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Literacy Activities and Ideas

Literacy ideas to incorporate in the classroom for lower elementary school. #literacy
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These building sentences kindergarten activities are perfect for literacy centers. Simple print the pieces, kindergarten writing pages, and put it in your writing center for easy sentence building practice. Kindergarten Writing, Kindergarten Activities, Writing Response, Abc Phonics, Sentence Building, Work Skills, Writing Crafts, Mentor Texts, Work Activities
These building sentences kindergarten activities are perfect for literacy centers. Simple print the pieces, kindergarten writing pages, and put it in your writing center for easy sentence building practice.
Teaching inferring to upper elementary students? This list of mentor texts will help making inferences come to life in your upper elementary classroom! These books are are just perfect for 3rd, 4th & 5th graders to practice inferring. Click the pin to check them out! Help Teaching, Teaching Reading, Reading Writing, Guided Reading, Teaching Resources, Teaching Ideas, Elementary Reading Activities, Teaching Kindergarten, Nonfiction Reading
Teaching inferring to upper elementary students? This list of mentor texts will help making inferences come to life in your upper elementary classroom! These books are are just perfect for 3rd, 4th & 5th graders to practice inferring. Click the pin to check them out!
Writing isn't just about creating stories and poetry, it can also inform readers and provide useful information. Our Informative Writing package is designed to help your students understand the basics of expository and informational writing. We provide step-by-step activities, lesson plans, and worksheets to help your students learn the fundamentals of this important writing style. With the help of our package, your students will be able to craft informative and engaging pieces of writing. Writing Lesson Plans, Writing Instruction, Writing Lessons, Writing Resources, Teaching Writing, Writing Ideas, Teacher Resources, Writing Prompts, Procedural Writing
Writing isn't just about creating stories and poetry, it can also inform readers and provide useful information. Our Informative Writing package is designed to help your students understand the basics of expository and informational writing. We provide step-by-step activities, lesson plans, and worksheets to help your students learn the fundamentals of this important writing style. With the help of our package, your students will be able to craft informative and engaging pieces of writing.
Picture books belong in an upper elementary classroom. Students love to hear read alouds and examine illustrations! Read 10 different ways you can use picture books in your upper elementary classroom to teach content and deliver meaningful instruction. You can use them for a single lesson or build an entire unit. Grab a book and go- ideal for subtitute plans. Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students will welcome the change from text books to picture books. #picturebooks #upperelementary Upper Elementary, Elementary Schools, Content Area, Primary Students, Readers Workshop, Early Literacy, Fifth Grade, Chapter Books, Literacy Activities
Picture books belong in an upper elementary classroom. Students love to hear read alouds and examine illustrations! Read 10 different ways you can use picture books in your upper elementary classroom to teach content and deliver meaningful instruction. You can use them for a single lesson or build an entire unit. Grab a book and go- ideal for subtitute plans. Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students will welcome the change from text books to picture books. #picturebooks #upperelementary
Improve your students reading comprehension skills with reading responses! Stop by The Primary Planet to check out this blog post about ways to improve your students reading comprehension with Responding to Reading! Kindergarten Reading Activities, Elementary Teaching Resources, Elementary Literacy, Elementary Reading, Reading Resources, Reading Skills
Improve your students reading comprehension skills with reading responses! Stop by The Primary Planet to check out this blog post about ways to improve your students reading comprehension with Responding to Reading!
One of our most loved interdisciplinary social emotional learning activities all about gratitude and making random acts of kindness through letter writing! Students will have the opportunity to show appreciation and to say thank you to someone for whom they are grateful. This is one of the greatest kindness activities to do around Thanksgiving, on Valentines Day or anytime during the school year! #grateful Education Teacher Resources Elementary Social Skills Letter Writing Activities, Kindergarten Writing Activities, Kindness Activities, Teaching Emotions, Social Emotional Learning Activities, Teaching Strategies, Teacher Resources Elementary, Elementary School Teacher
One of our most loved interdisciplinary social emotional learning activities all about gratitude and making random acts of kindness through letter writing! Students will have the opportunity to show appreciation and to say thank you to someone for whom they are grateful. This is one of the greatest kindness activities to do around Thanksgiving, on Valentines Day or anytime during the school year! #grateful Education Teacher Resources Elementary Social Skills
Kailey & Josianne | Teachers & Educalme Founders
Kailey & Josianne | Teachers & Educalme Founders
These printable calendar activities are the perfect addition to your kindergarten morning work! Your kindergarteners will be focused every morning while practicing important skills such as penmanship, daily calendar work, sight words, number words, and letters. Elementary Writing Activities, Guided Reading Activities, Calendar Activities, Social Studies Activities, Elementary Math
These printable calendar activities are the perfect addition to your kindergarten morning work! Your kindergarteners will be focused every morning while practicing important skills such as penmanship, daily calendar work, sight words, number words, and letters.
