Homeschool Other (ELA) Printables (by date, oldest first)

This ELA reading comprehension activity is the perfect tool to use in your classroom all year long. These 15 cover-up boards work for any book or story and have questions that encourage metacognition and increase reading comprehension skills! Perfect for early finishers, reading centers, test-prep, tutorials, small group work and more!

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What's Included

• 15 different Cover-Up boards with 4 questions on each

Directions

• With Cover Ups, the comprehension questions can be answered using any book or story.

• When students are done with their reading, they can grab a Cover Up board (consider having them laminated and printed on colored paper) and use the book that they are reading to answer the questions.

• Then students will use sticky notes to write out their answers and place them directly on top of the question on the Cover Up board.

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Looking for a fun way to keep students engaged in writing during the weeks leading up to Christmas? These Christmas Journal Writing Prompts can be used for weekly quick writes, morning work, journal writing, ELA stations etc.

What's Included:

10 exciting journal writing prompts with paper

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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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Product Description:**

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

TERMS OF USE:

You can reproduce the pages for classroom use only. The fonts I used are free for personal use. Duplication of this resource for commercial purposes or for the entire school is strictly forbidden.

HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK:

Go to your "My Purchases" page.Click the "Leave a review" button

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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Product Description:**

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

TERMS OF USE:

You can reproduce the pages for classroom use only. The fonts I used are free for personal use. Duplication of this resource for commercial purposes or for the entire school is strictly forbidden.

HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK:

Go to your "My Purchases" page.Click the "Leave a review" button

This exciting Halloween Feed the Monster Candy Corns Sensory Bin is perfect for helping young learners practice upper and lowercase letter recognition in a fun, interactive way. Students will love "feeding" the monster while mastering their letter knowledge! This resource is ideal for preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten classrooms, offering a hands-on, engaging letter-learning experience with a spooky Halloween twist.

Product Description:

Candy Corn Themed Flashcards:

• Set 1: Uppercase letters (A-Z) with candy corn designs.
• Set 2: Lowercase letters (a-z) with candy corn designs.
• Set 3: Uppercase and lowercase letter pairs (A/a - Z/z) with candy corn designs.

Monster Faces for Sensory Bin:

• Fun monster faces to attach to empty containers or tissue boxes. Students will love "feeding" the monsters by inserting the candy corn-themed letter cards into the container.

Recording Mats:

• 3 mats designed to track progress while engaging with the sensory bin.
• Students can cover letters with Halloween-themed manipulatives like candy corn, mini spiders, or other small items to mark the letters they have found.

How to Use:

1. Sensory Bin Setup: Add your preferred sensory bin filler (such as black beans, shredded paper, or orange rice) and hide the candy corn-themed letter flashcards. Attach the monster face to an empty container or tissue box for students to "feed" the candy corn letters to the monster.
2. Letter Recognition Practice: Students will search through the bin, find the letter cards, and "feed" the monster by matching the letters. You can choose to focus on uppercase, lowercase, or both sets depending on your students’ needs.
3. Progress Tracking: The included recording mats allow students to track their progress. As they find letters, they can cover the corresponding letters on the mats with candy corn, mini erasers, or other Halloween-themed manipulatives.

Benefits:

• Hands-on Learning: This sensory bin activity supports tactile learning and fine motor skills while reinforcing letter recognition.
• Multiple Learning Options: With three sets of letter cards (uppercase, lowercase, and both), this activity can be differentiated to meet various learning levels.
• Engaging for Students: The Halloween monster theme makes letter learning fun and festive for students, especially during the Halloween season!
• Versatile Use: This resource is perfect for 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 aloud as they "feed" it to the monster to build letter-sound associations.
• Enhance the Halloween theme by using sensory bin fillers like fake spiders, webbing, or black and orange beads.

TERMS OF USE:

You can reproduce the pages for classroom use only. The fonts I used are free for personal use. Duplication of this resource for commercial purposes or for the entire school is strictly forbidden.

HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK:

Go to your "My Purchases" page.Click the "Leave a review" button

This exciting bundle is packed with 12 Halloween-themed math activities designed to make learning fun and engaging for young learners. Students will develop essential skills such as counting, comparing quantities with "more" and "less," and mastering number recognition—all while enjoying the festive spirit of Halloween! From matching candy corn packets to counting spooky eyeballs, each resource enhances early math skills in a playful way. Available in both color and black-and-white formats, these interactive activities cater to diverse learning environments and preferences, whether students are working independently or in small groups.

Here’s a brief description of each Halloween-themed math product

1. Halloween Candy Corn Matching (0-10): A sweet, spooky matching game where students match candy corn packets with their corresponding number cards (0-10). Available in color and black-and-white, it promotes number recognition, counting, and independent learning.
2. Halloween Jar Matching (0-10): Students match jars filled with spooky eyeballs to number cards, reinforcing counting skills and number recognition for quantities from 0 to 10. It’s a fun, interactive way to engage in early math concepts.
3. Halloween Theme: Count and Write How Many?: A no-prep worksheet packet where students count and write numbers up to 10 using spooky Halloween images like pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. Perfect for reinforcing counting and number writing.
4. Halloween More or Less Comparing Numbers to 10 Worksheets: Students compare groups of Halloween objects and determine which has more or fewer items, helping build comparison and number sense skills.
5. Write the Room Halloween Theme: Count and Write How Many (1-10): A hands-on activity where students move around the classroom to find and count Halloween-themed objects, writing their answers on record sheets. This promotes active learning and counting practice.
6. Write the Room Halloween Theme: Count and Write How Many (11-20): Extending the fun to numbers 11-20, students find and count spooky objects, writing the corresponding numbers. Great for reinforcing higher number recognition.
7. Halloween More or Less Comparing Numbers to 10 Task Cards: Task cards that challenge students to compare groups of Halloween objects, identifying which has more or fewer items. Includes record sheets for tracking progress.
8. Halloween Matching Numbers to Quantities Math Clip and Match: A clip card game where students match numbers to quantities up to 20, using Halloween-themed items. It helps improve number recognition and fine motor skills.
9. Halloween Addition and Subtraction within 5 Task Cards: Task cards featuring Halloween visuals to practice addition and subtraction within 5, perfect for building early math fluency.
10. Halloween Math Matching Card Game: A playful matching game that focuses on addition and subtraction within 5, featuring Halloween characters. It’s an easy-to-use print-and-play format for quick math practice.
11. Halloween Feed the Monster Candy Corn Sensory Bin: A sensory bin activity where students “feed” candy corn-themed letter cards to monsters, practicing letter recognition while enjoying hands-on learning.
12. Halloween Maze Puzzles: A set of 10 Halloween-themed mazes designed for early finishers. With both color and black-and-white options, it keeps young learners engaged and thinking.

