Less than $5 Homeschool Reading Projects

Want a fun way to help your learner's focus on their interests? This resource breaks down a learning project into mini steps that aren't overwhelming for young learners. Just choose a topic to explore and let the learning begin.

This resource includes:

- A KWL chart-

- Two options for facts gathered when doing research from an online source or a book of your choice

- A space to create a rough draft

- A cover sheet to create an illustration to go along with your learning project

- Two options for writing paper to allow for different aged writers

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

Would you like to see when I have new items in my store?

Just click on the Follow Me link below my name to keep informed of my new releases and sales I may be throwing!

Stay up to date with all things Pockets Full of Play:

✅ Get our weekly emails filled with freebies, teaching info, specials, and fun!

Thank you for supporting my business and learning through play!

Kyla

-Pockets Full of Play

Students will be engaged in making, “My 2D Shapes Book”. Students color, trace, and cut & paste creating a keepsake while learning 2D shapes. One set of shapes is cut within a line of circles and the other is cut into thin lines. Color and black & white.

What you get:

• Book cover
• 14 shapes
• Shape cutouts using large dots.
• Shape cutouts using dashed lines.

Preschool/Kindergarten Learning Objectives:

• Recognize shapes and shape words
• Build hand and finger strength.
• Increase attention span

Product Ideas:

• Room Library – make a 2D Shapes Book
• Include Manipulatives or stickers.
• Use as coloring pages.

Shapes:

• square
• circle
• triangle
• rectangle
• oval
• octagon
• heart
• star
• arrow
• pentagon
• hexagon
• diamond, (rhombus)
• trapezoid
• cross

Check out other prewriting products:

Prewriting ABC and 123 Lacing Cards

Prewriting Tracing NUMBERS

Prewriting 2D Shapes Play Dough Mat

Prewriting Numbers Snack Mats

Prewriting Cutting and Gluing Shapes - Make a Book!

PreWritingShapes Lacing Cards

Prewriting Alphabet Snack Mats

Prewriting Visual Perception

Prewriting Tracing ALPHABET

Prewriting Tracing Lines and Shapes

PreWritingAlphabet ABC Play Dough Mats

PreWritingNumbers 1-20 Play Dough Mats

HELP CENTER

Come here to have your questions answered by me and teachers just like you. Visit often for sales announcements, giveaways, teaching ideas, and encouragement.

To receive a credit towards your next purchase:

Go to --- My Purchases

Go to --- Leave a Review (beside each product)

Click it --- to give a quick rating and leave feedback.

To follow my store:

Click --- star (Follow)

This product is made for:

adapting instruction

differentiating instruction

on level learners

struggling writers

struggling readers

ESL/ENL

Deaf Education

Homework

Classwork

Homeschooling

Bell Work

Virtual Instruction

Remote Instruction

Arthur and the True Francine is a great book for students to read to discuss being honest, a good friend, working as a team, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur and the True Francine. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

This product features a creative and contemporary assignment in which students create their own music playlist for a novel by analyzing the lyrics of their favorite songs and synthesizing them with literary elements of their chosen book. This is a great activity that encourages students to think beyond the traditional 5 paragraph essay and consider literary elements in a deeper and more creative way. Your students will thank you for giving them a chance to have fun as they apply higher-order thinking skills!

Product includes:

• Assignment with Concise Directions
• 3-Page Template for Playlist
• Comprehensive Rubric
• Exemplary Student Example

___________________________________________________________________________

Also, check out these great resources that can be adapted for any novel by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Characters in the Hot Seat!

⭐ Figurative Language Challenge Game

⭐ Literature Circle Task Cards

⭐ Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials

⭐ Book Recommendation Form

⭐ Differentiated End of Year Reflection Activities

⭐ Differentiated Essay Prompts for use with ANY Novel

___________________________________________________________________________

Click to Follow Language Arts Excellence

Get students involved in your class reading or begin writing their own skits! This product allows students to participate in your classes more through SKITS & READER'S THEATRE! This product can be used for 6th - 12th grade students. Check it out!

This Product Includes:

1. 2 STYLES of WORKSHEET ACTIVITIES

2. 4+ Pages of Clarification and Explanation if Uses of this Item

will help to make your classroom GREAT!

Need a fun game to go along with your Bible story of Moses, the Ten Commandments and the Golden Calf? This Moses Bible Activity is great for mixed ages in Sunday School or Children’s Church. Included, you will find a board game and a variety of other fun and engaging activities to use with your Sunday School groups!

