Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
These contractions flash cards help kindergarten to 4th grade students see how two words join to make a contraction, with 24 fold-over cards and a practice page. Answer key included.
These adjective flash cards help kindergarten through 4th grade children describe 18 bright pictures with fold-over word cards and model sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
These prefix flash cards help kindergarten to 4th grade students learn 24 common prefixes, their meanings and an example word for each. Fold-over cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
Students learn 24 common suffixes, their meanings and example words with these suffix flash cards for kindergarten to 4th grade. Fold-over cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
Using the Verb Rap Song (MP3), students will be able to define, give examples and use verbs in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Opposites flash cards for Preschool through 1st Grade: 12 fold-over picture cards teach 24 opposite words, with a practice page and answer key included for fun, hands-on vocabulary review.
These action verbs flash cards help preschool through 3rd grade children name 18 actions with fold-over picture and word cards and model sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
In this position words activity, preschool to 1st grade children match butterfly pictures to above, below, next to, in front of, and behind. Answer key included.
Using the Subject and Predicate Song (Original Music Video), students will be able to define, give examples and use subjects and predicates in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
These noun flash cards for preschool to 4th grade pair 18 bright pictures with their nouns so children learn people, places, animals, and things. Answer key included.
These interjection flash cards teach K to 4th grade students 18 lively words like Wow! and Oops!, the feelings they show and how to use them. A practice page and answer key are included.
This noun bingo activity has 24 picture cards and 4 boards for Preschool to 2nd Grade, plus a practice page with an answer key included, so kids learn nouns while they play.
Using the Verb Rap Song (Original Music Video), students will be able to define, give examples and use verbs in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Songs for Kids Download by Have Fun Teaching has 18 fun and educational songs for kids.
Using this Simile Song (Original Music Video), your students learn about how to use similes in order to bring emotion and feeling into their writing.
Using this Common and Proper Nouns Flash Cards, students sort the Common and Proper Flash Cards to the appropriate category.
These verb flash cards give kindergarten to 2nd grade children 24 fold-over action picture cards, each with its verb and a short model sentence. Answer key included.
This nutty nouns activity lets Kindergarten to 2nd grade students sort picture cards into person, place and thing, then practice with a word-box sort. Answer key included.
This writing language assessment worksheet helps kindergarten teachers rate seven written grammar and sentence skills on a simple three-point scale, making writing progress easy to track and share.
Naming words, doing words, giant giggles
Kindergarten grammar starts with the building blocks of a sentence. Kids learn that nouns name people, places and things, and verbs are doing words like run, jump and eat. They add -s to make plurals (cat → cats), use question words like who and where, and learn little position words like in, on and under. They also start every sentence with a capital letter and end it with a period. The click moment is when a child says "Jump is a verb because I can do it!"
Five-year-olds learn grammar by seeing it, singing it and acting it out. Here's what works for us.
Flash a noun card and ask, "Is it a person, place or thing?" Kids sort the cards into three piles on the rug. The pictures do the explaining, so even early readers can play.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withNoun Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Play a verb song and have kids do every action they hear. Moving their bodies while they hear the word makes "verb = doing word" stick fast.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withVerb Rap Song (Original Music Video)SongsOpen it →Call out a noun, kids find the picture on their board and cover it. Add a twist: they must say "a dog" or "two dogs" before they mark it, so plurals get practice too.
Why it works: in a well-known study, a few short sessions of a simple number board game measurably boosted young children's number skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).
Try it withNoun BINGOActivitiesOpen it →Grammar is a game when you're five. These are the ones our kids ask for.
ActivitiesPut a teddy in, on, under and behind a box, and kids shout out where it is.
Open Position Words Activity →
Flash CardsPick an action card, act it out, and let the class guess the doing word.
Open Action Verbs Flash Cards →
ActivitiesSort silly pictures into person, place and thing and giggle at the funny ones.
Open Nutty Nouns Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Science Songs (MP3 Album), Contractions Flash Cards and Adjective Flash Cards.
Nouns, verbs, plurals with -s or -es, question words, and position words like in, on and under. They also learn to start sentences with a capital and end with a period.
Say a noun is a naming word for a person, place or thing. Point around the room: teacher, school, chair. Then let your child find three of their own.
Not at all, as long as it's playful. Kids already use nouns and verbs when they talk. Kindergarten simply gives those words names, mostly through songs, games and pictures.
Play "I spy a noun" in the car, act out verbs before bed, and hide a toy for position-word hunts. A few minutes a day is plenty.
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