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Elementary english language arts resources for parents
Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books and Genres
Do you want to introduce your students to new genres or new choices of books? Hold a BOOK TASTING in your classroom! This event will get your students motivated and excited about reading! Hold this event 2-3 times a year in your classroom and/or make it an evening event for parents to "sample" new books with their children. Resource includes: book tasting menuplace matsreflection napkinsbookmarkspreviewing a book signgenre signs with definitionsgenre bookmarks with definitionsevent signs, table
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3rd - 8th
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Parent Handouts for Preschool, Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten - English & Spanish
Parent handouts are an easy way to help parents support their child’s learning at home! It’s super simple. Just print and send home! You can send the parent letters home at the beginning of the year, on various parent nights, at parent teacher conferences, before summer, or attach to your newsletters throughout the year. These 2 page skill building handouts give parents simple suggestions, tips, and games/activities they can do to help their child build their skills at home. The activities a
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
Mother's Day Writing Activities 2024 Crafts Cards and More Mothers Day
Celebrate Mother’s Day with these fun and meaningful activities for older kids! These writing resources will give your intermediate students a chance to reflect on their relationship with their moms and express their appreciation in a creative and heartfelt way. With everything from Mother’s Day crafts to expository writing with the various activities, you can pick and choose what you want students to work on or let them decide! Easily include these low-prep activities into your writing curricul
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3rd - 6th
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Meet the Teacher Template Editable | Welcome to Our Class Back to School Letters
This editable meet the teacher template is a perfect way to provide your students and their families with some information about you and your classroom at the beginning of the school year. You can send it in the mail in the summer, email it home, provide a copy to each family at an open house, hand out to your students during the first week of school, or upload to google classroom. Click here to SAVE 30% by buying this as part of my Back to School Forms Bundle!What's Included:- Meet the Teacher
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School Forms Bundle | Print + Digital
Mother's Day Printable Questionnaire All About My Mom
Quick & Easy and sure to always makes mom's laugh! This printable is a perfect gift for Mother's Day.**Grandmom and Aunt included** Also a "fill in the blank with the special persons name! 8 PAGES INCLUDEDPLUS 20 more...newly updated!All you need to do is print out this PowerPoint file and have the students fill in their answers. Your students can draw a picture of themselves with their mom's (or special person) and color it all - and then it is ready to go!! **For my younger students** I ha
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PreK - 4th
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Fine Motor Activities for the Year | Scissor Cutting, Tracing, Handwriting
Practicing fine motor skills with fine motor activities is essential for developing hand, wrist, and finger strength, pencil grasp, visual perception, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, and handwriting skills. These no prep fine motor activities provide a fun and engaging way to practice fine motor skills throughout the year!How can I use these no prep fine motor activities?Create a Fine Motor Journal or Notebook - A cover for a fine motor journal is included, plus printing tips.Fine
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PreK - 1st
End of the Year Memory Book {Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade}
This product is available as part of my End of the Year Bundle at a discount. Check it out here!If you need the digital version of this resource, you can find that HERE. Use this packet to keep your students engaged and reminiscing while you finish up testing, packing, and planning! It makes such a sweet keepsake for your students to keep and remember their kinder, 1st, or 2nd grade year.The packet comes in half page and full size. You can put all of the pages together in a book, or use specific
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K - 2nd
Also included in: End of the Year Survival Kit {Awards, Homework, Printables, and More}
Alphabet Activities - ABC Playdough Mats - Letter Tracing Recognition & Writing
Your students will love working on the letters of the alphabet with these Alphabet Playdough Mats. This ABC activity gives your kids a fun, hands-on way to build alphabetic knowledge. They will have fun as they build playdough letters, practice tracing letters & writing letters. The multi-sensory abc playdough mats will also help your kids learn letter recognition or letter identification, the names of letters, letter sounds, and develop phonemic awareness. These mats are easy-to-prep and
