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Gingerbread Adventures: Interactive Storytelling & Skill-Building Activities

By Michellecurtis

Dive into the delightful world of gingerbread with this comprehensive 23-page "Gingerbread Adventures: Interactive Storytelling & Skill-Building Activities," featuring two distinct workbooks that blend creativity, literacy, and critical thinking. Perfect for educators, homeschooling parents, and anyone keen on providing engaging learning experiences. Preview all pages in the Preview section to discover the treasures within each workbook.


Workbook 1: My Gingerbread House - A Creative Exploration Unleash your students' imagination with "My Gingerbread House," a workbook designed to inspire creativity through writing and drawing. This workbook includes:

  • A dedicated section for designing and describing a gingerbread house, sparking creativity and artistic expression.
  • Three scaffolded writing pages with prompts to guide learners through the process of crafting detailed, imaginative narratives.
  • Exercises focused on utilizing the five senses to enrich storytelling and descriptive writing.
  • "What's on My Dinner Plate?" activity to encourage thoughtful discussions on nutrition and healthy eating habits, all within a fun, gingerbread-themed context.

Workbook 2: The Gingerbread Man Fairy Tale - A Literary Journey Embark on a fairy-tale adventure with "The Gingerbread Man," a workbook that brings this classic story to life through a variety of interactive activities:

  • "The Gingerbread Man: A Fairy Tale" section with accompanying readers' response questions to enhance comprehension and critical thinking.
  • "Cut and Find" and "Number the Sections of the Story" activities to develop sequencing skills and story structure understanding.
  • "A Gingerbread Man in Disguise" drawing activity to stimulate creativity and imaginative thinking.
  • "The Gingerbread Man Colour by Number" and "Word Search" to blend learning with fun, reinforcing color recognition, and vocabulary.
  • "Find the Difference - Gingerbread Man" challenge to sharpen observational skills and attention to detail.

Key Features:

  • Dual-Workbook Format: Two themed workbooks in one document for double the learning and fun.
  • Creativity and Literacy: Activities designed to foster imagination, writing skills, and artistic expression.
  • Engagement and Learning: Interactive tasks that promote critical thinking, comprehension, and foundational math skills.
  • Educational Flexibility: Suitable for classroom use, homeschooling, or as enriching activities during holidays or themed learning days.

Target Audience: Ideal for elementary educators, librarians, homeschooling families, and caregivers looking to provide a mix of educational rigor and creative fun. These workbooks are perfect for students eager to explore the world of fairy tales and express themselves through writing and art.

Unlock the magic of gingerbread through storytelling, creativity, and learning with this unique dual-workbook offering. Whether exploring the architectural wonders of a gingerbread house or adventuring with the Gingerbread Man, students will be engaged, educated, and entertained.

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SPANISH SYLLABLES! La letra M!!

By La Llama Bilingüe

Una actividad divertida para hacer del aprendizaje de las sílabas interactivo.

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Make your own: I can read story

By Tomorrowcomes

Make your own book template! Kids love writing their own stories. This is an easy to print document that students can put together themselves to make their own book. Working on vocabulary or spelling words? Have students copy them at the beginning of the book and then use them throughout the story. Have students share their own stories with others in the class to encourage reading skills. All you need to do is print out a copy for each student, and let their own imagination soar.

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Hedgehogs Reading Logs

By Creative Soul Printables

Keep track of reading adventures with these adorable Hedgehog Reading Logs! Perfect for logging book details like title, author, and page count, these logs make reading fun and organized.

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This set includes multiple hedgehog-themed reading logs to support reading practice and record-keeping:

  • Book Details: Space to write down each book’s title, author, and total pages, helping kids reflect on their reading.
  • Fun Hedgehog Design: Cute illustrations make reading logs engaging and fun for young readers.
  • Flexible Use: Logs are ideal for daily, weekly, or monthly reading tracking, adaptable for any reading schedule.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
These Hedgehog Reading Logs are a fantastic tool for encouraging reading while building organizational skills. Designed with homeschool families in mind, they make tracking multiple books easy and enjoyable, and they’re a wonderful resource for meeting reading goals or requirements. The cute, kid-friendly design makes reading a memorable activity and motivates kids to reach for more books!

