I often find it difficult to make spelling interesting. So I recently came up with what I call “Spooky Spelling!” It’s got space for your students to alphabetize, sort and illustrate their weekly spelling list. Click here for the free printable page: Spooky Spelling
When kids come back from a week off, they’re dying to tell their friends all about it! And they probably want to tell you, the teacher, all about it too! So here’s a simple writing activity to do the first day back from fall break that will let everyone share their adventures!
Click here for the free printable PDF: Fall Break Write Up
Here’s a fun Halloween language arts activity for kids. It’s super easy and it’s a great grammar review! Click here for the free printable PDF: Grammatical Poetry- Halloween
I’ve always enjoyed teaching parts of speech. And who doesn’t love Halloween!?! So I thought these two things together could only turn out fun. So here are 2 free printable worksheets to help kids practice identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives. Click the following links to see/print the PDFs: page 1 page 2 The following page was submitted by a fellow teacher. She wanted to have her kids use this as a starting point for more writing: Parts of Speech pages- back side
Click here for more fun and free Halloween activities for kids!
I had a request to make this biography template. I made one for lower grades (includes spaces for name, life information, contributions and picture) and one for upper grades (includes spaces for name, birth/death, early life, adult life, contributions, picture). Click here for the free printable PDFs:
One of my teacher friends recently told me that their district just changed their policies to outlaw traditional spelling tests. Instead they do “dictation” with a small set of spelling words (8-10 for second grade). The set of words all focus on specific sounds. For example, they might choose “kn” or “sh” or “eigh” that week. Every day the teacher hands out a sheet (similar to the one below) and says the sounds and the students have to write the sound. Then the teacher says a sentence that includes one or more of the words for the week and the kids have to write it. The sentences are the same on Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday. Then on Friday, the teacher chooses one sentence from Monday and one sentence from Tuesday. It’ll be interesting to see how much better/worse the students are at spelling because of this new system.
Grammar dictation sheet (16 lines)- PDF
Dictation sheet PDF- 10 lines
I fell in love with the idea of grammatical poetry when I saw it. It turns out fun and silly poem and gives kids a painless, quick review of grammar! Here’s a free printable template for fall grammatical poetry. Click here for the Grammatical Poetry- fall. Enjoy!
I never get tired of Pinterest. There are so many great ideas, and it’s just fun! Here are some of my favorite finds as of late…
Use clips to connect the letter cards to make words. Also helps develop fine motor skills… and it’s just a fun way to activity to use with spelling words! (source)
Make a salt tray and grab some alphabet cards. Easy to make and kids have fun smoothing out the salt after correctly making the letter. (source)
Craft a kite that displays contractions! Super simple, and it would make a great classroom bulletin board! (source). Click here for more activities using contractions.
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