Why buy the bundle? Purchasing the bundle offers a variety of Halloween-themed activities that cover essential math skills, from number recognition to basic operations. With engaging visuals and multiple formats, this bundle saves time and ensures a well-rounded approach to math practice. It’s cost-effective, offering more resources at a lower price than purchasing individually, and provides ready-made, engaging lessons for your classroom all season long!

TERMS OF USE:

You can reproduce the pages for classroom use only. The fonts I used are free for personal use. Duplication of this resource for commercial purposes or for the entire school is strictly forbidden.

HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK:

Go to your "My Purchases" page.Click the "Leave a review" button

Nutcracker Ballet Mini Introduction Lesson

Alphabet Fun is a great resource for teaching letter recognition and sounds. The booklet includes two pages for each alphabet letter, one review page for every two letters and a "watch" for children to wear home encouraging their families to ask about the letter sound they mastered that day. There are over 90 reproducibles included!

UPDATE: I have added in capital and lower case flash cards (with and without picture clues) that can be printed on card stock or laminated for durability.

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My Funky First Grade

Challenge your students higher order thinking skills with these five logic puzzles that have a Halloween theme. Wake their brains while having fun working through a logic grid puzzle.

Each puzzle includes a scenario, a set of clues, and a grid that students may use to mark off the clues as they work their way through the clues. A teacher instruction page and answer keys are also included.

Alphabet Fun is a great resource for teaching letter recognition and sounds. It includes two pages for each alphabet letter, one review page for every two letters and a "watch" for children to wear home encouraging their families to ask about the letter sound they mastered that day. This FREEBIE includes four pages for the letter A only so you can try it out! You can find the full resource HERE. It includes over 100 pages of worksheets, watches and flash cards.

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My Funky First Grade

This bundle includes two resources: Alphabet Fun and Alphabet Color by Code. Alphabet Fun includes 90 pages of worksheets - two for each letter, a review page for every two letters and a "watch" to color and wear to show they have mastered the letter and sound. Alphabet Color by Code includes 26 color by word pages - one for each letter of the alphabet. You can purchase these two resources separately or get a great deal at $7.00 for both!

Check out my TeachShare store for many more math, language, science and social studies resources!

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My Funky First Grade

Challenge your students higher order thinking skills with these five logic puzzles that have a Halloween theme. Wake their brains while having fun working through a logic grid puzzle.

Each puzzle includes a scenario, a set of clues, and a grid that students may use to mark off the clues as they work their way through the clues. A teacher instruction page and answer keys are also included.

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!

Are you looking for more kindergarten station activities? Check out these other stations:

September Tear Art Crafts

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Color Word Sheets

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Check out this freebie for the word "the" that is included in my 1-100 of Fry's High Frequency Words resource!

1-100 HFW Resource

This resource is presented 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!

Are you looking for more kindergarten station activities? Check out these other stations:

September Tear Art Crafts

October Tear Art Crafts

November Tear Art Crafts

Color Word Sheets

Visit my other listings here and don't forget to earn TeachShare credits by leaving a review for Keeper of Kinders!

Printable activities for the story Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. This story is a fun way for students to be introduced to Egypt and just a few of thing which can be found there including sarcophagus, pyramids, sphinx. Printable worksheets include:

1. 10 question multiple choice quiz

2. Printable definition sheet (with pictures)

3. Drawing page of the trip down the Nile Bill and Pete take

4. Coloring sheet.

Interested in other great children's stories check out:

We Are the Gardeners

The Boy Who Changed the World

The Littlest Snowplow

Printable activities for the story Who Took the Farmer's Hat? by: Joan L. Nodset pictures by Fritz Siebel. This is a wonderful story using a repetitive theme making it easy for students to follow along and engage. This book is also great for beginning readers, because the story follows a circular pattern. To engage students this resource has 4 pages which can be used together or separate:

1. Farmer's hat activity: decorate/ color a hat and practice cutting skills by following the dotted line.

2. Note taking practice: draw a picture or write a note about each character in the story.

3. Quiz: See what information is retained with this multiple choice quiz.

4. Word search: Introduce characters and vocabulary terms with this word search.

Interested in other great children's stories check out:

We Are the Gardeners

The Boy Who Changed the World

The Littlest Snowplow

These book will inspire your students to have a positive attitude and to be kind to others. Everything students read matters!

Included are various worksheets, activities, quiz, word searches, and more.

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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→ Halloween Scavenger Hunt x3 (Different Age Levels) + Halloween Gift Tags!

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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!

Check Out these other design options for this product.

BOHO

POLKA DOTS

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!

Check Out these other design options for this product.

DARK BLUE

POLKA DOTS