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March ABC Order
Reinforce alphabetizing and spelling skills while getting into the St. Patrick's Day spirit with a festive word sort that challenges young scholars to place and write words in alphabetical order.
Mrs. Perkins
21 Dolch Sight Word Activities
Strengthen your pupils' understanding of Dolch sight words with a packet of ideas. Kids can create stories, play bingo, make booklets, compose silly sentences, alphabetize, and much more.
Curated OER
Around The Town
Students participate in alphabetizing letters, coming up with questions and concepts, and show the rules of phonics by playing a game for a unit opener. In this language arts lesson plan, students also come up with thinking maps.
Teacher's Guide
Valentine's Day Activity Booklet
A five-page activity booklet contains nine activities with a variety of English language arts skills. Youngsters practice counting syllables, identifying synonyms and antonyms, alphabetizing words, writing, and use other grammar skills...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter- Sound Correspondence, Brown Bag It
Sorting objects according to their initial sound get scholars thinking about letter-sound correspondence. With 26 brown bags labeled with a letter of the alphabet, learners browse magazines and cut out images that begin with the...
Curated OER
Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Young learners use the provided worksheet to locate and record the names of 26 items that begin with letters of the alphabet. As an extra challenge, scavengers hunt the objects in alphabetical order.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
Reading Is Fundamental
Summer Fun...
Extend learning through summer with these activity ideas! Individuals can choose one or all nine of the activities, which range from a summer reading goal to an examination of local insects (with accompanying story prompt). See the...
Computer Science Unplugged
Lightest and Heaviest—Sorting Algorithms
How do computers sort data lists? Using eight unknown weights and a balance scale, groups determine the order of the weights from lightest to heaviest. A second worksheet provides the groups with other methods to order the weights. The...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Recognizing Letters
Boost letter recognition with an activity that challenges young scholars to match a plastic letter to one printed on a card.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter Recognition, Alphabet Tiles Name Sort
Beginning readers practice identifying alphabet letters using upper and lower case letter tiles. Each class member is given a T-chart, letter tiles, and a name card. They then separate the letter tiles in their name from those not in...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Words Around Us Memory Game
Scholars employ memory and letter-sound skills like the classic game Concentration to succeed at this literacy game. Partners choose from rows of upside-down cards, trying to match letters to images with the corresponding initial sound.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Sound it-Bag it
Scholars sort picture cards based on the initial phoneme they hear as they say the name of each image. They pick a card, say its name, then place it in one of five bags based on how its initial phoneme matches the initial phoneme...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match
Scholars match initial, medial, and final phonemes to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter that makes that sound. If the card is a monkey, the learner finds the letter m, matching the grapheme to the...
Curated OER
Distances Between Houses
This resource sneaks in the math so your learners will be adding and subtracting positive and negatives on a number line while thinking they are mapping out houses. The activity starts by putting houses the appropriate distance away from...
Curated OER
Cultures of Our World
Students eat food, make crafts, read books, and wear costumes all to learn about another culture. In this culture lesson plan, students can also go to a museum.
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Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Letters 1
Practice putting these capital letters in alphabetical order. Mistakes are not allowed to remain, but count against your final score.
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Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabet Letters 2
Great practice for beginners. Click on each letter (lower case only) in alphabetical order. The program does not allow the user to put letters in the wrong order, but the mistakes count against the final score.
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Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 1
Practice alphabetizing, or use as a quiz. Click on the words and put them in the correct order. You get a score at the end, and encouragement.
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Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 2
Play as a game or use as a quiz, put the words in alphabetical order.
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Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 3
Put the words in alphabetical order and hear the cheers as you place each one correctly.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
Van Gogh Gallery
Vincent Van Gogh Gallery: Drawings
This site offers tremendous drawings by Vincent van Gogh that are listed in alphabetical order. Peruse through the listings and gaze upon some of the most creative works of art in history.
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Alphabetical Listing of Battles of the Revolutionary War
A list of battles with dates for each in alphabetical order.