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Something I'd Like to Learn
It's no secret, writing is a lot more enjoyable when it's about something we care about. This simple exercise engages children in producing original writing, while allowing them to share their personal interest with others.
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Find the Same Word
Assess the spelling skills of your beginning readers with a simple worksheet. Looking at a list of five CVC words, children must correctly match each one to another word with exactly the same spelling. An easy way...
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Choose the Correct Homophone
It's a known secret that English can be a difficult language to learn, and homophones don't make it any easier. Help your young readers tackle these tricky words with this simple fill-in-the blank exercise in which...
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The Great Depression
Try out this reading passage when teaching your class about the 1920s and 1930s. After reading the text, which provides an overview of some major events in these years, learners respond to five related questions.
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Public Education
Your pupils may not know that school was not always required. Teach them a bit about the history of public education with a reading passage and related questions.
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Hide and Seek
Why do certain animals look the way they do? It could be because they have developed camouflage. Kids can read up on camouflage and mimicry and then respond to five questions related to the content of the passage.
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Transcontinental Railroad
Who built the Transcontinental Railroad and why was it important? Your class can learn about the laying down of these tracks by reading a short passage. Pupils then respond to five questions related to the text.
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Fix the Story with Antonyms
Readers correct a paragraph, providing antonyms for words printed in bold print so that the paragraph makes sense.
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Prime or Composite?
Prime numbers? Composite numbers? Prime factorization? After reading a short article about factors and prime and composite numbers, kids answer a series of comprehension questions based on the text.
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Guess Who? Heroes of Civil Rights
Can your pupils identify these five important civil rights figures? Given five short descriptions, learners must match each person to his or her civil rights achievements.
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Civil Rights Word Scramble
Learners set these civil rights terms straight by unscrambling each group of letters. When they are finished with rediscovering their vocabulary, class members figure out what civil rights leader's name the circled letters spell.
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Civil Rights Word Search
Invite your class to brush up on their civil rights terminology by assigning this word search. Class members must find and circle 19 terms in the puzzle.
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The Kid Will Win a Ship
Which word included the short /i/ sound: pirate or ship? Work on the short /i/ sound with your class by using the short poem provided here. Class members read the poem and answer three reading comprehension questions.
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She Needs Less Shell
Supply your pupils with some practice of the short /e/ sound. They read brief poem that includes several examples of words that include this sound. Once they are finished reading, class members respond to three reading comprehension...
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Food Is Our Fuel
After studying a short article about how living things fuel their growth, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions based on the article.
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Repeated Subtraction Is Division
Here's a reading comprehension instructional activity that not only provides a skill building opportunity but also introduces readers to the idea of repeated subtraction.
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My First Hat
Practice the short /a/ sound with your class. To get it down, they read a short poem that supplies many examples of words that include the short /a/ sound. Once they are finished reading, learners answer three reading comprehension...
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Pronoun Match Game
Book goes with it and Sarah goes with she... but what about the rest of these nouns and pronouns? Challenge your pupils to match the nouns and pronouns to each other correctly during this memory-style game.
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Pronouns as Indirect Objects
Pronouns used as indirect objects are the focus of this short worksheet that asks learners to fill in the correct pronoun.
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Fun in the Sun
Don't shun this worksheet based around -un words! Class members read a quick poem full of -un words and then respond to three comprehension questions about the text.
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Relative Pronouns
Do your learners know what relative pronouns are? How about relative clauses? They can practice identifying both of these by completing this worksheet. There are 25 sentences here for pupils to work with.
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The Duck is Stuck
What luck! You've just found a resource that focuses on -uck words. It includes a short poem for kids to read that includes quite a few -uck words as well as three reading comprehension questions.
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Kick the Brick
Your class won't say ICK when they see this worksheet that focuses on -ick words! Learners read a short and silly poem containing many -ick words. They then practice reading comprehension and handwriting by tracing the answers to the...
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Ride a Broom to the Moon
Your class can practice words that contain the long oo sound. Cool! Learners read a short poem that includes many examples of the oo digraph and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.