Teaching Language and Literacy with Trains

One of my favorite teaching approaches is incorporating student interests into learning activities. I've had many students who love trains, so I make a lot of train activities. Here are a set of of printable books and reading passages, each with accompanying worksheets for working on reading, literacy, and language skills for students. Both the books and the passages have additional worksheets that go with them. The types of skills taught using these packets include:

• Sight Words (such as like, has, this, etc.)

• Simple Reading Comprehension Questions (what, where, how many, who, etc.)

• Matching Sentences to Pictures

• Matching Words to Build a Sentence

• Vocabulary Visual Supports and Questions

Here are the links to the printable books and packets. Some are free and some are paid downloads. Most of the paid packets have a free option which is just the book. The free packets have both books and worksheets included.