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Make writing fun and easy for your students with this set of Classroom Posters and Individual Desk Plates! Perfect for helping kids remember key writing tips, this pack includes five colorful, letter-size posters and matching desk plates for each student.

What's Inside:

1. Using Capital Letters
2. Finger Spaces
3. Referring to the Word Wall
4. Sounding Out Words
5. Ending Punctuation
6. Title Poster

These bright and cheerful posters and desk plates make writing tips easy to remember, helping students become better writers every day!

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1-100 of Fry's High Frequency Words in an easy to use, kindergarten or first grade friendly format. Perfect to use after explicit instruction in the spelling pattern or irregularities associated with words that are sometimes not decodable!

Students use a variety of modalities to orthographically map the the word including:

• Finger trace
• Find and circle
• Write
• Color
• Read it in 2-3 easily decodable sentences
• Draw it
• Use in a sentence - A perfect way to introduce sentence stems!

This resource is perfect to use in ELA small group stations as it provides a visual reminder of what to do in each section for non-readers.

We all know that memorizing words is not the best practice as it relates to the Science of Reading. Using these sheets after explicit instruction will help young learners retain and practice their skills!

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Make Halloween learning activities fun with these engaging, hands-on Halloween Busy Binder activities! This includes 12 Halloween Busy Binder activity templates with the printable pieces and their perfect for exploring and building creativity. It is great for multiple ages. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in discovering the world of Halloween using coloring, cutting, I Spying, doing mazes, connecting the dots, color/paint by numbering, counting, Upper & Lower Case IDing, word searching, and decorating. Students will love exploring together by using their critical & problem solving skills through these fun Halloween Busy Binder activities, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Have fun!

Here's what you'll get:

• Halloween cover & This binder belongs to:
• different size binder spines
• Preparation instruction
• Material list
• Match the color sentence to the color pumpkin
• Halloween Number Words/Count the Correct Halloween items
• Halloween patterns
• Halloween shadow matching
• Count the Trick or Treaters
• Ghost Addition
• Trace the lines from the candy to the treat bag
• Find the Matching Halloween Shape
• Halloween coloring sheets (3)
• Halloween maze
• Trace the Halloween items
• Count the Halloween items and label
• Directions on how to make your busy binder
• easy to follow directions on each activity
• cut out printables to velcro on the Halloween activities

Your students will love doing all of these Halloween Busy Binder activities with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be concentrating in their seats, engaged, and exploring various Halloween activities.

These Halloween Busy Binder activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes 12 Halloween activities to complete. It can be printed in black and white or in color. I recommend color for almost all of the pages though, unless you want to color it in. You will need paper, crayons, laminating sheets, laminator, binder, velcro, ziploc baggies, hole punch....

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, laminate, cut out pieces and put in ziploc baggies, hole punch, place in binders and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Great for prek to 1st grade or a little older for children with special needs!

You can also just print and use as one time worksheets or save them by using a pocket protector for some activities.

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This NO PREP activity is perfect to get students excited to read and get ready for Easter! Students will sequence pictures from the story There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Chick. Simply print the two pages, color, cut, and sequence! Perfect for young learners and special education.

This activity is aimed at getting students to have a deeper understanding of CVC words they are learning by matching pictures to their words. This is great for a variety of levels and grade ranges.

Included With This Resource:

⭐2 full sheets of words and their matching pictures.

⭐Half-sheet picture and word match sheets with a recording sheet that gives students the chance to write the word.

⭐2 Ways to match; either have students match words to pictures or pictures to words. 4 sheets for each version

⭐Large word and picture cards that can be used in a variety of small or larger group settings.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short a |CVC Words| Word Building Activity| Word Ladder Flip| SOR

⭐ Short a| CVC Words| Game-Center Activity| Word Flip

⭐ Short a| CVC words| Scoot/Task Cards| Digital and Paper Options

⭐ Short a Word Blending| Blending Lines| Digital and Paper Options

This engaging Fall Feed the Pumpkin Sensory bin is perfect for helping young learners practice their upper and lowercase letter recognition in a fun and interactive way. Students will love "feeding" the pumpkins while mastering their letter knowledge! This resource is ideal for preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten classrooms, making learning letters an exciting hands-on experience during the fall season.