Moses, 10 Commandments & Golden Calf Game | Moses Bible Activities for Sunday School Includes:

• Moses, 10 Commandments & Golden Calf Board Game
• Color By Letter
• Color By Number
• Word Search 
• Maze Puzzle
• Roll & Color
• 2 Comic Book Activities for Story Retelling

To play, students will draw cards and move around the game board. The goal of the game is to tear apart the golden calf idol. Each time they land on a corner piece they get to tear off a piece of the idol. The person to tear off the final piece wins the game! Students will love this engaging game for learning all about Moses, the 10 Commandments & the Golden Calf! Use the other activities to supplement your Sunday School lessons. 

See What Other Teachers are Saying . . .

⭐ This was such a fun game for the early elementary kids at my church to do during our unit on Exodus. Thank you for the engaging ideas!

⭐ My students loved this resource! They were engaged throughout my lesson, and they loved playing the game. Thank you for making this resource available! 

⭐ This was exactly what I needed for my Sunday School class.  The younger kids loved playing the Golden Calf game!

More Fun and Engaging Resources from Dovie Funk:

• The Good Samaritan Bible Lesson & Activities
• Jonah and the Big Fish Bible Lesson & Activities
• Noah’s Ark Bible Lesson & Activities

Please FOLLOW my store as new resources are added daily. All of my followers get HALF OFF of NEW RESOURCES for the first 24 hours after they are added! WHAT A DEAL!!!

Sign up for my email list and get FREEBIES sent straight to your email!

Welcome to our Reading Crown Headband Craft Activity, where reading meets creativity in a fun-filled celebration of books and imagination!

This activity is perfect for classrooms, libraries, homeschooling, or simply a fun family activity at home. It's a fantastic way to promote literacy and foster a love for reading in young minds.

In this download you will receive:

• A PDF File Includes 5 Crowns.
• Crown extenders to staple around students heads.

eschool to Kindergarten ALPHABET SNACK Mats with activities that teach the alphabet in an innovative and fun way! Fine motor skills are improved. Fill the bowl with snacks or use cut out manipulative beginning sound images.

Students become engaged when you tell them that they should, “Eat the Alphabet.” Use this product for Letter of the Week, Healthy Eating, Centers, playdough mats, and take-home. All in Color and Black and White.

What you get:

• Mats w/beginning sounds
• Mats plain
• Alphabet Soup letters
• Make a snack word sheets.
• Striped alphabet cards
• Thin-lined alphabet cards
• Alphabet Cut & Paste

Preschool/Kindergarten Learning Objectives:

• Letter and letter word recognition
• Learn beginning sounds.
• Make simple words.
• Improve Fine Motor Skills and improve hand strength.
• Increase Attention Span.

Product Ideas:

• Room Library – make an alphabet book
• Laminate (or sheet protectors) for Center use
• Snack time.
• Include Manipulatives or stickers.
• Use as coloring pages.

Alphabet Images are:

• Apple
• Banana
• Carrot
• Durian
• Eggplant
• Fig
• Grapes
• Honeydew
• Iceberg lettuce
• Mango
• Nut
• Orange
• Pumpkin
• Quince
• Radish
• Strawberry
• Tomato
• Urad Beans
• Vegetables
• Watermelon
• Ximenia
• Yam
• Zucchini

Check out other prewriting products:

Prewriting ABC and 123 Lacing Cards

Prewriting Tracing NUMBERS

Prewriting 2D Shapes Play Dough Mat

Prewriting Numbers Snack Mats

Prewriting Cutting and Gluing Shapes - Make a Book!

PreWritingShapes Lacing Cards

Prewriting Alphabet Snack Mats

Prewriting Visual Perception

Prewriting Tracing ALPHABET

Prewriting Tracing Lines and Shapes

PreWritingAlphabet ABC Play Dough Mats

PreWritingNumbers 1-20 Play Dough Mats

HELP CENTER

Come here to have your questions answered by me and teachers just like you. Visit often for sales announcements, giveaways, teaching ideas, and encouragement.

To receive a credit towards your next purchase:

Go to --- My Purchases

Go to --- Leave a Review (beside each product)

Click it --- to give a quick rating and leave feedback.

