Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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Fix It Fun
Young learners practice spelling and phonics with this quick vowel instructional activity. For each of the seven words provided, they must unscramble the letters and write the full word on the line provided.
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Leapin' Lizards
The lizard needs to leap from rock to rock without getting bitten! Each rock has a word on it, but watch out for snakes! The safe rocks start with the same sound as lizard, and they can be colored purple. Give your learners a fun...
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4 Square!
In this phonics activity worksheet, learners explore the ou sound as they play phonics 4 square on the 4 provided grids. A word bank is included.
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Zoom!
In this phonics worksheet, students color words blue that begin with the same sound as yak, color words green that begin with the same sound as zebra, and color words red that begin with the same sound as vase.
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Crazy Crossword
In this long vowel I activity, students complete a crossword puzzle from a word bank containing eight words containing the long vowel I in them.
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Ben's Bedroom
In this consonant B activity, students read ten words and circle each one that begins with the same sound as ball. Students then color in the picture with vibrant colors.
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Chuggin' Choo Choo
For this consonant digraph CH activity, students circle the word in three train sets that begin with the same sound as check and then circle the word in three train sets that end with the same sound as match.
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Double Time
In this phonics and double consonants activity, students examine five words and use them to fill in the blanks in five sentences.
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Morning Mania
For this phonics beginning consonant m activity, students examine 10 words and identify the words that begin with the /m/ sound.
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Sneaky Ship
In this phonics beginning consonant s activity, students examine 14 words and color those that begin with the letter s to find the picture in a puzzle.
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Silly Willy
In this phonics practice instructional activity, students unscramble 7 sets of letters to reveal words that end with -y. Picture clues are provided.
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What Do You See?
In this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words and identify those that have the long e sound. Students then find the pictures of each the circled words in the picture.
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Ned's Red Guitars
For this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words that have "ea" in them. Students color the guitars with the long e sound red and those with the long a sound gray.
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The New Stew
In phonics practice activity, students examine 10 words, color the words that have the long u vowel sound and put an x on the words that do not have the long u vowel sound.
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Check It Out
In this phonics practice activity, students examine 7 pictures that have the diphthongs. Students fill in the blanks in the crossword puzzle by using the provided clues and the word bank.
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Ben's Bedroom
In this consonant B activity, learners read ten words and circle each one that begins with the same sound as ball. Students then color in the picture with vibrant colors.
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Flying High
In this beginning reading instructional activity, learners complete a picture by coloring spaces with words beginning with the same first sound as a kangaroo in black. They color spaces with the same beginning sound as a jack-in-the-box...
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Long Vowels
Keep things short and sweet for your young learners with a simple long vowel worksheet. Presented with four long vowel words with the vowels missing, children must correctly identify and write in the letters that complete...
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Oh Deer!
In this identifying the long o sound words activity, students observe a puzzle with words written on each piece, color the words with long o sounds brown, and the remaining words green. Students color 17 puzzle pieces.
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My Grandpa
In this sequencing parts of a story instructional activity, learners read a short story, observe pictures, and number the pictures in the correct order. Students write 6 answers.
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What A Day!
In this completing sentences worksheet, students fill in the blanks with long o words and then circle those word pictures hidden in a scene. Students write 10 answers.
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Find the Same Word
Assess the spelling skills of your beginning readers with a simple activity. Looking at a list of five CVC words, children must correctly match each one to another word with exactly the same spelling. An easy way...
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Scare the Crows
In this long vowel O activity, students determine which shapes on the page contain words with the long vowel O sound. Then, they cut them out and glue them together on another piece of paper to create a scarecrow.