Literature activities elementary

37 fun language arts games and activities to teach kids in kingergarten through middle school the fundamentals of language and literature!

Today I'll be sharing ideas for making your guided reading routine a bit more exciting. Because if you do it every single day in the exact same way, it can get a little tired, right?

Find 23 ready to use, effective vocabulary activities your students will love, by The Teacher Next Door!

Hands-on pre-reading activities that encourage your elementary students to access their prior knowledge and make predictions.

Teaching blog post on using genre crafts to teach genres in the upper elementary classroom

Make a giant word search personalized for your child! A great way to practice sight words, spelling words, and reading list for big kids.

Theme is such an important concept when teaching reading. Students are asked to determine the theme of a text over and over again. However, many students struggle with how to identify the theme. That's why I'm sharing some of my favorite ways to teach theme. You'll find theme lesson ideas, theme activities, and theme passage suggestions to help your students finally figure out how to find theme!

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Figurative language review for similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, idioms and more for upper elementary students.

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.