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PreK - K
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Kindergarten Readiness Summer Packet Kindergarten Round Up Preschool Review
Prepare your soon-to-be-kindergarteners for school with the Kindergarten Readiness Handbook in both English + Spanish. These handbooks include introduction and overview pages for grown-ups, student practice pages, A to Z readiness charts, + more to ease the worry of starting school. SAVE with the kindergarten summer packet BUNDLE!This download includes:Kindergarten Readiness Handbook in EnglishKindergarten Readiness Handbook in Spanish"I'm ready for kindergarten" crowns in English + SpanishThe K
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PreK - K
Kindergarten Homework BUNDLED - Aligned to CC (English Only) | Distance Learning
This HUGE Homework Bundle includes ALL of my monthly Kindergarten homework packets! That is 11 months of homework from August-June with 44 Weekly Homework Packets that you can use your entire school year!**These are great activities to use as home learning packets for the year!**This homework bundle is just what you need to send home effective homework that includes detailed instructions for at home use and involves little to no prep for you! A HUGE time saver! Each month is broken down into wee
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PreK - 1st
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First Grade End of the Year Summer Review Packet - Math and Reading Practice
Are you needing a first grade summer review packet? This math and reading practice packet is full of engaging, fun, summer-themed activities that your students will love working on all summer long and have them feeling prepared for the next school year! This pack is loaded with many skills that your soon-to-be second graders can practice over the summer so that they are...Ready-Made for Second Grade!This 72-page packet includes:a summer journal with several writing promptsdaily practice pages al
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1st
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Preschool Summer Packet | PreK Summer Packet
Preschool Summer Packet! Looking for a fun activity packet for 3 or 4 year olds? This 55 page packet is jam-packed with all kinds of great activities for kids about to enter preschool and even those who are currently in school.Click on the preview to see some of the pages!❤️What is included?There are 4 sections: Pencil Practice, Shapes, Letters, & Numbers. Each section has an introduction with helpful tips and additional activity ideas for parents. All of the activity pages have a Parent/Car
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PreK - K
Building Skills at Home Parent Handouts (English & Spanish) Teacher Conferences
This packet of informational handouts is aimed at parents of children in grades K-2. Each subject-themed sheet contains tips, ideas, and strategies parents can use to build their child's literacy, letter recognition, sight word recognition, fine motor, handwriting, writing, spelling, math, math fact, and number recognition and counting skills at home. These would be perfect to attach to a weekly newsletter, pass out at the beginning of the school year, or hand out at parent-teacher conference
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K - 2nd
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Kindergarten Pre-Screener Assessment - Registration - Roundup - Readiness Test
These standards-based forms make it so easy to assess incoming kindergarten students, preschool or pre-k children. The assessments coordinate perfectly with the recording forms to make the entire process quick and easy. I place the picture prompts in page protectors, and as children progress through the activities, I record their answers onto their personalized assessment form. You'll get a comprehensive overview of a student's academic abilities in just minutes!This assessment and all record
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PreK - K
Emergency Sub Plans Kindergarten & First Grade The Bad Seed Hands on Worksheets
These kindergarten and first grade sub plans will make your life easier! Sick days are no fun and preparing for a substitute before a sick day is stressful. Unexpected absences happen, so it is a good idea to plan ahead. Create a sub tub or substitute binder at the beginning of the year BEFORE you need it. That way you will have meaningful activities to leave for your guest teacher and you will have the peace of mind to know your students are learning and not just stuck with busy work or workshe
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K - 1st
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Summer Name Craft Activity and Bulletin Board | Ice Cream Back to School Craft
Use this editable ice cream name craft to introduce students to letter recognition and name recognition. Students will love cutting and pasting the letters of their name to create their own ice cream cone. Display this craft on your bulletin board in the summer or during back to school. It's a fun way to practice fine motor skills.Get this name craft and more at a M A J O R discount with the Name Craft Bundle!This Ice Cream Name Craft is a great back-to-school activity that includes letter recog
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PreK - 1st
