Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
That’s Amazing!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
That's Amazing! is the theme of an English language development unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Following a speak, look, move, and listen routine, scholars delve into topics; seasons, weather, animals, landforms, telling...
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The Missing Word
Learners, after reading a short story, predict possible missing words by utilizing context clues and graphophonic clues. A picture book with several words covered up sets the scene for this lesson. They share their predictions in groups...
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Language Play
Introduce your scholars to onomatopoeia and alliteration using a language elements worksheet. They examine six sound words and match them to four pictures. Next, learners read two examples of alliteration and write one of their own. They...
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Short A Sentences
Emergent readers use picture clues to identify the missing word in six fill-in-the-blank sentences. This reinforces the strategy of using the pictures in stories to help define unknown vocabulary. If you have time, consider having...
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Sounds: First and Last
In this beginning and ending sounds worksheet, learners fill in the first and last letter blanks in six CVC words. The vowels are all given, so writers are practicing consonants. Use the picture clues provided in order to complete the...
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ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
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Initial Cluster - Str
In this spelling and grammar learning exercise, students unscramble 5 words and match them to the picture clues. They write the correct word on the line under each of the clues.
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Adjectives Cloze Exercise
In this language arts worksheet, students insert appropriate adjectives in 14 sentences with missing words. A picture clue at the end of each sentence will help students choose an adjective to put in the blank.
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Trace the Words
In this tracing worksheet, students trace the words to match the picture above. Students practice tracing 6 words. Students could extend the worksheet by reading the words using the pictures as clues.
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Short Vowels With Clifford
Phonetic masters identify and recognize short vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights select words. They use picture clues to aid comprehension and construct a story by actively choosing and identifying...
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Antonyms, synonyms and homophones
Shed light on what antonyms, synonyms, and homophones are. In this lesson, upper elementary schoolers create pairs using an antonym, a homophone, and/or a synonym. Then they play an antonym matching game.
National Arts Centre
Scavenger Hunt
Young theatre artists engage in a scavenger hunt to acquaint themselves with set design. The challenge is to search the site and match a separate maquette with each of the 24 clues.
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Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly
Youngsters listen to the story, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." After discussing the story, going over new vocabulary, and repeating the rhymes in the story, they study the parts of a fly. They finish by creating a fly on...
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Reading and Responding: Lesson 9
Follow this lesson, which is written more like a script, to practice reading a poem with your class. Pupils read "The Road Not Taken" and respond to five multiple choice questions on a provided worksheet. The plan leads you through a...
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A Is For...
Fun from A to Z! Use a collection of alphabet worksheets to help kids practice their letters. Kids can color and trace each letter, and draw items from a word list to indicate each letter.
Reading Resource
Flower Building Long Vowel Game
Reading can be as lovely as a walk through the garden! Sets of flowers host words that share long vowel sounds, which kids match to the correct flowerpots.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
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All About Kennings
The word kenning is derived from an old Norse phrase. It means, "to express a thing in terms of another." Pupils practice identifying and using kennings in the modern English language. This presentation was produced in Britain, and has a...
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Double Consonants
In this spelling worksheet, students write 7 words by filling in the missing double consonants using picture clues. They write a sentence using each word. They complete 12 more words with the correct double consonants.
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Blends: "gl" or "gr"?
In this consonant blends instructional activity, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that that require them to identify and use words have the "gl" and "gr" sounds. Picture clues are provided.
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Weather Conditions
In this ESL weather conditions worksheet, students respond to the question "What is the weather like?" using the 6 picture clues and scrambled word bank to assist them. Students answer using complete sentences
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Short Vowels
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
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Mox's Shop
In this short vowel /o/learning exercise, learners complete four picture clues with a word that rhymes with fog.
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Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures
Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors.