Students complete a number and letter recognition activity by creating phone numbers for businesses. In this telephone number lesson, students brainstorm telephone numbers that include words. Students translate numbers to their numeric...

Students explore groundwater and issues relating to groundwater. They discus the problems involving groundwater. Students write a newspaper story addressing groundwater problems. They create a comic strip addressing groundwater...

In this letter e worksheet, students practice writing the upper and lower case letter on lines provided, then practice writing the word "eat." A reference web site is given for additional activities.

In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, student say the sound of Cc at the beginning of words as they name the pictures on one side of the worksheet, and say the ending sound of Cd as they name pictures on the right side of the...

For this sign language/printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the letter r, then color a picture of the letter represented in sign language. 

In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the letter s, then color a picture of a hand making the sign for the letter.

In this spelling word visualization learning exercise, students write 10 words from the book The Secret Life of Trees in boxes that represent the tall and short letters of each word.

In this cursive practice worksheet, students improve letter connection skills by copying 2 sentences on the lines provided. This is DeNelian style.

Students explore the evacuation of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Using the internet, they research stories they may have heard and verify a story's authenticity. Students discuss rumors and urban legends. Given a worksheet,...

As usual, A is for apple! Practice writing every letter in the alphabet. Each page in this packet begins with a cute graphic, an example of the letter in a word, and several lines for practicing both the uppercase and lowercase version...

Lead your class in a discussion about how they believe money influences politics. After reading "Go Ahead, Try to Stop K Street" from the New York Times, they evaluate the claims in the article about the current lobbyist scandal in...

Students explore the value of personal written communication as compared to the use of e-mail or text messaging.

Eighth graders write about the physical hardships endured by soldiers of the Civil War. They compare the losses between two communities during the Civil War. They analyze personal letters to understand what a battle was like. They...

First graders often mix up the letters b/d, making them pronounce words incorrectly because they are identifying a b or d when they should be pronouncing the opposite letter. They are exposed to the two letters in a variety of ways...

Brian Jacques’ novel Redwall provides the focus for a series of lessons involving the analysis of folklore. Adopting the persona of a character, groups write letters in the voice of their character, assemble a collage using Microsoft...

Fourth graders examine the myths of King Arthur. They compare/contrast versions of the story, The Sword in the Stone, write a letter, identify and analyze characters, sequence events, and write observations and answer questions in a...

Your budding journalists need to understand the five W's for writing a news story. They read a story, complete several graphic organizers to help them organize and write their article, and then use a self-assessment worksheet to edit and...

Students investigate types of communities. In this communities lesson, students read the book The Country Mouse and City Mouse and identify the characteristics of the city and country. Students participate in a pen-pal program with a...

After reviewing Spanish articles, nouns, noun gender, subject pronouns, and the verb ser, give your emerging Spanish speakers this practice packet. Several activities are included: an unscrambling exercise, translation practice, an...

In this colors of the rainbow worksheet, students fill out a chart by first correctly coloring each letter of Roy G. Biv to show the colors of the rainbow. For each color, students write the color word and the name of an object as well...

In this number six worksheet, students experience using and writing the number six by coloring each letter in six, coloring the number six, coloring six circles, and tracing and writing the word six and the number six. Students color and...

In this writing worksheet, students write the words of 6 pictures. All of the words contain L blends (slide, plates, flag, etc). Students also draw pictures using 2 of the words.

In this phonics CH worksheet, students view six pictures, say and pronounce each one, build the letters to spell each picture, write each word and then read each word.

Practice alliteration with a fun game! Kids match names to a best friend's name, and add something they both like.