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Gingerbread Man Thematic Unit for Preschool and Kindergarten (Literacy and Math)
By Joyful Explorations
This Gingerbread Man unit is filled with fun activities that promote literacy learning and math skills for Preschool and Kindergarten.
Printable Gingerbread Man flannel (felt board) story Printable book “What the Gingerbread Man Saw” in both color and B/W Word cards for pocket charts that support both the book and flannel story Gingerbread man writing paper with story prompts “5 Little Gingerbread People” poem with printables for a flannel board or story telling props Measuring activity using non-standard units of measurement “5 Little Gingerbread People” supplemental math activity (counting down and writing numbers) Representing numbers 1-10 with numerals, drawings and ten-frames “Roll and Color” dice game Dice board game
Alphabet Recognition activity worksheet in bundle for Kindergarten Assessment
By Chirp Chirp Education
**** What's included ****
1. 26 Alphabets Maze activities for kindergarten
-->>>> Mazes are a great activity that help develop hand-eye coordination, visual scanning, focus, fine motor skills used in handwriting and more
2.Alphabet 26 Letters Uppercase and Lowercase Recognition worksheet
-->>>> Alphabet 26 Letters Uppercase and Lowercase Recognition worksheet is a great resource to help students recognize upper and lower case letters.
3.26 alphabets Tracing cards
-->>>> This interactive card allows students to practice tracing both uppercase and lowercase letters using a marker pen, while also providing hands-on opportunities to shape letters using playdough and pipe cleaners.
4. Alphabet Recognition for all 26 letters
-->>>> This Alphabet worksheet consists of 2 sections. First section allows student to trace the uppercase and lowercase with marker. Students can use pipe cleaner or playdough to make the letters. Student is required to draw an object starts with the assigned letter.
5. Alphabet Letters Search & Find worksheet Find a Letter I spy uppercase lowercase
-->>>> Alphabet uppercase & lowercase search and find worksheet is a no-preparation resource that students search for the assigned letter, both lowercase and uppercase.
6. Alphabets Handwriting Practice TRACE IT with letter formation, COLOR IT, DRAW IT
-->>>> Enhance your students' handwriting skills with this engaging and comprehensive Alphabets Handwriting Practice Worksheet. Designed for early learners, this worksheet offers a variety of sections that include traceable letter formation, coloring activities, and space for drawing.
7. EDITABLE Missing Alphabets Worksheet Uppercase and Lowercase
-->>>> Ideal for early learners, this worksheet is designed to help students fill in the missing uppercase and lowercase letters, enhancing their letter recognition skills in an interactive way.
8. Alphabet Letter Find: Upper and Lower Case Letters Beginning sound worksheet
-->>>> Children find and dab the upper and lower case focus letters.
As they dab the letter they whisper the name and the sound of the letter. This gives those that need MANY exposures the chance to hear it again and again.
9. Alphabet Activities - Honeybee Letter Matching - ABC Recognition
-->>>> Use this this alphabet activity to teach letters, letter identification and uppercase and lowercase letter matching.
10. EDITABLE Missing Alphabets Worksheet Uppercase and Lowercase
-->>>> Engage your students in a dynamic and customizable learning experience with our Editable Missing Alphabets Worksheet! Ideal for early learners, this worksheet is designed to help students fill in the missing uppercase and lowercase letters, enhancing their letter recognition skills in an interactive way.
Figurative Language CENTERS: 8 Stations, 3 Quizzes, 1 Glossary | All SHAKESPEARE
By Rigorous Resources for High School English
Hoping to deepen your students' knowledge of figurative language? Eager to equip your students with the tools and techniques for analyzing figurative language in Shakespeare's plays?
This FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STATIONS activity is a fun and effective method for giving students practice at analyzing the most important types of figurative language. Students will develop the skills not only to identify types of figurative language but also to explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning of a literary text!
This stations activity focuses on the 8 types of figurative language that are used most frequently in William Shakespeare's plays: metaphor, simile, metonymy, personification, apostrophe, paradox, oxymoron, and hyperbole. It features over 120 quotations from Shakespeare's best plays. Students will learn about figurative language while gaining exposure to the most profound and thought-provoking lines from the world's greatest playwright!