To follow my store:

Click --- star (Follow)

This product is made for:

adapting instruction

differentiating instruction

on level learners

struggling writers

struggling readers

ESL/ENL

Deaf Education

Homework

Classwork

Homeschooling

Bell Work

Virtual Instruction

Remote Instruction

Arthur's First Sleepover is a great book to read for students to learn about trying something new, facing their fears, and going to their first sleepover, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's First Sleepover. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

My students LOVE storyboards! They are a great resource for introducing basic story elements and summarizing, I use colorful file folders or large manila/construction paper. There are illustrations to color which are surrounded by dotted lines to make cutting easier. There are also interactive flaps for writing the beginning, middle and ending as well as places to write about the characters, setting and summary. This storyboard can be used as a companion activity for The Gingerbread Man.

Please FOLLOW my store as new resources are added daily. All of my followers get HALF OFF of NEW RESOURCES for the first 24 hours after they are added! WHAT A DEAL!!!

Here are some more storyboards you might want to try!

Fables Storyboards

Gingerbread Man Storyboard

Graphic Novel Storyboards

Fairy Tales Storyboards

Martin Luther King, Jr. Storyboard

Little Red Hen and Other Stories Storyboards

Trying to find creative ways to introduce a new alphabet letter? Why not reinforce it with your snack time? This product gives numerous ideas for every letter and a place for you and your students to add ideas and recipes.

Not only will you be able to introduce letters at snack time but you will get many healthy recipes to use any time. Each page has a letter with a name of a food. There is a space for your recipe cards and a space for recipes from you children. Editable recipe cards included.

Check out “Eat the Alphabet” and “Exercise the Alphabet” for more fun teaching healthy eating.

Summary of what you will get:

1-26 Letters A-Z foods, eating ideas and recipes (Color or B/W to save ink)

2-3 choices of recipe cards to print off

3-Space on the page to attach your own recipes and ideas

4-Cover page to create product as a binder book

Images are: A: Apple B: Banana C: Cauliflower and Carrots D: Dill Pickles E: Eggplant and Eggs F: Fruit G: Grapes H: Ham Sandwich I: Iced Fruit Pops J: Juice K: Kiwi L: Lettuce Salad M: Muskmelon N: Nuts O: Orange P: Peppers Q: Queso and Quinoa R: Rice S: Squash T: Tomato U: Ugli Fruit V; Vegetable Soup W: Watermelon X: X-mas cookies Y: Yams Z: Zucchini

This product is made for:

adapting instruction

differentiating instruction

on level learners

struggling writers

struggling readers

ESL/ENL

Deaf Education

Homework

Classwork

Homeschooling

Bell Work

Virtual Instruction

Remote Instruction

Arthur's Tooth is a great book for students to read to discuss losing a tooth, being a good friend, being patient, going to the dentist, how to care for your teeth, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's Tooth. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

My students LOVE creating storyboards and they are a wonderful introduction to basic story elements and summarizing. I use colorful file folders or large manila/construction paper. There are illustrations to color and places to list the characters, setting and summary. There are also interactive flaps for writing the beginning, middle and ending. This project is about the birth of Baby Jesus and includes Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the Wise Men, a shepherd and a sheep.

Check out my other Christmas resources!

Christmas Around the World Booklet

Christmas Story Elements Book Reports

Christmas Solve and Color with a Twist

Christmas Morning Work Worksheets

Christmas Color by Sight Word Worksheets

The Christmas Story - The Birth of Baby Jesus

Please FOLLOW my store as new resources are added daily. All of my followers get HALF OFF of NEW RESOURCES for the first 24 hours after they are added! WHAT A DEAL!!!

Save time teaching the letters of the alphabet with this alphabet book that matches the teacher’s, “Eat the Alphabet Recipe Book”. There is a variety of food all of which I have been able to purchase at my local grocery store. [some items may not be available in your area.] An EDITABLE page is included for your personal changes.

What you get:

• A-Z alphabet book of food photos of real food
• A Black/White A-Z alphabet book B/W clip art (printer-friendly)
• EDITABLE page to make your own book or change up any image/letter sound

Images are:

• A: Apple
• B: Banana
• C: Cauliflower
• D: Dill Pickles
• E: Eggplant and Eggs
• F: Fruit
• G: Grapes
• H: Ham Sandwich
• I: Iced Fruit Pops
• J: Juice
• K: Kiwi
• L: Lettuce Salad
• M: Muskmelon
• N: Nuts
• O: Orange
• P: Peppers
• Q: Queso and Quinoa
• R: Rice
• S: Squash
• T: Tomato
• U: Ugli Fruit
• V: Vegetable Soup
• W: Watermelon
• X: X-mas cookies
• Y: Yams
• Z: Zucchini

#Play2GrowHealthywithMsJan

Get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases:

---Login

Go to --- My Purchases

Go to --- Provider Feedback (beside each product)

Click it --- to give a quick rating and leave feedback.

