Kindergarten Language Arts - 2009-2010 Implementation

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1. Find the correct sentence - choose sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation
2. Punctuation - Find the correct punctuation mark to end the sentence.
3. Punctuation - End the sentence with the correct punctuation. - class activity
4. Punctuation Game - lesson plan to be adapted [designed for 2nd grade]
5. Wall of Words - Choose 5 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark. Advanced students can choose to use 7 words.

1. Roy the Zebra - interactive game for students; capitalize the first letter using the looking glass without waking up Zara. Four levels of this game. Great for whole class interactive lesson. or

1. Special Names - Find the correct capitalization of proper nouns.

1. Dynamic Tracer Pages - Modern Manuscript (D'Nealian) or Standard (Zaner-Bloser) Font
2. Names - How many things can you do with a name to help a child recognize and spell his/her name? Well, check this out!
3. Tracer Pages - alphabet sheets, colors sheets, and numbers sheets
4. Tracing Paper - Type your child's name or any word. The program automatically opens a new window and then fills the page of the name or words to be printed and traced.

1. Look, Cover and Spell - This spelling site has 30 pre-built lists of words, but you can create your own list. Double-click any word on the list and type a word appropriate for your grade level. Your student gets to see the word, then it is covered and they must type the correct spelling. or
2. Room 108 Demo Spelling Test - Write the word that you hear.
3. See 'N Spell - Short Vowels - Spell out the CVC word that names the picture. Self-check the answers.
4. Spelling - Alien Scavenger Hunt: Letter Bugs - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
5. Spelling - Alien Scavenger Hunt: Space Trash - Use the mouse to click on letters that make up the word you hear. From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
6. Spelling - Fearless Frieda - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Three letter words on level one, four letter words on level 2. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
7. Spelling - Fearless Frieda the Big Kahuna - Use the keyboard to spell the words Frieda says. Frieda starts with four letter words in this game. - From Game Goo (learning that sticks)
8. Spelling Words - Click the letters in a word and then put the letters in order, like refrigerator magnets! or

1. Color Words - Handwriting sheets to reinforce recognition
2. Color Words - Drag the words into the correct color box.
3. Free Dolch Words Flash Cards - includes suggestions on how to improve visual memory of dolch sight words
4. Literacy Center - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing component in the Keyboard Section.
5. Name that Numeral - Click on the number word that matches the number of stars. 1-10
6. Match Number word with Numeral - 0 - 25
7. Match Numeral to Number Word - 0 - 10
8. The Number Game - Read the number word and pick the number that matches. This game has 10 questions.
9. Shapes and Colors - Click on a shape, then click on a color. The words appear at the bottom.
10. Drag and Drop Sight Words - self checking or
11. Sight Words - Use this pre-primer dolch word list to practice sight words. Click on the word and hear what it pronounced.
12. StoryTime- Stories with Dolch words are read to student. Students can go back and reread the stories themselves. Stories can also be printed out for more reinforcement of words. [stories are being re-recorded with new voice and they ask that you wait for the updates - no date given]

1. Safety - this story will read itself to you. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading. [stories are being re-recorded with new voice and they ask that you wait for the updates - no date given]
2. Bike Safety - If you will be riding your bike or in-line skating by the side of a road, you will need to know what these traffic signs and signals mean
3. Bus Safety and School-Zone Safety Signs - from the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles Governor's Traffic Safety Committee
4. Railroad Safety - Use Caution When Crossing Railroad Tracks
5. Safe Walking for Kids - What about crossing the street? In some areas there are signs, signals and roadway markings to help you cross safely.
6. Sign Quiz - select a sign shape and match it with the correct color
7. Traffic Signs - Shapes of Traffic Signs - Colors of Traffic Signs - Warning Signs - Bicycle Signs - Highway Signs

1. Garfield at the Farm - complete book in PDF format with activities. Other books available here also.
2. The Missing Word - lesson plan - predict possible missing words from a short story by using context clues and graphophonic clues

1. Alphabetical order - drag these words over into their correct place - Pictures are included by the word - several levels are available or
2. Alphabetical order - drag these words into the correct order - On the left you can select other letters of the alphabet to practice - use the undo bird if you need to move words or

1. What's the Word? - a reading and vocabulary game from FunBrain - Select Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, Tools, Machines, or Shapes to begin the game.

