Lists. [these expired pages are from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Word Wall Activities - A word wall is a systematically organized collection of words displayed in large letters on a wall or other large display place in the classroom. It is a tool to use, not just display. Word walls are designed to promote group learning and be shared by a classroom of children. Check here for ideas on how to use your word wall interactively.
•Words in Context - Read high frequency words in context.
LearntoReadfree - Free online lessons with audio - must register but registration is free.
•Compound Words - Recognize and identify compound words, synonyms, and antonyms.
Positional Words - [Smartboard activity to download] Use positional words to describe location (i.e., near, up, below, beside, next to, between, over, under)
•Multi-Meaning Words - Identify simple multi-meaning words in context (e.g., fly, pop, bat).
Homographs (multiple meaning words) - Two definitions are given for the same word. You have to guess which word is being described. (a Quia quiz)
•Dictionary - Use a picture dictionary/beginning dictionary to determine word meaning.
Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word.
Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
Learn to Read - Starfall - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
•Sound Blending - Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful words.
Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more!
Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity.
Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.
Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word.
Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
Learn to Read - Starfall - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
•Rhyming Words - Recognize and produce rhyming words.
Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme.
Beginning Phonics - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter.
Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
Dositey - Dositey.com is an educational web site serving the students, teachers, and parents of the K-12 community. This is an index of their free activities.
End Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
First Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
Learn to Read - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.
Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
Pumpkin Patch - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new phoneme without the beginning letter sound. Excellent practice for students that have a hard time hearing individual phonemic parts! (The pronunciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
•Letter Sequence - Understand that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of
sounds in a word.
Word Family Sort - Click on a vowel to begin, then sort words according to their family. Students can read the words they see and create sentences with them once back at their desks.
Magnet Board - How many words can you make using the same endings?
Blending Bowl - [from Between the Lions] football players crash together to make words.
•Decode Words - Use letter-sound matches and structural analysis to decode grade level words.
Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type in the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers to control the pictures.
Blending Bowl - Football players blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
Drag and Spell - Drag a vowel sound into the slot to spell the word correctly. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Drag the vowels to finish the words before your time runs out.
Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures.
Magic Pencil - [sound files to download] see, and hear, an animation of the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa.
Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. .
Print and Do - Make your own Scrapbook of words and collect a different page each week! Slither your way round Jake the snake or try your luck at Domino sounds and Silly sentences.
Sand castle Quiz - Build a Sand castle and get to know the common spelling patterns for the following vowels; ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere, or all phonemes.
Stories to read - Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
Snap It - How well do you know your long vowel sounds? Your chance to beat the clock and collect the snaps. When you see a pair click Snap! But don't get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point
Vowel Practice - print worksheets to practice the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa
More Vowel Practice - activity sheets to print for your students to practice following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and all phonemes.!
Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture
Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
Write a Postcard - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus phonemes. When you have got them all right, the next sentence appears but this time there are gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word.
•Unfamiliar Words - Use sounding out words, chunking words into smaller parts, looking for blends, digraphs, word families, etc. as a means of decoding unfamiliar words.
Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more!
Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity.
Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.
•Unknown Words - Continue to decode unknown words that are grade-level appropriate.
A Listening Doll - [lesson plan] Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories. Then, they create a listening doll in the tradition of the Native American storyteller dolls.
Copy Cat Jack is like the Simon game. The game starts off with one color and adds a new color when you repeat the order correctly. How good is your memory?
Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on Picture Order and then put the pictures in order to tell the story. (three pictures are presented at a time)
Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last?
Three Stories from the Little Animals Activity Centre - The stories are read to students, and choices must be made during the story. Give your students the opportunity to retell these stories.
Speak Clearly - Speak clearly, properly, and politely, and recognize the difference between formal and informal language. 0101.2.6
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales - Andersen is recognized as a master of the use of informal language in his fairy tales. Choose chronological list to see stories to use with your class.
Talking with a Friend - A Planned Conversation Using Communication Devices - script of a conversation of informal language
Give Directions - Give multi-step oral directions. 0101.2.7
Listen Up - lesson plan; great for learning how to give people directions and following them.
Group Discussion - Participate in group discussion.
• Work productively in group discussion for a particular purpose (e.g., respond to literature, solve a problem).
• Ask and respond to questions from teacher and other group members. 0101.2.8
All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
The Great School Clean-Up - lesson plan ; engage the learners in a school wide clean-up event. Learners will be asked to participate and reflect on the activity by creating a heightened awareness of community based environmental issues and how everyone should be good stewards of the Earth
I Will Not Take a Bath - listen to the story as it is read aloud - determine problem and solution
The Perfect Pet - Which pet should she select? Listen to the story that is read aloud.
