Put letters or sight words  in various places on the sidewalk with chalk  in the recess area. This lesson allows for differentiation among reading levels.  You may also make laminate cards to use. Have students move quickly to the section of the sidewalk in which the letter you give them appears. Every child should have their own letter to find. 

This lesson uses movement to practice spelling words.  The students actively say and blend words.

The lessons included in the attached Google Slides incorporate standards from Computer Science, Math, Language Arts, and Physical Education. The lessons all focus on conditional statements (IF, THEN, ELSE) and can easily be adapted to fit any grade from kindergarten to fifth grade. 

Following a brief warm-up routine where students pretend to be a plant reacting to sunlight and water, students learn motions representing a period, question mark, and exclamation mark. As our narrators read ten sentences, students perform the motion that matches the appropriate end punctuation for each sentence.

This is a review game that students can play as they practice reading words
with short vowel sounds. Students can help students build decoding and
fluency skills as they work within a small group. All short vowels should be
introduced before playing this game with students.

This is a review game that students can play as they practice reading words that have short vowels with initial and final digraphs as well as short vowels observing the floss rule. Students can help students build decoding and fluency skills as they work within a small group. All short vowels should be introduced before playing this game with students.

Students will code the Sphero Indi robots to build words that match a picture based on a phonics skill. Students will need to use the color codes to figure out what each code means to drive the car over the correct letters needed to spell the words.

First grade students are learning to decode and encode short vowels in CVC words. Fluency Pyramids are an intervention tool used to increase students' reading fluency. The pyramid begins with one word, and a subsequent word is added with each line of text. The text at the bottom of the pyramid contains the entire sentence. After reading, students will find the corresponding picture.
They allow for targeted, direct, and explicit instruction.
You can use them with multiple grade/ability levels.
You can easily differentiate them.
They can cover numerous language skills (phonics, spelling, vocabulary, fluency, and grammar).