Features:

  • Organized Layout: Clean, structured areas for title, author, and page number.
  • Reading Motivation: Logs support reading habits, goal-setting, and accountability.
  • Print-Ready: Each page is 8.5x11 and ready to print and fill out, perfect for at-home or classroom use.

Who This Product Is For:

  1. Homeschool Families: Simplifies reading record-keeping for all ages.
  2. Elementary Teachers: A great tool for book challenges or reading accountability.
  3. Parents and Caregivers: Encourages kids to engage with reading at home.
  4. Libraries: Ideal for summer reading programs or after-school clubs.
  5. Tutors and Literacy Coaches: Helps track progress for individual students.
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Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Genre Posters Freebie

By SPO Resources

Introduce your students to the basics of genre with these engaging Fiction and Nonfiction Genre Posters! Perfect for elementary classrooms or library displays, these posters feature student-friendly definitions and eye-catching graphics, helping students easily identify the differences between fiction and nonfiction.

This free set includes only the Fiction and Nonfiction posters.

Want more? Discover the full Reading Genre Posters set, featuring 28 unique genres to cover everything you need for teaching book genres.


WHAT’S INCLUDED

This set includes the fiction and nonfiction genre posters in the following formats:

Full-Size Poster (8.5” x 11”)➜ Color and black & white options

Half-Size Poster (5” x 4”)➜ Color and black & white options; perfect for student notebooks or smaller spaces


WHY USE GENRE POSTERS?

Boost reading comprehension by giving students a quick reference to help them identify fiction and nonfiction elements. These posters provide a strong foundation for understanding the basics of genre and are perfect for displaying year-round.


WAYS TO USE THIS RESOURCE

  • Display & Reference: Use on focus walls, in notebooks, or at literacy centers.
  • Student Engagement: Encourage students to refer to the posters as they explore texts.
  • Customization: Tailor the editable version to best fit your classroom needs.
  • Long-Term Use: Print, laminate, and reuse these posters year after year.
  • Digital Integration: Incorporate digital versions for virtual learning or in-class activities.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Ideal for elementary teachers looking for a clear, ready-to-use tool to introduce fiction and nonfiction genres. This set is designed specifically for younger students needing a strong foundation in genre types.

Looking for the complete set of 28 genres? Explore these resources:

Reading Genre Posters — Ideal for classroom displays and word walls, featuring vibrant visuals for every genre.

Reading Genre Anchor Charts & Interactive Templates — Dive deeper into each genre with detailed definitions, key features, and student-friendly note-taking guides.

Spanish Genre Posters — Available in Spanish to support bilingual classrooms.

Want to try another freebie? Sample the quality with this resource:

Fairy Tale Genre Poster Freebie


If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me at samantha@sporesources.com. I am always happy to help!

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Create an engaging learning space for genre exploration with these fiction and nonfiction genre posters for your ELA classroom!

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Emoji Bookmarks, Expressions

By Geography & Math Made Easy

Print these fun bookmarks on colored or white cardstock and provide them to your students. The goal is to challenge the students to read and keep up with the number of books they read. Once they have finished a book, they are to color it to reflect they have finished the book.

You may also choose to laminate and them and have them use a permanent marker to cross out the emoji.

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Fall Scavenger Hunt Learning Game Nature Exploration Large Group Activity

By Kyla McHenry

Getting out and exploring the colors and textures of fall is a great introduction to nature for all students! With our fall scavenger hunt have adventures in nature and have fun practicing counting to five and identifying colors.

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Match Color Words to Colored Hearts

By Creative Discoveries Online Academy Printables

See if you can cut out colored words and match it to the correct color heart.

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Kwanzaa Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions | Winter Holidays

By True Line Texts

Enhance your students' understanding of Kwanzaa with this engaging Kwanzaa Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource! Perfect for the classroom, this product provides a detailed nonfiction passage that introduces the history, principles, and traditions of Kwanzaa.

