Elementary Instructional Materials

 

Check out these websites for great mostly free to print elementary grades K-5 instructional worksheets and materials. 

Reading/Language Arts        

 

 

Beginning Reading 

Motivational free materials for the beginning reader: vowel posters, alphabet worksheets, and easy to read book pages.   Grades K-2.  http://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.htm

Graphic Organizers 

Scroll down to see the wide variety of free simple line graphic organizers to use when teaching reading and content concepts.   Grades 1-5

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/

 

Handwriting Help

Good website for colorful motivational free activity sheets for teaching handwriting skills for the primary grades and cursive writing for the intermediate grades; Small number of free worksheets to choose from. The workbooks are available for purchase.  Grades K-3.

http://www.handwritinghelpforkids.com/worksheets.html

 

Jan Brett

Activities: Great free printable materials to accompany her books, such as hedgehog masks, paper dolls, etc.  There is a wide variety of general materials as well: alphabet coloring pages, calendars, certificates, drawing guides, flashcards, and much, much more.  Grades K-3.  http://www.janbrett.com/activities_pages.htm

 

 

Mathematics       

 

Activities for Kids 

Scroll down to find the great free mathematics charts: number, addition, multiplication.   It also has printable holiday craft ideas. 

http://www.activitiesforkids.com/teacher.htm

 

School Express

Colorful and motivational free worksheets available on a wide variety of mathematical concepts: operations, money, time, facts, fractions, etc.   The worksheets for other content areas are nice but not as well labeled, making it more time consuming to use.  

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/cat.php?id=2252

 

S and S Software

Basic mathematics free computation worksheets (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); includes answer keys too.   They have more available for a fee.

http://www.sssoftware.com/freeworksheets/index.html

 

 

Science

 

Kid’s Page

Mainly free word finds, but a few informational sheets Topics such as beginning science, space, desert, and animals. Grades K-5.

http://www.tlsbooks.com/scienceworksheets.htm

 

Tutorial World

Free quiz worksheets on a variety of topics: senses, living things, magnets, etc. ; categorized by grade level, 3-6. It also has reading and mathematics materials. http://www.tut-world.com/

 

Social Studies  

 

Enchanted Learning

Has motivational geography (map skills, state and world flags), inventor, explorer worksheets: etc.  A great website with a multitude of worksheets available for other content areas too.  The one drawback is that there is a $20.00 yearly membership fee to print materials.  

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/

 

National Geographic website has printable free country and world maps, to use as resources in your classroom. 

http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/printpdf.html?

 

 

General

 

A toZ Teacher Stuff  A great website with a large number of free worksheets to download in theme related areas, i.e.: Back to School, Month, 100 days, and by content area (reading and mathematics).   Grade level categories K, 1-2 and 3-5.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml

 

 

ABC Teach Has great free motivational extra teacher materials such as book marks, student awards, name tags, desk tags, etc. 

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/teaching_extras/

 

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