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- Internet Field Trips
- ABCs and the WWW
K-2
Learning the alphabet is fun and easy at these sites on the Web.
- Lesson Plans
- Ramona's World Activity Guide
K-2, 3-5
Find great activities to extend your class's reading of Ramona's World.
- Spelling Strategies: Guiding Kids to "Discover" Spelling Rules
3-5
Help your students use a discovery process to learn rules related to forming plurals and adding suffixes and prefixes to base words.
- Spelling Strategies: Learning High-Frequency Words
3-5
This article describes four strategies that can help students learn to spell frequently-used words.
- Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns
K-2
These strategies will help students hear sounds in words by developing phonemic awareness and exploring sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns.
- Spelling Strategies: Mastering New Words for Writing
K-2, 3-5
This article discusses five strategies for helping students select and learn their own spelling words.
- Spelling Strategies: Promote Smart Spelling With Partner Quizzes
K-2, 3-5
Find descriptions for how to strengthen spelling skills through partner quizzes.
- Word-Bank Bingo
K-2, 3-5
Test spelling skills with this variation of a familiar game.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Scholastic News Teacher's Guide
Lesson planning suggestions for using Scholastic News in the classroom.
- Reproducibles
- A Comes First
Early Childhood, K-2
Sing along with the letters A, B, and C and build letter skills. (PDF)
- A Friendly Conversation
K-2
This fun complete-the-sentence activity will give students practice spelling words with the long "a" sound.
- Arrange the Words
3-5
Students must distinguish verbs from adjectives with this word-grouping activity.
- Butterfly Mobiles
3-5, 6-8
A quick, fun-filled way to help kids of all learning styles master their spelling words. (PDF) Source: Spell Well
- Code Words
K-2
Students use codes to figure out spelling words in this fun activity.
- Compound Equations
3-5
Figure out equations to create compound words.
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
K-2
Practice initial consonants and blends found in a nursery rhyme. (PDF)
- Jumping Beans
K-2
Get kids jumping with this activity when they practice spelling words that contain the letters j and g.
- Making Mini-Dictionaries
K-2,
Construct a picture dictionary with easy-to-follow instruction. Source: 15 Reproducibles Cut & Paste Mini-Dictionaries
- My Book of Winter Words
K-2
This mini-book provides a fun way to experience sight words about winter. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words
- My Book of Words Beginning with Bb
K-2
Give students practice with the initial consonant B with this mini-book. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Initial Consonants
- My Book of Words Ending in -ing
K-2
Use this mini-book to give beginning readers practice with words ending in "-ing." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Word Families
- My Book of Words With Short "a"
K-2
This mini-book will give students practice with the short vowel "a." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Short & Long Vowels
- Sense and Nonsense
3-5
These silly sentences do not make sense -- but you can fix that.
- Soccer Spelling
K-2, 3-5
Kick off spelling practice with this fun game. (PDF) Source: 25 Super-Fun Spelling Games
- Solve a Silly
K-2, 3-5
Use this silly activity to practice playing with the last syllable of a multi-syllable word.
- What Is It?
3-5
Try to answer questions using difficult spelling words.
- What's in the Truck?
K-2
Use these mini-books to reinforce students' short vowel concepts. (PDF file) Source: Ready-to-Go Reproducibles: Fun Phonics Mini-Books
- Word Builders
K-2
This spelling activity will give students practice with compound words.
- Write It Right
K-2
Identify and correct misspelled words and punctuation errors.
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