Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Dictionary
In this feelings dictionary entry, students click on one of the frogs with an expression on his face; the feeling is stated and a definition is shown. There are also flashcards with the same frog pictures so they can practice learning...
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Quiz
In this feelings quiz, students select the picture and word that fits each definition.
Other
Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a different contextual setting.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling and Vocabulary Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities to build spelling and vocabulary comprehension. Includes unscrambling spelling words, matching vocabulary with definition, context sentences, ABC order, word sort, and word order.
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: 1st and 2nd Grade Sight Word Reading Comprehension: Hot Spell
Read a short literary text titled "Hot Spell," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Adjectives, People, Places & Things
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students are introduced to adjectives as a part of speech. Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Connectives
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart investigates connecting words and phrases, providing examples with different kinds of text. It helps students to identify the connecting words by helping them classify the various examples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Describing Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Children are able to identify describing words in sentences and pictures. They then are able to brainstorm describing words about a picture and write sentences using the words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Adjectives
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies adjectives in shared reading and discusses what they have in common. Students will experiment with deleting and substituting adjectives and noting effects on meaning. They'll...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Word Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer is a word map helping students with building vocabulary. Students are asked to define, use the word in a sentence, give a synonym and draw a picture of the word. This is...
Other
Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
Other
Fantastic Fortune Teller Game One Stop English
Teach pre-school and early primary ELL students animal names and numbers with this fun activity. Instructions and a downloadable copy of the the 'fortune teller' tool (a variation of a cootie catcher) are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Popcorn Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will review commonly used reading words.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Clothes Vocabulary
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items of clothing. Students match correct word with picture from drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score is given based on correct answers.
School Express
Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Blends Worksheets
Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will synthesize what they have learned about nouns and adjectives by engaging in a formative assessment activity using Activotes. Students also evaluate incorrect sentences...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Stems
Use this graphic organizer to help students make a connection when they are reading and learning to what they know about themselves and the world.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Farm Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to be used to integrate phonics into a farm theme used in kindergarten. Students work with story sequence, making words, describing using their 5 senses, and listening to and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Building Creative Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...