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Awesome Language Arts Worksheets

August 10, 2015 By Deirdre

Over the last few years I have created a number for language arts worksheets and printables for my son to work on. They have been gathered together in the post so that you can used them with your children. I hope you have as much fun with them as we have.

Language Arts Worksheets

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Build The Alphabet with LEGO Light Sabers

These LEGO themed light sabers can be used to build the letters of the alphabet. The free printable has light sabers for various sizes that can be used for letter building.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Sight Word Scarecrow Game

A printable scarecrow themed game board can be used to work on sight words or really any skills that your children to need focus on.

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Fill in the Color Word Sentences for LEGO

I composed to language art worksheets that have blanks where color words should be. Your children can use various colored LEGO to fill in the blanks. These are a little like Mad Libs!

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

This Mouse Needs a House Reading Comprehension Sheets

I was given the opportunity to review the wonderful children’s book This Mouse Needs a House. I created to language arts worksheets that give children the opportunity work on reading comprehension skills. Children can read the book on their own with as a class and then share what they remember from the book.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Spelling Trace and Write

This spelling practice printable was placed in a picture frame. My son was able to write each spelling word I called out to him on the frame’s glass. When we were done, it was super easy to clean off the glass.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Summer Writing Journal Prompts

Some children have trouble knowing what to write in their journals. They need something to inspire them. I made this list of summer writing prompts for my son. He is just the kind of child the needs a little inspiration before writing.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Printable Sight Word Spiders for Floor Webs

This set of printable spiders has a blank area for you or your children to write in sight words they need to work on. We explored the sight word spiders on a tape web in our garage.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Chicken Themed Letter Recognition

This is one of those language arts worksheets that you complete by rolling dice. I made lowercase letter dice for my son to roll. My son had to color in the uppercase letter that matched the letter he rolled.

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All you need to make your own wooden letter dice are small wood cubes and colored dot stickers.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Writing Sight Words on a Rainbow Printable

The goal of this worksheet is to write each of the sight words on the cloud on a one of the band of the rainbow. They can write each word as many times as they can on its band of the rainbow.

We had fun exploring, reviewing and learning using each of these language arts worksheets. I hope you will too. Please let me know which ones you decide to try with your children in a comment below or on my Facebook page.

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Reading Games- Sight Word Stackers

September 8, 2014 By Deirdre

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

There is just something wonderful about stacking cups. As soon as I took out
these sight word stackers or cups with sight words on their bottoms, I was asked
what we were going to do with them. “We are going to play a sight word reading games,” I
announced. I confess that there was a slight sigh that slipped out of someone’s
mouth. Stacking cups is fun. Decoding words isn’t always viewed as fun, but it
can be made to be fun.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to race a friend to read the words on the cup. The first person to
read the word at the top of the stack gets to have the cup build a wall or tower
with. If it looks like one person maybe a stronger reader than the other, you
can have the children take turns reading the words on the cups. When a word is
not read correctly, it goes to the bottom of the pile or stack. (It can make someone
feel awful to have a friend quickly read a word they have struggled with.)

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to have the full stack of cups to read on your own or without
a friend too. The same rules apply to this version of the game. When you read a
word, you get to build with it. If you miss the word, it goes to the bottom of
the stack. That way you will be able to try to sound out a word a second time.
Another fun sight word game to play with the sight word stackers is to build
towers that contain the same vowel sound. You could even create cups that focus
on long or short vowel sounds. I just placed the words on a first grade sight word
list on the cups. We are able to stack by vowel sounds, but our stacks for
particular sounds weren’t very tall.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

This same set of reading games could be done with spelling words. You could spell
and read the words on each cup to earn the opportunity to stack with it.

If you have child who seems reluctant to read the words in these reading games, you
might let them explore the cups first. Once they are hooked on stacking them, I
bet they will be willing to read the words on them.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

Here are some more Learning to Read Activities I have pinned on Pintererst.

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Spelling Games With Mixed Up Words and Apples

September 4, 2014 By Deirdre

We recently purchased a huge container of red plastic cups to use at a family reunion. We must have over bought because there were tons of red cups left over. We can save some for the next family gathering, but I just knew we could use some of them now for spelling games. I just needed to think about how for a little while. What I came up with was a group of spelling games that are played with mixed up letters placed under red plastic cup apples.

Let me walk you through how I put together the games and then I will share with the spelling games I came up with.

Here is how the spelling games were put together:

Supplies:

Red plastic cups

Green pipe cleaners

Green construction paper

Scissors

Index cards

Green magic marker

Directions for putting them together:

1. Cut a small slit in the bottoms of 10 plastic cups. (If you have more than 1o spelling words, you will need more cups.)

2. Cut the green pipe cleaners into thirds.

3. Cut out 10 leaves from the green construction paper and place a small slit near the front of each leaf.

4. Push the pipe cleaner through the slit in the leaf and then into the hole in the cup. Leave some of the pipe cleaner on the other side of the leaf to make a stem.

5. Write a spelling word on each of the index cards. You may want to leave large spaces between your letters or fold them into the number of sections your will
need for each letter.

6. Cut each index card so that each individual letter will be on its on piece of index card.

7. Put the sections of index card for each word under a plastic cup.

Here are the Spelling Games:

Unscramble One Apple At a Time

The title of this game tells just what children do to play the game. Children will need to take the pieces of a word from under one cup and unscramble them. When children have the word unscrambled, they will move on the next apple cup.

Time Me

Children can use a watch or timer to see how fast you can unscramble each of the words under an apple cup. You can set a goal to go faster each time or estimate how long it will take you to unscramble each apple. Children will be able to make better estimates after they have completed a few apples.

You Go and Then I Do

Set out the apple cups in two rows. Each cup in each row has a mixed up word under it. Children will work in pairs to unscramble the words. They can work on each row together or see who can complete their row first. If they are working against each other, make sure they get a chance to work with each set of words.

I am sure you can come up with more spelling games using the mixed up words and the cute apple cup creations. If you have one you want to share, please leave a comment below or on my Facebook page.

The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School- Read.Explore.Learn

August 24, 2012 By Deirdre

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This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book called The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School by Reeve Lindbergh. It is filled with fun and terrible destruction of mall displays.

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The aardvarks head to the mall to search for the items on their back to school list and can’t help break every rule in the mall etiquette book.

They run. They pull things off the shelves. They play with the toys and don’t put them back on the shelves. They stress out the shopkeepers.

The book isn’t just filled with terrorizing the mall. By the end of the book with the help of a bagel boy employee tells them to clean up. Guess what they do! They really do.

I am not advocating tearing up the mall, but I love the humor in the book and I love the idea of cleaning up messes.

What did we do with the book The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School?

Aarvark Tracking Activity

A simple tracking practice folder can be made by drawing straight dotted lines and connecting them with straight line ramps.

Children can practice the tracking movement they will use in reading using the simple tracking folder. I added a cutout of an aardvark for JDaniel to push along as he practice tracking.

Clothes Pin Spelling Practice

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A simple picture of an object with its name placed beneath it can lead part of a very simple spelling activity. The only other thing you will need are clothes pins with the letters of the word written on them.

A child can simply clich the clothes pin with a letter underneath the letter it matches.

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