1. Letterella - Meet the letters of the alphabet. Listen as Letterella sings each letter and pronounces each phoneme in words beginning with the letter
2. Phoneme Match: Sound Dominoes - Students listen to parts of word and use domino game style to match up the same phonemes.
3. Phonics Inventory - Students need to be individually assessed so that they can be grouped according to instructional needs. That is the purpose of the tool. Check your students for their phoneme readiness for reading.
4. Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound - Students hear a word and click on the CVC word they sound out that matches the word that was said.
5. Sound Check - Interactive test to evaluate a child's ability to recognize phonemes
6. Write a Postcard - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus phonemes. When you have got them all right, the next sentence appears but this time there are gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word.

1. Phonemic Segments - HayLoft - Click on the object that matches the sounds made. or
2. Phoneme Checker - Let children listen to the various phonemes. Put them together to make a word.
3. Sound Buttons - make up words using digraphs and letters, then click on the sound buttons to blend it together.
4. Learn to Read - Starfall - Easy to read stories that focus on a particular vowel sound along with quizzes on the same vowel. Long and short vowels included.15 separate stories and quizzes.

1. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
2. Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more!
3. Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
4. Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select to go directly to the activity.
5. See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.

1. Blending Bowl - football players crash together to blend words. - beginning individual sound and ending sounds.
2. Letter Bugs - collect the individual letters to create a whole word or
3. Pig Waller - Pick the word from the sounds Orville says - beginning individual sound and ending family or
4. Whirlyword machine - spin any wheel and sound out the word

1. Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre.
   1. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme.
2. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match
3. Loosey Goosey Rhymes - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what letters are missing.
4. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
5. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with
6. Rhyme Time with Gisele - Read one of four poems along with Gisele. After the poem has been read, click on any word to hear the word read to you.
7. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.
8. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration or

1. Alphabet Goop - stir the goop and then match what comes out to one of two letters or
2. Beginning Letters - ten questions, select the letter begins the word of the object shown
3. Beginning Phonics - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter. or
4. Begins With - students are presented with a picture on which there are objects whose names begin with one of three letters. click to select
5. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
6. Dosity - Dositey.com is an educational web site serving the students, teachers, and parents of the K-12 community. There are three levels of phonics interactive activities.
   1. Level One - shows a picture and the student is to pick the correct word
   2. Level Two - prompts the student to add the beginning sound to the word to go along with the picture
   3. Level Three - requires the student to type the word that goes with the picture with a word bar above with the spellings
7. First Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
8. End Sounds - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
9. Literacy Center - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. This site is translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English; and also has a typing component in the keyboard section.
10. Match beginning sound - type the beginning sound of each picture [use all caps]
11. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
12. Phonic Fighter - Aliens are trying to steal the alphabet. You must know what sounds each object begins to reclaim that letter.
13. Use the Wordmaker from Read-Write-Think - select an ending sound then make words with that ending sound.

1. Clap and Count Practice Index - many online quizzes - clap syllables
2. Phonological Awareness:Syllables Counting Quiz - Quia quiz - teacher directed whole class activity

