This vocabulary development activity, ‘A Pair of Socks’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to draw pictures of selected pairs of homophones. It is aimed at helping students recognise homophones. It provides pairs of socks cards and a book page template.
This word study activity, ‘Adjective Picture Cards’ asks students to choose adjectives that best describe different pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adjectives and how an adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
This word study activity, ‘Adjectives: Big or Small?’ asks students to identify the biggest object in a row of three different-sized objects. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adjectives and how an adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
This word study activity, ‘Adjectives: Colour It’ asks students to colour pictures to match different colour words. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adjectives and how an adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
This word study activity, ‘Adjectives: Short or Long?’ asks students to identify the shortest object in a row of objects that have different lengths. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of adjectives and how an adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
This letter study activity, ‘Alphabet Practice’ asks students to write the letters of the alphabet. It is aimed at developing students’ alphabet knowledge.
This reading activity, ‘Ball Toss’ supports reading development by encouraging students to identify letters as they toss and catch a ball. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification.
This reading activity, ‘Beat the Clock’ supports reading development by encouraging students to form sentences with word cards in a set amount of time. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of forming sentences. It provides sight word cards.
This sequencing activity, ‘Beginning, Middle and End’ asks students to arrange sets of pictures in the correct order. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of sequencing.
This reading activity, ‘Blend Detective’ supports reading development by encouraging students to match initial blends to pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides blend picture cards and initial blend cards.
This reading activity, ‘Bowling for Sight Words’ supports reading development by encouraging students to knock down ‘bowling pins’ and then practise reading the sight words on the pins. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Build a Weather Bear’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to outfit a bear based on an assigned type of weather. It is aimed at helping students understand weather terminology. It provides weather bear picture cards, a weather wheel and weather item picture cards.
This reading activity, ‘Coin Words’ supports reading development by encouraging students to put letters in the correct order to form sight words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Compound Clues’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to use picture clues to figure out compound words with non-predictable meanings. It is aimed at helping students recognise compound words. It provides picture clue cards and compound word cards.
This word study activity, ‘Compound Words and Picture Cards 1′ asks students to make compound words using picture cards. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of how a compound word is made up of two individual words.
This word study activity, ‘Compound Words and Picture Cards 2′ asks students to make compound words using picture cards. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of how a compound word is made up of two individual words.
This reading activity, ‘Cookie Letters’ supports reading development by encouraging students to identify letters as they cookies from a baking tray. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification. It provides cookie patterns, egg patterns and uppercase alphabet cards.
This word study activity, ‘Count the Syllables’ asks students to identify the number of syllables in different words. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding of how a syllable is a unit of sound within a word.
This reading activity, ‘Dinner Time’ supports reading development by encouraging students to pass a bowl filled with pictures of food and then try to determine the initial letter of selected pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides food picture cards.
This reading activity, ‘Doggie, Doggie’ supports reading development by encouraging students to match uppercase letters on dog-bone cards to lowercase letters on dog-bowl cards. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification. It provides dog bone cards and dog bowl cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Don’t Bug Me’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to play a card game to demonstrate their understanding of selected multi-meaning words. It is aimed at helping students recognise multi-meaning words. It provides multi-meaning word cards, a book page template and blank flip cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Don’t Spill the Beans’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to play an activity in which they earn beans by selecting the correct definitions for common idioms. It is aimed at helping students recognise idioms and their meanings. It provides common idioms and their definitions, idiom picture cards and an idiom …More
This word study activity, ‘Draw the Opposite!’ asks students to draw pictures of opposites. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of antonyms.
This grammar activity, ‘Ending Sentences’ asks students to add full stops at the end of sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of written language and their awareness of how a full stop signals the end of a sentence.
This word study activity, ‘Find the Words’ asks students to circle the words in different sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding that sentences are made up of individual words and that groups of words make meaning.
This reading activity, ‘Find Your Partner’ supports reading development by encouraging students to look for the person who has the same sight word as they do. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards, uppercase alphabet cards and lowercase alphabet cards.
This reading activity, ‘Fish for Supper’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they go fishing. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides fish patterns and sight word cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Flies, Flies, Everywhere!’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to use location words to describe where a fly finger puppet can be found. It is aimed at helping students use words to describe location. It provides a fly finger puppet (along with instructions on how to make it), location word cards …More
This reading activity, ‘Follow the Rainbow’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they follow a rainbow. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of forming sentences. It provides a rainbow template, sight word cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This reading activity, ‘Free the Animals’ supports reading development by encouraging students to take pictures of animals from under a basket and then determine the initial letter of the selected picture. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides a game board and animal picture cards.
