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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.
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1. Adjectives
   1. All about adjectives - interactive show to use with whole class
   2. Adjectives - find the correct adjective in the sentences.
2. Nouns
   1. Irregular Plurals - Match the related words, singular to plural. [concentration style game]
   2. Nouns and Pronouns - Complete sentences with correct noun or pronoun.
   3. Noun Dunk - Classify words as common nouns, proper nouns or not a noun. Score points for correct answers.
   4. Plural Nouns - add s or es
   5. | 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.
3. Verbs
   1. Correct Tense - type the correct tense of the verb in the sentence
   2. Verbs - Chose sentence with correct verb.
   3. | 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.

1. Capitalization - [advanced] type the correct capital letter of the words in a sentence
2. Power Proofreading - Choose 2nd grade then select; Talk of the Town, or any one of the mixed practice exercises.
3. Common-Proper Nouns - online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.
4. Common - Proper Nouns - set two online quiz - select if word is proper or common noun.
5. Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.

1. Find the correct sentence - choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation
2. Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks - an eleven question quiz
3. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
4. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation.
5. Sentences - Telling sentences or questions - online lesson and practice
6. Telling Sentences or Questions - a six slide PowerPoint show

1. Contractions - Treasure Trove - Find the correct contraction to fit with the treasure chest.
2. Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words.
3. Contractions - Quia quiz - match contractions
4. Full Stop -HMS Sweet Tooth - game, worksheet and teacher resource

1. Homophones - video that introduces the word to young students.
2. 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]
3. Homophone - Circle the word that matches the picture - for a Smartboard activity or a printable worksheet

1. Lionel's Tall Tales - put groups of words together to make a sentence
2. Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences - lesson plan

1. Reading Comprehension - Read the sentence, then find the picture that matches the meaning.
2. Reading Comprehension Set two - Read the sentence, then find the picture that matches the meaning.

1. Build a Sentence - Drag scrambled words to create a sentence.
2. Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order.
3. 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.
4. Scrambled Sentences - Click on the words in order to make a sentence.
5. Scrambled Sentences - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence.
6. Scrambled Sentences - Use in Internet Explorer only. Click and drag the words/pictures into the box to form a complete sentence
7. Scrambled Stories - students select one of six stories, select from a list of words, and then see the story that they scrambled
   1. Scrambled Stories Teacher's Guide - suggestions on how to use the stories in grades K-6
8. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on Word Order and then drag the groups of words to make a sentence. Each of the 15 sentences have three parts.

1. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
2. Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
3. Dolch Sight Words - games and activities
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. Fry's 300 Instant Sight Words - PDF document
7. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences.
8. 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.
9. Missing Letters - Find the matching sight word and type the missing letters.
10. Sight Words - from Quiz Tree - interactive site reads the words to the students when clicked on.
11. Sight Word Activities and Games - from Readquarium
12. Sight Words - Reading Games from Mansfield/Richland County Public Library
13. Sight Words - read and copy sight words
14. 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.
15. Spell Check - TCAP format, select word that is spelled incorrectly.
16. Spell words - drag letters to create word.
17. Spelling - put the letters in order to create the word that is said aloud.
18. SpellBound - see the word spelled correctly, then the letters are mixed up and you must put them in order again.
19. Star Words - This activity provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of the 200 or so high frequency words

1. C-V-C Words
   1. Activity sheets (c-v-c words) find the missing letter; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u
      1. More Activity sheets (c-v-c words) practice the following; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u
   2. Chicken Stacker - try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them
   3. Drag and Drop - Read the CVC word, then drag the picture that matches the word in the box.
   4. Magic Pencil - see, and hear, animation of c-v-c words using the following; n, g, d, m, p, a, e, i, o, and u
   5. Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound - Students hear a word and click on the CVC word they sound out that matches the word that was said.
   6. Put it on the Shelf - Sound out CVC words and match with correct picture.
   7. Short Vowel Take Home Cards - Print these out for your students! Great practice for homework or school work!
   8. Vowel Sound Drag - Drag a vowel sound to complete the word. Upper Primary Level spelling activity.
   9. Whirlyword Machine - a 'fruit machine' that makes 3 letter CVC words (3 levels of play)
2. Spelling - Click on the misspelled word and then fix it. For different words and spelling activities, check here

1. ABC Order Practice - Put these words in alphabetical order.
2. Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present]
3. Alphabetize - connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing]
4. Alphabetizing - drag and drop words in correct order
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Find a Word - Drag and drop each word onto the correct dictionary page. Use the guide words to help you organize the words alphabetically.
8. Haunted Alphabet - Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
9. Looking Up a Word - drag each word into the right column in alphabetical order
10. 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.
11. Missing Letter - Type the letter that is missing
12. 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]
13. Paw Park: Alphabet Bears - bears wearing words on their shirts must be put into alphabetical order
14. Word Order - Drag the words in alphabetical order.

