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Pre-writing success! This tracing activity pack is more than just fun, it's a supercharged learning booster for your pre-writing superstars! Students trace their way through left-to-right progression lines, letter formation, and fun-themed vocabulary words. There is fun artwork to color on each page and additional handwriting practice pages with word banks!

Learning Objectives

• Boosts pre-reading skills
• Develops hand-eye coordination
• Strengthens fine motor control
• Ignites a love of writing

Theme

Spring Llamas (12 vocabulary words)

Resource Includes:

• A to Z tracing page uppercase and lowercase (1)
• Line tracing pages for pencil or finger tracing (3)
• Vocabulary word tracing (2)
• Trace and color vocabulary (3)
• Writing/drawing pages with a word bank (2)
• Writing/drawing pages (3)
• Color match coloring activity (1)

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Fine Motor Skills

• Strength and Coordination: Tracing requires controlled hand movements, building strength and coordination in the finger, hand, and wrist muscles. This improved control lays the groundwork for future writing and manipulation of tools.
• Pencil Grip: Tracing activities encourage students to hold a writing utensil correctly, developing a comfortable and efficient grip essential for future writing success.

Pre-Writing Skills

• Letter and Shape Recognition: Tracing introduces students to different shapes and letter formations, fostering familiarity and visual memory. This recognition is crucial for later independent writing and reading.
• Hand-Eye Coordination: Following visual cues to trace lines accurately improves hand-eye coordination, directly translating to writing fluency and letter formation.

Cognitive Development

• Concentration and Focus: Tracing requires focused attention to stay within the lines, enhancing concentration and maintaining focus on a task. These skills are vital for future academic success.
• Visual-Spatial Awareness: Tracing helps children understand spatial relationships between lines and shapes, developing visual-spatial awareness crucial for reading, writing, and problem-solving.

Emotional and Social Benefits

• Confidence and Self-Esteem: Completing tracing activities fosters a sense of accomplishment and boosts self-esteem, motivating students to continue learning and exploring.
• Creativity and Self-Expression: Tracing can be a playful and creative activity, allowing students to experiment with colors and patterns, fostering self-expression and a love for learning.

Word Tracing

• Letter Formation: Tracing words helps students solidify their understanding of letter shapes and proper letter formation, preparing them for independent writing.
• Vocabulary Development: Tracing familiar words reinforces their spelling and meaning while tracing new words introduces them to new vocabulary words in a fun and engaging way!

This tracing activity pack is a fun and engaging way to build skills and confidence for pre-writers!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Ancient Romans used to celebrate the winter with the holiday known as Saturnalia. This holiday season, introduce your students to the week long festival celebrated in Ancient Rome!

This ready to print and teach activity set includes:

• A lesson plan
• A two page elementary leveled story about Saturnalia
• Two reflection questions
• A Poetry Prompt
• A Drawing Prompt
• Three different word search puzzles
• Answer keys for word searches

This winter, engage your students with a fun activity that is also educational! This resource can be used in both the elementary social studies classroom and in language arts!

This activity set is great for:

• Winter Holiday work
• Learning about ancient civilizations
• Extension activities
• Centers
• Substitute work
• and more!

26 worksheets in which children can practice letter recognition and handwriting. One worksheet for each letter of the alphabet with each showing a picture to color that begins with that letter, letters to trace and handwriting lines to write for themselves and also the letter shown using a variety of different fonts to pick out and find the correct ones. All worksheets show both capital and lower case letters.

Why do you need this?

Learning to identify and form letters is the basis for reading and writing readiness. This set of 26 worksheets provides engaging practice recognizing, tracing, and writing each letter of the alphabet through varied activities. With visual identification, tactile tracing, and writing practice per page, this resource builds critical pre-literacy skills. Seeing, saying, tracing and writing the same letter in multiple modes cements sensory-motor skills and shape knowledge.

How and when might you use this?

Each sheet spotlights a letter focusing on capital and lowercase recognition. Students first locate that letter among various fonts, reinforcing shape and sound connections. They color a picture representing the letter's sound to boost phonetic awareness. Tracing uppercase and lowercase forms with a finger teaches proper stroke technique. Finally, blank practice lines allow children to write the letter from memory.

Used for individual practice or small groups, these materials provide developmentally appropriate handwriting preparation.

What’s included?

26 PDF worksheets

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Early Reading Support Bundle

Editable I can Write My name Writing and Practicing Practice Worksheets: This “Editable I can Write My name Writing and Practicing Practice Worksheets” is an interactive and engaging product that is designed to help your Students to help them with writing and tracing their names. This Product will help students with writing their names. See the instruction in the product with regards to use of this product. This product is customizable for individual needs, supports early literacy skills, encourages confidence in learning, critical time-saving for educators and versatile use.

