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1st grade english language arts resources for Easel and for GATE
Reading Enrichment Activities for K, 1st, and 2nd Grade Early Finishers & Gifted
This set of 70 engaging, open-ended reading and language arts enrichment activities for K, 1st, and 2nd grade gifted and talented or fast finishers will boost creative writing, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, critical thinking skills and more! All of these activities are low (or no!) prep, saving you tons of time and money. No more looking for generic puzzles or word searches.... or printing extra worksheets you already used.These make great independent projects for gifted and talented students.
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K - 2nd
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The Name Jar Self Awareness SEL Activity and Read Aloud STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM, SEL, and Literacy in your classroom!In this STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self-Awareness. They design, build, and test their own stamp that reflects their identity. Students discover how to cope with nervousness, develop gratitude, and have their own unique identity.They build their own name jar to share positive names for others.CASEL Framework: Self AwarenessThis activity is a part of a series of STEM resources designed to follow the CASEL Framework for so
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Self Awareness SEL Activities and Read Aloud STEM Challenges Bundle
Latino Heritage Month Pelé: King of Soccer READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and celebrate Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month!In this STEM Lesson, students learn about Soccer / Fútbol Legend Pelé. They design, build, and create their own soccer game to play!Connect to a Read Aloud - Pelé: King of Soccer / El Rey de Fútbol by Monica BrownThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Pelé: King of Soccer by Monica Brown. The book explores the legacy of Pelé in both English and Spanish. The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their ow
Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Sonia Sotomayor Turning Pages READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!In this STEM Lesson, students learn about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and how books influenced her career. Design, build, and test your own Tower of Knowledge made from Index Cards and Books!Connect to a Read Aloud: Turning Pages - My Life Story by Sonia SotomayorThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Turning Pages: My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor. The book is an autobiography about how books influenced Sonia Sotomayor.The Eng
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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The Bad Seed Self Awareness SEL Activity and Read Aloud STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM, SEL, and Literacy in your classroom!In this STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self-Awareness. They design, build, and test a seed home for the bad seed and learn about Empathy, Reputation, and Growth Mindset through mindful moments.CASEL Framework: Self AwarenessThis activity is a part of a series of STEM resources designed to follow the CASEL Framework for social emotional Learning. Self-Awareness includes the abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thought
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Self Awareness SEL Activities and Read Aloud STEM Challenges Bundle
Jabari Jumps Self Awareness SEL Activity and Read Aloud STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM, SEL, and Literacy in your classroom!In this STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self-Awareness. They design, build, and test a diving board for Jabari, and learn how to have courage through mindful moments.CASEL Framework: Self AwarenessThis activity is a part of a series of STEM resources designed to follow the CASEL Framework for social emotional Learning. Self-Awareness includes the abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they i
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Self Awareness SEL Activities and Read Aloud STEM Challenges Bundle
Roberto Clemente Unplugged Coding Activity
Teach Coding and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!In this unplugged coding lesson, students learn about baseball legend, Roberto Clemente. Then, they code their own baseball game!Connect to a Read AloudThis activity is the perfect companion activity to Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use Directional Coding to create their own baseball game. Perfect activity for Hispanic Heritage Month or for Hour of Code.NOTE
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1st - 5th
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Rosie Revere Engineer Activities - STEM Challenge
Engage your students with Engineering and STEM from the very beginning of the year! I like to read this book at the beginning of the year to start our STEAM or STEM lessons. It goes great with Growth Mindset as well! Your students will love Rosie and her gadgets and gizmos. Chances are you might have a "Rosie" in your class. Includes a Invention sheet that includes the engineering design process and a Flying Machine STEM or STEAM challenge! Other Pages are:Story Elements including Characters,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle | Back to School
Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick Literacy Pack!
This literacy packet gives an assortment of reading, grammar, and writing activities related to Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. (The story is not mine, so it is not included. It can be found in many libraries and bookstores.)This resource includes the following: Copyright Pages Related Common Core & FL standards for the comprehension test Comprehension test 2 choices: 1st choice gives a point value for each question 2nd c
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Fall and Halloween Bundle of Comprehension and Literacy Items
We are Thankful! Thanksgiving Leaf Writing Activities
This is an enjoyable and fun craft and writing activity that permits students to display what they are thankful for! This was created for second to third grade students, but it can definitely be applied to younger and older classes. It can be as simple as cutting and writing one sentence for kindergarten and first graders or can be as involved as cutting or tracing, developing details, planning, clearly writing paragraphs with details, revising, editing, and publishing an opinion piece about w
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K - 5th
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Creative Thinking Activities K-2
Click on the PREVIEW tab above to see more!!Many of the activities in this packet incorporate creative thinking, creative writing, and counting skills. These 21 high interest activity sheets work great in centers, emergency sub plans, as morning work, and as “dessert” activities. They are suitable for a variety of ability levels in your classroom. Many of the activities in this packet are very similar to the ones in the Grade 3-5 packet.Activity sheets are now layered for students to complete
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K - 2nd
She Planted a Plant
How does she plant a plant? Let find out! This short, nonfiction story helps students learn that plants need soil, sun, and water to grow all with easy, high frequency and decodeable words. A wonderful text to connect science and English. This was created for beginning English learners (A1 European level); it is American English. How does she plant a plant? Let find out!Included:10 pages including the front and back covertwo printing options full colored with blue backgroundpartially colored
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PreK - 1st
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom (Bill Martin) Interactive Alphabet Order Game
This is a terrific game for pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and ESL or ESOL students to practice their alphabet order. This resource includes the following: 21 questionseach question has three letters for multiple-choicecapital letterswritten prompts: "What comes first?" and "What comes next?"PDF or Easel options:Each option has the exact same questions. The Easel activity is a drag-and-drop circle game without affirmation and encouragement pages. However. it is self-checking
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PreK - 1st, Adult Education
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom Interactive Game sounds long e and /oo/
This is an interactive game (without sound) where students click on the correct coconut for the long e or /oo/ spellings or for the properly related picture. This relates to Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin Jr., but the story is not included; you can find it at many libraries and book stores. I used this game after I read the book aloud and taught the three spelling patterns: long e spelled ea, long e spelled ee, and the /oo/ sound spelled oo. The game was used for practice and re
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Where's the Christmas Tree?
