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This engaging and interactive resource is designed to help students master the skill of blending sounds to form words. By visually representing the process of "climbing the ladder" to build words, students will develop a strong foundation in phonics and early reading.

Benefits for Students:

• Phonological Awareness: Students will strengthen their ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds within words.
• Word Recognition: By practicing blending sounds, students will improve their ability to recognize and read words quickly and accurately.
• Reading Fluency: As students become more proficient in blending sounds, they will be able to read with greater speed and accuracy.
• Spelling Skills: The visual representation of word building will help students understand the spelling patterns of words.
• Independent Learning: This resource is perfect for independent work, centers, or small group instruction, allowing students to practice at their own pace.
• Motivation: The fun and engaging format of the word ladders will motivate students to practice their reading skills.

By using this resource, students will develop the essential skills needed to become confident and fluent readers.

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This engaging CVC word ladder activity is a fun and effective way to help students build their literacy skills. By looking at pictures and writing the corresponding CVC words, students will develop their:

• Phonological awareness: Recognizing and manipulating sounds in words.
• Phonics skills: Understanding the relationship between sounds and letters.
• Sight word recognition: Memorizing and automatically recognizing common words.
• Spelling: Practicing correct letter-sound correspondence and word formation.
• Vocabulary: Expanding their knowledge of new words and their meanings.

This activity is also great for independent practice and can be differentiated to meet the needs of different learners. Laminating the word ladder sheets to make them reusable and perfect for literacy centers, small group instruction, or homework.

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These educational mats are designed to help young learners master CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) and digraph words. Each mat features a specific color and includes pictures that correspond to the color-coded words. To reinforce learning, students read the word and then cover it with the matching picture. For durability, the mats can be laminated for long-term use.

Benefits for Students:

• Phonological Awareness: Students develop a strong understanding of how sounds relate to letters, a crucial skill for reading and writing.
• Vocabulary Expansion: By learning new CVC and digraph words, students increase their vocabulary and improve their communication skills.
• Visual Learning: The color-coded pictures provide a visual aid that helps students connect sounds with letters and words.
• Hands-On Learning: The interactive nature of the mats makes learning engaging and fun, fostering a positive attitude towards education.
• Independent Learning: Students can use the mats independently, allowing for personalized practice and reinforcement of skills.

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This activity, "Candy Corn Beginning Letter Sounds: Cards and Worksheet," is designed to reinforce students' understanding of beginning letter sounds. Here are some ways it can benefit them:

1. Phonemic Awareness: It helps students develop phonemic awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds in words. This is a crucial skill for reading and spelling.

2. Letter-Sound Correspondence: The activity strengthens students' understanding of letter-sound correspondence, which is the relationship between a letter and its associated sound. This knowledge is essential for decoding words and learning to read.

3. Visual Discrimination: The use of pictures allows students to practice visual discrimination, which involves recognizing similarities and differences between objects. This skill is helpful for identifying letters and words.

4. Fine Motor Skills: Coloring the thumbs up or thumbs down requires students to use fine motor skills, which can improve their handwriting and overall coordination.

5. Engagement: The use of candy corn as a theme can make the activity more engaging and fun for students, especially around Halloween.

6. Differentiation: The activity can be easily adapted to different learning levels. For example, you could provide more or fewer cards, or use simpler or more complex words.

Overall, this activity provides students with a fun and interactive way to practice important literacy skills.

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Your students can listen to 11 great STEM stories using QR Codes. nine of these stories are from the website Kid Time Story Time who granted us permission to use their stories! They also granted us permission to show these stories through Share Safe TV, so they are safe for your students!

Simply cut and laminate the cards. The cards can then be used at a listening, science, or STEM center! There is a worksheet for students to keep track of and rate the stories they listen to. There are also three differentiated reading response sheets.

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Here is a set of Elf Dolch Pre-Primer sight word posters and flashcards. They can be used at center time or any other time to help students practice high frequency word recognition in order to build reading fluency. The flashcards can be printed more than once to create games such as match or go fish. You might also like: Gingerbread Boy Dolch Pre-Primer-Third Grade Sight Word Flashcards and Posters Gingerbread Girl Number Flashcards 0-100 Elf Addition Adding 0-10 The awesome elf frame clipart is by: Scrappin Doodles The awesome font is by: Kimberly Geswein Fonts Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Facebook Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Instagram How to get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, giveaways, freebies and new products: • Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store.

