Give your youngsters a comprehensive introduction to the importance of washing hands and preventing the spread of germs in three activities, which include identifying what germs are, discovering where germs live, and practicing a...

Young astronomers travel through the solar system in the pages of this printable book. With clear pictures and simple sentence structure, this is a perfect resource for exploring the planets in the early elementary grade levels.

Young scientists explore the wintertime behavior of common animals with this presentation on hibernation. Offering clear explanations about the who, what, where, when, and why regarding hibernation, this resource is perfect for primary...

Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm.  They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...

A great resource for teachers introducing the concepts of "letters" and "words" to early elementary students. Uses the names of the students themselves as a starting place in learning these concepts. Great site.

This online lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of an innovative "Text talk," strategy, students will explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas....

Questions about weather clear up when learners use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.

Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.

In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.

This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the common core standard of asking questions to determine unknown words in an informational text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of resources to teach and reinforce the common core standard of describing connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core Standard of recalling information from experiences or gathering information from provided sources to answer a question.