Engaging English Activities and Lesson Plans for Kindergarten

Are you searching for an engaging lesson plan for English? Do you need activities that require minimal preparation time? If your answer is yes, then look no further than the Resources for Teaching Website. They have a wide collection of downloadable materials for primary school students that align with ACARA outcomes. In addition, the Resources for Teaching team creates English activities that will enhance your student’s reading, writing and speaking skills. Here are some of their best sellers that you can easily incorporate into literacy groups or rotations that require minimal preparation. Your students will have lots of fun playing these games and learn a variety of valuable skills at the same time.

1. Snakes and Ladders Digraph Review Games

Learning how to read words with digraphs can be tricky for young students. This resource is perfect for kindergarten and Year 1 students who can improve their abilities to read common words with blends! It includes 10 games of Snakes and Ladders that focus on particular digraph groups, each type of blend is colour coded for students to make connections between the same sounds in different words. Each game has a range of different words for students to practice reading and is great for literacy rotations!

2. Book Report Templates for Younger Students

This collection of book reports, summaries and author biography templates are perfect for younger students in kindergarten, year 1 and 2. Includes 4 book report templates, 4 book summary templates and 4 author biography templates. Great for students to improve their comprehension skills after reading.

3. Beginning Consonant Blends Activity Cards

Provide your students with fun and engaging activities to identify beginning consonant blends! These 30 activity cards are an excellent addition to your literacy group work and rotations.

How to play:

1. Students take an activity card.
2. They must look at the blend and the three pictures on the right-hand side.
3. Using a peg or a counter, they must identify the picture that doesn’t contain the beginning consonant blend.
4. Pick another activity card and repeat.

Simply print, cut and laminate and use during writing or literacy group activities.

4. Adjectives Lesson Plan

This lesson plan for English lessons allow students to practice using adjectives in their sentences to describe nouns. Students will explore different types of adjectives to describe feelings, numbers, colour, size, quality, and shape. All the printable materials are included allowing you to teach effortlessly, including some flashcards and an assessment worksheet to check your student’s understanding at the completion of the lesson.

This resource is perfect for classroom teachers and relief teachers who need to pull together a quick English lesson that will teach students about using adjectives to improve their speaking and writing abilities.

If you’re looking for a preschool lesson planner, lesson plans for kindergarten, activities that require minimal preparation or printable classroom décor to help your students with various skills, visit https://resourcesforteaching.com.au.

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