Vowel Digraph and Diphthong Literacy Games. These easy to set up, easy to play games are the perfect addition to your literacy rotations and offer students a fun and engaging way to practise reading and spelling words with digraphs, diphthongs and long vowel sounds! 6 games are included (Long A, Lon...
Smart English Grammar Worksheet 1. These are supplemental grammar worksheets to use with the Smart English course book
Unit 1 slides for 4th grade. These slides are great at helping keeping you on track during your lessons and your students engaged. Includes: Entire unit overview with a breakdown of each week Over 300 slides Learning targets for each mini-lesson All comprehension, phonics, grammar, and writing lessons for the unit Links and Snips from Benchmark Unit (must have Benchmark account to access the links) Completely editable on Google slides (adjust lessons, fonts, text, pictures, everything to your classroom needs) Check out the individual Unit slides: Units 1-5 Bundle Unit 0- Routines and Procedures Unit 1- Observing Nature Unit 2- Characters' Actions and Reactions Unit 3- Government in Action Unit 4- Understanding Different Points of View Unit 5- Technology for Tomorrow Unit 6- Confronting Challenges Unit 7- Transcontinental Railroad Unit 8- Earth Changes Unit 9- Coming Soon! Unit 10- Coming Soon!
As a primary teacher, it can be very difficult fitting in grammar instruction into your day. I also have a little secret you might not know about me. I used to loathe teaching grammar. Can any of you relate? It's so difficult to even WANT to teach grammar when we have so many other things we could be doing with our day. Plus, many of us are expected to "spiral" it in with the many other subjects we are expected to teach throughout the day. Although all school districts, programs, and teachers are different, I have found something that students love doing, and that is applying new information into something called an interactive notebook!! And so I created these for grammar...and the students loved them!
A free first grade literacy packet for learning at home.
Here are some great grammar games, ideas, and activities that will help early/middle elementary aged kids enjoy grammar just a bit.
Clauses of contrast, purpose and reason. B1. Intermediate English grammar exercises. However, although, despite, in spite of, in order to, so as to, etc.
Learn how to compare adjectives in English. Detailed guide covers positive, comparative, superlative degrees, exceptions, irregular comparisons, and more.
It amazes me how much class size affects my teaching and my students. I started the year with 31 students. I just lost my second one at the beginning of this week, so I'm down to 29. I've had 2 kids out all week on long vacations and 2 more out sick. So I've had a class of 25 ALL week!! It's been a big difference. Even though the ones gone are little angels and I still have all the hard ones, it really makes a BIG difference!! Our district and researchers keep telling us that class size doesn't make a difference but I have to beg to differ with them. It makes a HUGE difference in first grade. With a smaller class I can spread myself out more- work with more kids, more often, for longer periods of time. We can get more done- 25 kids take less time to finish an assignment than 31. With all the activities we do in first grade through out the day it can really add up. With less kids, fighting for my attention, I can give more attention to those that really need it. During class discussions, there is more participation by more kids. The shyer kids start to open up. It just feels more like a close knit community rather than a big city. I can hardly imagine what it would be like to teach less than 20. What a dream!! Back to reality. Our school has been doing training in SIOP this year. It stands for Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol. You can find out more HERE. It actually is training in teaching English Language Learner but our school does not have a very high percentage of ELLs. We actually have only 3 out of 180 in our grade level. But the SIOP model is really best practices and a great review in how to teach better. With the new common core our principal thought is would be a great help. We've had to do lesson studies and just finished one yesterday. Our team did ours on Synonyms. It's great to collaborate and work together as a team developing and analyzing a lesson. Here's a practice page we used and a cute song we found. I don't know who to give credit for the song but our kiddos really liked it. Click HERE if you'd like to grab a copy. Hey, believe it or not but it's FRIDAY tomorrow- again! Gotta love FRIDAY! I hope you all have a GREAT one.
An educational blog hosted by a collaborative group of teacher-authors hoping to share creative and colorful ideas and activities from our classrooms!
This is a fun worksheet to practice pronouns with your EFL students.
Check out these awesome free grammar worksheets. They are perfect for your Grammar lessons or Literacy centers. Download them now!
Plural nouns are words used to indicate that there is more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea. Most singular nouns are made plural by simply putting an -s at the end. There are many different rules regarding pluralization depending on what letter a noun ends in. Irregular nouns do not follow plural noun rules, so they must be memorized or looked up in the dictionary. Plural Noun RulesThere are many plural noun rules, and because we use nouns so frequently when writing, it’s important
When students know the syllable division rules, it A) helps them decode multisyllabic words and B) identify vowel sounds correctly!
I've just finished making my Montessori grammar chart, cards and booklets for use in my 6-9 class. And I have a surprise for everyone so keep reading. This is the grammar chart with an explanation of the parts of speech.These are the grammar symbol 4 part cards. The control cards are stuck together in accordion style. This is the grammar booklet that I printed and then discovered that our school owns a ring binder machine so I'm so happy I could bind this into a real booklet. You can see the front of this in the above picture. We don't own a set of solid grammar symbols, they aren't available in the UK except at sky high prices and buying them from abroad will cost too much postage. So I decided to make them from card, below is a picture of the noun pyramid I just made. I'll make all the other shapes except the verb and adverb symbols as I'm sure I can find balls the right colour. Anyway the surprise is, that I am selling the files for the grammar chart, cards and booklets on eBay. You can go to the listing here . I decided that I have to do something to make some more money as our school is suffering financially and unfortunately has cut all staffs salaries including mine :( However....... If you have shown support to my blog by leaving me 5 or more comments before this post and are interested in getting these files, leave a comment on this post and I will be more than happy to send you these files for free. This is my cheeky way of getting those who lurk to start commenting :) I'll post more about how to use these grammar materials. The grammar files that I posted about last week are no longer on eBay as I just found out that its against eBay policies to sell digital delievered materials. So I have move the file to my store, you can get them here.
Smart English 3 Grammar Worksheets
This week I tried something new with the vocabulary in the story. I got the idea at a First Grade Conference in December. The student writ...
Exercises PDF Grammar Worksheets, In this section of tenses exercises PDF.com here you find pages and topics related to English grammar. Many of our resources..
Learn how to use HAVE GOT in context. The dialogue is fascinating and the detailed worksheets will give you a full glimpse of the various uses of HAVE GOT.
This post will give you more than 360 pages of 1st grade common core language arts worksheets with answer keys and posters to help your students learn!
Winter is just around the corner and I have been working hard on our Winter Math and Literacy Packet for Kindergarten! I am happy to say that it is
Teaching grammar and language art skills can be a challenge for anyone. How do you hit all of the skills...effectively? How do you know your students are
