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Personalized Printing Practice
For this personalized printing practice worksheet, students practice their handwriting skills as they trace and independently write the 10 words on the worksheet.
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I Have a Star Booklet
In this color words booklet learning exercise, students cut apart, color and assemble a 10 page beginning reader. Students read the sentence on each page that says, "I have a (color word) star." Students color a picture to match the words.
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Sounding Out Accuracy: Word Swatter Game
Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification lesson, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...
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The Five Senses
Students participate in a scavenger hunt using their sense of sight. They bring various texture materials from home and discuss how things feel. Students identify the smells inside five jars. They discuss things they hear and why hearing...
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Reading and Writing in the Right Direction
Beginning writers practice writing and reading from left to right using green and red dots. You'll need notecards with a green dot on the left side and a red dot on the right side. Do your learners understand that print moves from left...
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Apple Picking
Students practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme. In this sight word lesson, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words. Students play this game frequently to ensure...
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Dinosaurs
In this reading worksheet, students study and learn the sight words "does" and "may." Students make a 6 page book about dinosaurs. Students color the pictures and read the sentences which contain the sight words. Example: "What does a...
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Bingo!
Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. In this decoding lesson, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.
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Seeds
In this reading worksheet, students study and learn the sight word "they" by making an 8 page book about seeds. Students color and read the pages which have frequent use of the word "they." For example, "They will need water."
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Phonics: Foot (Printing Practice)
In this sight word and printing practice activity, students learn to recognize and print the word "foot." Students write the word in DeNelian letters and color the picture.
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Sight Words on a Snowy Evening
Students read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their...
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A Farm
In this sight and animal words worksheet, students fill in the shape boxes with the correct sight word. Students then write the beginning sound for each farm animal.
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Down By the Bay
In this "Down by the Bay" worksheet, students read the poem, respond to 8 short answer question, review 16 sight words, and color and arrange the 14 pictures in chronological order.
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Pasta Names
Helps learners recognize alphabet letters by having them glue dry pasta over their names. Scholars use a card with their names printed neatly, then decorate it with noodles while saying each letter they make.
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Puzzle Page 2
Beginning readers complete this simple crossword using visual clues. Each word is missing a first letter and has a corresponding picture. Pupils practice printing by writing in the first letter and tracing subsequent letters. There are...
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You Feel Wet!
In this reading worksheet, students learn the sight words for texture: wet, dry, soft, smooth and prickly. Students staple together an 8 page book with an animal theme. Students read and color. In the end of the book, students list...
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High Frequency Word Cards- Full Color
For this vocabulary worksheet, students learn to recognize 36 high-frequency words by cutting and laminating these cards. There are no directions here about their use.
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I Can See Christmas
In this holiday worksheet, students read a story about Christmas. For example, "I can see the holly...I can see Santa Clause...I can see the sleigh..."
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Words and Letters Practice #3
In this words and letters practice activity, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
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The Big Hit
Students are introduced to the phonetic sound associated with the short letter "i" and listen to a story which includes words with this sound. In this the big hit starfall lesson, students build sound letter accuracy. Students also...
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Letter and Word Practice
In this letters and words worksheet, students practice naming letters, saying sounds, reading simple sentences and practicing site words. Parents sign after each of 3 days of practicing the activities.
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Young scholars participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson,...
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Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
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Hanukkah
In this holiday worksheet, students read about Hanukkah. For example, "I see challah...I see a dreidel...I see the Star of David..."