Fun Reading Activities and Lesson Plan Ideas for All Grades

The alphabetic principle is the foundation of phonics instruction. Learn more about the concept and discover some strategies for teaching it in the classroom.

Teaching foundational reading skills is one of the most important goals of early grade and reading intervention teachers. Learn more about the key foundational reading skills and other literacy skills students need to become proficient.

Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of arts and creativity.

Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of different kinds of weather.

Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together.

Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of traditional tales.

Try these phonological awareness strategies and phonics strategies in the classroom to help support developing readers

Honor our home planet with these 9 Earth Day activities and games for elementary students.

As the school year ends, keep kids engaged with these fun summer school activities for elementary and middle school students.

Engage your child in an exploration of food and how it is important in our lives.

Have children explore Earth's ecosystems with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.

Give your kids an inside look at the animal world with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.

Teacher and award-winning poet Toney Jackson joins us for a special lesson on how to write rhymes in the classroom.

Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.

Teaching kids how to write a persuasive paragraph consisting of their opinion and supporting sentences puts them on the right track to being an effective communicator.

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore Earth's ecosystems with free reading lessons.

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore how we are helpers in our communities.

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore how great things can happen when we work together.

Discover these eight research-based reading fluency intervention strategies you can use in the classroom.

Sharpen your writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources for Grades 6-8, including a poetry scavenger hunt.

Have middle schoolers improve their writing, critical thinking, and reading skills with these activities, which include creating a word cloud and summarizing informational texts.

Have middle schoolers identify figurative language, start a dialectical journal, and respond to daily dinner prompts.

Have your middle schoolers write their own haikus, identify themes in works of literature, and create a character's social media profile.

Teach students about metaphors and have them write fiction stories with these free downloadable activities for middle schoolers.

Ensure students get the practice, feedback, and revision experience they need for success with these tried-and-true strategies for teaching high school writing.

In November, National Novel Writing Month begins for thousands of writers around the world. At the same time, many teachers introduced their classrooms to the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program, and found their students developing a new-found passion for creative writing.

Poet Glenis Redmond says teaching students how to write a praise poem is a great way to dive into metaphors and similes and have them flex their creative muscles.

Have high school students analyze news stories, poems, and short stories with these instructional resources designed for remote learning.

Have high schoolers analyze a poem, summarize an informational text, and write effective arguments with this week's downloadables activities.

Have high schoolers continue learning from home by evaluating a news article for reliability, maintaining a dialectical journal, and responding to daily dinner prompts.