The Yellow Gorilla - Why did the gorilla turn yellow? How did he solve his problem?
Retell a Story - Retell a story, describing the plot, characters, and setting. 0101.2.9
Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
Retell a story - Children are prompted to use shapes to drag over text to show where setting, characters, problem, solution and events in the story; 6 stories to select from
Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
Recite - Recite poems, stories, and songs. 0101.2.10
Brainstorm Ideas - Brainstorm ideas with teachers and peers, use graphic organizers (e.g., webs, charts, Venn diagrams) independently and/or in group, draw pictures to generate ideas, and use a variety of resources to gather information. 0101.3.1
Character Trading Cards - This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Notetaker from Read/Write/Think - Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool - The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Story Starters - Here’s a quick writing activity to try every day. First generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Four levels are available: pick 2nd
Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps – Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Classroom Resources - Utilize classroom resources to support the writing process (e.g., word walls, picture dictionaries). 0101.3.2
My English Dictionary - Click on the speaker below to hear the word. Many pictures to expand vocabulary.
First Draft - Begin to compose first drafts using the appropriate parts of the writing process with an emphasis on planning and self correcting. 0101.3.3
Writing Topics - The best way to get into writing is simply to write
Spell Independently - Use temporary/creative spelling to spell independently as needed. 0101.3.4
In Defense of Temporary Spelling - use this document from Educators Publishing Service to help parents understand temporary or invented spelling [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Invented Spelling - To help you decode what your child has written; a chart showing the sound that your child may be trying to produce with different letters [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Logical Sequence - Arrange events in a logical and sequential order when writing. 0101.3.5
Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing - Using the book Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola or any other wordless book with a clear story line and detailed pictures that support the unwritten text students create their own interpretation of the story.
The Grain Chain - Number each box to show the order they should go in, or cut them out and stick them onto a new piece of paper in the right order.
Form Letters - Create legible documents for reading by forming legible upper and lower case letters utilizing correct spacing, writing from left to right and top to bottom, and tracing and reproducing letters and words correctly. 0101.3.7
Rubric Generators from Teach-nology - (scroll past the membership information) The generators will allow you to make several types of grading rubrics by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.
Illustrate Writing - Illustrate written work with simple drawings. 0101.3.11
Amazing Autobiographies - Unit Plan: Students write a basic autobiography based on selected life events, then use technology tools to research, write, and share one's autobiography.
Make Your Own Story - choose a story, select pictures and then type five sentences
Volunteering as Good Work - Unit plan : Throughout the unit students will be illustrating and writing to show their understanding of the concept of volunteerism
Find Resources - Determine two resources to answer a research question. 0101.4.2
Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts - listen to read-alouds of nonfiction texts to identify and confirm factual information which is recorded on charts and graphic organizers. They also use the Internet to gather additional information about the animal.
Dictionary Exercises - This section will help you review and strengthen your knowledge of the dictionary. The 30 exercises are grouped into beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Determine your level of knowledge and then select an exercise from the lists at the site.
Library Media resources - lesson plan explaining a variety of reference materials and a practice quiz
Look It Up! - Child's Elementary Library resource: many different resources to use.
Looking in books - develop pupils' understanding of how different types of books contain specific information, and of the ways in which information is organized in books, including lists of contents, chapter overviews, advance organizers and indexes
Research Roadmap - an interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills from Humboldt State University Library
Using a Glossary - [10 multiple-choice questions] a lab activity to recognize and use the definitions in a glossary as they relate to a text
Using the Dictionary - [20 multiple-choice questions] a lab to use the dictionary to understand the meanings of words in context
How to Interview a Relative - Getting people to share their stories isn't always easy. Follow these step-by-step ideas for a successful family history interview
Interview Your Relatives Before It's Too Late! - Personal interviews play a vital role in compiling family histories and genealogies. It’s important to interview aged relatives while their memory is sharp and accurate
Using Community Resources - Teacher resource for ideas on how to use your community as a resource for your classroom.
Visit the Library - Visit the library as a resource of information for research. 0101.4.4
Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts - listen to read-alouds of nonfiction texts to identify and confirm factual information which is recorded on charts and graphic organizers. They also use the Internet to gather additional information about the animal.
How to Use the Library - [designed for 3-5] students decide which library resources are most helpful in the assignment scenarios the teacher describes.
Library Lessons - [designed for grade 3] Library Rules and procedures
Library Media resources - [designed for grade 3] lesson plan explaining a variety of reference materials and a practice quiz
Look it up - Video on using the library as a source of information.
