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...

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...

Add this set of 100 text cards to your classroom routine and watch students' comprehension abilities skyrocket! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know inference skills-in just 10 minutes a...