This reading activity, ‘Go Fish’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they gather two of the same word cards. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards, uppercase alphabet cards and lowercase alphabet cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Going on a Treasure Hunt’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to use location words to find treasure. It is aimed at helping students use appropriate location words. It provides treasure hunt direction cards, a treasure chest template and a treasure chest lid template.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Going Places’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to discuss types of transport and sort them by different characteristics. It is aimed at helping students recognise types of transport. It provides transport cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Handshakes’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify two words that create a compound word when put together. It is aimed at helping students recognise common compound words. It provides compound word picture cards and a book page template.
This word study activity, ‘He, She or It’ asks students to identify pronouns that match different pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of pronouns.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Using My Senses: Hearing’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to determine the name of objects hidden from view based on the sound each object makes. It is aimed at helping students recognise language related to the sense of hearing. It provides a senses song chart and an ear picture card.
This grammar activity, ‘Helping Verbs’ asks students to choose verbs to complete different sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of verbs and how a verb describes an action or a state of being.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Home Sweet Home’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to make spinners to learn the types of homes in which different animals live. It is aimed at helping students recognise names of animal homes. It provides animal home spinners.
This reading activity, ‘Hopscotch’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they hop their way down a hopscotch board. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This reading activity, ‘I’m Going on a Trip’ supports reading development by encouraging students to name items that begin with a designated letter on a card for a trip they are planning. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides uppercase alphabet cards.
This reading activity, ‘It’s Raining’ supports reading development by encouraging students to match sight words on raindrops to sight words in a sentence on a puddle. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of forming sentences. It provides game mats and raindrop word cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Laundry Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match T-shirts of various colours with the corresponding colour word cards. It is aimed at helping students recognise colour words. It provides T-shirt cards and colour word cards.
This grammar activity, ‘Let’s Write!’ asks students to write sentences, paying particular attention to the spaces between each word, capital letters to start the sentences and full stops to end the sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ recognition of the different types of punctuation and features of written text.
This reading activity, ‘Letter Detective’ supports reading development by encouraging students to search the classroom to find items that begin with a specific letter. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations.
This word study activity, ‘Letter Match Up 1′ asks students to match uppercase letters to lowercase letters. It is aimed at developing students’ recognition of the uppercase and lowercase alphabet.
This word study activity, ‘Letter Match Up 2′ asks students to match uppercase letters to lowercase letters. It is aimed at developing students’ recognition of the uppercase and lowercase alphabet.
This reading activity, ‘Letter Scoop’ supports reading development by encouraging students to say the names of the magnetic letters they scoop them out of a bucket of sand. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification.
This reading activity, ‘Letter Shake’ supports reading development by encouraging students to shake an egg carton and identify letters and sounds written in the egg carton compartments. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides egg carton letters and egg carton pictures.
This reading activity, ‘Letter Walk’ supports reading development by encouraging students to identify letters and say words that begin with the letters. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter identification. It provides uppercase alphabet cards and lowercase alphabet cards.
This word study activity, ‘Letters and Words’ asks students to circle the letters in each word in different sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding that words are made up of individual letters and that sentences are made up of individual words, which make meaning.
This word study activity, ‘Letters, Letters, Letters’ asks students to circle letters in different words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how letters make up words.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Maggie’s First Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to participate in a read-aloud activity by acting out feelings portrayed by characters in a story. It is aimed at helping students recognise language related to feelings. It provides feeling faces picture and word cards.
This word study activity, ‘Make a Compound Word’ asks students to combine pairs of words to form compound words. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding of compound word formations.
This word study activity, ‘Matching Opposites’ asks students to identify different opposites. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of antonyms.
This word study activity, ‘Mixed Up Letters 1′ asks students to write either the matching uppercase or lowercase letters. It is aimed at developing students’ recognition of the uppercase and lowercase alphabet.
This word study activity, ‘Mixed Up Letters 2′ asks students to write either the matching uppercase or lowercase letters. It is aimed at developing students’ recognition of the uppercase and lowercase alphabet.
This word study activity, ‘More Than One’ asks students to add ‘s’ to form plurals. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of nouns and plurals.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Moving Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to place appropriately furniture picture cards according to their functions on a house map. It is aimed at helping students recognise the names and purposes of different types of furniture. It provides a house map and furniture picture cards.
This reading activity, ‘Musical Chairs’ supports reading development by encouraging students to practise reading sight words as they play musical chairs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides sight word cards, musical rhyming cards and uppercase alphabet cards.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Musical Movements’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to practise different movements by playing a musical chairs game. It is aimed at helping students recognise movement words. It provides movement picture cards and animal sort cards.