Christmas Coloring Word Search.
FREE Christmas word search Worksheets for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary,
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Christmas Craft Dominoes Activity
A Christmas Dominoes Activity for all ages this Christmas. It makes a great piece of work students can take home and show parents.
100+ Fantastic Fun Phonics Worksheets and activities
The phonics worksheets we have linked below will follow this format. We include the following phonics worksheets
Single Sounds and Onset and Rime Worksheets
CVC Worksheets
Long and Short Vowels Worksheets
Blends and Digraphs Worksheets
Syllable Worksheets
We have put these into collections which are also highlighted on the page where needed as well. The individual worksheets are free
15 of the BEST Phonics Activities For Kindergarten and Preschool
We have chosen some of the best activities that are suitable to get this reading skills process started both at home and in classrooms and highlighted them below.
How to teach Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge, also referred to as making connections, as a reading comprehension strategy encompasses two main ideas, it is the the enabling of students to access the relevant information they have already learnt, and to be able to identify if that information is absent and use strategies to learn it.
How to teach Determining Importance
Another crucial task for reading comprehension is determining importance. Often, inferencing, summarizing and determining importance strategies can go hand in hand. Every detail in a story is not important. This is especially true when reading fiction like mysteries and suspense stories.
10 of the best Free blends and digraph games online.
Consonant blends and Consonant digraphs can be tricky to teach. I am a teacher and have a collection of online games from this site, Kisi phonics and Education.com, Top Marks and more that teach and practice both these phonic rules. They include digraph sort and matching games and digraph sound recognition and are suitable for all ages.
How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
The meteor that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, or at least caused the conditions that did is estimated to be about 10 to 15 kilometers wide. The reason it has such a large carter of over 150km across, called the Chicxulub crater is it was a Ferrari of meteors and was travelling really fast at about 20 km per second. Which is about 72000 kilometers an hour!
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How to teach Your Child to read
I have just had a Parents evening, as a teacher not a parent. In fact, I am an English teacher and one of the most common questions I get from parents is asking ”How can I teach my child to read?”. I explain it is a process, but there are certainly things that parents can…
CVC and Short Vowel Poems Comprehension
THESE ARE THE PDF VERSIONS
A set of rhyming CVC poems for students to practice reading CVC, high frequency and sight words. They are a little more difficult than the previous onset and rime readers but offer a more genuine experience. They also introduce rhyming for students ( in the form of a poem)
We have included four questions on each page, including at least one that covers reading comprehension strategies to try to introduce both these essential skills and higher order thinking.
Here we have two examples to use in home of classes and the link to the full set as well.
Hope they are useful for you
Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!
