August House
The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog
Read the story The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain by Margaret Read MacDonald and choose from multiple activities to learn about the tale's theme—kindness. With so many options, your kind kids will...
Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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School-Home Links: Book Links 5
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read each story aloud and then answer the questions about the specific story to check for understanding. Parents or guardians must sign each learning exercise.
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Shared Reading
Fifth graders grasp the concept of reading with expression. They express words through their voice. Students discover expressive words when reading a poem or book. They read A Light in the Attic by Shel Siverstein.
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Dialogue Disguises
Students read a story out loud to a partner and change their voices and expressions when depicting specific characters. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the person's voice who is reading to them, while keeping track...
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School-Home Links: Reading with Expression
In this reading aloud activity, students ask their family to read the activity story to them. Students then practice reading the story by themselves. Students read the story to their family and finally read it to their teacher. Parents...
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School-Home Links: Book Links 2
In this reading aloud worksheet, learners ask someone in their family to read a book aloud the them and write the title and author on the worksheet. Students then answer two questions about the story. Parents or guardians must sign the...
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Chanting
Students use pictures and text to gain meaning from written materials by connecting text. message heard, and/or material viewed to prior knowledge and experiences. Finally, students recognize and name upper and lower case letters and...