Looking in books - develop pupils' understanding of how different types of books contain specific information, and of the ways in which information is organized in books, including lists of contents, chapter overviews, advance organizers and indexes
STAR Search: How Do I Find the Book I Need? - [designed for grade 3] steps an intermediate learner goes through in locating resources in the library for information gathering.
Use Print Source - Locate a print source for research (e.g., magazine, book). 0101.4.5
Explore the parts of a book - Click on each of the pictures on this page to learn more about that part of the book. [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
After you finish exploring the parts of a book go to Who Am I to see how much you know! [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Make Your Own Book - There are many fabulous books that you can make all by yourself. Let your imagination run wild with some simple, step-by-step instructions, with illustrations, to show you how to make some very creative and very fun books!
I Can Wash Dishes - put the pictures in the correct order and write a sentence to describe each activity.
Wall of Words - Choose 5 or 7 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark.
Logical Decisions - Recognize logical decisions and choices in reading selections. 0101.5.2
The Town Witch - [sample of a branching story] a story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook]
Billy Bear - [sample of a branching story] a simple story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook]
Make Predictions - Make and adjust predictions in a variety of written and oral contexts. 0101.5.3
And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2)
Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)
Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast information and ideas. 0101.5.4
Copy Cat Jack is like the Simon game. The game starts off with one color and adds a new color when you repeat the order correctly. How good is your memory?
Parade Classroom Anytime Activities - These activities are designed to help teachers incorporate the elements of the newspaper and PARADE Magazine into their classroom. The exercises can be used with any edition of your local newspaper and most issues of PARADE Magazine.
Text Features - Recognize and use text features to comprehend informational texts (e.g., time lines, illustrations). 0101.6.4
Read Books - Read picture books, alphabet and number books, rhyming books, story books, fairy tales, poetry, and nonfiction text. 0101.8.1
Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme.
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales - Andersen is recognized as a master of the use of informal language in his fairy tales. Choose chronological list to see stories to use with your class.
Kids Club Stories [The version that asks your student to do the reading has expired. The links below come from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine.]
Parts of a Book - Identify parts of a book (e.g., front cover and back cover, table of contents, index, glossary, title page, author, illustrator). 0101.8.3
Explore the parts of a book - Click on each of the pictures on this page to learn more about that part of the book. Then go to Who Am I to see how much you know!
Make Your Own Book - (a ThinkQuest site) There are many fabulous books that you can make all by yourself. Let your imagination run wild with some simple, step-by-step instructions, with illustrations, to show you how to make some very creative and very fun books!
Make Your Own Book - (from Enchanted Learning) This activity teaches the student the structure of book and helps them organize their thoughts and writing.
Predict Events - Make predictions about text. 0101.8.4
And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2)
Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)
Graphic Organizers - Participate in the creation of graphic organizers (KWL charts, diagrams). 0101.8.5
Character Trading Cards - This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
Notetaker from Read/Write/Think - Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool - The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Story Starters - Here’s a quick writing activity to try every day. First generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Four levels are available: pick 2nd
Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps – Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
Derive meaning while reading by employing the following strategies: [0101.8.6]
•Ask Questions - Asking questions to clarify meaning.
•Group Discussions - Participating in discussions.
All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
The Great School Clean-Up - lesson plan - engage the learners in a school wide clean-up event. Learners will be asked to participate and reflect on the activity by creating a heightened awareness of community based environmental issues and how everyone should be good stewards of the Earth
•What Happens Next - Predicting what will happen next.
And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2)
Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)
Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension - Read-alouds of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant are followed by activities that help students learn to identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and apply them when responding to texts
Story Elements - Identify the characters, plot, and setting of a story. 0101.8.7
Cinderella - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
Grade One Books Online - Children can read to one another from books that are especially designed to match exactly with Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists.
Rumplestiltskin - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
Shared Reading - Participate in shared reading and small group guided reading. 0101.8.8
Learning Vocabulary Down By the Bay - The lesson uses a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist students in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts.
Read Simple Texts - Read simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondence and high frequency words. 0101.8.9
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - an alphabetical index to a very large number of familiar texts to use for recitations.
Rebus Rhymes - Mother Goose and others - (from Enchanted Learning) - more familiar texts to use for recitations
Stories Online - online reading resource links - uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator
Story Time - Five stories; Cinderella, Firebird, Arabian Nights, Rumplestiltskin, and Ranik the Elephant. There is an online version, or (if you download and install Microsoft Reader) you can hear the story read to your students.
Read Orally - Read orally with fluency and accuracy. 0101.8.10
Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.