PRODUCT FORMAT

This product is available in PDF format and contains 04 Templates.

HOW THIS PRODUCT HELP STUDENT

This product will help student to:

a. Help students with writing and tracing their names in an editable product.

b. Building their basic ELA foundation in order to prepare them for higher grades.

WHERE TEACHERS CAN USE THIS PRODUCT

The teachers can use this product in a variety of ways:

a. Classroom activities

b. Homework

c. Group Activities

d. Test Preparation

WHAT CCSS STANDARDS THIS PRODUCT COVERS

This Product “Editable I can Write My name Writing and Practicing Practice Worksheets” is aligned with Common Core standards.

FINAL WORDS

Overall “Editable I can Write My name Writing and Practicing Practice Worksheets” contains variety of activities for engaging your students. This product is aligned with Common Core standards. This product will help students with writing and tracing their names in an editable product. Overall this product would be a great Addition to collection of your ELA resources.

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Celebrate diversity in your classroom with this engaging Chinese New Year Mini Book and Dragon Craft! This resource is perfect for teaching students about when, who, and how the Chinese New Year is celebrated while promoting cultural understanding and respect. Filled with facts, creativity, and magic, the mini book captivates students as they learn about this important celebration's vibrant traditions and customs.

The Chinese Dragon Craft adds a festive touch to your classroom, bringing wishes of good fortune for the new year, and it will earn you plenty of compliments!

Kick off the Chinese New Year with magic, cultural exploration, and excitement!

This resource includes:

Chinese New Year Mini-Book (8 half pages) and Craft (1 page):

• Page 1: Chinese New Year - Cover
• Page 2: What is the Chinese New Year?
• Page 3: When is the Chinese New Year Celebration?
• Page 4: Who Celebrates Chinese New Year?
• Page 5: What Are Some Traditions of Chinese New Year?
• Page 6: More Chinese New Year Traditions
• Page 7: Chinese New Year Celebration and My Celebration Venn Diagram
• Page 8: Chinese New Year 20 __ __
• Page 9: Chinese New Year Craft - Dragon

Happy Chinese New Year!

This is a fun activity to warm up those writing skills. This is ideal for those first days of school. Each student can use it as a writing center or independent work. You only need a dice and a pencil!

This product includes:

• 1 Color template
• 1 BW template
• 1 writing template

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Spring Color by Sight Words Dolch Primer Kindergarten Coloring Pages Sheets - Spring themed Color by Sight Words coloring pages are a fun way to practice reading sight words and high frequency words! You'll have 8 Spring Color by Code Sight Words pages with Dolch sight words level Primer Kindergarten. No prep, print and go! Color coded answer keys included. PERFECT for your FAST FINISHERS!

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Imagine a world without people. What changes would occur? How would the earth evolve without the influence of mankind? "If We Were Gone: Imagining the World Without People" by John Coy, with illustrations by Natalie Capannelli, answers these intriguing questions. This engaging children's story paints the picture of an earth reverting back to its natural state of jungles and forests, engaging young minds in a thought-provoking reflection on humanity's impact on our world.

This story is an excellent read for earth day, or indeed any time of the year. It serves to educate children about our environment and encourages them to consider the importance of conservation and responsible living.

This 10-page resource is used to enhance learning and comprehension. This resource provides six coloring activity sheets suitable for a variety of grade ranges. These engaging activities are designed to stimulate creativity and understanding, while reinforcing the messages in the story.

For older students, there's a story element sheet, ideal for enhancing comprehension and deepening understanding of narrative elements. This worksheet encourages children to deconstruct the story, identifying key elements such as the setting, characters, and main point.

Also included is a writing prompt exercise, designed to encourage children to express their thoughts and ideas about the story. This activity is an excellent way for children to develop their writing and critical thinking skills.

Finally, there's a True/False quiz designed to test students' comprehension of the story. This fun quiz helps reinforce learning and provides teachers and parents with a tangible measure of understanding.

"If We Were Gone: Imagining the World Without People" is more than just a story; it's a powerful educational tool, designed to inspire children to learn about and appreciate the world around them. Through engaging activities and thought-provoking narrative, this book encourages children to reflect on their place in the world and their impact on the environment.

hese journal pages are designed to promote creative writing with a St. Patrick's Day theme. This packet contains 10 writing prompts which can be used with beginning writers as well as students who are more accomplished writers. Blank lined writing pages are included for students who need more space for their stories.

Bring the animal home!