Here is a set of Elf Dolch Primer sight word posters and flashcards. They can be used at center time or any other time to help students practice high frequency word recognition in order to build reading fluency. The flashcards can be printed more than once to create games such as match or go fish. You might also like: Gingerbread Boy Dolch Pre-Primer-Third Grade Sight Word Flashcards and Posters Gingerbread Girl Number Flashcards 0-100 Elf Addition Adding 0-10 The awesome elf frame clipart is by: Scrappin Doodles The awesome font is by: Kimberly Geswein Fonts Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Facebook Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Instagram How to get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, giveaways, freebies and new products: • Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store.

Here is a set of Elf Dolch Second Grade sight word posters and flashcards. They can be used at center time or any other time to help students practice high frequency word recognition in order to build reading fluency. The flashcards can be printed more than once to create games such as match or go fish. You might also like: Gingerbread Boy Dolch Pre-Primer-Third Grade Sight Word Flashcards and Posters Gingerbread Girl Number Flashcards 0-100 Elf Addition Adding 0-10 The awesome elf frame clipart is by: Scrappin Doodles The awesome font is by: Kimberly Geswein Fonts Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Facebook Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Instagram How to get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, giveaways, freebies and new products: • Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store.

Here is a set of large full page elf letter posters. The posters contain a page with each uppercase letter, each lowercase letter, and a page with the uppercase letter along with the matching lowercase letter. They can be used to demonstrate center time use of small cards (available on my store), or any other time to help students practice letter recognition, alphabet sequence, matching uppercase to lowercase, for classroom display and more. You might also like: Elf Alphabet Letter Flashcards Uppercase and Lowercase Elf Addition Adding 0-10 Gingerbread Girl Dolch Pre-Primer-Third Grade Sight Word Flashcards and Posters The awesome elf frame clipart is by: Scrappin Doodles The awesome font is by: Kimberly Geswein Fonts Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Facebook Click Here To Follow My Kinder Garden on Instagram How to get TeachShare credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, giveaways, freebies and new products: • Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store.

Here is a set of Elf Dolch First Grade sight word posters and flashcards. They can be used at center time or any other time to help students practice high frequency word recognition in order to build reading fluency. The flashcards can be printed more than once to create games such as match or go fish.

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Learn about the top ten famous women scientists with this complete lesson plan packet of activities that includes: Quick facts coloring handouts of 10 women scientists including: Marie Curie Barbara McClintock Jane Goodall Rita Levi Montalcini Maria Mayer Gertrude Elion Rachel Carson Elizabeth Blackwell Rosalind Franklin Christine Nusslean-Volhard Quotes My Vocabulary Journal A Dinner Party Interview Daily News Report Writing Match It (Scientific Symbols with Authors) Chronological/Sequential Order Scientist's Life Map Roundtable Discussion 1 and 2 My Scientific Experiment Writing a Scientific Report A Day in the Life of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner (Speech Writing) Help Find the Laboratory (Maze) Recipe for a Scientist Fakebook for a Scientist 10 Fill-in-the-Blank Quick Fact Coloring Handouts Uses fact based information and critical thinking skills. Perfect for gifted/talented, homeschooling, flipped classrooms, group activities, and individual studies. Provides historical backgrounds, scientific quick facts, and much more. Use as test prep and review of contributions to society and for Women's History Month. Great for reviewing female scientists contributions and lives, as well as being role models for younger students interested in science as a career. Meets CCSS ELA guidelines.

Every April, students can celebrate Tell-a-Story Day, which occurs at the end of the month. This 16 page handout will help students with organizing and telling fact-based stories. Great for building oral communication, evidence/proof, and re-telling memories. Includes: Finding storytelling topics Graphic Organizers for planning stories in chronological order Setting up a storytelling event Designing advertisements/invitations Peer workshopping stories Links to multicultural, professional, international/national storytelling centers, storytelling videos and websites Can be used any time of the year! Students will enjoy sharing stories while learning how to use fact-based information. Fun and educational!

Whole/group small group activity to get students thinking about word choices. Use the clues (illustrations, fill-in-the-blanks) to figure out complex job titles that translate into simple one-word definitions (Example: Media Distribution Officer = paperboy). Ten slides and answer guide included.