Accompanied by six thought-provoking questions, this resource encourages meaningful discussions and helps students develop critical thinking skills.

Whether used for group activities, classroom discussions, or individual assessments, this two-page PDF is designed to captivate young learners while meeting educational standards.

Key Features:

  • 1-page nonfiction reading passage about Kwanzaa
  • 6 comprehension questions to assess understanding
  • Ideal for Grades K-2, suitable for other elementary levels
  • 8.5 x 11-inch format for easy printing and use
  • Perfect for December and cultural heritage lessons

This versatile resource is excellent for celebrating Kwanzaa while also incorporating themes of diversity and cultural awareness. Download now to provide your students with a meaningful and educational learning experience!

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Adapted Book Discover the Natural Habitats of Each Animal

By Inspired By MlG

Explore the fascinating world of animals and their habitats in this beautifully adapted book "Where Does Animals Live". Discover how various creatures from the desert to the ocean, make their homes and survive in their unique environments. From the rainforest to the Arctic, this book takes readers on a wild adventure filled with stunning illustrations and interesting facts. Perfect for young animal enthusiasts and nature lovers, "Where Does Animals Live" is sure to captivate and educate readers of all ages. Embark on a journey to discover the diverse and intricate ecosystems that animals call home.

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Never Ride Your Elephant To School

By Succulents and Second

Quick activity to go along with the book "Never Ride Your Elephant to School"

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Charlotte's Web Novel Study w/ Lesson Plans and Google Slides - Ch. 1 Preview

By A Teachers Sidekick

This is a product preview for my Charlotte's Web Novel Study. This preview includes everything from Ch. 1: The lesson plan, slideshow, End of Chapter Activity, and the Doodle Notes.

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Free Printable Second Grade Dolch Sight Words List

By SmileyRainbowStudio

Free Printable Dolch Sight Words List for 2nd Grade – 46 Words

Support your 2nd graders in mastering key reading skills with this free Dolch Sight Words List! Featuring 46 important words, this list is designed to enhance fluency and help students recognize commonly used words, making reading more smooth and enjoyable.

This printable resource is perfect for classroom activities, independent study, or at-home practice. With a clear and straightforward layout, you can easily integrate this list into your teaching routine or create fun games and learning activities around it!

What’s Included:

  • 46 Dolch Sight Words for 2nd grade
  • Simple and easy-to-read format
  • Free download for teachers and parents

Download this freebie today!

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Mama Shamsi at the Bazaar library or classroom activities

By Debbie Tanner

Need a fun new book to help your students practice reading skills? Try this new activity pack based on the book "Mama Shamsi at the Bazaar" by Samira Iravani. The pack includes standards based activities and printables for story retelling, phonics, and vocabulary. Perfect for your library, classroom or home school.

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Decodable Sentence Pyramid with Comprehension Worksheet for Kindergarten

By Your Educational Oasis

This Decodable Sentence Pyramids Worksheet are designed for Kindergarten and First Grade students, offering two differentiated activities to cater to varying skill levels. One activity focuses on building sentences from simple words, helping students connect individual words to form complete sentences. The other activity emphasizes comprehension, encouraging students to understand and engage with the sentences they create to develop confidence and fluency in reading. Focusing on CVC words and sight words, which are foundational for early literacy, these worksheets gradually increase sentence complexity to help students enhance their decoding skills, improve comprehension, and build a solid foundation for reading success.

Benefits

  • Develop confidence and fluency in reading
  • Focus on CVC words and sight words
  • Enhance decoding skill
  • Improve comprehension
  • Build a solid foundation for reading success

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

This worksheet can be used in small group, whole class, or individually. Teachers can incorporate them into their reading lessons to help students practice reading decodable sentences and improve their literacy skills.

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"My students loved using these worksheets to practice their reading skills. It really helped improve their fluency and confidence!" - Adams

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Dolch Sight Words Printable Worksheets Free Sample Pack

By My Kinder Garden

This no prep engaging set of printable Dolch Sight Words l Printable Worksheets Free Sample Pack will help your students master high frequency words in no time flat. These Dolch Sight Words Printable Worksheets are a fun and engaging way to build reading skills, increase fluency and practice reading sight words in order to reach mastery. This free set is a sample of my Dolch Pre-Primer-3rd Grade Sight Words l Printable Worksheets Bundle.

