Hands-On Resources for Elementary Classrooms

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Each week, you’ll get ready-to-use resources designed to support hands-on learning in your elementary classrooms: step-by-step lessons, printable activities, fun games, and more.

  • Week 1: Hands-On Handwriting
  • Week 2: Printable & Playable Word Sorts
  • Week 3: Grab-and-Go Graphic Organizers
 

An instructional guide for teaching manuscript letter and number formation, a word study sorting lesson designed for emergent reading students, and a setting of a story graphic organizer.


Hands-On Handwriting

In Week 1, you’ll receive 3 free manuscript handwriting lessons (lowercase, capital, and numerals) and 3 free cursive handwriting lessons (lowercase, capital, and word/phrase review and practice).

For more free handwriting resources, take a free interactive tour of D’Nealian® Handwriting — the original continuous stroke, manuscript-cursive handwriting program!

Printable & Playable Word Sorts

In Week 2, you’ll receive 6 free lessons for practicing phonics and vocabulary with hands-on word sorts. Skills practiced include color words, sounds (ending sounds and short vowels), digraphs, homophones, and more!

For more free practice resources, take a free interactive tour of Words Their Way® — the personalized, multisensory practice program for phonics, vocabulary, and more.

Grab-and-Go Graphic Organizers

In Week 3, you’ll get 11 printable ready-to-use graphic organizers for your English language arts lessons, such as a story sequence flowchart, a Know-Want-Learn (KWL) chart, a two-column T-chart, and cause-and-effect chart.

For more free ELA resources, take a moment to explore Savvas Now Literacy — the Teacher Digital Resource Library offering thousands of high-quality elementary literacy resources.

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