Check out these sight word activities for kindergarten and first grade! These printables are perfect practice for the classroom or to work on at home. Fluency Activities, Language Art Activities, Sight Word Activities, Language Arts, Sight Word Practice, Sight Words, Behavior Calendar
Check out these sight word activities for kindergarten and first grade! These printables are perfect practice for the classroom or to work on at home.
Looking for nursery rhyme activities for kindergarten or first grade? These lesson plans, including poems, task cards, and sequencing printables, are perfect for your learners! Click the picture to see all the activities included. #nurseryrhymes #kindergartennurseryrhymes Emergent Readers Activities, Rhyming Activities, Reading Comprehension Kindergarten, Teaching Literacy, Phonics Lesson Plans
Looking for nursery rhyme activities for kindergarten or first grade? These lesson plans, including poems, task cards, and sequencing printables, are perfect for your learners! Click the picture to see all the activities included. #nurseryrhymes #kindergartennurseryrhymes
Looking for nursery rhyme activities for kindergarten or first grade? These lesson plans, including poems, task cards, and sequencing printables, are perfect for your learners! Click the picture to see all the activities included. #nurseryrhymes #kindergartennurseryrhymes First Grade Classroom, Kindergarten Classroom, Nursery Rhymes Activities, Reading Task Cards, Summer Learning
Looking for nursery rhyme activities for kindergarten or first grade? These lesson plans, including poems, task cards, and sequencing printables, are perfect for your learners! Click the picture to see all the activities included. #nurseryrhymes #kindergartennurseryrhymes
Adding this to your reading centers for independent work is a great way for kids to expand their compound word practice opportunities. After giving a lesson, let your students try to put words together to make new words on their own. This is great for learning centers and at home work because the self correcting aspect guides your child through the game. Digital Learning Activities, Homeschool Activities, Phonics Activities, Phonics Lessons, Teaching Vocabulary
Adding this to your reading centers for independent work is a great way for kids to expand their compound word practice opportunities. After giving a lesson, let your students try to put words together to make new words on their own. This is great for learning centers and at home work because the self correcting aspect guides your child through the game.
How to Teach Students to Build Reading Stamina | True Life: I'm a Teacher How to Teach Students to Build Reading Stamina Reading Lessons, Reading Activities, Reading Ideas, Reading Groups, Reading Centers, Cafe Reading Strategies, Literacy Strategies
How to Teach Students to Build Reading Stamina | True Life: I'm a Teacher How to Teach Students to Build Reading Stamina
This is a direct instruction lesson to teach your students about using the writing strategy R.A.C.E. to respond to a prompt.R.A.C.E. stands for:Restate the promptAnswer the questionCite evidenceExplain your thinkingIn this download, you will get a 6 page PDF that has the lesson outline and three handouts for your students to use during the lesson or for independent practice. You will also get a link to the direct instruction lesson that is a Google Slideshow. Middle School Ela, Back To School, Direct Instruction, Writing Strategies, Independent Practice, Ccss, Handouts
This is a direct instruction lesson to teach your students about using the writing strategy R.A.C.E. to respond to a prompt.R.A.C.E. stands for:Restate the promptAnswer the questionCite evidenceExplain your thinkingIn this download, you will get a 6 page PDF that has the lesson outline and three handouts for your students to use during the lesson or for independent practice. You will also get a link to the direct instruction lesson that is a Google Slideshow.
Adding this to your reading centers for independent work is a great way for kids to expand their compound word practice opportunities. After giving a lesson, let your students try to put words together to make new words on their own. This is great for learning centers and at home work because the self correcting aspect guides your child through the game.
Adding this to your reading centers for independent work is a great way for kids to expand their compound word practice opportunities. After giving a lesson, let your students try to put words together to make new words on their own. This is great for learning centers and at home work because the self correcting aspect guides your child through the game.
It's time to think ahead to February and Valentine's Day! Are you prepared with activities to keep your classroom engaged while you're working on literacy skills? Check out this bundle of literacy centers that includes letter recognition, fine motor skills, letter sounds, real and nonsense words, and more. Perfect for your kindergarten classroom. Don't get caught unprepared! #KindergartenLiteracy #FebruaryActivities Literacy Teachers, Preschool Special Education, Kindergarten Literacy, Literacy Skills, Literacy Centers, 3rd Grade Classroom, Alphabet Activities, Classroom Activities
It's time to think ahead to February and Valentine's Day! Are you prepared with activities to keep your classroom engaged while you're working on literacy skills? Check out this bundle of literacy centers that includes letter recognition, fine motor skills, letter sounds, real and nonsense words, and more. Perfect for your kindergarten classroom. Don't get caught unprepared! #KindergartenLiteracy #FebruaryActivities
Matching alphabet letters and sounds just became a lot more fun with these fidgets! There are never enough activities when working on letters and sounds with your early elementary kids and now you have another activity that will keep your kids engaged all year long. Work on letter sounds, matching upper and lowercase letters, and more. Check it out! Teaching Letter Sounds, Teaching The Alphabet, Phonics Worksheets, Teaching Preschool, Alphabet Letter Recognition, Alphabet Letters, Early Elementary Resources, First Grade Resources
Matching alphabet letters and sounds just became a lot more fun with these fidgets! There are never enough activities when working on letters and sounds with your early elementary kids and now you have another activity that will keep your kids engaged all year long. Work on letter sounds, matching upper and lowercase letters, and more. Check it out!
