Cut, color, and paste. Sounds like a trip to the hairdresser. Nope, it's a mini project that requires little ones to color each dog-themed finger puppet, cut them out, and paste the backs to make fun finger-sized friends. Note: The...

Apples are a delicious treat, and this paper book is sure to treat your young learners to reading success through its use of repeated phrases, basic sight words, fun pictures, and rhyming words. A high-interest resource that can be used...

Very young readers and writers are given 10 basic sight words. They must read each one aloud, then write each of the words in the spaces provided. This would be a good way to assess how your kids are doing with their oral reading and...

Young readers are given a list of ten basic sight words. They must read the words aloud, then copy them down in the space provided. This resource might best be used as an in-class assessment. A teacher could quickly hear how children are...

Designed for youngsters who are learning how to write the letter o, the worksheet provides 16 traceable letters. Children practice a set of eight uppercase and eight lowercase letters. Ideal for preschool to first grade learners.

This instructional activity is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination?...

Diversify your young readers' at-home reading habits with this activity. This handout consists of a list of 24 different types of reading materials from newspapers and how-to books to science fiction and poetry. The goal is for learners...

Can your learners distinguish between the long and short e sound? Here they color the words with the long /e/ yellow and the words with short /e/ purple. 

Cut both wheels out of the learning exercise and pin them together to create a word wheel. Turn either wheel to create new words like jet, bet, wet, and set! 

Learners are given a puzzle on which to find 18 pronouns. The pronouns are listed on the bottom of the page. The words appear diagonally, horizontally, and vertically.

In this color recognition worksheet, students write the name of the color of a question mark on the line below it. They draw a line matching the name of a color with a question mark of the same color in the second activity.

Learners try to find rhyming words in the crossword puzzle provided. Ten words rhyming with bake are hidden somewhere in the puzzle; can your young learners find them? Consider having them use highlighters instead of pens to make it a...

In this reading comprehension/visualization worksheet, students study 5 pictures. From a list of 4 sentences, students match the appropriate sentence to the picture.

Like reading, music stimulates multiple parts of the brain. After reading the story, Parents in a Pigpen, Pigs in a Bathtub, learners will practice story retelling by singing this song. These lyrics are intended to accompany the story...

Early readers find 13 words with the -ark spelling pattern in a word search puzzle. A word bank is provided, and an answer sheet shows exactly where one can find each word. None of the words are backwards or upside-down.

After handing back a stack of graded assignments, encourage learners to select a few to add to their personal writing portfolio. There are four slips on each sheet of paper, and all the learner has to do is cut one out, explain why they...