Here's what you'll find inside this 40-page resource:
• Stations Worksheets (x8): This resource includes a total of 8 worksheets focused on 8 types of figurative language. Each worksheet challenges students to explain the meaning or effect created by the same figure of speech found across 6 quotations from Shakespeare's plays. The quotations include some of the most profound and thought-provoking lines from Shakespeare's best plays: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Tempest, and more. There are a total of 48 quotations from over 15 plays! (8 pages)
• Answer Keys to Stations Worksheets (x8): The answer keys explain how the figures of speech found across 48 quotations contribute to the meaning of Shakespeare's plays. (8 pages)
• Station Placards (x8): The 8 placards can be folded and placed on the desks that correspond to the 8 stations. The placards add a splash of colorful decoration to this activity. (8 pages)
• Literary Devices Glossary: This 1-page glossary features the 8 types of figurative language that are used most frequently throughout Shakespeare's plays. The glossary includes definitions of the 8 types of figurative language as well as one or two examples of how each figure of speech gets used in one of Shakespeare's plays. Students can use the glossary to study for the quizzes on figurative language. (1 page)
• Quiz on Metaphors & Similes: This quiz focuses only on metaphors and similes; it challenges students to identify the figures of speech used across 15 quotations from Shakespeare's plays. Includes answer key. (2 pages)
• Quiz on 8 Types of Figurative Language (x2): These two quizzes focus on all 8 types of figurative language. The first quiz challenges students to identity the figures of speech used across 25 quotations. The second quiz is similar but features 20 longer quotations; it could be used as a make-up quiz or extra-credit quiz. Includes answer keys. (8 pages)
Here are the types of figurative language featured across the 8 stations:
1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Metonymy
4. Personification
5. Apostrophe
6. Paradox
7. Oxymoron
8. Hyperbole
This entire 40-page unit will come to you in two separate formats: a Word doc *and* a PDF. Because the Word doc is editable, you'll be able to customize the materials to suit the skill levels of your students. If you don't have Microsoft Word, you'll still be able to access the entire unit as a PDF — which is easy to navigate and quick to print!
If you have any questions, please don't don't hesitate to get in touch. As a full-time teacher who is currently teaching a year-long Shakespeare elective, I'm eager to do everything I can to ensure that you have an amazing experience with the swan of Avon!
Thank you for stopping by Rigorous Resources!
Happy teaching!
Adam Jernigan, Ph.D.
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Dialects and Speech (United States)
By Beth Hammett
Four-wheelin' or muddin? Cruisin' or going for a drive? Get students thinking about dialects and regional differences with this 22 page engaging, visual presentation. Includes: Dialect and examples Idiolect and examples Jargon and examples Pidgins and examples Creole and examples Review of Terminologies and activity Regional dialects and activity Literature dialects and examples Literature Project activity for Assessment Extra Resources Great for blended, flipped, homeschool, group collaboration, and whole class English and history courses. Interactive and critical thinking skills required!
Cause and Effect - 2 Piece Puzzles Task Cards - PRINTABLE NO PREP
By All Therapy Resources
This resource contains 8 fun, colorful and engaging two piece puzzles which explores cause & effect.
There are a total of 8 puzzles in colour and 8 puzzles in black and white. This is a great resource for early learners which includes Pre-k, Kindergarten (Prep) and special education.
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narrative story graphic organizer Elements Story Map
By Create Learn Inspire Grow
Utilize this graphic organizer for any story!
It’s perfect for introducing story elements or for students to work independently.
Students will identify key components such as: setting, characters, problem, events, and solution.
By Reece's Tech Shop by Scott Reece
Reading Response Journal Prompts for student's daily reading time.
Do you want to increase your students' retention of what they are reading? Journaling is a great way to encourage them to reflect about what they've read.
A Reader's Journey ~ This is a FULL YEAR Reading Journal notebook for students. If you're looking for EASY TO USE reading journals put together in a student friendly format of graphic organizers, then this is the journal that you're looking for! Topics include:
Identifying Parts of Speech
Making Predictions
Character Studies
Time Period Studies
Fact vs. Fiction
Setting
Venn Diagrams
Radio Commercials
Problem Solving
Synonyms/Antonyms
Comic Strips
Book Reviews
Quote Reactions
AND MORE!
Students complete daily activities as they focus on learning more from what they read. This is a great resource for a reading class!!
Can be printed in color OR black & white.
MAGIC TREE HOUSE #28 High Tide in Hawaii NOVEL STUDY
By The Book Bandit
A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for MAGIC TREE HOUSE #28 High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne.
This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 1, 2 and 3 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.
This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.
The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.
The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
Book response - creative responses, written responses.
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Diper Overlode
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Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
By Mr. Lee's Learners
This Reader's Theater is a companion activity to the book "Thanks for Thanksgiving" by Julie Markes. This Reader's Theater will enable the children to enjoy the story even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills.
About the Book:
Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks—the question is, where to begin? From the turkey on the table to warm, cozy cuddles, life is full of small things and bigger pleasures. But what's most important is being able to share them with family!
There are roles for two students.
I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.