EDITABLE Monthly Homework Challenges for Kindergarten
This editable monthly homework pack is perfect for challenging students and building your home-school connection. There are 10 monthly activity pages that can be sent home to reinforce concepts taught in school. There is a mix of math and literacy ideas, as well as written and hands-on activities.A bonus Summer Challenges page has been added! Keep students practicing key concepts over the summer with these fun and easy activities.What is included:→ 10 monthly activity pages with 16 activities on
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PreK - 1st
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Pencil Box Name Tags with Take Home Folders | Student Supply BUNDLE
Get organized this back to school season! Save BIG on everything you need, including pencil box name tags, take home folders, homework helpers, math tool kits, and personal word walls! With tools for school and home you can master classroom organization and parent communication!CLICK ON THE PREVIEW BUTTON ABOVE TO SEE IT ALL!➡️What products are included?Take Home Folder Covers and LabelsThese Take Home Folders are unlike any other option out there! Get everything you need to support students and
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PreK - 2nd
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Reading Log for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Reading logs are a great way to encourage reading at home! My preschoolers are always asking for “preschool homework” and this is what I give them. It is so simple just print, copy, and send home! At the beginning of each month I send home a new reading log for that month. You can choose to have students bring the logs back to school if you wish. The first month I send the reading logs home, I attach the “Reading at Home” parent note. The parent letter has reading and comprehension strateg
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
Functional Vocabulary File Folder Games for Special Education Matching Activity
These file folder games for special education and autism focus on color matching, picture matching, and word matching for a variety of functional vocabulary words. Activities include multiple options for easy differentiation: matching picture to picture (identical), picture to picture (non-identical) and picture to word, including both real-life photographs and illustrations. These are great for students working on matching and learning real-life functional vocabulary such as those in special e
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PreK - 12th
Editable End of the Year Letter to Students From Teacher: Send a Special Goodbye
Editable End of the Year Letter to Students From Teacher: Send a Special Goodbye: This year hand out a special letter on the last day of school to say goodbye to your students. This heartfelt letter is editable so you can personalize it! Looking for a sweet and sincere end-of-the-year letter for your students? Here it is! The body of the letter is editable too! Just open in PowerPoint and click inside the text box to edit the letter. Don't forget to add a text box with your name at the end of th
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K - 5th
Kindergarten Summer Packet with Decodable Passages Comprehension for First Grade
Prevent the "summer slide" by sending your kindergarten students home for the summer with the Kindergarten Summer Handbook. This robust packet includes essential math and literacy skills for students to continue learning throughout the summer before first grade. Students will love the fun themes and activities as they practice all of the skills they've learned this year!This summer handbook is 100 pages and includes an A to Z of first grade skills chart, parent info pages, decodable passages, li
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K - 1st
Handwriting Practice Letter Tracing GIFs BUNDLE Digital Letter Formation Slides
Keep your students engaged all year long with this set of three different Letter Formation Slides + GIFs! Students will see how to properly form their uppercase and lowercase letters with moving letter formation guides. These slides help you to be consistent and clear for your students to gain proper handwriting skills and practice. Both English and Spanish versions included in both Google Slides™ and MS PowerPoint!Included in this bundle is:Letter Formation GIFsSPACE Letter Formation GIFsRAIN
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PreK - 2nd
Name Craft Year Long Bundle Back to School Kindergarten Bulletin Board Ideas
Allow students to personalize their crafts all year long with this seasonal Name Craft Bundle. All of the crafts make show stopping bulletin board displays and great fine motor activities for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students. The crafts focus on letter recognition, name recognition, spelling and hand-eye coordination. The included name crafts can easily be used for many different purposes: as signs in the classroom, name tags, centers, and more! Each craft is editable in Goog
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PreK - 1st
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
How do I find English language arts lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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