 |
||
|
||
|
|
Reading
Ideas!
| Idea Title | Grade | Description |
|---|---|---|
| What's in Your Name? | 1-2 | Teaching vowels and consonents with students' names |
| November: "Books of a Feather Are Read Together" | K-6 |
Motivate your students to read during the month of November! |
| Excellent
Resources for a Study on Inventions |
K-6 |
A list of excellent books and other resources to use with your invention unit. |
| Game Day | 1-6 |
A change of pace for the last Friday of the month |
| Puppet Shows | 2-6 |
Student-created puppets and fables |
| Letter Recognition with Cereal Boxes! | K |
Combine some cereal box fun with letter recognition for your early learners! |
| Successful Reading at Home | K-1 |
Reading to a "listening audience" is a terrific recipe for success! |
| TV Dinner Trays | K-6 |
Oh, the many things you can do with a TV dinner tray! (Especially book reports!) |
| Sharing the Gift of Reading! | K-6 |
The 2 FREE reproducibles make a great follow-up activity after the principal or janitor comes in to read a story! Great for the month of December! |
| The Reading Cafe...Celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday | K-6 |
A menu of student-reviewed books awaits parents and other guests at this "Reading Cafe." You'll want to make this one an annual event! |
| Ideas for Celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday (March 2) | K-6 |
More ideas to make this event special |
| Flash Cards - Computer Timed | 1-6
|
Sight words practice using a Power Point program |
| Match Maker | 1-3 |
A fun way to learn new compound words! |
| Caught You Reading! Tickets | K-6 |
May is "Get Caught Reading Month". Have fun with this idea! Includes FREE reproducible! |
| A Porcupine Named Fluffy | K-6 |
Create a new book while studying synonyms and antonyms! |
| All The Places To Love | 3-5 |
Inspire art and thoughtful reaction! |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? | K-1 |
A perfect book of repetition only invites itself to be a perfect class-written book! |
| Coat of Many Colors | 3-5 |
Excellent way for students to ponder what 'richness' means in their lives. |
| How Leo Learned to be King | 4-6 |
An inspiring story that causes us to reflect on the kind of people we want to be. |
| I Love You the Purplest | K-6 |
Connecting our feelings with colors! |
| Inch by Inch | K-3 |
Measure those inches all over the room! |
| Little Cloud | K-2 |
Children will look at the clouds above them in a whole new way! |
| Michelangelo Paintings | 4-6 |
Students really "put themselves in his shoes" with this insightful extension to reading "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". |
| My Apron | 2-3 |
A great springboard for discussion on how we perceive ourselves. What will be written on your apron? |
| My Backpack |
K-2 |
Turn rhyming words into couplets! |
| No David | K-2 |
Guaranteed chuckles with this book! |
| Show and Tell | 3-6 |
A "bubbly" art activity turned into a very creative writing assignment inspired by this picture book. |
| The Adventures of Dilford the Dragon | K-2 |
A dragon and a notebook get taken on a grand adventure in your student's homes! |
| Who Am I? | K-6 |
Kids love to figure out clues. Now have them write one of their own inspired by this book. |
| Novel Packets | 4-6 |
A few ideas to help students' comprehension when reading novel. |
| Battle of the Books | 4-6 |
A great way to motivate students reading! |
| Predicting Rhyming Words | K-2 |
"Silly Sally" by Audrey Wood sets the stage for this excellent way to teach rhyming words. |