Are you looking for ways to keep your students engaged in reading and writing? Our fun reading activities help students develop essential skills while learning to connect with their reading and express themselves through writing. Students can read about a variety of topics from animals to space and challenge themselves to write their own stories and poems.
We want to inspire young readers to be active in their literacy journey. Explore our collection of interactive writing and reading lessons and activities. Let’s bring the love of literacy to the classroom!
Kindergarten Reading Lessons and Activities
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.
View a full list of kindergarten reading activities.
Grades 1-2 Reading Lessons and Activities
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.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 1-2.
Grades 3-5 Reading Lessons and Activities
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.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 3-5.
Grades 6-8 Reading Lessons and Activities
Discover these eight research-based reading fluency intervention strategies you can use in the classroom.
Introduce your students to the five competencies of SEL with these writing and journal prompts for elementary, middle, and high school.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 6-8.
Grades 9-12 Reading Lessons and Activities
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.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 9-12.
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