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Handwriting Worksheets for Kids: Pre-Primer Dolch Words!

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My almost 6-year-old and 2nd grader had a great time practicing their handwriting with the copywork color packet!  It was a fun change of pace for them. Not only did they practice writing and recognizing color words, they were reminded about sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation.  Also, my second grader had some practice with nouns, …

Parts of Speech: Noun and Verb Sorting Activity

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This Noun and Verb Sorting Activity is a fun way to practice parts of speech!  This cut and paste-style activity is a welcome change of pace from regular grammar worksheets. We use this activity to reinforce correct identification of nouns and verbs.  My son isn’t a fan of writing, so this is a good alternative …

Plants Writing Booklet with Picture Dictionary

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If you’ve been a reader at Mama’s Learning Corner for awhile, you know that my children love mini-books.  I’m not sure what it is about the smaller format that makes writing so appealing, but it certainly works! And if I’m being honest, I enjoy the smaller format, too, when practicing writing with my younger ones! …

Long Vowel Sorting Activity

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My girls each needed quite a bit of phonics practice when they were early readers.  In fact, two of my girls needed explicit phonics instruction and practice all the way through 4th grade. I found that phonics lessons in the early years need to be short, plentiful, and most of all consistent. I, however, encountered …

Words Ending in -ED Phonics Sorting Activity

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In my 12+ years of homeschooling, I have found that you can’t practice phonics, grammar, Latin, or math facts too often.  Add some extra phonics practice to your child’s lessons this week with the phonics sorting activity! ETA April 2022: Note that this post was originally published in May 2013.  I have updated it with …

Beginning and Ending Digraph Writing Practice Worksheets

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Phonics is a subject that cannot be repeated enough in the early grades.  Phonics forms the basis of figuring out how words are put together and why they are formed in the way they are. I have a variety of phonics activities for my young readers – hands-on activities, traditional worksheets, our spelling tiles, and more.  …

Big List of Christian Easter Worksheets and Printable Hands-On Activities

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When your children are young and still in elementary school, it is fairly easy to find themed worksheets and activities.  One of my favorite ways to spice up our school days was to find phonics or math worksheets and activities that were based on the current holiday or season. If you enjoy homeschooling this way …