Activities

Build hoppin' new sight word and gross motor skills as you spot, toss, and win! Kids learn school ready skills with every round of Sight Word Toss, a spot-it, toss-it, grab it sight word game from Learning Resources! Here's how you play this fun...

Learn to create and tell stories with touch-and-feel bean bags that highlight key story elements. 15 color-coded, double-sided bean bags feature ten characters, ten settings, and ten events. Includes drawstring bag and parent activity guide.Key Features...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

Motivate young learners to develop fluency with funny short poems they can read with a partner. Follow this up with skill-building word ladders that focus on phonics and vocabulary, plus an engaging language arts mini-lesson on reading, writing, or word...

Give a thoughtful gift that's fun for kids and parent-approved! This Early Reading activity set arrives bundled in tissue, simply wrap or drop into a festive bag – perfect for a present or reward for any occasion. Charming characters and hands-on...

Young learners can't help but feel motivated when they're reading a funny short poem or story with a partner. Follow this up with skill-building word ladders that focus on phonics and vocabulary, plus an engaging language arts mini-lesson on reading,...

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and families—including learning their target language, English. Dr...

Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives— thrive when they are able to use "translanguaging" to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires...

Making inferences is a key comprehension skill that requires students to read between the lines and extract the meaning of a text, even when that meaning is not explicitly stated. Hone students’ inferencing skill with this collection of ready-to-use task...

Using context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words in texts can be very tricky. Teach students this critical skill with this collection of ready-to-use task cards that feature engaging mini-passages. Key questions give students lots of...

Figurative language can leave students so bewildered, you could knock them over with a feather. This collection of ready-to-use task cards can help! Each card features a highly engaging mini-passage with key questions related to idioms, similes,...

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills,...

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills,...

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills,...

Designed for either teacher-directed instruction or independent use by groups of up to 4 students, the Learning Center covers Non-Fiction Text Features. Includes four Visual Learning Guides – all focused on this key topic – for direct instruction through...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

The Edu-Clings Silicone Set: Parts of Speech manipulative is perfect for hands-on grammar activities such as labeling parts of a sentence or sorting words by their parts of speech. This easy-to-clean, 30-piece resource provides a revolutionary hands-on...

The Edu-Clings Silicone Set: Vowels manipulative is perfect for hands-on phonics activities such as swapping out medial sounds in CVC words or making vowel digraphs to complete words. This easy-to-clean, 30-piece resource provides a revolutionary...

The Edu-Clings Silicone Set: Alphabet manipulative is perfect for hands-on letter activities as well as classroom management needs such as making a word wall. This easy-to-clean, 26-piece resource provides a revolutionary hands-on learning experience for...

Give students the strategies they need to determine the meaning of new words encountered in text without turning to a dictionary! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone this must-know skill-in just ten...