Thanksgiving Reader’s Theater:
Run, Turkey, Run! - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
Thankful by Eileen Spinelli - Reader's Theater Companion
Give Thanks for Each Day by Steve Metzger - Reader's Theater Companion
Five Flying Turkeys by Barbara B. McGrath - Reader's Theater Companion
All Reader's Theater Script
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Gingerbread Man Printable Flannel Board Story
By Joyful Explorations
This is a printable retelling of the classic "Gingerbread Man" story, that can be used on felt boards or flannel boards. Simply cut out the illustrations and glue flannel or velcro to the back. (You may want to laminate your illustrations so that they are more durable).
A written story is included so that you can read along as you put the illustrations on your flannel board.
Talks about fruits (33 types of fruits) Flash card
By Chirp Chirp Education
TeachShare A14-About fruits
What you would get:
1. 2 pdf files - (fruits with 1 seed) & (fruits with more than 1 seed)
2 cards /page (refer to thumbnails)
2. Items to be discuss among children (refer to thumbnails)
Discuss about the characteristic of the fruits
- Texture (fuzzy, smooth, rough etc)
- Taste (sweet, sour etc)
- Size/shape (Big, small, round)
- Smell
- Color
2. Categorized them ( by 1 seed or more than 1 seed)
How to play:
1. Show children the name of fruits - let them talk about it (Texture, taste, smell, size/shape & color)
2. Matching - Match picture with the name
3. Grouping - group fruits with same characteristic
Fruits covered:
1 seed fruit: mango, apricot, lychee, peach plum, avocado nectarine, longan, rambutan, coconut, cherry, olive.
More than 1 seed fruit: papaya, orange, apple, watermelon, guava, grapes, strawberries, dragon fruit, passion fruit, pear, honeydew, pomegranate, soursop, kiwi, custard apple, star fruit, mangosteen, durian, lemon, jackfruit, rock melon
By Beth Hammett
Help students understand literary criticism and what it is and is not. Includes: group/individual activity to define literary criticism examples of literary criticism journals compare and contract of "critic" definitions links to literary criticism journals where not to find literary criticism types and definitions of literary criticism Simple overview of literary criticism and where to find proper information for academic essays.
Dewey Decimal System: Reading Racecar Challenge (The Great Reading Race)
By Reece's Tech Shop by Scott Reece
“The Great Reading Race” was designed to encourage students to read twenty-four books from all the Dewey Decimal System categories. The goal is to encourage your students to read all genres of books rather than simply focusing on one or two categories. They are given the Student Sheet at the beginning of the year to track their progress as they read books. The student sheet includes spaces for each of the Dewey Decimal System categories.
Includes:
Student Sheet (letter size)
Student Sheet (legal size)
Teacher Instructions
Tracking form for teacher (Excel)
Images of cars (paper size)
Images of cars (poster size)
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SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL by Patricia MacLachlan NOVEL STUDY and Comprehension
By The Book Bandit
A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL by Patricia McLachlan.
This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 2, 3 and 4 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.
This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.
The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.
The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot.
Book response - creative responses, written responses.
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Dragon Masters - Rise of the Earth Dragon
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Diper Overlode
Spaceboy by David Walliams
Thank you for your continued support.
Halloween Reader's Theater Bundle - 6 Scripts (25% Discount)
By Mr. Lee's Learners
This product includes 6 different #Halloween reader's theater scripts to use with your students! These reader's theaters will enable the children to enjoy the stories even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills. #HappyHalloween
All of these reader's theater scripts are companion activities to each book.
Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan - A Halloween Reader's Theater
When Splat the Cat goes with Seymour to a pumpkin patch, he is determined to find the biggest pumpkin ever. But when he finally does, Splat discovers the real challenge isn't finding the pumpkin.
There are roles for four students; two narrators, Splat and Mom.
Click, Clack, Boo! - A Halloween Reader’s Theater
Farmer Brown does not like Halloween. Farmer Brown hears some mysterious sounds throughout the night. The ending may surprise you!
There are roles for three students.
Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween? - A Halloween Reader’s Theater
It's Halloween night. While her mother is upstairs getting her daughter's costume read, lots of trick-or-treaters stop by the house - from werewolves, ghosts, and zombies to witches, bats, dinosaurs, and more! But are they really . . . real?
There are roles for three students.
Halloween Night - A Halloween Reader's Theater
This rhyming story tells of a group of animals, monsters, and witches, who prepare such a frightening Halloween party that their expected trick-or-treaters all run away.
There are two versions included. The only difference between the versions is the number of parts. One version has roles for three students, the other version has roles for four students. Each version is 3 pages.
Spooky Hour - A Halloween Reader's Theater
The midnight spooks come around when the bell in the rickety tower bongs twelve times.
There are two versions included. The only difference between the versions is the number of parts. One version has roles for three students, the other version has roles for four students. Each version is 3 pages.
The Night Before Halloween - A Halloween Reader's Theater
Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book
There are two versions included. One version has roles for three students and the other version has roles for four students. Both versions are 4 pages.
