Third graders review how they can save their work on a computer once they are finished. As a class, they complete various assignments based on a rubric they are given and save them to a disk. Using the assignments, they combine all of...

Students draw an animal on a white piece of paper and add a background of leaves or flowers. They color the drawings and rip up construction paper that is the same color as the colors they chose for their drawings. They turn the...

Students read orally to increase their reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They listen to the teacher model expressive and fluent reading. They then practice reading orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with...

Student increase their reading fluency using various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students, working with a partner, complete an initial read of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed...

Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...

In this health worksheet, students learn about proper diet and exercise by reading the cartoons and deciphering a secret code about health.

In this word family and American symbols worksheet, students learn about word families and American symbols. They complete an activity in which they create real and nonsense words by combining sounds of the alphabet with 7 different word...

In this middle sounds in words instructional activity, 1st graders circle the words that have the same middle sound as the first word in each row.

In this spring worksheet, learners choose any of the 6 activities pertaining to the season of spring to do with their families. Students also may list the books about spring they have read.

This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will add ending consonant blends [nd, nk, nt, pt, sk, and st] to form words that will complete a short...

This printable consonant blends learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will add ending consonant blends [lk, ft, lf, lm, lp, lt and mp] to form words that will complete...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...

A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.

Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.

Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different...

A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.

In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...

This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will write words with the consonant blend -ang to complete a short story. An answer key and lesson...

This printable consonant blends activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. To discover a hidden picture, students will color each word that possesses the -ong ending consonant blend. An...

This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will add form -ung consonant blend words that will complete a paragraph. An answer key and lesson...

Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.

An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.

Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...