Home
Mission
Blog
Professional Development
Launchpad
Plans
Community
Help
By Beth Hammett
Practice inferencing and real life connections with these ten exercises for individual, small or whole groups. Visual clues provide inference activities for students to draw conclusions. Answers can be drawn or written, and students.
Vowels (3 Letter Sight Words) Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Early learners/readers help the frog reel in the right vowels (a, e, i, o, u) to complete the three letter words: 1. tap 2. cup 3. bat/bit/but 4. mat/met 5. cat 6. sat/sit 7. fit 8. kit 9. let/lit 10. mop 11. run 12. son/sun 13. fun 14. lap 15. man 16. did 17. kid 18. sip 19. tan/ten/tin 20. hen Then, color the frog and the correct letter, find a classmate with a word that rhymes/uses the same consonant or vowel, or practice spelling words with the blank template provided. Comes with: Directions/Suggestions for use Answer sheet Blank template for spelling words 20 frog fishing handouts with 3 letter sight words Use for spelling, rhyming, assessment, introduce words, matching. Meets CCSS.
Winter Holiday Christmas Stories to Write and Publish (Grades Pre-K-5)
By Beth Hammett
Students write, color, and publish their own Christmas tales with these 55 pre-made story sheets. Christmas themed pictures with lines for inferencing and creating factual or imaginative tales. Excellent for building on-demand writing skills and grammar concepts. Comes with: 5 story book covers/title pages 5 The End Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas pages 45 Christmas pictures with lines for writing Non-Religious and Religious handouts Students can make and share with classmates then give as gifts to family members and friends.
Thematic Categories: 10 Writing Worksheets for Early Learners
By Beth Hammett
10 themed handouts/worksheets for students to color objects that belong in scenes. Students choose and mark one item that does not belong in each scene. Includes: Scene to color: Does not belong in scene: Beach scene Snowman Fall scene Rabbit in airplane School scene Duck Mountain scene Cup and saucer House scene Ship Football scene Gingerbread man Pirate scene Igloo Snowman scene Campfire Ballet scene Soccer ball Western desert scene Snowflake Directions Answers Help students discuss, understand, and assess category skills. Fun and educational!
Sequencing Frames for Grades Pre-K-1-2
By Beth Hammett
Cause and effect sequencing frames with pictures to help students paste and cut, put in order, and storytell, video, or write about. Comes with: CCSS Alignment Links 10 Activities 1 Blank Sequencing Sheet Extensions Differentiation Suggestions Fun for group or individual learning, creating group stories, real life connections, coordination skills, inferencing, phonics, writing and much more!
By Beth Hammett
Students make their own fact based or fictional Thanksgiving Storybooks then bind and share. These ready to use handout sheets are loaded with holiday graphics that include:
4 Title pages to color
4 The End pages to color
6 Coloring Frames with Speech Bubbles
16 Coloring Frames with Writing Spaces
Instructions for Use and binding with Optional Extensions (media)
32 slides of Thanksgiving fun that allows students to create their own books to share with classmates, families, and friends. Can be used as assessment for grammar/writing skills, as fact-based only stories, or as creative writing assignments.
Winter Holiday Stories Color, Write, and Publish
By Beth Hammett
Make a book the easy way with 53 slides to color and use for factual or fictional writing. Winter themed images with space for text writing and speaking (Speech Bubbles). Includes: 5 Title pages 5 "The End" pages 1 Directions for Use 42 black and white winter images/handouts Excellent for assessing standardized writing skills, such as inferencing, working with the writing process, peer workshopping, expository writing, narratives, or fictional stories. Easy to follow directions with several options for book binding.
Fall Thanksgiving Newspaper Writing Activity
By Beth Hammett
Have students write their own expository, fact-based newspaper articles and complete their own entertainment reviews with Talkin' Turkey Times. Plenty of templates for students to: draw pictures work on grammar skills work on spelling/vocabulary write themed articles paste related images (great for lower levels/extensions) practice main ideas write headings write titles form topic sentences work on paraphrasing/summarizing develop paragraphing skills work on proofreading/editing Easy to use, and great for bulletin board displays during Thanksgiving. Send home for students to complete with Thanksgiving memories while on holiday break. Great assessment tool and meets Common Core Standards.