Teaching Reading in K-2

A collection of reading activities, resources, books and ideas for teaching reading in the primary grades. Find reading strategies for struggling readers in first grade, second grade, third grade and Kindergarten. I've collected engaging lesson plans, products and reading units ideal for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students learning reading comprehension and fluency. resources fluency comprehension

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Friday Letters

Friendly Letter Writing

Second Grade Writing

Free Friday

Write Letters

Third Grade Classroom

Writing Letters

Friendly Letter

Fun Videos

Mentor texts for teaching friendly letter writing

Even in the age of texting and emailing, teaching your students how to write letters is still an essential skill. To make your unit as engaging as possible, here are 10 fun picture books and videos all about writing letters! Don’t miss the FREE Friday Letters starter kit in the post.

YouTube channels with read alouds for teachers to use in the classroom.

Read Aloud YouTube Channels

As much as I love reading books to my class, sometimes it’s fun to switch it up and have special “guest” readers from YouTube. Lucky for us, there are so many read alouds on YouTube to choose from! Here are 17 of my favorite channels for read aloud videos of popular children’s books to use in the classroom.

December Classroom Activities

Holiday Reading List

Christmas Reading Comprehension

Classroom Christmas Activities

Third Grade Activities

Christmas reading comprehension activities

Take your students on a reading adventure to learn customs and traditions for winter holidays around the world! Students practice close reading of informational text with these Christmas reading comprehension passages for holiday traditions in France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Canada and many more!

two gingerbread man cut out from cardboard sitting on top of a christmas tree with the title comparing versions of the gingerbread man turning readers into thinkers

Gingerbread Man Unit

Gingerbread Unit

Gingerbread Man Activities

Gingerbread Activities

Gingerbread Man reading activities & free printables

See how comparing favorite versions of The Gingerbread Man turned my readers into thinkers! Lots of fun ideas for comprehension lessons, gingerbread book activities and gingerbread man crafts in this post that are perfect for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade kids. #gingerbreadman #classroom #2ndgrade #firstgrade #3rdgrade

Prefix activities, worksheets and PowerPoint lessons for 2nd grade grammar

Teaching prefixes is easy and fun with these engaging prefix activities! This 2nd grade resource includes a week of prefix activities, worksheets, PowerPoint lesson, task cards, and assessment. Students learn to recognize and read words with prefixes, generate examples, determine the word’s meaning, and use them in their writing.

stellaluna character and book study for children to use with their own writing skills

Stellaluna Book

Stellaluna Crafts

Stellaluna Activities

Reading Comprehension Lessons

Stellaluna Reading Activities & Anchor Charts

These Stellaluna activities are ideal to add to your first and second grade bats, owls, and nocturnal animals units. The unit includes a teaching Power Point, lesson plans, anchor charts, centers, and reading comprehension. Both print and digital are included with lessons for character traits, point of view, sequencing and more. Ideal for 1st and 2nd grade reading standards and RL.3, RL.5, RL.6.

Third Grade Grammar Activities

Conjunctions Activities

Conjunctions Worksheet

Coordinating conjunctions activities 3rd grade

Designed to take 15 minutes or less each day, these engaging coordinating conjunctions activities, worksheets, and teaching slides are the perfect no-prep resources to elevate your grammar lessons and boost your students' skills! You’ll get a full week of grammar activities, lessons, skill-building worksheets, task cards, assessment, and more to help your students master L.3.1.H, identifying coordinating conjunctions and using them to join two or more words or phrases in a compound sentence.

Prepositional Phrases Worksheets

Prepositional Phrases Activities

Reading And Writing Activities

Prepositional Phrases

Prepositions & prepositional phrases worksheets & task cards

Designed to take 15 minutes or less each day, these engaging third grade preposition and prepositional phrases activities, worksheets, and teaching slides are the perfect no-prep resources to elevate your grammar lessons and boost your students' skills! You’ll get a full week of grammar activities that address L.3.1.a to help students identify and use prepositional phrases with a variety of reading and writing activities.

the second grade common and compound words worksheet is shown in this set of posters

Compound Word Activities

Daily Grammar Practice

School Fall Festival

Compound Words Activities

Words Activities

October Classroom

Get To Know You Activities

2nd grade compound words activities, worksheets & PowerPoint

Teaching compound words is more fun with these no prep compound words activities! Give your students daily grammar practice with easy to implement mini lessons, worksheets, task cards, and assessment. The daily routine provides short, targeted practice to help your second graders master forming, reading and writing compound words.

Changing Matter

Aftercare Ideas

Plants Life Cycle Activities

Breathe Underwater

Butterfly Life Cycle Activity

Primary Activity

Earth Changes

Life Cycles Activities

Experiments Kids

How to teach context clues in reading

Context clues are a crucial, but tricky skill to learn for most students. In this post I share strategies for teaching context clues, questions to hae tudents ask themselves to help identify hints to a word's meaning, practice activities, online games, children's books to incorporate, and a source for lesson plans. Use these strategies to teach context clues to help your students become stronger readers.

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First Grade Activities

10 Amazing Books for Teaching States and Properties of Matter

Here are 10 teacher-approved books for teaching kids about states of matter and their properties. This comprehensive list includes informational science books, nonfiction books, and beautiful picture books that are perfect for reading aloud to elementary-age kids.

Commas in a series activities, worksheets, and PowerPoint

Teaching students to use commas in a series is easy these engaging grammar activities. This 2nd grade grammar resource includes a week of commas in a series worksheets, practice activities, PowerPoint lessons, task cards, and assessment for teaching correct use of commas in a series, commas in dates, letters and places.

Linking Verbs Activities

Verbs Activities

Linking Verbs

Linking verbs activities, worksheets & anchor charts grade 3

Designed to take 15 minutes or less each day, these engaging third grade linking verbs activities and teaching slides are the perfect no-prep resources to elevate your grammar lessons and boost your students' skills in 3rd grade grammar! You’ll get a full week of grammar activities, detailed lessons, skill-building worksheets, task cards, and more to help your students identify and identify, form, and use linking verbs in a variety of reading and writing activities.

Dictionary Activities

2nd Grade dictionary skills worksheets, task cards & PowerPoint lesson

Learning to use guide words and dictionaries can be tricky for some students to learn. These dictionary skills activities provide an entire week of practice activities, worksheets, and task cards to help your students master dictionary skills.

Articles worksheets & 3rd grade grammar activities

Designed to take 15 minutes or less each day, these engaging third grade articles grammar lessons, teaching slides, and worksheets are the perfect no-prep resources to elevate your grammar lessons and boost your students' skills! You’ll get a full week of grammar activities, mini-lessons, skill-building worksheets, task cards, and more to help your students identify use articles in various reading and writing activities.