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Big CVC Word Activities Bundle
By SEN Resource Source
Big bundle of CVC word activities.
This pack includes:
- CVC Word and Picture Matching
- CVC Word and Picture Jigsaw
- CVC Word Bingo
- CVC Word Flash Cards
- CVC Word Writing Frames
- Short Vowel Sound activities
- Initial Sounds
- Read and Draw Words
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SPANISH SYLLABLES!!! Libro interactivo de las sílabas en español!
By La Llama Bilingüe
LOW PREP!
Este producto contiene las sílabas del alfabeto español con las consonantes:
He incluido un paso a paso para armarlos y tips para imprimir. Es una forma divertida y diferente de aprender las sílabas.
October Sight Word Games Halloween First Second Third Grade
By Primary Piglets
OCTOBER SIGHT WORD GAMES HALLOWEEN is a set of 60 sight word gameboards with an October theme. You'll have 6 gameboards times 5 levels of sight words (PreK, K, 1, 2, 3). 30 games in color and 30 in B&W. Print & Go, just add a die.
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H-Insertion Visuals - Speech Therapy Initial /H/ - Apraxia - Prevocalic Voicing
By The SLP Curriculum
This resource was created in order to help Speech Language Pathologists target initial phonemes at the word level. This resource includes a total of 40 pictured initial /h/ CV and CVC words to use the h-insertion trick during speech therapy sessions.
The h-insertion trick can be an extremely helpful strategy to use when children are stuck at the isolation level of a sound. By producing /h/ after the initial sound, the child continues their air flow, making it easier to produce the following vowel. This helps them to eliminate the prior habit of producing the incorrect sound.
*Can be paired with all initial sounds!*
If you haven't tried /h/-insertion, download this FREEBIE and see it work it's magic!
Included in this resource:
H-Insertion can help target the following:
Used in Mixed Groups!
Vocabulary: State meaning of words, along with synonyms and antonyms.
Wh- questions: Ask who, what, where, when, why questions about each word.
Sentence production: Elicit full sentences containing each elicited word.
** Perfect resource for Speech Therapy Observation**
Action word with picture worksheet Select and write the verb to picture practice
By Chirp Chirp Education
"Get ready for an exciting learning adventure with our Verb Worksheet! Packed with 135 action words and corresponding pictures, this worksheet is perfect for young learners to practice their verbs.
Each action word is accompanied by a clear image, allowing students to easily identify the verb. With engaging visuals and a variety of verbs to choose from, students will have fun while improving their language skills. Simply select the right verb and write the answer below the corresponding picture.
It's a great way to reinforce vocabulary and boost language development in a fun and interactive way!"
What's included:
1. 15 pages of verb worksheets in pdf. (included 135 verbs-refer to thumbnails for full verb list)
- An option to use Easel by TeachShare as digital tool.
2. 5 pages reading race sheet. (refer to thumbnail for sample sheet)
->>> HOW TO PLAY HOW TO PLAY
Your students will play this game with a partner.
They will take turns being the reader and the recorder.
The first student will read as many words as possible in 30 seconds (you can choose to increase the time).
The other student keeps track of how many words were read in the allotted
time and records the number. The students will continue to take turns to
improve their reading fluency and accuracy.
TeachShare H1-verb
Paperless Picture of The Day Morning Meeting Work Digital Resources
By Professional Development and Teacher Prep
Do your students need highly engaging morning meeting digital resources or a picture of the day to start off their morning? Morning Meeting Picture Slides are important to utilize to develop strong relationships with students and peer-to-peer relationships. The picture of the day allows for deeper conversations and the building of a strong classroom community, which in turn raises academic achievement skills. The digital resource has many diverse pictures where everyone can feel represented.
How I Use Picture of The Day
We use a picture of the day every morning during our morning meeting routine. The morning meeting slides are projected on our screen for all students to see. Students are asked to infer, visualize, synthesize, and create connections with the picture. Looking closely at a picture is an important reading skill for students to develop to create inferences about what they are reading.
Additionally, The picture of the day can be used for writing prompts or centers. Students can look at the picture and write a story based on the picture.
This is also an excellent resource to use with your remote learners. You could assign one or more morning meeting slides to their learning management system for morning meetings and writing or reading activities.
“Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically.” -Responsive Classroom
“Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. In addition, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom.” -Centervention
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Bugs Counting 1-12, Kindergarten Center Activity
By Creative Soul Printables
Elevate your math lessons with our engaging Bugs Counting Write the Room activity! Students will buzz with excitement as they search for adorable bug images scattered around the classroom, counting dots and practicing number recognition in a fun and interactive way.
Contents:
Transform your classroom into a buzzing bug hunt with our Bugs Counting Write the Room activity! This comprehensive resource includes 12 charming bug images, each adorned with a different number of dots for students to count. From one to twelve, students will sharpen their counting skills while exploring the fascinating world of bugs.
Included in this pack are four types of recording sheets designed to meet the diverse needs of learners. Two sheets feature the bug images for students to match and write the corresponding numbers, while the other two provide primary writing lines to support early writers as they record their findings.
To enhance the learning experience, two types of word walls are included. One set consists of strips to cut out and display, while the other is a poster showcasing images and words together. These word walls reinforce number recognition and counting skills, serving as valuable resources for classroom displays or student notebooks.
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Ocean Theme Classroom Rules Expectations Posters|Reading Comprehension passages
By LessonLink Teacher
Create an engaging and organized learning environment with our Ocean-Themed Classroom Rules Bundle. This comprehensive package includes eye-catching posters featuring delightful ocean creatures to effectively reinforce essential classroom rules.
The colorful posters will captivate your students' attention while promoting positive behavior and a harmonious learning atmosphere.
But that's not all! Alongside the posters, we've included Classroom Rules Reading Comprehension Passages with multiple-choice questions and answers. The passages are carefully crafted to promote students' critical reading and thinking skills.
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Sight word journal, fry first 100 word list checklist, kindergarten sight word
By Katelyn Schneider
Sight Word Journal: Fry’s First 100 Sight Words - Color, Trace, Write & Use in a Sentence
Description:
Boost your students' reading skills with our comprehensive Sight Word Journal featuring Fry’s First 100 Sight Words! This engaging journal is designed to make learning sight words interactive and fun. Each page provides a structured approach to mastering sight words with activities for coloring, tracing, writing, and using words in sentences.
Product Details:
Sight Words Covered: Includes all of Fry’s First 100 Sight Words, ensuring comprehensive coverage of essential vocabulary for early readers.
Interactive Pages: Each page is dedicated to one sight word and includes:
Over 100 Pages: With a page dedicated to each of Fry’s First 100 Sight Words, students have ample space to practice and reinforce their sight word knowledge.
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Opposites Day Bundle With All About Antonyms Math & Literacy Activities
By Kimberly
❤️Looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Opposites Day (January 25th) or practice identifying antonyms? These differentiated, opposites activities are the perfect way to help your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade learners master the concept of opposites, while practicing their literacy, math, and fine motor skills!
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✅ Includes:
Opposites Worksheets
Opposites Flashcards & Puzzles
Opposites Centers Activities
Opposites Readers
Opposites Bingo
✅ Opposites Included:
☑ hot / cold
☑ big / small
☑ on / off
☑ open / closed
☑ day / night
☑ wet / dry
☑ thick / thin
☑ long / short
☑ healthy / sick
☑ old / young
☑ sweet / salty
☑ dirty / clean
☑ tall / short
☑ happy / sad
☑ asleep / awake
☑ strong / weak
☑ bored / excited
☑ new / old
☑ in / out
☑ top / bottom
☑ go / stop
☑ above / below
☑ full / empty
☑ hard / soft
☑ dark / light
☑ stand / sit
☑ loud / quiet
☑ fast / slow
☑ winter / summer
☑ near / far
☑ same / different
☑ front / back
☑ shallow / deep
☑ wide / narrow
☑ work / play
☑ black / white
☑ light / heavy
☑ low / high
☑ up / down
☑ teach / learn
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Days of Creation Lesson Activities Craft Mini Book Sunday School
By Kaylor Creations
Inspire and encourage kids with this Bible lesson and activity pack on the Days of Creation! It includes a Bible lesson mini book, teacher lesson book, a fun hat craft to create, interactive lift a flap, and no prep printables!
Sunday School teachers and classroom teachers alike will find all the time-saving resources needed to inspire and engage kids in Biblical TRUTHS found in Genesis 1-3. Your kids will be so EXCITED about Bible time once they see all the hands-on activities!
68 pages total!!