1. ABC Coloring pages - A through Z
2. The ABC Game - Pick the object that starts with the letter shown at the top of each page. This game has 10 questions
3. Alphabet Action - Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture.
4. Alphabet Activities - A through Z
5. Alphabet Game- Round One-Student drags lower case letters to uppercase letters to match. Round Two- reverse process. Round Three- Drag letters to correct alphabetical order.
6. Alphabet Letter Match - Match lower case with upper case letters.
7. Alphabet Match - Match capital to small letter. Find the Mommy (or Daddy) Kangaroo for each joey.
8. Alphabet Word Match - Match lower case word with upper case word.
9. Alphabet Zoo - Click on partner letters to place baby animals into their proper homes in the zoo.
10. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [all letters present]
11. Alphabetize - (FunBrain) connect dots in alphabetical order to complete a drawing [some letters missing]
12. The Book Game - Organize the out of order books. Click on the picture of the books to play. Click each book to put it in alphabetical order.
13. Haunted Alphabet - [headphones needed] Find the hidden alphabet in a spooky setting.
14. Letter Recognition - ten questions, capital letters, find the missing letter
15. Letter Recognition - ten questions, capital and lowercase letters, only part of the alphabet, find the missing letter
16. Letter Recognition - ten questions, capital and lowercase letters, all of the alphabet, find the missing letter
17. Match the Letters - Find the letter that matches the letter on the right and type it.
18. Memory Match - Match capital to small letters in the concentration game style to reveal a surprise picture. As matches are made they are reinforced on a chalkboard, writing down the matches so the student can go back and read the matches later. [concentration style game]
19. Missing Letter - Type the letter that is missing
20. Paw Park: Alphabet Bears - bears wearing words on their shirts must be put into alphabetical order
21. Paw Park: Kangaroo Confusion - match upper case and lower case letters
22. Phonic Fighter - Aliens are trying to steal the alphabet. You must know what sounds each object begins to reclaim that letter.
23. Put the Alphabet in Order - Oh no! The alphabet is out of order. Click on the letters and drag them into the correct boxes.
24. Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching A-G - Part 2 H-N - Part 3 O-T - Part 4 U-Z - make the lowercase letter tee-shirt match the color of the uppercase tee-shirt

1. Frog Jump - Click on the flower to hear a sound. Listen to the flashing lily pads and click on the one that matches the flower. If you click the right lily pad, the frog will jump one step closer to his home. The closer the frog gets to home, the quicker the sounds play.
2. Match Sounds - In the memory game, listen carefully and find the matching sounds made by the animals. Click on the window to make the animal appear and hear its sound. Click on the other windows to find its match.

1. Whirlyword machine - spin a wheel and sound out the word

1. Word Family Sort - Click on a vowel to begin, then sort words according to their family. Students can read the words they see and create sentences with them once back at their desks. or
2. Word Families in Nursery Rhymes - many ideas to use in the classroom
3. Word Family Booklets - short booklets featuring short vowel word families to print - two levels are available
4. Printable Word Family Phonics Worksheets - many types to select
5. Magnet Board - How many words can you make using the same endings? [hold down the shift key and click to start typing new word endings]
6. Blending Bowl - football players crash together to make words.

1. Missing Letters in Words - Position the cursor in the box, then use the keyboard to enter the missing Letter in the word; pictures included.
2. Unscramble the Words - Position the cursor in the box, then use the keyboard to enter the letters to unscramble the word for each picture.

1. Rules for Listening - List of rules to discuss
2. A Listening Doll - lesson plan - Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories. Then, they create a listening doll in the tradition of the Native American storyteller dolls
3. Rules for Listening - PDF file

1. Bear Wear - Help Bear get dressed by listening to the letter sound and selecting the shirt that matches the sound.

1. Can You Follow Directions? - Tina will give you directions. Click on the pictures in the correct order.
2. Listen Up - lesson plan; great for learning how to give people directions and following them.

1. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make your own story. What would happen first, next, and last?
2. Three Stories from the Little Animals Activity Centre - The stories are read to students, and choices must be made during the story. Give your students the opportunity to retell these stories.
   1. The Missing Pencil -
   2. The Butterfly Trail -
   3. The Wishing Tree -

1. Conversation Skills: Helpful Hints - useful for people who are working on improving conversation skills
2. Having a Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format
3. Polite Conversation - worksheet with word bank cut outs - pdf format
4. When It's Time to Talk - Read each statement then circle 'yes' or 'no.' - pdf format

1. Talking with a Friend - A Planned Conversation Using Communication Devices - script of a conversation of informal language

1. Listen Up - lesson plan - great for learning how to give people directions and following them.

1. Creative Problem-Solving with Ezra Jack Keats - students listen as the teacher reads a different picture book by Ezra Jack Keats. Following the story, class discussion focuses on the problem that the main character faces and the related solution that the character chooses.
2. I Will Not Take a Bath - Listen to the story that is read aloud. Determine problem and solution.
3. Pet Story - Which pet should she select? Listen to the story that is read aloud.
4. The Yellow Gorilla - Why did the gorilla turn yellow? How did he solve his problem?

