NGLS Standards for Reading: Foundational Skills Worksheets

1st Grade Kindness Activities

These 1st grade kindness worksheets help students practice literacy skills while learning about kindness and empathy. Activities focus on alphabetical order, sentence structure, writing, and critical thinking, encouraging students to recognize kind actions and reflect on their own choices. Students will complete tasks like sorting kindness words, writing responses to…

St. Patrick’s Day ELA Activities

These St. Patrick’s Day worksheets combine reading and writing practice with fun, holiday-themed activities. Students will work on rhyming, letter sounds, alphabetical order, sentence structure, and reading comprehension while engaging with festive content. Activities include tracing, sorting, and creative writing exercises that encourage both literacy skills and imagination. Students will…

Printable Alphabet Flash Cards: ABC Learning for Kids

Ready to make learning the ABCs fun? These printable alphabet flash cards are perfect for little learners. With 13 different themes, from colorful animals to festive holiday designs, there’s something to spark every child’s curiosity. Whether you’re a parent looking for a hands-on learning tool or a teacher wanting to…

Context Clues Anchor Chart

It’s all about the clues! Utilizing context clues involves using patience and strategies in order to determine the meaning of an unknown word. For early literacy students, this is essential. Use our printable context clues anchor chart on paper or as a digital resource. Remember, anchor charts can be used…

Reading with Expression Extension Activity

Reading can be challenging, but it can also be FUN! Transform reading into a performance with our Reading with Expression Packet! This resource invites students to explore the world of storytelling through expressive reading in a series of exercises which build up to independent and collaborative practice opportunities. This is…

Words for Kids (A-Z Word Lists)

Below you’ll find links to each of our word lists for kids, broken out by letters of the alphabet. The lists you’ll find are designed to copy and paste into various activities you might be creating for your classroom or at home. We’ve also written a short narrative story before…

3rd Grade Spelling Words

Welcome to our 3rd Grade Spelling Words section! The spelling program consists of 36 weeks of structured lessons, each focusing on specific phonics skills. The program begins with CVC multi-syllable words in Weeks 1-3, followed by CVCe word endings and vowel patterns in Weeks 4-9. Weeks 10-15 cover base words…

5 Letter Words

Welcome to our 5 Letter Words section! We put this together to help young students to focus on some of the more challenging words, after they have mastered other lists like the Dolch sight words lists and CVC words. Clicking on each letter listed below, you’ll find a printable word…

ABC Charts

ABC charts serve multiple purposes in early education and language learning. They aid in letter recognition and recall, as children visually associate each letter with its shape. Pairing letters with images or words helps develop phonetic awareness, connecting letters to their corresponding sounds. ABC charts also introduce new vocabulary words,…

Kindergarten Spelling Words

Our kindergarten spelling words are broken down into a scope and sequence across 36 weeks to take you from the beginning of school through the whole school year! As you can see by the curriculum sheet, we start off the program with beginning sounds (week 1-3), then move on to…