Each feedback gives a credit toward new purchases. I value feedback so I can improve products and created needed ones.

Become a follower to be informed of my new products, discounts and promotions!

Click --- Green Star (next to store logo)

This product is made for:

adapting instruction

differentiating instruction

on level learners

struggling writers

struggling readers

ESL/ENL

Deaf Education

Homework

Classwork

Homeschooling

Bell Work

Virtual Instruction

Remote Instruction

Arthur's New Puppy is a great book to read for students to learn about being responsible, being patient, not giving up on something that is a challenge and helping others, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's New Puppy. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE

Preschool to Kindergarten ALPHABET SNACK Mats with activities teach the alphabet in an innovative and fun way! Fine motor skills are improved. Fill the bowl with snacks or manipulative beginning sound images provided!

Students become engaged when you tell them that they should, “Eat the Alphabet.” Use this product for Letter of the Week, Healthy Eating, Centers, playdough mats and take home. All in Color and Black and White.

What you get IN THE FULL PRODUCT:

• Mats w/beginning sounds
• Mats plain
• Alphabet Soup letters
• Make a snack word sheets.
• Striped alphabet cards
• Thin lined alphabet cards
• Alphabet Cut & Paste

Preschool/Kindergarten Learning Objectives:

• Letter and letter word recognition
• Learn beginning sounds.
• Make simple words.
• Improve Fine Motor Skills and improve hand strength.
• Increase Attention Span.

Product Ideas:

• Room Library – make an alphabet book
• Laminate (or sheet protectors) for Center use
• Snack time.
• Include Manipulatives or stickers.
• Use as coloring pages.

Alphabet Images for THE FULL PRODUCT are:

• Apple
• Banana
• Carrot
• Durian
• Eggplant
• Fig
• Grapes
• Honeydew
• Iceberg lettuce
• Mango
• Nut
• Orange
• Pumpkin
• Quince
• Radish
• Strawberry
• Tomato
• Urad Beans
• Vegetables
• Watermelon
• Ximenia
• Yam
• Zucchini

IMAGES ARE:

• A-apple
• B-bus
• C-cake
• D-dog
• E-elephant
• F-flag
• G-grapes
• H-hand
• I-igloo
• J-jam
• K-kangaroo
• L-lion
• M-mouse
• N-nest
• O-owl
• P-pear
• Q-queen
• R-robot
• S-snail
• T-tree
• U-unicorn
• V-vest
• W-whale
• X-x-ray
• Y-yogurt
• Z-zipper

Check out other prewriting products:

Prewriting ABC and 123 Lacing Cards

Prewriting - Tracing Lines and Shapes - NUMBERS

Prewriting - 2D Shapes Play Dough Mats with Activities

Prewriting - Numbers Snack Mats with Activities

Prewriting - Cutting and Gluing Shapes Make a Book!

PreWriting - Shapes Lacing Cards

Prewriting - Alphabet Snack Mats with Activities

Prewriting - Visual Perception Activity Pack

Prewriting - Tracing Lines and Shapes - ALPHABET - **free sample**

Prewriting - Tracing Lines and Shapes - ALPHABET

Prewriting - Tracing Lines and Shapes

Prewriting - Shapes Play Dough Mats **FREE**

Prewriting - Alphabet ABC Play Dough Mats

Prewriting - Numbers 1-20 Play Dough Mats

"JanHuebnerPlay2Grow TeachShare VIP Followers" HELP CENTER

Come here to have your questions answered by me and teachers just like you. Visit often for sales announcements, give-a-ways, teaching ideas and encouragement! It's brand new and it needs you!

Get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases:

---Login

Go to --- My Purchases

Go to --- Provider Feedback (beside each product)

Click it --- to give a quick rating and leave feedback.

Each feedback gives credit toward new purchases. I value feedback so I can improve products and create needed ones.

Become a follower to be informed of my new products, discounts, and promotions!

Click --- Green Star (next to store logo)

This product is made for:

adapting instruction

differentiating instruction

on level learners

struggling writers

struggling readers

ESL/ENL

Deaf Education

Homework

Classwork

Homeschooling

Bell Work

Virtual Instruction

Remote Instruction

Arthur Turns Green is a great book for students to read to discuss saving the planet, reducing, reusing and recycling, how you can save the planet at school, home, and in the community, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur Turns Green. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.