Yet another back to school season has begun and you know what that means? Lesson planning!
For my fellow K-5 teachers, I have 7 free websites, full of resources, you can use during your lessons.
This first website is called flashcards for kindergarten, pretty straight forward no? It's a website full of flashcards for learning not just letters, but also animals, colours, foods, places, etc.
I've use these flash cards with my ESL students, as well as my native English students. We use them to help them learn, not just the alphabet, but also to expand their vocabulary.
In the past, I've used the classroom flashcards as a way to break up seated classroom work. I show them the picture and say the word, then have them find where it is in the classroom and stick the card to the item. This is great for kinesthetic learners.
We also often play a matching game for lowercase and uppercase letters. In this we place the cards upright (so they can see the letters), then pick a letter (eg. big R) and ask them to find the matching lower case letter. As they progress in their learning, I will pick a letter, have them tell me what letter it is instead of telling them myself, then and have them find it without tell them what it is.
I've also used these flashcards as a way to teaching reading different word patterns such as -at and -an. I simply switch out consonants using these patterns. Sometimes being able to interact with the words helps students learn to read more so than simply looking at the words on paper.
This can be done individually, or in a group setting.
I find, learning English in a more interactive way, like with these flashcards, helps to curb some of the boredem students may feel and keep them more focused during the lesson.
They definitely have some great flashcards that can be used in a multitude of ways. Would definitely recommend checking them out!
The next website is called twistynoodle. They have some great worksheets for learning the letters of the alphabet that my students have really enjoyed.
During the winter, when they were learning winter words and their colours, I used the Color the Mittens worksheet with the, and they really seemed to enjoy that one.
I find students enjoy the cut and paste worksheets, it's a great break from constantly, reading, tracing, and printing the letters. It also helps develop fine motor skills by giving them more experience with scissors and how best to glue paper together without making a mess.
This website is adorably called printabulls. They have an adorable bull dog mascot, which you can see on the bottom of each worksheet.
From this website, I've used the days of the week and month worksheets as my ESL students. I found they often said "see you tomorrow"as a farewell phrase they knew, even if it was the end of the week. So, I wanted them to learn some variations such as "see you Monday/Tuesday/etc" as well as be able to understand what days are school days.
This website not only has helpful worksheets, but also an events sections that has name tag templates, birthday cards, and more.
There's lot of FREE resource here you can use for students as well as in your classroom, some I didn't even know of until writing this article. I'll definitely be exploring this website more!
This website is called k5learning and is where I get the majority of my worksheets from.
The worksheets are broken up into subject, such as math, vocab, science, cursive, and more, as well as grades, K-5 of course. They also have a search bar in case you aren't sure where to look for something specific. This is super helpful when searching for worksheets/ activities.
I've used their phonics worksheets with my ESL and younger students still learning the letter names and sounds. I've used the sight words worksheets, as well as the colour worksheets, for my student learning to read some works from memory. And, I've also used the math worksheets to help my students learn to count up, as well as do basic math.
They offer lots of other free worksheets, but also have a membership where you can get even more worksheets in all the subjects and grades. I find the free ones are great though!
This really is the site that has the most resources and is the best organized in my opinion. Would definitely recommend this one to any K-5 teacher!
This website is called English for Everyone.
I was on the look out for a website that had sentence error correction worksheets as I had a student who needed more practice in this area.
These worksheets were great supplementary resources to use so that they could get into the habit of checking for different kinds of sentence errors. They have different levels of errors; grammatical mistakes, sentence structure, diction errors, etc. Some sentences have no errors at all, which is a great challenge for students to pick up on.
These worksheets would be good for native English and ESL students for sure. Definitely worth check it out!
At Free4Classrooms, there are more alphabet worksheets that I've used with my students.
It of course takes time for students to learn the alphabet, and so switching up the worksheets they do can help students stay engaged. By switching it up, it can help keep content feeling new and interesting for them even though they're still working on the same information.
This website has regular worksheets, but also has themed worksheets, such as Easter and Christmas, as well as the seasons. My students have really enjoyed working on these.
I've also used their alphabet tracing worksheets with students who already know the alphabet and are good readers, but are still writing some letters backwards.
They also have math worksheets and colouring pages all for free use. Check 'em out!
The last website on this list is called 123kidsfun.
The worksheets I've used the most are their alphabet worksheets. These worksheets focus on one letter at a time and have a variety of activities such as, tracing the letter, a word with a picture they could colour of something that start with the letter, finding the uppercase and lowercase letter, showing where the letter is in the alphabet, etc.
I made these worksheets into alphabet booklets for my ESL students.
I think these are really great because, not only are they informative, but they are also fun for students. When I was using these booklets, I had students begging to work on them first. They really seemed to enjoy them.
On this website, they also have a variety of resources from homeschooling activities to apps for kids. I haven't used any of these myself, but I would say this website is definitely worth checking out.
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