Students examine the border between the United States and Canada. As a class, they are introduced to the purpose of the Peace Bridge which is located from New York into Canada. In groups, they use the internet to research the...

Helen Lester's wonderfully wacky, Tacky and the Winter Games, is the core text featured in a resource packet that includes a prediction exercise, an activity menu, vocabulary flash cards, and book review worksheet. A great way to cheer...

Toss the ball! Help readers listen for the number of syllables in a word. They play an interactive ball game where they toss the ball to a peer and state a word using the number of syllables called out by the teacher. This is a great...

Scholars employ memory and letter-sound skills like the classic game Concentration to succeed at this literacy game. Partners choose from rows of upside-down cards, trying to match letters to images with the corresponding initial sound.

Challenge your pupils to match words to images with these 29 pairs. Each word includes a consonant blend, either initial or final, and should be matched with its corresponding image either by simply putting two correct cards together or...

Build your class's knowledge with a vowel game. With a list of code words for each vowel, kids begin to construct fences with the words that share long vowel sounds.

Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...

Give me a W! Give me an O! Give me a W! What does it spell? Wow! Teach youngsters how to write letters and numbers with colorful tracing activities that include encouraging audio and make writing enjoyable. Soon, they will be writing...

Play a classic game of tic-tac-toc with a Seuss-ical twist. Instead of X's and O's, the game pieces are either hats and cakes or hats and cats. Kids color and cut out their game pieces before sitting down for a game or two.

Weeoou weeoou! What's that sound? It's the alphabet fire truck! Cover the letters of the alphabet and fire engines with a fun letter-matching game.

What do a bird and a shark have in common? Work on r-controlled vowels with a phonics matching game. Kids examine the 12 words on a game board, then add the card that has the correct matching r-controlled vowel. 

Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...

Young children roll and shout their way to victory in this simple number and letter recognition game. Using the included game board students roll a die, move the number of squares indicated, and call out the name of the number...

This fun game is a way to help your littlest learners build strong phonological awareness. Scholars equipped with letter triangles, a stack of picture cards, and counters choose a picture card, say the name of the image, and attempt to...

This neat idea gets kids to use phonics and puzzle-solving skills. Pairs take turns picking picture cards from a pile, say the name of the object on the card, drop a letter to turn that word into a new word, then look for the new word on...

The proper use of the question mark, and how to correctly construct a sentence that is a question, are the two focuses in a wonderful language arts instructional activity. There is a terrific interactive online game that your kids can...

There are words in the English language that actually make sounds, such as vroom, and, buzz. Here is a clever lesson which introduces young readers to these sound-making words. They play an interactive game on the computer that has...

Here is a wonderful online language arts activity for your emerging readers. Learners play an interactive game where they look at two characters who are engaging with each other. They must choose the word from a word bank that best...

If you give your teacher a book, she'll probably want an activity guide to go with it. Have fun learning with a wonderful selection of hands on activities created for the book, If You Take a Mouse to School. Each activity focuses on...

Explore language arts by completing a story worksheet in class. Readers will identify the importance of plot, setting, and character while they write their own short story. They also retell their story to a classmate and participate in a...

Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...

Kindergartners and first graders create a chain of word cards with this fun activity. Participants read the word on the right side of a card, and match the word to the corresponding picture on the left side of another card....

Turn spelling practice into a game with this letter card template. Including domino-sized cards for all of the upper- and lower-case letters, as well as common digraphs, this resource can be used in a variety of ways and is a...

A fun twist on bingo helps your kids learn their vowel sounds. As you call out each word, kids flip the tabs on a gameboard to cover their words and be the first to cover them all.