1. Playground Fun - Match pictures to the correct sentence.
2. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.
3. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.

1. KIDiddles - lyrics to your favorite songs
2. Kids Club Stories [The version that asks your student to do the reading has expired. The links below come from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine.]
   1. Country Mouse and City Mouse - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   2. Mother Bear Bakes Bread - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   3. The Fox and the Crow - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   4. The Mouse and the Lion - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   5. The Three Bears - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   6. The Three Billy Goats Gruff - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   7. Other stories rom Kids Club - Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3
3. Nursery Rhymes - collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is offered by themes listed below
4. Songs and Poems - songs and poems categorized by theme

1. Harold and the Purple Crayon - drawing activity, similar to the popular KidPix
2. Story Starters - Here’s a quick writing activity to try every day. First generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Four levels are available, pick K-1st
3. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. Spelling set - listen to the word, then type it [listen carefully, some of the words are not hard to hear]

1. Picture Sentence Worksheets - Look and Write - (Scroll past the membership information) Look at the picture. Write a sentence that tells about the picture

1. Handwriting Practice Worksheets Letters - scroll to the bottom to the handwriting section
2. Young Writers' Workshop - story starters for young writers - Print the pages and let the child write the rest of the story
3. Writing Wizard - English handwriting practice worksheets - type a word or short sentence and then set a number of display options.
4. Zaner-Bloser Writing Practice - dotted practice, letters to color and trace and more from abcteach.com

1. The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing - after shared reading and discussion, students draw their own big green monsters and write stories about the monsters

1. Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme - students use rebus writing to create their own poetry

1. Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic - Students use a timeline to break a larger topic into several events or moments; then, each student selects an event to write about from the timeline

1. Making connections between things that happen in a story - worksheet for family involvement
2. Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension - Read-alouds of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant are followed by activities that help students learn to identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and apply them when responding to texts

1. Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes! - unit plan that can be designed for K-2

1. Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing - Using the book Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola or any other wordless book with a clear story line and detailed pictures that support the unwritten text students create their own interpretation of the story.
2. Story Scramble - click on sound button to hear story then move pictures in order or
3. Time Sequence Game - watch a video and then drag the pictures into the correct order or
4. Wall of Words - Choose 5 words and then drag the words to empty blocks above, arranging them in correct order. When you finish arranging the words into a sentence you must select the correct punctuation; period, exclamation point or question mark. Advanced students can choose to use 7 words.
5. What's the order? - drag the pictures into the correct sequence order - 3 sets of pictures

1. Cause and Effect Books - Book list on stories to use for cause and effect lessons.

1. Stories for Children - Magazine - a free monthly Ezine

1. Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts - this lesson describes how to use selected fiction and nonfiction literature and careful questioning techniques to help students identify factual information about animals

1. I Can Wash Dishes - The pictures on this sheet are supposed to tell a story but are in the wrong order.
2. It's Bath Time - Choose the appropriate images from a selection of three, to help the kid get his bath started.
3. Picture Sentences - (Scroll past the membership information) Online worksheets. Can be used as a class teaching tool. Look at the picture. Tell which sentence tells about the picture. Good for beginning readers. Also a section on Look and Write. Look at the picture and write a sentence that describes the picture.
4. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
5. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make up your own story.
   What would happen first, next, and last?

1. Pics from the Web - free downloads - select from many pictures from which to respond
2. Lit2Go - free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audio book) format
3. StoryPlace - many books to listen to with activities to go along with it.
4. Storynory - free audio books for children.