Animals:

Camel, duck, dog, sheep, cow, rabbit, hen, pig

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This is such a fun creative writing activity. This activity has students work in a small group to create a fun and unique story. They will be passing around their writing outline to their group of 5. The first student will choose a character and their characteristics. Then fold the paper down so the next student cannot see what they have written. Student 2 will decide the setting and then fold the paper down again. This will continue to student 3 and 4 where they will choose the conflict and the solution. Then the original student will get their paper back and open their paper and use their outline to create their own creative story. This makes the writing a little bit challenging as they try to create a story that was chosen by their fellow classmates. This can also be a super fun and creative way to expand students writing by stretching them a little outside their comfort zone.

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Kick off the new school year with our Editable Astronaut Name Tags! These vibrant and customizable name tags are perfect for adding a fun space theme to your classroom.

Available in black & white, orange, blue, purple, gray, and green, they come in four versatile sizes: 1 per page, 4 per page, 6 per page, and 9 per page.

Ideal for desks, lockers, bulletin boards, and more, these name tags will help keep your classroom organized and engaging.

What's Included :

• PAGE : 24 PAGES
• FILES : PPTX + PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 8.5'' x 11''

Alphabet Lower and Upper Case Posters

Brighten your learning space with these Alphabet Lower and Upper Case Posters, a perfect resource for teaching letter recognition and formation! Featuring clean, visually appealing designs, each poster displays both uppercase and lowercase letters with clear path-of-motion guides to help students master proper letter formation.

These posters can be printed in a variety of sizes, making them ideal for classroom walls, bulletin boards, or individual student use. Use them as educational decor, flashcards, or even turn them into reusable tracing sheets to support hands-on learning.

Whether for teaching phonics, practicing handwriting, or reinforcing alphabet knowledge, these Alphabet Lower and Upper Case Posters are a versatile tool to engage students and build foundational literacy skills in a fun and effective

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Who’s ready for Thanksgiving?

Looking for a fun Thanksgiving twist on Alphabet Identification this season.

6 activities can be found in this Hands on Approach Packet that’s Thanksgiving Themed, perfect for offering students Preschool through First Grade the opportunity to Identify their Uppercase and Lowercase A-Z alphabet letters. These are available to you in Full Color and Black/White. Students will also be helping their Visual Discriminations Skills and Cognitive Development all while having fun doing it.

All you need to do is:

• Print it out “Recommend Cardstock for Durability”
• Recommend laminating for Durability
• Cut out the Turkey Letter Match Cards
• Add Velcro if you prefer
• Your Pre-k thru 1st grade students will love getting into the season by finding the “Match” for the right Turkey Letter Card and placing it on the Mat.

You will receive the following 6 Thanksgiving Themed Letter Identification Hands On Digital Resources:

Full Color

• 12 Upper Case Letter Mats
• 12 Lower Case Letter Mats
• 12 Upper Case/Lower Case Mixture Mats
• Matching Letter Cards

Black and White

• 12 Upper Case Letter Mats
• 12 Lower Case Letter Mats
• 12 Upper Case/Lower Case Mixture Mats
• Matching Letter Cards

USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:

• File Folders
• Independent Work
• Homework (Students take home and play with Family)
• Daily Review
• Math Centers
• Early Finishers
• Morning Menus
• Morning Warm-ups
• Substitute Folders
• Homeschoolers
• Small Groups
• Perfect for on "The Go", learning in a classroom or learning at Home.

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Christmas Alphabet A-Z Upper and Lower Case Letter Identification Match Mat

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Launch creativity into orbit with Outer Space Roll a Story! This imaginative writing activity takes students on an out-of-this-world storytelling adventure with space-themed characters, problems, and settings.

Contents:
With Outer Space Roll a Story, students use a dice to randomly select the characters, story problems, and settings for their space-themed story. This activity includes:

• 6 Characters: Students might encounter astronauts, aliens, space pirates, and more!
• 6 Problems: Will they face an alien invasion, get lost in space, or tackle another cosmic dilemma?
• 6 Settings: From spaceships to distant alien planets, each roll opens up a new backdrop for their intergalactic tales.
• Lined Story Paper Options: After rolling, students can organize and expand their ideas on lined paper, outlining and then drafting their unique space adventure.

How It Works:
Students will roll a dice three times—once for each story element—to build a completely randomized story prompt. With character, problem, and setting in hand, they move on to the included lined paper to outline and write their stories. This process sparks creativity while reinforcing story structure in a fun, hands-on way.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
Outer Space Roll a Story adds an exciting twist to creative writing! Students love the randomness of each roll, and teachers will appreciate how this activity promotes imagination, vocabulary building, and structured writing practice. It’s perfect for independent writing time, literacy centers, or a fun end-of-the-week activity.