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Pumpkin-Themed Flashcards:

Set 1: Uppercase letters (A-Z)

Set 2: Lowercase letters (a-z)

Set 3: Uppercase and lowercase letter pairs (A/a - Z/z)

Pumpkin Faces for Sensory Bin:

Pumpkin faces to attach to empty containers or tissue boxes. Students will enjoy "feeding" the pumpkin by inserting letter cards into the container.

Recording Mats:

3 mats designed to track progress while engaging with the sensory bin.

Students can cover letters with playdough, pom-poms, or any small manipulatives to mark the letters they have found.

How to Use:

• Sensory Bin Setup: Add your preferred sensory bin filler (such as rice, beans, or leaves) and hide the pumpkin-themed letter flashcards. Attach the included pumpkin face to an empty container or tissue box for students to "feed" the pumpkin their letters.
• Letter Recognition Practice: Students can search through the bin, find the letter cards, and "feed" the correct letters to the pumpkin. Teachers can choose to focus on uppercase, lowercase, or both sets of letters depending on their learners' needs.
• Progress Tracking: The included mats allow students to track their progress. As they find letters, they can cover the corresponding letters on the mats with playdough, pom-poms, or other placeholders.

Benefits:

• Hands-on Learning: This sensory bin activity encourages tactile learning and fine motor skill development while reinforcing letter recognition.
• Multiple Learning Options: With three sets of cards (uppercase, lowercase, and both), this activity can be easily differentiated to meet students at their level.
• Engaging for Students: The fun, pumpkin-themed design makes learning exciting for students, especially during the fall season!
• Versatile Use: This resource can be used in literacy centers, small group instruction, or as an independent activity.

Teacher Tips:

• Laminate the flashcards and mats for durability and repeated use.
• Encourage students to say the name of the letter as they "feed" it to the pumpkin to reinforce letter-sound associations.
• Incorporate seasonal sensory bin fillers (such as fake leaves or acorns) to enhance the fall theme.

This Fall Sensory Bin Upper and Lowercase Letter Recognition Activity: Feed the Pumpkins is sure to be a hit in your classroom, helping students develop important literacy skills in a fun and festive way

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Letter sound fluency is an important foundational skill for reading success. This low prep activity gives students a quick and engaging way to practice and improve their letter sound fluency.

This bundle includes 5 different sets of letter sound fluency strips for a total of 90 strips. The dinosaur and worm sets feature the letters a, b, c, f, i, m, n, p, s, and t and can be used to begin developing fluency before all letter sounds are introduced and mastered. The fish, grasshopper and bear sets include all letters of the alphabet. Simply print, cut apart, and laminate the fluency strips. Students point to one animal along the path at a time and say the letter sound.

Suggested Uses:

°Pass out strips to students as a quick warm up before guided reading groups.

°Use the strips as a center activity. Students can work in pairs to check each other and trade strips for a second round.

°Use the strips one on one with students needing fluency practice.. Have them practice a single strip several times while trying to increase their speed each time.

°Use a metal ring to hold the set of strips and have them available for practice throughout the school day.

This bundle contains the following individual sets:

Letter Sound Fluency Dinosaurs - Early Sounds

Letter Sound Fluency Worms - Early Sounds

Letter Sound Fluency Fish

Letter Sound Fluency Grasshoppers

Letter Sound Fluency Bears

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180 bright and bold Building Block or Brick themed writing paper templates. This writing paper set is perfect for your Writing Center, Literacy Rotations, STEM or STEAM area or anywhere else in your class and class program.

These Building Block & Brick writing paper templates can be used in so many ways - publishing work, recording instructions for making models, diagrams, explanations, planning, as a fun photo frame or use as an anchor chart background, etc. Variety and choice for you and your learners.

180 writing paper pages. 2 of each kind of color writing paper - one with lines and one blank so that you can use as is or insert your preferred lines, text or pictures. The 12 Black and White pages are unlined - you can insert your preferred writing lines before you print or use them as they are.

