If you're looking for a comprehensive reading and comprehension assessment for your kindergartners, look no further. In this fine packet of worksheets, learners must perform a series of letter recognition tasks, decoding tasks, and tasks...

Use the Visual Thesaurus to predict the subject matter of Rick Riordan's book The Lightning Thief. A pre-reading activity encourages middle schoolers to use context clues and word meaning to discover what the book is about. After they...

Grover creates rhymes to go with a customer's order in this entertaining video. Viewers will love to watch as Grover figures out which words rhyme. It can lead to a lesson on this topic.

Learners participate in completing a variety of activities involving the eight parts of speech while answering around thirty questions.

The activation strategy used to begin this lesson is an "Item Box." This box is full of various, random items which pupils must pull from and name them out loud. After this quick activity, they will participate in a PowerPoint activity...

Kindergartners practice their vowel sounds and word recognition with a simple, straightforward worksheet. They read one word in a row and circle the same word in a group of four. 

A very neat word with multiple meanings is the center of attention in a fun musical video. The Read Between The Lions team of Sierra, Lionel, Leona, Cleo, and Theo get together to sing a song defining the word cool. Kids will sing along...

Sight words, word recognition, and flash card drills are the mode for teaching that is outlined here. To increase weather vocabulary and content specific word recognition, kids with special needs work through flash card drills. The...

Let's practice cutting and pasting! Kindergarteners color four farm animals and then cut out the back half of the animals and paste them on the correct front half. Farm animal names are included to help improve sight word recognition...

Use Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes to create polysyllabic words. Readers use the dictionary to identify what the word's prefix, suffix, and root or base word mean. They define what a syllable is and how one is formed using Greek...

Some words are tricky. Can your scholars quickly recognize irregularly spelled words? Write the word was on the board (or any irregular word you'd like to practice), touching each letter as scholars segment the phonemes. Explain that the...

Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Applicable to grades four through eight, the activity prompts readers to read a newspaper or magazine article to pick out unfamiliar words and use context clues to determine the word's meaning....

Intended for use at a learning center, this activity helps pre-readers segment sentences while building good listening skills. A child listens to a series of sentences you've recorded, then mark all the words they hear on the provided...

Learners work in small groups with a given passage to identify unknown words. They create a list of three or four unknown vocabulary words. They finish by working to find the meanings of the words. Group learners by ability level and...

Pupils determine the meaning of tier-two vocabulary words. They explore vocabulary while reading Amigo. As they read, they record their words in a word journal or on a discovery chart. The words bold, content, pleasant, seek, wise, and...

Provide young learners with 28 common blends in the English language. Organized alphabetically, this packet includes blends such as bl, cr, gl, sc, sm, squ, etc. For each blend, at least four words and their accompanying pictures are...

In this reading comprehension lesson, youngsters take a picture walk, read a story stopping to ask questions, and discuss the events of the story. Work on recognizing words quickly and becoming familiar with punctuation marks and what...

Once you and your class have finished singing the vowel song, separate your class into four different centers. These centers focus on mastering vowel sound recognition. A PowerPoint, vowel cards, and vowel bingo are provided. Tip: Ask...

Alphabet learners identify words that begin with the letter 'X' and then color pictures that begin with this letter. This activity includes 13 problems.

Challenge your learners with this -ail spelling pattern worksheet. Young scholars look at a series of pictures and spell out words that describe the images using the line to the right. This worksheet is pleasing to the eye and...

Tag along with Travis the Train as he encounters various baby animals that live on the farm. The spring time story introduces special-needs or autistic children to the types of plants and animals found on farms, each animal is identified...

Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. For this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...

Evaluate vocabulary by writing definitions of known words and finding out those that are unknown. As an anticipatory set, the class fills out an agree/disagree chart discussing vocabulary. While reading about the American dream, kids...

Primary readers read books in order to practice word recognition, rhyming, and play reading games. They will "read" simple books to reinforce basic reading skills in order to create a foundation. Readers are available to print out along...