Are you looking for ways to keep your students engaged in reading and writing? Our fun reading activities help students develop essential skills while learning to connect with their reading and express themselves through writing. Students can read about a variety of topics from animals to space and challenge themselves to write their own stories and poems.
We want to inspire young readers to be active in their literacy journey. Explore our collection of interactive writing and reading lessons and activities. Let’s bring the love of literacy to the classroom!
Kindergarten Reading Lessons and Activities
The alphabetic principle is the foundation of phonics instruction. Learn more about the concept and discover some strategies for teaching it in the classroom.
Teaching foundational reading skills is one of the most important goals of early grade and reading intervention teachers. Learn more about the key foundational reading skills and other literacy skills students need to become proficient.
Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of arts and creativity.
Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of different kinds of weather.
Discover five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together.
Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of traditional tales.
View a full list of kindergarten reading activities.
Grades 1-2 Reading Lessons and Activities
Try these phonological awareness strategies and phonics strategies in the classroom to help support developing readers
Honor our home planet with these 9 Earth Day activities and games for elementary students.
As the school year ends, keep kids engaged with these fun summer school activities for elementary and middle school students.
Engage your child in an exploration of food and how it is important in our lives.
Have children explore Earth's ecosystems with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.
Give your kids an inside look at the animal world with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 1-2.
Grades 3-5 Reading Lessons and Activities
Teacher and award-winning poet Toney Jackson joins us for a special lesson on how to write rhymes in the classroom.
Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.
Teaching kids how to write a persuasive paragraph consisting of their opinion and supporting sentences puts them on the right track to being an effective communicator.
Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore Earth's ecosystems with free reading lessons.
Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore how we are helpers in our communities.
Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 3-5.
Grades 6-8 Reading Lessons and Activities
Discover these eight research-based reading fluency intervention strategies you can use in the classroom.
Introduce your students to the five competencies of SEL with these writing and journal prompts for elementary, middle, and high school.
Use these four fun writing prompts for middle school students, along with accompanying rubrics and tips, to help them build their writing skills throughout the school year.
Have your students explore the exciting world of TV writing with a free lesson plan and insights from producer, writer, and Carmen Sandiego showrunner Duane Capizzi.
Explore space, travel in time, and make friends with a robot in this week’s great summer reads with Carol Jago.
Have middle schoolers create a Story Spine, find inspiration in everyday objects, and write an advice column.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 6-8.
Grades 9-12 Reading Lessons and Activities
Ensure students get the practice, feedback, and revision experience they need for success with these tried-and-true strategies for teaching high school writing.
In November, National Novel Writing Month begins for thousands of writers around the world. At the same time, many teachers introduced their classrooms to the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program, and found their students developing a new-found passion for creative writing.
Poet Glenis Redmond says teaching students how to write a praise poem is a great way to dive into metaphors and similes and have them flex their creative muscles.
Use this downloadable lesson plan by Poet Glenis Redmond in your classroom, and you can discover a lot of surprising and touching information about your students and their lives.
Though the characters in these stories face challenges and obstacles, they never stop trying to do the right thing.
Have high schoolers find inspiration for stories in everyday objects or events and craft advice columns with these downloadable activities for at-home learning.
View a full list of reading activities for Grades 9-12.
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