4 Sets are Included:

Set 1: Editable PowerPoint:

• 96 Color Pattern Templates and 12 Black & White Ink-Saving Templates
• Personalize to suit your style and space
• Add text box and text
• Edit font
• Edit font color
• Insert graphics or photos

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• Ready to print and use as is
• 96 Color Templates and 12 Black & White Ink-Saving Templates

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• 72 Plain Color Templates
• Personalize to suit your style and space
• Add text box and text
• Edit font
• Edit font color
• Insert graphics or photos

Set 4: Secured PDF

• Ready to print and use as is
• 72 Plain ColorTemplates

Each page fits on 8.5" x 11" paper and the size of letters can be reduced at the time of printing if needed. If A4 is required then adjust at the time of printing (fit to size).

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Need a quick and fun way for students to review a book they have recently read? Looking for a quick way to check students comprehension? With this Emoji Book Review, students can choose an emoji to represent how the book made them feel as well as answer 4 questions about the book.

Make learning the long a sound engaging and stress-free with this Long A (a and a_e) No Prep Activity Pack! Perfect for literacy centers, independent practice, or small group instruction, this resource provides a variety of hands-on and printable activities designed to support 1st and 2nd-grade students in mastering the long a sound.

What's Included?

1. Word Scramble Activity

   • Students unscramble words with long a patterns (a, a_e) to reinforce spelling and vocabulary skills.

2. Word Creation Activity

   • Add or change letters to form new words with long a sounds. Encourages creativity and phonics practice.

3. Cut and Paste Activities

   • Fun, interactive sorting tasks where students match pictures or words to the correct long a spelling pattern.

4. Sentence Building and Activities

   • Students complete sentences or write their own using a mix of long a words, improving sentence structure and grammar.

5. Scaffolded Reading Comprehension Passages

   • Engaging, differentiated passages that focus on long a words. Questions help students practice comprehension while applying phonics knowledge.

Why You'll Love It:

• No Prep Needed: Just print and go—perfect for busy teachers!
• Aligned with Phonics Standards: Helps meet literacy goals while building foundational skills.
• Interactive and Fun: Students will love the hands-on activities, making learning memorable.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for literacy centers, independent work, or homework.

Perfect For:

• 1st and 2nd Grade Classrooms
• Literacy Centers
• Small Group Instruction
• Intervention Support
• Homeschooling

Bring the joy of learning phonics into your classroom with this comprehensive, ready-to-use resource!

Space Color by CVC Word puzzles covering short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each color by word puzzle features 4 CVC words for a vowel family in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total. These fun outer space themed puzzles include a shooting star, Earth, Saturn, an alien, and stars.

I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set for each puzzle. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

Words Included:

Short a - jam, bag, van, map

Short e - ten, leg, den, gem

Short i - pin, dig, pig, rib

Short o - fox, hot, hop, cob

Short u - cut, cub, bud, nut

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Everything you need to enrich R4R Unit 1 Week 3!

Weekly Focus Wall, Writing Activities, and Independent Practice Pages that align with National Geographic Reach for Reading for First Grade!

Includes (see preview):

Focus Wall "I Can" statements with standards

Cards for spelling words, phonograms/letters, vocabulary words, and high frequency words

Writing Activities- Power Writing and other Writing pages for the week as well as the enrichment writing activities: This is My Family and Our Family Vacation

Vocabulary Templates

Sight Word Brag Tags and Check-off List

Independent Practice for the Week- Includes practice for phonics, spelling words, high frequency words and grammar. (Great for Independent work during small groups!)

Spelling Practice and Test Pages

Check out my Small Groups Made Easy "Short o" resource for your small groups!

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Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

This bundle allows you to choose the skill that you need for each group you are working with!

-Includes

-CVC Vowels; a,e,i,o,u

-VCe Vowels;

-Digraphs; ch,sh,th,wh,ck,ph,wr,kn

-Vowels; ar,or,er,ur,ir

-Pictures to provide meaning

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

Are you looking for extension activities to use after your whole group UFLI phonics instruction? This UFLI inspired second grade resource includes a student-led center-based resource to support your phonemic awareness instruction! These resources encompass lessons 35-128 and give you the opportunity to print and go with low prep time.