Features:

• 6 space-themed characters, problems, and settings for endless story combinations
• Dice-based prompts that take the guesswork out of planning and keep students engaged
• Outer space-themed lined paper for easy story organization
• 8.5x11 pages for easy printing and classroom use

How This Product Can Be Used in the Classroom or Other Educational Settings:

1. Writing center activity: A perfect addition to writing centers, where students can independently create new stories.
2. Storytelling practice: Use as a storytelling prompt in small groups, encouraging students to share their tales.
3. Vocabulary building: Space-themed characters, problems, and settings offer fun new words for young learners.
4. Creative time: A great option for free-write sessions, early finisher activities, or end-of-week creative writing time.
5. Themed writing week: Incorporate this into a space-themed week to connect to lessons on the solar system or science fiction.

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Engage your students with this comprehensive Solar Eclipse 2024 Activity Set, designed to help them have a basic understanding of the Solar Eclipse. This set includes a variety of activities suitable for students in grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and even 6.

This activity set includes five different activities that challenge students to learn new vocabulary, facts, and perspectives related to Solar Eclipse.

The activities are:

• 4 Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passages and Fun Facts: The passages include multiple-choice questions, written response questions, and answer keys
• Word Search Puzzle: Find 30 hidden words related to Solar Eclipse in a grid of letters. The words can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or backward.
• Crossword Puzzle: Solve 13 clues to fill in the crossword puzzle with words related to the Solar Eclipse.
• Word Scramble: Unscramble 11 words related to Solar Eclipse and write them in the correct spaces.
• Vocabulary Passage: Read a short passage about Solar Eclipse and fill in the blank spaces with the correct words from the vocabulary list. The passage introduces some important terms and concepts related to this eclipse.

You can use this product as a whole-class activity, homework assignment, small group, or independent activity on Solar Eclipse.

Each activity comes with an answer key for teachers and allows students to check their work independently.

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Monthly themed Letter Copying is here for your Pre-K, Kindergarten and/or First Grade class!

There are over 40 pages in this download, which is perfect for your students morning work, early finishers, or small group activities, centered on letter writing.

Looking for a fun way to get your young learners moving around the room during math stations? This Kindergarten September Write the Room Math Station is the perfect way to engage your students with vibrant, real-world pictures of numbers 1-10+.

Print, laminate and place the pictures around the room for students to use during math stations. Students can practice building number sense and counting while reinforcing literacy skills of letter recognition and handwriting.

Student reflection is included for students to let the teacher know if they need additional assistance. Perfect for your ELL students and young learners!

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It is time for Valentines! Enjoy the holidays with your students as you prepare them for a valentine party and discuss feelings.

Book 1: Read a story about valentines party with your students. They will answer comprehension questions & select the correct answer from a choice of 8 picture icons.

Book 2: Read the story with your students. Each feeling has a situation: "I can't wait for the party. I feel excited!" or "My stomach hurts. I feel sick".

Heart feelings pictures: 8 picture cards with a heart feeling & identify the feeling. Included feelings: excited, worried, sad, jealous, surprised, sick, angry, happy.

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❤️Warm sand, sunshine, beach balls, and sea creatures! Take your children on a learning adventure to the beach with these tropical themed activities!

✏️Enjoy playing fun math, literacy, and fine motor games with these colorful, activities!

✏️Great for centers, early finishers, sub tub, and independent seatwork for your preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade learners!

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✅Includes: (30 Pages)

✅Literacy: (5 pages)

☑ Make a Word (1 Page)

☑ Spell the Words (2 Pages)

☑ Trace Letter Cc (1 Page)

☑ Trace the Letters (1 Page)

✅Math: (10 pages)

☑ How Many? - Counting Game (3 Pages)

☑ What Comes Next? - Complete the Pattern (1 Page)

☑ Add the Beach Balls (1 Page)

☑ Subtract the Beach Balls (1 Page)

☑ Connect the Numbers (2 Pages)

☑ Trace the Numbers (2 Pages)

✅Fine Motor: (15 pages)

☑ Find the Treasure - Maze Game (1 Page)

☑ Trace the Crabs (1 Page)

☑ Trace and Color (4 Pages)

☑ Trace the Waves (1 Page)

☑ Starfish Colors - Matching Game (1 Page)

☑ Match the Fish - Matching Game (1 Page)

☑ Trace the Lines (2 Pages)

☑ Find the Shadow - Matching Game (2 Pages)

☑ Spot the Difference (2 Pages)

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