Included:
•Bible Lesson Book-Teacher Edition: Full sized, colorful large print pages. For read aloud, virtual learning, Sunday School, morning basket and more! Engaging storybook telling of the lesson with life application and a prayer.
Written in a beautiful narrative.
•Mini Bible Lesson Book- Student Edition: Abbreviated, to the point telling of the lesson on mini pages in black and white so students can color! Great for take home or small groups. Also includes interactive questions, life application and a prayer. Takes about 3-4 minutes to read. Interest level: PreK -1st
•Emergent Reader: Practice reading with Bible stories! For littles who are starting to read, this is a great practice in phonics and sight words. Super simple telling of the lesson. This takes about 1-2 minutes to read so it could also be good for super early preschoolers read aloud.
•Memory Verse Poster/Coloring Simple printables that you can use to help children memorize scripture. I included Color and B&W so you can decide if you want it to be used as a coloring activity or a lesson visual. Four pages in total
• No Prep Printables Phonics-blends & beginning sounds, Math, Writing Prompt, Word Search, Maze, Write the verse, Cut & Paste & Shapes,
•Creation Memory Match Game Print, cut out and create little cards for playing matching games. Helps children learn the days of creation and sharpens their memory
•Hat Craft Print, color and cut these adorable hats that remind children that “God made the Earth and God made me”
Days of Creation Interactive Notebook/Life a Flap:
•Original Song Use this simple and easy little song to the tune of “Old Mcdonald” to help children remember the lesson. Written by me.
•Playlist A list and links to great Kids Music, Contemporary Christian, Worship , Hymns that have the same message and theme as the lesson.
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French Phonics- PHRASES DÉCODABLES BUNDLE- Decoding Sentence Reading Bundle-SOR
By La trousse de Madame
French Decodable activities that align with the Science of Reading in the K-2 French classroom. Students work on their phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, decoding and encoding skills and as they master the target sound.
Make a few copies of each card and insert into clear pockets to create a quick and easy reading centre; arrange a table with four copies to create a quiet reading group; use one-on-one with your students to assess reading levels, to gain insights to their decoding skills, encoding skills, and to inform your upcoming lesson plans. Students use whiteboard markers to sound out each sound in the word, each syllable, or each word in the sentence. What a great way to build confidence! Whatever way you choose to use this resource, I am so grateful that you have given this item a try!
Who can use this resource:
Teachers who are just getting accustomed to using strategies from the Science of Reading can use these simple sentence strips to open up independent practice, small group evaluation, or up on a digital screen for whole group instruction and reading practice.
Make a set and send them home with students to build fluency in reading and confidence in reading strategies.
Sentences are designed to build a number of common French sounds and get more challenging as they go on.
Correction sheet is handy for use with a substitute as they can confidently assess students and command the lesson even when they are not assured of their French skills.
Science of Reading:
These cards are aligned with sounds being taught in any Science of Reading aligned curriculum. They are set up for student success based on the research for increasing reading fluency and building student confidence in the classroom!
Once you have established the strategies for identifying sounds, initial sounds, and blending sounds, segmenting sounds, students will be able to use these self-driven sentence strips on their own. What a great way to build learning autonomy!
What grade level:
I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.
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Who What When Where Why Reading & Differentiated Worksheets | Fall-Themed BUNDLE
By TaughtOught Homeschooling
Each of the four Who What Where When Why Differentiated Worksheets comes with a digital WH question version of the story. Students will read the Fall&Autum, Back to School, Thanksgiving, and Halloween-themed short stories and then answer the Who What Where When Why guided questions.
In the differentiated worksheets, students have the option to fill in the answers or choose from multiple-choice options. The Google Slides digital version has audio support for questions and answers, multiple-choice answers, and self-checking.
This resource includes:
Common Core State Standards: RL.2.1
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Social and Emotional Learning Activities Being a Good Friend Lessons
By Kyla McHenry
What does it mean to be a friend? It's such an important life lesson for kids! Help teach your students about qualities of a good friend and how to make friends with other children.
This project based learning bundle includes:
Let's Be Friends Board Game
How to be a Friend Bingo
Friendship Book Suggestions
Friends are Fun Memory Game
Making Friends book
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The Complete Word Search Puzzles Set for Your Students and Kids
By Zaazoua Mostapha
The best way to teach vocabulary to kids is by playing educational games.
In this bundle you will get:
Also, I'm open to suggestions about other word searches to add to this set.
