There are never enough phonics games and tools, and kids get bored with them quickly. Change up your routine with some free phonics flashcards and resources from have fun teaching. These are a surefire, quick, free tool to keep things fresh and moving along. They’re also easy to reproduce and send home for parent involvement.

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Phonics Flash Cards

One of my favorite sets of language flash cards is a list of interjections. It’s funny, because many of them we don’t often think of, but we use them fairly often. It’s sort of a lost part of speech, but they can pack in so much meaning into a syllable or two. Here are some examples you can download and print, as well as other sets of language flash cards. Take a look at these interjections and have your students practice one each day!
Aha, Aw, Bye, Boo, Bravo, Cheers, Darn, Eek, Gee, Good Grief, Hello, Hey, Huh?, Oh Dear, Oops, Ouch, Phew, Rats, Shucks, Shh, Thanks, Uh-Oh, Well, Whoa, Wow, Yeah, Yay, Yikes, Yippee, Yuck.

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Language Flash Cards

Language flash cards don’t just have to be vocabulary cards. Some of them can be prefix and suffix cards. Some of them help identify proper contractions. Others help you identify parts of speech or common nouns versus proper nouns. Why not take a look at all the sets of free printable flash cards for download at have fun teaching? Take a look and figure out what fits into your routine, and you’re sure to go back for seconds.

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Language Arts Flash Cards

Grammar is so sadly neglected these days. Put a smile back on Grammar’s face by sharing its long-lost rules and regulations with a new crop of grammar students. Help students learn their punctuation, their parts of speech, and how sentences are built. Then watch your writing scores grow.

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Grammar Flash Cards

We’ve got some more writing prompts, great for those 15 minute journal entries students can do to keep an ongoing running record of their progress, something they can look back on to see how far they’ve come. But before you run out of ideas and prompts, stop by have fun teaching and see how many free ones they have for you!

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Daily Writing Prompts

Need to practice for those end of year writing tests, but you’re fresh out of ideas to write about? No worries, we’ve got some free, ready-to-use prompts all made and done pretty to add interest. These are way better than a simple sentence you made up on the fly and scribbled on the whiteboard. Don’t overthink it, because they’re free!

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Writing Prompts

Writing essays doesn’t come overnight. It starts with writing sentences, then adding transition words and those 2-dollar vocab words. Have Fun Teaching has made a few exercises that help with the sentences part. Take this one for example, where students write 1-2 sentences about each season. This could very easily be transformed into an essay later, talking about the pros and cons of each season and ending with a nice conclusion about the writer’s favorite season. Why not give it a try?

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Sentence Worksheets

Narrative writing can be fun for children. It can help them find their writer’s voices, and they tend to enjoy it more than expository writing. Give them some practice with some free printable writing exercises from have fun teaching. This particular one has several story card that they draw and use at random to make a fun story.

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Narrative Writing Worksheets

School is in full swing for some of us, or just starting off for others, but we all need space-filler activities during the day or sub teacher activities for those days when the unexpected comes up. Why not make it meaningful, too, for your second graders with some free worksheets from have fun teaching? Second graders aren’t the only ones with activities on that site, either. Grade by grade and subject by subject, there are hundreds of free resources!

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Second Grade 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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