1. Let's use the Library - article on how to help students learn to use a library.

1. Animal Muddle - Listen to Foxy Dancer's animal rhyme at The Little Animals Activity Centre.
   1. When students have finished they can print the entire rhyme.
2. Concentration-style matching game from Quia - 8 pairs of rhyming words to match
3. Kids Club Stories [The version that asks your student to do the reading has expired. The links for those seven stories below come from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine.]
   1. Country Mouse and City Mouse - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   2. Mother Bear Bakes Bread - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   3. The Fox and the Crow - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   4. The Mouse and the Lion - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   5. The Three Bears - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   6. The Three Billy Goats Gruff - this story will read itself to you. Print the story. After students are familiar with the story, you can use a version that asks your students to do the reading.
   7. Other stories rom Kids Club - Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3
4. Loosey Goosey Rhymes - Loosey Goosey letters keep falling off the words. Try to guess what letters are missing.
5. Rhymes - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
6. Rhyme Time - match the word with the image it rhymes with
7. Rhyme Time with Gisele - Read one of four poems along with Gisele. After the poem has been read, click on any word to hear the word read to you.
8. Rhyming Words - Many choices to select from. Click on the word that rhymes with the picture - Audio help is given.
9. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration or

1. Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts - listen to read-alouds of nonfiction texts to identify and confirm factual information which is recorded on charts and graphic organizers. They also use the Internet to gather additional information about the animal.
2. Fantasy or Reality - read sentence and decide which is fantasy and which is reality.
3. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are make believe
4. Real or Make Believe - pick out the pictures that are real

1. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
2. Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
3. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
5. What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

1. Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
2. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
3. Graphic Organizers from Education Place
4. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
5. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
6. Tips on Making Your Own Concept Maps
7. Interactive Venn Diagram - good for whole class activity.
8. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)

1. Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey - using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information

1. All Kinds of Feelings - children work together to create visual representations of feelings to use as catalysts for discussions throughout the year
2. Group Discussion Scoring Guide Rubric - PDF file
3. The Great School Clean-Up - engage the learners in a school wide clean-up event. Learners will be asked to participate and reflect on the activity by creating a heightened awareness of community based environmental issues and how everyone should be good stewards of the Earth

1. And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
2. End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2)
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
4. Three Stories from the Little Animals Activity Centre - The stories are read to students, and choices must be made during the story. Use these as whole class activities and ask for predictions.
   1. The Butterfly Trail -
   2. The Missing Pencil -
   3. The Wishing Tree -
5. Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
6. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
7. Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions

1. From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories - Drawing can create a bridge between the ideas in a child's head and the blank piece of paper on the desk

1. I Can Wash Dishes - The pictures on this sheet are supposed to tell a story but are in the wrong order.
2. It's Bath Time - Choose the appropriate images from a selection of three, to help the kid get his bath started.
3. Picture Sentences - (Scroll past the membership information) Online worksheets. Can be used as a class teaching tool. Look at the picture. Tell which sentence tells about the picture. Good for beginning readers. Also a section on Look and Write. Look at the picture and write a sentence that describes the picture.
4. Tale of Peter Rabbit - Click on What’s Going On and then answer questions about each picture.
5. Tell Your Own Neighborhood Story - Click on three pictures and then make up your own story.
   What would happen first, next, and last?

1. Making connections between things that happen in a story - worksheet for family involvement
2. Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension - Read-alouds of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant are followed by activities that help students learn to identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and apply them when responding to texts

1. Cinderella - Online story (no audio) with teacher resources to print, sequencing activities, and illustrations of stories.
2. Stories Online - Read stories online, then identify characters, events and settings.

1. High Frequency Words - 6 activities using sight words. Drag correct word in blank to complete the sentences.
2. I Can Read Game - Listen to the sentence then click on the spoken word.
3. Three plays - Starfall site - Read and act out plays. [click on the ear icon to hear the words read aloud]