ELA Homework Helpers for Primary Grades!

Are your students struggling with their homework? Are parents requesting resources to help them practice essential skills at home with their students? If so, you’re in luck! The teacher team at Teach Starter has put together the perfect reference tool to provide your students and parents with a review of critical skills they can keep right at home!

A Printable ELA Toolbox for Phonics, Spelling, and More!

This printable resource download includes a handy homework helper toolkit for kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. Created by referencing grade-level standards, each Homework Helper is designed to provide your students with a handy guide to critical skills they might need to look at again when working independently in the classroom or at home. The included homework helpers are described below:

• Kindergarten Homework Helper—This template includes reference guides to help students with letter formation, letter-sound recognition, short and long vowel sounds, kindergarten sight words, common digraphs, basic punctuation, parts of a story, and basic parts of speech.
• First Grade Homework Helper – This template includes reference guides to help students with letter recognition, first-grade sight words, short and long vowel sounds, digraphs, blends, essential parts of speech, punctuation marks, and parts of a story,
• Second Grade Homework Helper—This template includes reference guides to help students with letter formation, ABC order, more advanced parts of speech, punctuation marks, second-grade sight words, vowel sounds, blends, and digraphs. It also provides students with a handy word wall that they can create on their own, using words that they find difficult to spell.

Each homework helper reference sheet is the perfect resource to laminate, keep in students’ homework folders, and send home with your primary school students. We suggest printing on heavy cardstock, double-sided, and laminating or sticking in a page protector.

Download Your K-2 Homework Helper Printables!

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or Printable PDF Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file format.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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