This is a prepositional, fill-in-the sentence game. It is a great to use as a review, practice, and/pr test preparation for prepositions. And, it can be played individually or with partners or groups in literacy centers or as a whole class. What's Included:Easy to use game! Simply, download and click on the first page. 23 questionspictures for students to determine where the tree iscongratulations when a question is answered correctlyencouragement and opportunities to try again Easel Activity
NO PREP Digital Capitalization Game for Halloween
An enjoyable game that is easy and ready to use with sentences related to the topic of Halloween. Terrific practice for proofreading and identifying improper capitalized and non-capitalized words in sentences. What's included:a PDF formatted, interactive game;pages to encourage the students to try again and congratulate them after each attempt; 12 sentences to work with; and a similar Easel activity. (Your students' work will need to be checked in the Easel activity.)Please note these sentence
NO PREP interactive -et Word Family Text to Picture Matching Game
This interactive game can be played on a computer as a whole group, small group, individual, or with a partner to find the correct word to match the -et word on each card. What's Included:All words are from the -et word family: net, fret, set, pet, vet, wet, met, and jet. (Words that are options but DO NOT have illustrations include bet and let.)There is no preparation required. You just open and play! PDFmultiple-choice, click and play formatself-correcting gamehas encouragement and congratu
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K - 2nd, Adult Education
Where's the Turkey? Prepositions Game
A fantastic game where students look at the pictures and click on the corresponding prepositions to tell where the turkey is! A great game for whole groups, small groups, partners or independent practice in various settings and classroom environments! This resource includes:pages of congratulation to praise students for correct answers,encouragement pages to assist student in trying again,about 24 questions to practice witha slightly modified (drag-and-drop and self-grading) Easel activity-----
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K - 2nd, Adult Education
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Arbor Day Vocabulary Game
Arbor Day Vocabulary GameThis clickable game is a fun and effective way to practice common Arbor Day vocabulary with partners, small groups, or as a whole class! This resource includes the following: * 15 clicking the picture that matches the word slides * 12 clicking the definition that matches the word slides * child-friendly definitions *"Oh, no! Try again.” slides and “Amazing!”, “Wonderful!”, and “Terrific job!” slides to encourage students. * 26 words in total (on 27 s
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Turkey Graphic Organizers or Story Maps
Get a choice of five story maps for primary grades. Each map can be printed in color or black and white. (Please note: color sheets will need to be written on with markers or a more visible ink. I usually have students write a draft and rewrite a published piece on their turkeys.)You simply print and use! Enjoy!Florida Standards:LAFS.4.RL.1.2: Determine a theme of a story.LAFS.4.RI.2.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, id
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K - 4th
What Time is it? Drag and Drop EASEL Game for Time to the Hour (1.MD.B.3)
This is a great self correcting, drag-and-drop time to the hour analog clock game! Students easily practice and you can quickly asses what they understand. :) Included: 24 multiple-choice questions with large analog clock!12 with word format choices12 with number formatted choiceshas red, hour hand and blue, minute handDrag-and-drop ovals gives loads of fun!A wonderful item for individuals or groups and in virtual or standard classrooms. Enjoy!-------------------------------------------------
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K - 2nd
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Halloween Sentences Capitalization Game w/ Religious and/or Historical Sentences
Use this ready to use, interactive game to help students practice proofreading and reinforce capitalization rules while reading sentences about Halloween. A terrific way to practice identifying improper capitalized and non-capitalized words. This game has some religious based text For a nonreligious, capitalization game please go to my Halloween items. Thank you!What's included:a PDF formatted, interactive game;pages to encourage the students to try again and congratulate them after each atte
Oh! Look! Book Sight, Dolch, or High Frequency Word Story
A little child is walking to a friend's house and sees a few animals along the way ( an owl in a tree, bees buzzing around flowers, a spider in a web, etc.) which surprises the character who says "Oh!" Next, the child says "Look!" to the reader and points to the animal(s). The walk ends with much delight a the friend's house. This is a fantastic, 40-page picture story for students to practice the words "oh", "look", and "see". What's Included:one e-book (PDF) printable option (can print multip
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PreK - 1st, Adult Education
Oh! Look! See! Book Sight, Dolch, or High Frequency Word Story
Join this little boy and girl on their trip to the zoo and see all the wonderful animals they find! This is a fantastic, 40-page picture story for students to practice the words "oh", "look", and "see". Students enjoy the pictures and guessing what the characters see before hand while teachers like the repetitive practice for students to easily pick up these high frequency words. What's Included:40 pages of reading and pictureschild-friendly story and graphicswritten for beginner E.S.O.L. (EL
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PreK - 1st, Adult Education
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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.
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