1. 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!
2. Classroom Reading Key Vocabulary Building Program - a reading vocabulary improvement program that has identified the specific reading words students need to master for each grade
3. Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.
4. What's the Word? - a reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game.

1. 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.
2. 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.

1. LearntoReadfree - Free online lessons with audio - must register but registration is free.

1. Antonym Practice - select the antonym of given word.
2. Synonym Practice - select the synonym of given word.

1. Directional and Positional Words - a 15 slide PowerPoint show [written by Martha McKinnon]
2. Positional Words - [Smartboard activity to download] Use positional words to describe location (i.e., near, up, below, beside, next to, between, over, under)

1. Homographs (multiple meaning words) - Two definitions are given for the same word. You have to guess which word is being described. (a Quia quiz)

1. Internet Picture Dictionary - browse by letter or category
2. Little Explorers - English Picture Dictionary

1. Phoneme Pop - Click on the letters that match the phoneme. very basic
2. Phonemic Awareness Picture Cards - Print these cards and use them to help students recognize sounds.
3. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made.

1. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made.
2. Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word.
3. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
4. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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!
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Practice with Initial Consonant Blends - matching exercise with initial consonant blends
7. 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.
8. Two Letter Ending Consonant Blends - multiple-choice exercise

1. Phonemic Segments - Hay Loft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made.
2. Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word.
3. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
4. 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.

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.
2. Concentration Game - match the words that rhyme
3. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match
4. Memory Cards - [concentration style game] Here's a memory card game with a twist - match pairs of rhyming words.
5. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
6. Rhyming Practice - several match games
7. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with
8. Rhyming Words - Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.
9. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

1. Beginning and ending sounds, plus digraphs - concentration style games
2. Beginning Phonics - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. End Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
6. First Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
7. Lanolin's Greenhouse - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement. (The pronunciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
8. 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.
9. Match beginning sound - type the beginning sound of each picture.
10. Match of Mystery - match words that have the same middle vowel sounds
11. Missing Word - The Word Dropping Cat - Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
12. Parrot the Words - Which Bird is Correct? - pick the bird that is saying the written word and drag the parrot over to the word.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
14. 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)
15. Sound it out - Cat and the Words from the Hat - Click on the word that the cat says aloud. (warning-British accent may confuse some students)
16. Target Tests and Target Lessons that Teach Phonics - print these and use as posters
17. Use the Wordmaker from Read-Write-Think - select an ending sound then make words with that ending sound
18. Word Families - create new words from word endings

1. Clap and Count Practice Index - many online quizzes; clap syllables
2. Phonological Awareness: Syllables Counting Quiz - Quia quiz
3. Reference Skills: Syllabication - printables from EdHelper
4. Syllable Quiz - Identify the number of syllables in ten words
5. Syllable Quiz 2 - identify where two syllable words should be divided
6. Syllable Quiz 3 - identify where two or three syllable words should be divided
7. Syllable Rules for Students: Black line masters - Posters of simplified spelling rules to enlarge for classroom display or reduce to give to students.
8. Syllabication Rules - print these as large flash cards

1. Beginning letter sounds - select the ending family and add a beginning letter to create a word that matches the picture
2. Lanolin's Greenhouse - Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement.
3. Fishing with Phonics - select beginning consonants or ending consonants and choose a level - find the missing sound and drag the card into the space.

1. Phoneme Substitution, Name Game - lesson plan
2. Whirlyword Machine - Pick level 2 - Spin the first or the third reel to make new words with the same middle vowel.

1. ABC Gulp - click on the frog to begin and then click on the letter that is named.
2. Missing Letters of the Alphabet - type in the missing letter
3. Where's my match? - match upper and lower case letters.

1. 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.
2. Magnet Board - How many words can you make using the same endings?
3. Blending Bowl - [from Between the Lions] football players crash together to make words.

1. Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type in the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers to control the pictures.
2. 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!
3. Chicken Coop - phoneme matching
4. CVC Pop - select the word that matches the picture.
5. Dolch Site Words - Reading Games

1. Compound words - Quia quiz
2. Contractions - Treasure Trove - Find the correct contraction to fit with the treasure chest.
3. Contractions - type the contraction beside the two words.
4. Contractions - Quia Quiz, match contractions
5. Full Stop -HMS Sweet Tooth - game, worksheet and teacher resource
6. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
7. Punctuation - [eleven question quiz] end the sentence with the correct punctuation

1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph
2. Chicken Stacker - try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them
3. Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture
4. CVC Maker - create words and sound them out.
5. 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.
6. Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending
7. Long and Short Vowel Match - match words by the vowel sounds that are the same
8. Long Vowels - Show what you know about the different long vowel sounds.
9. Long Vowel Sounds e, u - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
10. Long Vowel Sounds a, i, o - Identify the long vowel sounds in each word.
11. Long Vowel Words - Find the short and long vowel words that match the pictures.
12. 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.
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
14. Poem Pack - Ten colorful, animated poems with voice over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. .
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Stories to read - Beginning books per vowel sound for reading out-loud practice.
18. Short Vowel Practice - select correct spelling of word
19. Short Vowel Words - Find the short vowel words that match the pictures.
20. Short or Long Vowel Words - Find the words that match the pictures.
21. 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
22. Vowel Practice - print worksheets to practice the following vowel phonemes; ow, oy, ar, deep u, air, or, aw, ir, ear, and schwa
    1. 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.!
23. Vowel Digraphs - select correct digraph to match picture
24. Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
25. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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!
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

1. Not Too Little to Help - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read
2. Happy Mother's Day, dear Dragon - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read
3. Dragon Goes to the Farm - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read
4. A House is a Tree - Starfall book - click on a letter to hear it read
5. Things that Can go - Starfall book click on a letter to hear it read

1. Rules for Listening - List of rules to discuss
2. 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.
3. Rules for Listening - PDF file

1. The Pig Waller - Listen to the word and find the written word.
2. I Can Read - Listen to the sentence and then answer the question.
3. Listening And Doing - activities to help students learn listening skills
4. Won't Listen, Won't Mind - Parenting suggestions from Positive Discipline

1. ADHD at School: Helping Children Follow Directions - Strategies to help children with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD) focus and sustain attention in the classroom.
2. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
3. 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?
4. Follow directions - Lesson and activity
5. How Well Do You Follow Directions - a lesson plan from Education World

1. I Can Wash Dishes - The pictures on this sheet are supposed to tell a story but are in the wrong order.
2. Monkey Business: Rain Forest Run Around - Click on the words to put them in correct order. (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
3. Sequence of Events - arrange events in chronological order. (Author - Lois Davis)
4. Sequence the Story - (drag the pictures in the correct order) Students can have the story read to them if necessary.
5. Sequencing - Choose from a long list of sequencing activities at Quia
6. Sequencing Worksheet - Read each sentence. Use the numbers 1, 2, and 3 to show the sequence.
7. Stories to Retell - Read stories online, then retell
8. 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)
9. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last?
10. 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.
    1. The Missing Pencil -
    2. The Butterfly Trail -
    3. The Wishing Tree -

1. Conversation Skills: Helpful Hints - useful for people who are working on improving conversation skills
2. Having a Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format
3. Polite Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format
4. When It's Time to Talk - Read each statement then circle 'yes' or 'no.' - pdf format

1. 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.
2. Talking with a Friend - A Planned Conversation Using Communication Devices - script of a conversation of informal language

1. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
2. Listen Up - lesson plan; great for learning how to give people directions and following them.

1. All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
2. Group Discussion Scoring Guide Rubric - PDF file
3. 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
4. I Will Not Take a Bath - listen to the story as it is read aloud - determine problem and solution
5. The Perfect Pet - Which pet should she select? Listen to the story that is read aloud.
6. The Yellow Gorilla - Why did the gorilla turn yellow? How did he solve his problem?

1. Animals - Match pictures to correct sentence.
2. 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.
3. Let’s Retell A Story - PDF file - activity guide and posters
4. Playground Fun - Match pictures to the correct sentence.
5. 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
6. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
7. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.

1. All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing - lesson plan - understand more deeply the qualities of verse - the importance of sound, compactness, internal integrity, imagination and line.
2. KIDiddles - Lyrics to your favorite songs
3. Nursery Rhymes - collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is offered by themes listed below
4. Poetry for the Elementary Classroom - lesson plan - stress an oral emphasis and methods of incorporating poetry into different curricular areas
5. Songs and Poems - songs and poems categorized by theme

1. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
2. Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
3. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
4. Graphic Organizers from Education Place
5. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
6. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
7. Interactive Venn Diagram - good for whole class activity
8. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
9. 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 K-1st
10. Tips on Making Your Own Concept Maps

1. Word Wall ideas - making your word wall interactive
2. My English Dictionary - Click on the speaker below to hear the word. Many pictures to expand vocabulary.

