- Flashcards
- Journals - creative writing, note-taking, themed, or graphic organizer journals
- Newspapers - Who, What, Where, Why, When, How, and Parts of Speech can be taught
- Record reading (Inventories)
- Graphic organizing
- Weekly readers
- Reading buddies
- Computer software
- Daily oral language drills
- "Keys" or word family games
- Chalkboard with magnetic letters
- Picture alphabets
- Morning message boards
- Songs/Sayings
- Big books
- Hooked on phonics
- Foods with letters - alphabet soup, cereals, pudding
- Reader's Theatre
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- Recipes
- SSR/DEAR time (Silent Sustained Reading, or Drop Everything And Read, respectively)
- Dictionary activities
- Drawing ideas
- Magazines
- Comic books
- Movie reviews
- Newsletters (class newspaper)
- Plays/skits
- Games (concentration, matching, crosswords, scrabble)
- Pen pals
- Writing/Reading workshops
- Shared writing/reading
- Rhyming books
- Free writes ("What's on your mind?")
- Integration webs
- Sign language
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