Writing just became a whole lot easier with this picture dictionary and word bank. Now every student in your early elementary classroom will have their own copy of words they use the most and you won't have to continuously spell the same words over and over. It's a win, win for everybody and your kids can add to their word bank throughout the year. Check it out! #WordWork Student Dictionary, Dictionary Words, Picture Dictionary, Preschool, Academic Vocabulary
Writing just became a whole lot easier with this picture dictionary and word bank. Now every student in your early elementary classroom will have their own copy of words they use the most and you won't have to continuously spell the same words over and over. It's a win, win for everybody and your kids can add to their word bank throughout the year. Check it out! #WordWork
With vocabulary being SUCH an important aspect of learning, this Write The Room set will be just the addition to your lessons that you NEED. Students will be able to get up and move around all while learning important vocabulary. This set also works very Elementary Science
With vocabulary being SUCH an important aspect of learning, this Write The Room set will be just the addition to your lessons that you NEED. Students will be able to get up and move around all while learning important vocabulary. This set also works very
Teach reading comprehension strategies and SEL skills using this week long resource for the book, Can I Play Too? Students learn how to predict, ask questions, about character traits and creating a caring community. Click through to see more. Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans, Reading Lesson Plans, Comprehension Strategies, Teaching First Grade, First Grade Reading, First Grade Teachers
Teach reading comprehension strategies and SEL skills using this week long resource for the book, Can I Play Too? Students learn how to predict, ask questions, about character traits and creating a caring community. Click through to see more.
Cecelia Magro I Love First Grade | K-2 Teaching Resources
Cecelia Magro I Love First Grade | K-2 Teaching Resources
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Paragraph is always a tough skill for students to master. In particular, I’ve heard from many teachers (and seen it myself) that students struggle to use evidence to support their claims. Luckily, that can change with the RACE writing strategy. This blog post is all about using the RACE strategy in your classroom and seeing success in your writers!
Create Inspire Teach
Create Inspire Teach
These activities are designed to help students learn and understand context clues, which will allow them to better comprehend texts they read and improve their word choice in writing! By using these fun and engaging activities, you can help your students become confident readers! Are you looking for ways to help your students improve their reading skills? If so, you'll love these activities to teach context clues in the elementary classroom. FREEBIE included! Math Enrichment Activities, Elementary Literacy Activities, 5th Grade Activities, Upper Elementary Resources, Elementary Writing, Word Work Activities, Language Arts Elementary, Language Arts Lessons
These activities are designed to help students learn and understand context clues, which will allow them to better comprehend texts they read and improve their word choice in writing! By using these fun and engaging activities, you can help your students become confident readers! Are you looking for ways to help your students improve their reading skills? If so, you'll love these activities to teach context clues in the elementary classroom. FREEBIE included!
Create Inspire Teach
Create Inspire Teach
This is a perfect activity for your students to work on while you are working in small groups! Your students work on reading, writing, spelling and finding important sight words.   #literacycenterideas #kindergartensightwords #independentwork Literature Activities, Educational Activities, Literacy Center Activity, Literacy Stations
This is a perfect activity for your students to work on while you are working in small groups! Your students work on reading, writing, spelling and finding important sight words. #literacycenterideas #kindergartensightwords #independentwork
Learning to spell CVC words is simple and fun with these printables for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students! Click the pin to check out the activities included. Teaching Spelling Activities, Teaching Spelling Words, Cvc Word Activities, Letter Recognition Activities, Math Activities Elementary, Phonemic Awareness Activities
Learning to spell CVC words is simple and fun with these printables for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students! Click the pin to check out the activities included.
Kindergarten morning routines can be hard to navigate. With these journals, make it easy with independent practice. You kindergarten students will practice sight words, penmanship, letter formation, color words, number words, fine motor skills, and more! Penmanship Practice, Lettering Practice, Writing Practice, Number Words, Cvc Words
Kindergarten morning routines can be hard to navigate. With these journals, make it easy with independent practice. You kindergarten students will practice sight words, penmanship, letter formation, color words, number words, fine motor skills, and more!
These adorable phonics crafts and activities are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students! Click the pin to see the fun Valentine's Day crafts included in this resource. Hands On Activities, Survival Kit For Teachers, Teacher Survival, February Math, First Year Teachers
These adorable phonics crafts and activities are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students! Click the pin to see the fun Valentine's Day crafts included in this resource.