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Brown Bear Retell Popsicle Stick puppets
Next in a series of brown bear activities.Fold each pair over a popsicle or any other stick. Students use them and the word hints to retell the story. May be an activity center, a home reading activity, or students can use the puppets to tell the story while listening to it from the teacher or on tape. Enjoy!
Level: elementary
Age: 3-8
Type: reading
Downloads: 37
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Reading Spinner - what do you do when you�re stuck???
A great activity after reading or hearing a book/story/text. Focus of this spinner is on how to understand harder texts - what tricks can you use? Kids spin the spinner (only need a pencil and a paperclip!) and answer the question. Promotes discussion and a better understanding of the book/reading! Focus of this spinner is on how to understand hard...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Reading Spinner - Making Connections easy
Fully editable reading spinner - all you need is a pencil and a paperclip per group and you�re ready to go! This spinner focuses on what the reading/story/text reminds you of. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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nonfiction text features handout/poster and activities
Fully editable poster/handout of the features of nonfiction texts and how they help us understand. Great skill and strategy to help ESL learners understand their textbooks in english and in their native language. Also includes a few activities where students fill in the chart for other readings. I photocopied a page from a book for activity one - d...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 61
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Editable Reading Spinner - Stories with Lessons 2
A great activity after reading or hearing a story. Kids spin the spinner (only need a pencil and a paperclip!) and answer the question. Promotes discussion and a better understanding of the book/reading! See also my other 11 spinners!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Reading Spinner - nonfiction, determing importance
A great activity after reading or hearing a factual/nonfiction text. Kids spin the spinner (only need a pencil and a paperclip!) and answer the question. Promotes discussion and a better understanding of the book/reading!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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103 most common sightwords - flashcard printouts
The main 103 words listed in Miriam Trehearne�s book of teaching literacy. I print them onto 2 different colours of construction paper, make a set for each kid or group(I usually only give one page at a time) then use them to play memory, flashcards, go fish, etc. See also my: games to do with flashcards...
Enjoy!
amanda
Level: elementary
Age: 3-10
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 7
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Editable Reading Spinner - Listening Response
A great activity after hearing a story. Kids spin the spinner (only need a pencil and a paperclip!) and answer the question. Promotes discussion and a better understanding of the book/reading! See also my other 11 spinners!
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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Describing Characters - adjectives in context
For more advanced students - adjectives in context. After listening to/reading a story, students choose three adjectives to describe the character, then give one example for each character. For more advanced students, on the back they could pick one of those adjectives and write if it describes themselves or not, with an example to prove it.
Enjoy...
Level: advanced
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Parts of Speech - Diamante Poems
Compares and describes two topics by a simple fill in the blank. Reviews present participles, nouns, adjectives, vocabulary, opposites and poetry. I�m not sure how many people are into poetry, but I found this a relatively easy poem to write, where students end up with something they could publish by hand or on the computer just by filling in the b...
Level: advanced
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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