1. Seasonal Sentence Starters - Make Journal Writing easy for your Elementary students
2. Writing Topics - The best way to get into writing is simply to write

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Sequence Chart for Writing - List steps or events in time order

1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - Look and Write - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Write a sentence that tells about the picture

1. Handwriting Practice Worksheets Letters - Scroll to the bottom to the handwriting section
2. Young Writers' Workshop - Story starters for young writers. Print the pages and let the child write the rest of the story
3. Writing Wizard - Makes English handwriting practice worksheets Type in a word or short sentence and then set a number of display options.
4. Zaner-Bloser Writing Practice - Dotted practice, letters to color and trace and more from abcteach.com

1. School to home help sheet - Use suggestions from parents to help revise writing.

1. Writing Rubrics - use this to evaluate writing

1. Make Your Own Story - choose a story, select pictures and then type five sentences

1. How do changes in weather affect our daily life? - unit plan
2. The Life and Times of Tomie DePaola - Do you ever wonder where authors find ideas for stories? unit plan
3. How do the ways frogs grow and change compare and contrast with the ways people grow and change? - unit plan

1. 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.

1. Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes! - unit plan that can be adapted

1. 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!

1. Brushing your teeth - put sentences in sequence
2. Make Toast - put sentences in sequence
3. Doing the dishes - put sentences in sequence
4. Making Tea - put pictures in order
5. I Can Wash Dishes - put the pictures in the correct order and write a sentence to describe each activity.

1. The Town Witch - a story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook]
2. Writing a Branching Story Using Excel - a step by step module on writing with Excel

1. And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
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)
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. 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)
5. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
6. 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
7. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. Compare two characters - a chart to write notes about your characters
2. Three Little Pigs - lesson plan

1. ADHD at School: Helping Children Follow Directions - Strategies to help children with attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD) focus and sustain attention in the classroom.
2. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
3. 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?
4. Follow directions - Lesson and activity
5. How Well Do You Follow Directions - a lesson plan from Education World

1. Tale of Peter Rabbit - select What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.

1. How Does My Garden Grow? - Writing in Science Field Journals - lesson plan
2. 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.

1. Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic - Students use a timeline to break a larger topic into several events or moments; then, each student selects an event to write about from the timeline

1. Pics from the Web - free downloads - select from many pictures from which to respond
2. Lit2Go - free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 (audiobook) format
3. StoryPlace - many books to listen to with activities to go along with it.
4. Storynory - free audio books for children.

1. Let's use the Library - article on how to help students learn to use a library.

1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture
2. Pics from the Web - free downloads - select from many pictures from which to respond

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.
2. Concentration Game - match the words that rhyme
3. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match
4. 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.
5. Memory Cards - [concentration style game] Here's a memory card game with a twist - match pairs of rhyming words.
6. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture
7. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
8. Rhyming Practice - several match games
9. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with
10. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.
11. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

1. Real or Make Believe - from Tina's world at Game Goo
2. Fantasy or Reality - read sentence and decide which is fantasy and which is reality.
3. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are make believe
4. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are real

1. 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!
2. Locate Information in a Books - Learn about the table of contents
3. 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!
4. Make Your Own Book - (from Enchanted Learning) This activity teaches the student the structure of book and helps them organize their thoughts and writing.
5. Using the Parts of a Book - a worksheet from Teach-nology
6. Using an Index for Information - a worksheet from Teach-nology
7. Using a Table of Contents - a worksheet from Teach-nology

1. And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
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)
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. 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)
5. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
6. 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
7. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
2. Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
3. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
4. Graphic Organizers from Education Place
5. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
6. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
7. Tips on Making Your Own Concept Maps
8. Interactive Venn Diagram - good for whole class activity.
9. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)

1. Question to Clarify - interactive lesson

1. All Kinds of Feelings - Lesson plan; Children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year.
2. Group Discussion Scoring Guide Rubric - PDF file
3. 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

1. And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
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)
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. 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)
5. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
6. 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
7. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories - Drawing can create a bridge between the ideas in a child's head and the blank piece of paper on the desk

1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Circle the sentence that tells about the picture

1. 5 W's Chart - use this printout as a guide
2. 5 W's Pumpkin Poems - Each line in this type of poem answers one of the 5 W's

1. Making connections between things that happen in a story - worksheet for family involvement
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

1. Animals - Match pictures to correct sentence.
2. Cinderella - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
3. 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.
4. Playground Fun - Match pictures to the correct sentence.
5. Rumplestiltskin - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
6. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
7. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.

1. 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.

1. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - an alphabetical index to a very large number of familiar texts to use for recitations.
2. Rebus Rhymes - Mother Goose and others - (from Enchanted Learning) - more familiar texts to use for recitations
3. Stories Online - online reading resource links - uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator
4. 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.

1. Kitty wants a Box - Read story online; helps understand spatial concepts.