Learning sight words is one of the fundamental building blocks for students to build fluency in reading. This packet will help students to be able to identify sight words in order to help build reading fluency. There are many other skills that are worked on in this packet in addition to high frequency words such as alphabetical order and sentence structure all of which will help students on their road to success as readers.

❤️What's included in this Dolch Sight Words l Printable Worksheets Free Sample Pack:

  • A few sheets from each of the Dolch sight word work packets pre-primer-3rd grade

This sampler can be used in class as daily work or can be sent home for homework as a weekly packet. It could also be sent home as a summer packet. There is a page that can be made into flashcards for practice along with five activities, one for each day, for each set of high frequency words. There is a sheet so that each students progress can me tracked. You can color in the words on the sheet as they are mastered.

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Scrambled Sentences - Read, Write, and Draw October Sampler

By Sassycat Corner

Halloween and fall fun with scrambled sentences! Scrambled sentences are a great way to practice capitalization, comprehension, fluency, content, sight words, content words and punctuation! And with this Halloween & fall themed sentence scramble sampler pack, it's also fun! Students read, cut & paste, write, and draw with each sentence.

This is a SAMPLER pack. It has FOUR themed pages, one each from October's theme - spiders, bats, pumpkins, and Halloween. It also has two blank pages that you can hand write your own sentences onto.

If you like the sampler, and want the full packs, just follow the links below under the bundle tab. They lead to both the October bundle, and the individual sets.

For each set, there are 10 pages with an eight word sentence, plus punctuation at the bottom of each page. You also get 5 blank templates that you can hand write your own sentences onto, if you want harder or easier sentences. You and your students read the words together, then cut them apart. Students then arrange them into sentence form and glue them into the boxes at the top. Students can then write the sentence on the handwriting line provided, then illustrate the sentence in the box provided. Finally, students can practice fluency by reading the sentences to each other or to the teacher.

These were made originally for seat work for a first grade friend, but I have a fellow kindergarten teacher who is using it in a small group with her high students. These would be good from K-2 in teacher led small groups, intervention, enrichment, or independent seat work, depending upon their reading / writing abilities.

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Freebie-Ready Reads: A Daily Phonics/Phoneme Practice in Automaticity

By Come Alive Communications

Have you ever wished students in the prereading and early reading stage could have opportunities to be fluent and build automaticity? How can students who barely know letter names and sounds become fluent? Ready Reads are just what you are looking for.

Ready Reads are warm up activities for the eyes and the brain and can support any curriculum. Ready Read charts cumulatively follow the scope and sequence of UFLI and support the Science of Reading. Use these in small group, whole group on the projector, in partners for accountability, or for students to whisper read to themselves. They can easily be adapted in an I read, We read, You read or Your turn, My turn format. Ready Reads can be used for students to say the letter name and/or the letter sound practicing grapheme recognition as well as phoneme recall. For pre-readers and early readers alike, this activity builds the left to right progression of reading and builds fluency for letters and concepts already learned. This is the building block for automaticity and fluent reading.

This freebie gets you started up to lesson 3. Get the full resource for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd to build your students' automaticity here! Kinder here 1st-2nd *Coming Soon*

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Sequencing

By Simply Read

This graphic organizer can be used for retelling any story. It includes lines for telling the beginning, middle, and End of a story and small picture box for each part.

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First Grade Dolch Sight Word Fluency Poem - Freebie Poster for Early Readers

By Teach Savvy Store

Help your students master first-grade Dolch sight words with this engaging fluency poem. Perfect for building early reading confidence through repetition and fun. Download this freebie to enhance your literacy centers or small group instruction! Or display it as a poster in your classroom for decor. :)

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✨1st Grade Sight Word Bundle✨

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What's Included

  • "A Fun Day" poem with 15 Dolch sight words: see, a, runs, so, it, and, is, up, the, I, like, to, you, we, all
  • color version
  • black and white version
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