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Alphabet Activities - Honeybee Letter Matching - ABC Recognition
By Chirp Chirp Education
Get your students practicing the alphabet with these letter worksheets. These are perfect for morning work, literacy centers, homework, intervention programs and more.
This hands-on coloring beehive fun to connect capital letter with it's small letter for your preschool, pre-k, early childhood, special education, and kindergarten classrooms. Use this this alphabet activity to teach letters, letter identification and uppercase and lowercase letter matching.
This resource comes in 2 version. colored 5 pages and ink-saving black white version 5 pages. total 10 pages. Also an option to use Easel by TeachShare as digital tools
TeachShare B14-Honeybee alphabets matching
Other resources:
- Kindergarten High Frequency Sight Word Practice Sentences & Guided Writing - Word
- Kindergarten High Frequency Sight Word Practice - Color by Sight words
- Sight word practice by READ, WRITE, CLAP, COLOR, TRACE, SPELL, FIND, TELL
- Sight Word RREAD & TRACE Simple sentences with Picture for Kindergarten
FREE RESOURCES
- [FREE] High frequency sight word practice for kindergarten
By Beth Hammett
An easy to understand presentation to help students with mood and tone. Includes: Definitions Quotes Examples Group/Individual Activities with word banks Whole class reviews (Poetry and Prose) Great for literature classes and writing reviews! Meets CCSS.
Bundle: Reading Activities | Dewey Decimal | Venn Diagram | Journaling
By Reece's Tech Shop by Scott Reece
Are you looking for ways to encourage your students to read in your classroom or at your school? This bundle has everything that you need!
Encourage reading with little competition in the Dewey Decimal Reading Race. Students earn racing points and move along the race track by reading books from different Dewey categories.
Create a new book report experience and add student work to you classroom with the Word Cube Book Reports. This one includes an electronic scoring rubric with formulas already calculated!
Encourage reading and comprehension by using the 180-day A Reader's Journey ~ A Reading Journal!! 180 days worth of reading journal topics. Includes page documentation, title and author information, and a journal prompt to reflect on what students have read for the day.
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GERONIMO STILTON - The Karate Mouse - NOVEL STUDY and Comprehension
By The Book Bandit
A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for GERONIMO STILTON The Karate Mouse.
This 55 page resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 2, 3 , 4 and 5 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.
This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.
The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.
The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work, idioms
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
Book response - creative responses, written responses.
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Dragon Masters - Rise of the Earth Dragon
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Diper Overlode
Spaceboy by David Walliams
Thank you for your continued support.
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Bundle - 6 Scripts (25% Discount)
By Mr. Lee's Learners
This product includes 6 different Thanksgiving reader's theater scripts to use with your students! These reader's theaters will enable the children to enjoy the stories even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills. Over 20% discount when you purchase this bundle versus buying each resource individually!
All of these reader's theater scripts are companion activities to each book.
Give Thanks for Each Day by Steve Metzger - Reader's Theater Companion
Give Thanks for Each Day, told in rhyme, reminds us to be thankful for the small things, everything from new crayons to parades. It also reminds us to be thankful for each other and the love shared in moments like holding hands.
There are four versions included. Two versions has roles for two students. The other two versions has roles for three students. All of the versions are either 2 or 3 pages.
Run, Turkey, Run! - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
It's almost Thanksgiving and the farmer is on the hunt for his Thanksgiving meal. The turkey needs to find a place to hide before he is caught.
Two different versions included. One version is for two student and the other version is for three students. Both versions are three pages long.
Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks—the question is, where to begin? From the turkey on the table to warm, cozy cuddles, life is full of small things and bigger pleasures. But what's most important is being able to share them with family!
There are two versions included. One version has roles for three students. The other version has roles for four students. Both versions are three pages long.
Thankful by Eileen Spinelli - Reader's Theater Companion
Thankful, by bestselling and award-winning children’s author Eileen Spinelli, combines charming rhymes and whimsical illustrations to convey the importance of being thankful for everyday blessings.
One version with roles for two students.
Five Flying Turkeys by Barbara B. McGrath - Reader's Theater Companion
Trot along with rhyming turkeys as they gather to celebrate a special day.
There are two versions included. One version has roles for two students and the other version has roles for three students. Both versions are 2 pages.
The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing - Reader's Theater Companion
Everyone’s favorite fun-filled, family-filled, food-filled holiday is almost here! Follow along as the feast is prepared, cousins are greeted, and everyone gathers around the table, all with an extra helping of holiday fun. This family fun read-aloud makes the perfect gift to get young readers excited for this festive fall holiday!
There are two versions included. One version has roles for three students and the other version has roles for four students. The versions are either 5 or 6 pages.
All Reader's Theater Script
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