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Vowel Puzzles

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Happy New Year! Or… almost anyway. This is the last post of the year, and I’d like to share with you our vowel puzzles. We’re doing more and more activities these days instead of plain worksheets, so I’m proud to present our vowel puzzles activity sheets. They’re sure to be a crowd pleaser. Try them out today!

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Vowel Puzzles

Reading Activities

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Reading is so much more than just words on a page. It’s the pictures that go with the words, the mental images we make to coincide with our reading, and the activities we do to add meaning to the reading. We have some free activities to help you give meaning to your students’ reading. Have a look!

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Reading Activities

Reader’s Theater

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Reader’s Theater encourages students to act out their favorite parts of a story, or to think of a new ending to a story to act out. It takes creativity, movement, and teamwork. It also requires language and comprehension. It’s a great way to add concrete understanding to a difficult passage. We have some ready-made resources to help you get started.

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Reader’s Theater

Author’s Purpose Song

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Author’s purpose is a pretty dull topic… at least until you set it to music. Figure out why a writer wrote, but do it with music! Make your lessons a bit more snappy and exciting with this lively tune.

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Author’s Purpose Song

Language Flash Cards

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One of my favorite sets of language flash cards is a list of interjections. It’s funny, because many of them we don’t often think of, but we use them fairly often. It’s sort of a lost part of speech, but they can pack in so much meaning into a syllable or two. Here are some examples you can download and print, as well as other sets of language flash cards. Take a look at these interjections and have your students practice one each day!
Aha, Aw, Bye, Boo, Bravo, Cheers, Darn, Eek, Gee, Good Grief, Hello, Hey, Huh?, Oh Dear, Oops, Ouch, Phew, Rats, Shucks, Shh, Thanks, Uh-Oh, Well, Whoa, Wow, Yeah, Yay, Yikes, Yippee, Yuck.

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Language Flash Cards

Preschool Test Practice Worksheets

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The most important things that first year of school is knowing your numbers, your letters, maybe a few colors, and possibly how to write your name. That shoe-tying thing is somewhere in there as well. Sadly, a lot of kids come to school unable to identify or say their letters, so we’ve got to get them caught up. Do a series of pretests, assessments, and post tests to determine success and growing familiarity with letters. Our free resources will help!

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Preschool Test Practice Worksheets

Second Grade Worksheets

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School is in full swing for some of us, or just starting off for others, but we all need space-filler activities during the day or sub teacher activities for those days when the unexpected comes up. Why not make it meaningful, too, for your second graders with some free worksheets from have fun teaching? Second graders aren’t the only ones with activities on that site, either. Grade by grade and subject by subject, there are hundreds of free resources!

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Second Grade Worksheets

First Grade Worksheets

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October is a great time to be doing Fall activities, unless you live in the southern hemisphere, anyway. Assuming you don’t, let’s kick this off with a first grade reading comprehension activity. Students in the south or in arid climates might find northern USA’s Fall season interesting. Similarly, those in the north might find the season of Fall pretty different in the south. This is a great time to pull in prior knowledge and maybe even have your own classroom fall festival!

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First Grade Worksheets

Vowel Worksheets

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So many vowel sounds, so little time… Why not make a vowel booklet for each vowel sound? Worksheets can form a good backbones of that booklet, along with word lists, illustrations, and other activities. This can be a great morning work, centers activity, or check for understanding too!

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Vowel Worksheets

Phonics Worksheets

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How about something for those little guys and girls? I’m sure with the start of school we’re all back to learning the phonemes that are building blocks for all of our words. Start a nice sounds journal with phonics packets, featuring these worksheets from have fun teaching. Practice beginning or ending sounds, look for rhyming patterns, revisit those difficult blends, and much more more!

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Phonics Worksheets