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Earth Day Bundle | Pollution and Recycling
By The Chatty Kinder
This mini Earth Day Bundle is perfect to teach your students all about Pollution and Recycling. This bundle contains 5 non-fiction readers as well as a sorting recycling activity. With these Earth Day activities, learners will learn about pollution, its effect on Earth and how to recycle items properly to conserve and protect our Earth.
This Earth Day bundle contains the following items:
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Earth Day Reader | Pollution | Non-Fiction
This printable contains a set of Earth Day Readers about Pollution. These Earth Day readers are perfect to teach your learners about pollution and its effects on Earth. Learners will also be exposed to real-life images of pollution and its damage to the environment as well as ways that can help to conserve and protect our Earth from damage.
Content of the books:
- Pollution: General overview of pollution
- Air Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.
- Water Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.
- Land Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.
- Reducing Pollution: Mentions several ways that pollution can be reduced.
Sorting Recycling - Earth Day Activity
Have fun this Earth Day with this fun and hands-on Sorting Recycling Activity. This Earth day activity is perfect to teach your learners about recycling and its importance. Learners will sort the items into the different bins and learn about the different materials that can be recycled.
This printable contains:
---> 7 different recycling bins
---> Items of different materials to be sorted into the different bins
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Ultimate Literacy & Comprehension Bundle all year long for 3_5 grade
By Snap & Sprout printables.
This all-in-one bundle offers a comprehensive set of early literacy resources designed to build confidence and fluency in young learners. Save time and money with five essential products tailored to introduce and reinforce foundational reading and writing skills. Perfect for engaging classroom activities or practice at home, this bundle is packed with fun, engaging exercises for young readers.
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Common Core Reading Interactive Notebook
By Kim Romero
If you are interested in my Common Core Reading Interactive Notebook you need to check this out!
My Common Core ELA Interactive Notebook Mega Bundle
comes with all three of my best sellers; My Common Core Reading, Writing, & Grammar interactive notebooks at a discounted price! If you are not interested in the mega bundle please keep reading.
Students need to be involved in their own learning. Interactive Notebooks are a great way to incorporate interactive learning. My Common Core Reading Interactive Notebook is aligned with 3rd Grade Common Core Standards. However, this product can benefit 2nd, 4th, and 5th grade also. View my preview to get a better look.
Common Core Reading Interactive Notebook includes:
Student Notebook Cover Page
Reading Skills-Concept Page Separator
Genres-Concept Page Separator
Literal and Nonliteral Meanings-Concept Page Separator
Text Structure-Concept Page Separator
Word Skills-Concept Page Separator
Table of Contents
What do good readers do? Interactive Organizer
Author's Purpose-Interactive Page
Story Elements-Study Organizer
Characters-Interactive Page
Setting-Interactive Page
Plot- Interactive Page
Theme-Interactive Page
Point of View-Interactive Page
Inference-Interactive Page
Predict-Interactive Page
Main Idea- Interactive Page
Different Genres-Study Page
Fiction/Nonfiction-Interactive Page
Literal Vs. Nonliteral Meaning Study Page
Simile, Metaphor, and Idiom-Interactive Pages
Alliteration and Personification-Interactive Pages
Compare and Contrast- Interactive Page
Cause and Effect- Interactive page
Steps in a Process- Interactive Page
Context Clues-Interactive Page
My Common Core Reading Interactive Notebook comes with a step by step guide for each page and black/white printables.
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Must-Have Nutrition Bundle for Kids: Fuel Their Growth & Development!
By Inspired By MlG
Spark a Love for Learning and Healthy Habits with our Interactive Nutrition Bundle for Students!
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your child about the importance of good nutrition? Our must-have nutrition bundle is packed with interactive worksheets and Google Slides presentations that will make learning about healthy eating a breeze!
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By Pearlie Janes Creations
Bring Thanksgiving to life for young learners with this engaging set of three Thanksgiving-themed flip books! Designed for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders, these interactive flip books are perfect for building reading, writing, and fine motor skills while exploring Thanksgiving traditions, animals associated with the season, and the history of the First Thanksgiving. Each flip book includes simple text, writing prompts, and coloring activities to keep students engaged and learning.
What’s Included:
"My Thanksgiving Dinner" Flip Book
"Thanksgiving Animals" Flip Book
"The First Thanksgiving" Flip Book
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Each flip book makes Thanksgiving learning interactive and fun while reinforcing foundational reading and writing skills!