Why wouldn't the chickens cross the brook? Find out in a short reading passage about a mother hen and her babies' daily walk. Second graders answer four comprehension questions after they finish reading the story.

Students explore phonemes. They discuss the digraph /ch/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify the digraph /ch/. They discuss the sound created by the digraph. Students identify words that contain the /ch/ digraph.

Students discover how animals are born/hatched. In this life science instructional activity, students listen to a book entitled Chickens Aren't The Only Ones, and discuss animals that are hatched or born.  Students receive a picture...

Young scholars study the /sh/ phoneme by making the sound, and reciting a tongue twister. Next, they make words that the teacher models using their Elkonin letterboxes. While using the big book version of Dr. Seuss', One Fish, Two Fish,...

Support your fourth graders on the long and difficult journey to fluent reading with this collection of reading passages. Designed as fluency assessments, these short texts help learners of varying abilities improve their...

Can you imagine a pumpkin patch without pumpkins? Learners read how Tammy's family solves their problem in a cooperative way, followed by a set of 10 reading comprehension questions.

Second graders explore short vowels and their help in the development of phonemic awareness. They gain experience of the correspondence /i/. Students illustrate the correspondence by using memorable techniques used in showing /i/ in...

Students sing a song (to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas) that helps reinforce their counting skills.

Students explore the letter 't' and the /t/ sound. Through instruction and modeling they practice writing uppercase and lowercase T's. They say 't' tongue twisters. They identify 't' words on a worksheet and as they are read aloud from a...

High schoolers listen to a story dealing with exponential and linear growth. After reading the story, students complete a table comparing information. Using a calculator, high schoolers graph the rice and daily population of flies....