Resource Round-Up: Music Activities, Word Work Resources, and More!

By

Clif Wallace

This week, you’ll find resources to help your students develop their own unique voices. We’re featuring an Escape the Music Room, Phonics Challenge Worksheets, and so much more! Don’t forget: half of these resources are free!

Task Box for Basic Skills–Colors by Simply Visual	It’s FREE! “Assess, teach, and review matching colors, matching colors to color words, identifying colors, and reading color words using this task box and these data sheets. This activity can also be used as an independent work task.”
$Simple Math File Folder Activities with Blank Printables Bundle$ Simple Math File Folder Activities with Blank Printables Bundle by Simply Visual	“Introduce simple addition and subtraction problems using numbers up to 10 with these interactive file folder activities, giving your students a multi-sensory approach to learning.”
SH Digraph Worksheets and Activities Set FREEBIE by The K Files	It’s FREE! “This free set of digraph activities for /sh/ includes a week’s worth of engaging learning activities including games, Read to Self assignments, learning centers, an anchor chart, and a free interactive Word Family house for your Word Wall!”
Interactive Phonics Word Wall for Long Vowels by The K Files	“Have you seen this truly interactive Phonics Word Wall? Teachers and students hunt for words with a specific spelling pattern and display them on each word family house on Long Vowel Lane. Your students will engage and interact with the Phonics Word Wall all day long as they read and write!”
Treetops’ Orton Gillingham Assessment by Treetops Educational Interventions	It’s FREE! “This Orton-Gillingham based assessment is designed to help teachers and tutors determine their students’ phonetic needs. It provides a clear guideline of where to start within our Orton-Gillingham units.”
“Orton Gillingham Complete Curriculum Unit 1: Consonants, Digraphs & Short Vowels” by Treetops Educational Interventions	“This comprehensive Orton-Gillingham based unit includes everything educators need to teach their students consonants, short vowels, and consonant digraphs. All of our units include scripted lesson plans, activities, PowerPoint presentations, and games to enhance student learning.”
4 Types of Voices: Posters by Miss T’s Music Room	It’s FREE! “These simple hand-drawn posters can be displayed in your music room to help students remember the four different kinds of voices.”
Escape the Music Room!! US Road Trip: 7 Music Puzzles to Escape the Room by Miss T’s Music Room	“This fun Escape the Music Room themed US Road trip packet includes everything you need to create your own Escape the Music Room experience. Students will solve 7 music skill puzzles in order to collect the different states needed to escape.”
STEM Activities and Challenges FREEBIE by Elementary Island	It’s FREE! “STEM activities are a great way to engage students and build cooperative learning in a non-threatening manner. Provided are teacher briefs, anchor charts, planning/design pages, recording test pages, and reflection pages to help facilitate the entire STEM process.”
Challenge Phonics Vowel DIPHTHONGS – Vowel teams worksheets by Elementary Island	“These phonics worksheets are a great way to practice your basic phonics skills in an advanced manner when added to any curriculum. Words were specifically chosen to increase vocabulary, help with word decoding skills, and practice comprehension all while being challenged!”
Beginning Sounds Game FREEBIE!! by Stop and Smell the Crayons	It’s FREE! “This is a great ready-to-go game to help students reinforce beginning sounds. It can be used independently, in literacy groups, as a fast finisher activity, or as part of your guided instruction. Kids love playing these games and the diversity of the ways it can be played is endless!”
First Grade Morning Work Worksheets by Stop and Smell the Crayons	“This 10-month, complete year morning work – spiral review resource will engage students while recapturing those precious minutes lost upon school arrival. This is an amazing 230+ page resource that is designed to engage all students in differentiated activities so all students achieve success. This morning work will help students learn, revisit, strengthen, and develop literacy and math skills throughout the year.”

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