What's included:

• Resource for 1 reading center, tier 2-3 instruction, whole group extension activity
• Student self-check resource (I print all the answer sheets and put them in a binder with sheet protectors).
• Worksheets (each worksheet includes the following)
  • Two separate reading pyramids
  • Cut and paste sentence scramble
  • Sentence writing

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I created this worksheet to go along with UFLI for students who need additional practice with the focus letters, practicing heart words, and reading words.

Directions: Roll the dice. Read the word. Color the box.

Includes:

Letters: A, a, M, m, S, s

Heart Words: the, I

Penguin Beginning Sounds- A Digital Resource for Google Slides

Turn your winter ELA lessons into a fun experience with this digital resource! This resource can be used with Google Slides and Google Classroom. Perfect for early learners, this resource focuses on beginning sounds. Students will drag the letter tiles to show the beginning sound for each word. Save time on this easy prep activity for your students!

Beginning Sounds and Pictures used in this resource...

/b/- bear

/p/- pig

/s/- sock

/l/- leaf

/w/- wagon

/m/- mouse

/n/- nose

/z/- zebra

/h/- heart

/k/-key

/g/- girl

/i/- igloo

/d/- duck

/a/- apple

/e/- egg

/y/- yarn

This resource includes 20 practice worksheets that introduce ABC order. There are TEN full-page worksheets and TEN with four on a page to save paper. I use these as a quick morning work practice. Great for reinforcement!

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Letter Sounds RTI- This is a great RTI tool for students struggling with letter-sound relationships. It is 25 day (5 week) intervention letter sounds program, great for distance learning. This can be done individually or in a group as large as 8. Each week focuses on 5 letters (week 5 includes 6). This is broken down into several components for each day for learning letter sounds!

Please look at the preview for an in-depth look at this packet. **The flashcards and the pre/post test have been changed to a more student friendly font (manuscript). Please use the Q & A if you have questions about this product!

Common Core Standard

ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a

Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.

This product is part of the ULTIMATE K/1 READING BUNDLE!

ULTIMATE K/1 READING BUNDLE

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1st Grade Salt Life

This reader's theater bundle is for books written by Dev Petty. All of the scripts are companion activities for your students to enjoy the books even more!

Reader's Theater is a fun ways for students to practice reading aloud with fluency and expression. They also get the opportunity to perform in front of an audience without the stress of memorizing lines. I have my students perform for our class but you can also have them perform for a different class or grade.

I Don't Want to Be A Frog

A frog that yearns to be any animal that is cute and warm discovers being wet, slimy, and full of bugs has its advantages. AR Level 1.6

This reader’s theater is 4 pages long. There is one version included for three students - Child, Adult, and Wolf.

I Don't Want to Be Big

Little Frog does not want to grow up, and he gives his father all sorts of reasons why being small is best. AR Level 1.6

This reader’s theater is 3 pages long. There is one version included for three students - Child, Adult, and Pig.

There's Nothing to Do!

Young Frog learns an unexpected lesson about how NOT to be bored. He tries to get help from Cat, Owl, Pig, and a girl Frog.

This reader’s theater is 4 pages long. There is two version included in this reader's theater. The first version is for three students - Child, Adult, and Other Animals. The other version is for 7 students - Child, Adult, Rabbit, Girl Frog, Cat, Owl and Pig.

I Don't Want to Go to Sleep!

Young Frog learns an unexpected lesson about how NOT to be bored. He tries to get help from Cat, Owl, Pig, and a girl Frog.

This reader’s theater is 3 pages long. There are two version included in this reader's theater. The first version is for five students - Child, Owl, Rabbit, Cat, and Pig. [The parts for Rabbit, Cat and Pig are very small in this version] The other version is for 3 students - Child, Owl and Other Animals.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students. If you have suggestions or want to ask any questions, please feel free to reach out to me by email, mrleeslearners1@gmail.com

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Make writing fun and easy for your students with this set of Classroom Posters and Individual Desk Plates! Perfect for helping kids remember key writing tips, this pack includes five colorful, letter-size posters and matching desk plates for each student.

What's Inside:

1. Using Capital Letters
2. Finger Spaces
3. Referring to the Word Wall
4. Sounding Out Words
5. Ending Punctuation
6. Title Poster

These bright and cheerful posters and desk plates make writing tips easy to remember, helping students become better writers every day!

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