Need a great vocabulary builder? It’s best to learn groups or categories of words at one time, because when we relate words to each other, we have a better chance to remember them. How about some flash cards on people, jobs, family members, or for articles of clothing? This would be a great practice piece for ESL/ELL students, too!

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People Flash Cards

Review your numbers with your students with these handy numerals flash cards. Then make a number booklet, which kids can illustrate, glue things to, or use stickers for counting. The more ways they see these numbers, the better! You can even do a ‘number walk’ and have kids walk down the hallway, looking for groups of 3, 4, 5, and so forth.

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Number Flash Cards

Continuing our series by grade level, Kindergarten has some important testing, too. We really can’t start a kid in 1st grade of Kindergarten doesn’t do their job of getting students ready, and it’s certainly not an easy job. Add these free resources to your roster of ready-to-go testing strategies.

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Kindergarten Test Practice Worksheets

Blech! Is there anything worse to try to get students to do than write neatly, especially the boys? As a young boy, I remember I had just about the worst handwriting in class. Of course, we didn’t have these fancy worksheets. Get your students’ handwriting up to snuff with these activities, or they’ll have sloppy handwriting for the rest of their lives!

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Handwriting Worksheets

If you read my last post, I said something about Have Fun Teaching organizing their resources not only by subject area, but also by grade level. I’d like to highlight a kindergarten resource now. This activity requires students to circle pictures that are blue. I might put this up on a smartboard, computer screen, or some sort of projector, and then give the students a B&W version to save on ink. Then, once all the words are read describing the pictures, have them color only the blue ones. Then, the blue are all they see! Repeat with other colors to make a color book.

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Kindergarten Worksheets

Wouldn’t it be great if some of these worksheet websites not only sorted things by subject area, but also by grade level? Well, Have Fun Teaching has done that. They’ve got K-3 done, and 4-6 are forthcoming. Granted, not everything from the 100′s or 1000′s of worksheets on the site has been sorted yet, but it’s a good start. Not to mention, there are songs that go along with a lot of this material for you to attack your multiple intelligences in lesson planning!

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Grade Level Worksheets

Need another phonics activity to tuck into your toolbox? Pull out this free worksheet from have fun teaching and practice your blends! Some of the hardest sounds to make are the blends, especially for young students or students from countries whose languages are very different from ours. This is a great ESOL strategy, as well as great practice for those little guys who all need to be great readers some day!

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Word Lists

Alphabetizing is a hard skill to teach. It takes practice, practice, and more practice. Why not make your life easier with some worksheets? There are worksheets here for alphabetizing by the first, second, or third letter. I can imagine how this might tie into activities where students alphabetize their classmates by first or last names, or where students alphabetize a collection of books. Lead from hands-on practice into worksheets to check understanding. Great differentiated instruction technique!

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Alphabetical Order Worksheets

Need an excellent primary resource to start the year off? How about an alphabet booklet? From A-Z, Have Fun Teaching has pages for each letter, with the letter in upper and lower case and a word that starts with that letter. It’s a great little phonics and letter recognition practice booklet. I can imagine how much kids would love to color their pages and even write more words they learn starting with those letters on them, creating their own little dictionaries. Sounds like a good cooperative learning or ESOL activity as well.

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Alphabet Worksheets

Struggling to get your students to add flavor of any sort to bland, boring sentences? Are they unable to pull adjectives out of thin air to describe things? Try some English worksheets and have them going through basic activities to flex their vocabulary muscles. Describe common objects, assemble word families, and much more! We all know we’re building toward state writing tests, and everything done at younger grades just builds them up for it. Find this worksheet and more in the English Worksheets section of Have Fun Teaching.

Adjective Worksheets

Adjective Worksheets