Archive for July 28, 2014
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity – Fifth Grade
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Fifth Grade) Synonyms and Antonyms – This free, fifth-grade vocabulary lesson reviews age-appropriate synonyms and antonyms such as hinder: prevent, interfere, and assist and competent: ineffective, skillful, and capable. Students read short sentences and sort words as synonyms or antonyms. Helpful hints are provided that use each word in…
More...Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity – Fourth Grade
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Fourth Grade) Synonyms and Antonyms – The fun factor of this free vocab lesson will have your kids asking for more practice with synonyms and antonyms. Children help a frog cross a river by hopping on synonym or antonym logs. Synonyms and antonyms of words like secluded, aid and…
More...Compare and Contrast Story Elements
Compare and Contrast Story Elements Compare and Contrast Story Elements – Free printable worksheets which allow students to record similarities and differences of story elements by completing a graphic organizer. Craft and Structure: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.…
More...Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Second & Third Grade
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Second and Third Grade) Prefixes and Suffixes – You’ll love this fun and free vocabulary lesson! Children play a balloon game and make new words by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words. Specific feedback combined with exciting interaction makes this lesson a hit for parents and students. Basic…
More...Animated Phonics Lessons & Activities – Third Grade
Animated Phonics Lessons & Activities (Third Grade) Syllabification – This free phonics lesson will teach your third-graders how to identify the number of syllables in a word. Words like dinosaur, lizard, and cave are reviewed. You might see your student with the top of their hand against their chin while reading aloud, but don’t worry,…
More...Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Second Grade
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Second Grade) Homophones – Learn about homophones in this free vocabulary lesson. Children first play a homophone matching game, matching words like meat and meet and mail and male to pictures they flip. Last, kids create a short story by filling in the blanks with correctly spelled homophones. Immediate…
More...Animated Phonics Lessons – Second Grade
Animated Phonics Lessons (Second Grade) Consonant Digraphs – Capt. Armstrong leads your children on an important mission in this free second grade phonics lesson. Students are prompted to match consonant digraphs, including th, ch, and sh, with word parts to make words they hear. Correct matches will send each spaceship blasting off to outer space!…
More...Story Mapping Worksheet: Grades 3-5
Story Mapping Worksheet (Grades 3-5) Story Mapping Worksheet – Mini-lesson/activity with free printable worksheet. Students identify story elements (narrative text structure) to improve reading comprehension. Key Ideas and Details: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2 Determine a…
More...Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – First Grade
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (First Grade) Multiple Meaning Words – This free vocabulary lesson focuses on multiple meaning words. Kids solve riddles with words such as bark, ring, and watch. In the end, they can use the tickets they earned from each riddle to play a fun water balloon game. Basic Sight Words…
More...Animated Phonics Lessons & Activity – First Grade
Animated Phonics Lesson & Activity (First Grade) Silent E Animated Lesson – Free phonics lesson provides an opportunity for kids to practice sorting words with long and short vowel sounds. This will help build the foundation for teaching children to read words with the tricky silent e. K -1. Isolation – This free phonemic awareness…
More...Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Kindergarten
Animated Reading Comprehension Lessons & Activity (Kindergarten) Animated Reading Comprehension Lesson and Activity – Kindergarten – free reading comprehension lesson begins with a short picture book about two twin brothers. Audio-visual support allows kids to follow along with the words as they are read aloud. The goal of the lesson is to teach children how…
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