Trapped in a snowstorm in a dangerous mountain pass, students use character traits to debate and give rationals to win the only two seats in the wagon. Students create avatars with this 22 page handout based on character traits and character flaws. Uses social skills combined with ELA skills to practice compare and contrast, fact-based arguments and persuasion. Includes:

Directions

Character Trait List with Definition

Character Flaw List with Definition

12 Western themed Male Avatars

12 Western themed Female Avatars

Wagon, Ho! Scenario

Group Chart with Note Taking section

Character Reflection Sheet

Extra Resources

Optional Writing, Project, and Video Assignments

Excellent for small/whole group, whether at-risk/GT/AP, that uses character traits and fact-based evidence/proof to practice decision making processes and expository writings.

Turn your classroom into Antonym City with this fun and engaging antonym activity designed to help students master opposites in a creative way! "Opposites Day Conundrum" introduces your students to the concept of antonyms as they decode the funny, mixed up sentences and replace the bolded words with their correct opposite, or antonym. This activity fosters critical thinking, enhances vocabulary, and keeps students entertained as they "save the day" in Antonym City.

Perfect for literacy centres, independent practice, or as a fun whole class activity, this resource is a fantastic addition to your antonym lesson plans. With its unique format and imaginative twist, your students will have a blast while strengthening their understanding of antonyms.

What's Included:

• A set of creatively designed antonym practice sheets.
• Engaging scenarios that encourage students to think critically and use context clues.
• Opportunities for students to write and revise their own sentences using antonyms.
• Clear, easy to follow instructions for both teachers and students.

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This Sight Word Coloring Worksheets - Dolch First Grade 41 Sight Words Morning Work, is a fantastic way to kickstart the academic year with your students.
The Sight Words Practice set includes 41 printable worksheets, each focusing on one of the Dolch 1st Grade words. These worksheets serve as excellent supplements to your guided reading lessons or as options for independent literacy centers.

How does it works?

1. Students read the given word.
2. They find and highlight the word multiple times using dabbers or crayons.
3. Next, they recognize how many syllables in the word, trace it, and have some fun with a sentence scramble.

It's an ideal activity for independent morning work or literacy centers, keeping students engaged while they learn and practice their sight words.

This product contains all 41 First Grade Sight Words:

after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

Don't need first grade? Check out these other dab a sight word packets:

Dolch Primer Sight words Fluency Dab it

Dolch Pre-Primer Sight words Fluency Dab it

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These literacy activities make learning fun! You can never go wrong with Play Dough!

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Do your students enjoy playing BINGO? Do they like Play Dough? Why not use them both to reinforce learning? This BINGO set has 20 capital letter cards and 20 lower case letter cards. Just laminate the cards and cut them apart. Have students roll out nine balls of play dough. Call out a letter and have them cover that letter with a Play Dough ball. When they get three in a row they can smash them with their thumb!

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This fall themed BOOM Card™ deck features an alphabet letter matching activity, with full audio, that will help students practice matching their uppercase and lowercase letters. Students will strengthen their letter recognition, beginning sounds, and early phonics skills. Perfect for distance learning, they are self-grading, and allow you to track student progress. These BOOM Cards™ would be great on a laptop, desktop, Chromebook, tablet, or any other mobile device that can access the internet. They can even be used on your Smart Board!

This set contains an easy to understand audio narrated instruction card, and 26 letter matching cards. The audio on each card will say the letter name and the beginning sound of each letter. Students can listen to the letter and sound, and then click on the correct lowercase letter to match.

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This winter themed BOOM Card™ deck features an alphabet letter matching activity, with full audio, that will help students practice matching their uppercase and lowercase letters. Students will strengthen their letter recognition, beginning sounds, and early phonics skills. Perfect for distance learning, they are self-grading, and allow you to track student progress. These BOOM Cards™ would be great on a laptop, desktop, Chromebook, tablet, or any other mobile device that can access the internet. They can even be used on your Smart Board!

This set contains an easy to understand audio narrated instruction card, and 26 letter matching cards. The audio on each card will say the letter name and the beginning sound of each letter. Students can listen to the letter and sound, and then click on the correct lowercase letter to match.

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✅A link to access 27 digital task cards on Letter Matching on the BOOM Learning℠ website

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