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Math and Literacy Fun with Hearts
Math and Literacy Fun with Hearts
With this 87 page Math and Literacy Valentine workstations your students will be counting and recognizing the numbers 1-20, making patterns, graphi...
By Teaching Preschoolers
$5.75
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Valentine's Day, Math Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Super Duper Plurals Pack
Super Duper Plurals Pack
Pow! Wham! Bam! This Super Duper Superhero themed literacy/grammar package will certainly get your kiddies excited about Plurals! Filled with color...
By Ms. Nicole
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Vocabulary Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A

Hopping Good Word Sort and Write the Room Hunt short i
Hopping Good Word Sort and Write the Room Hunt short i
Sweet frogs and just in time for Valentines Day! Two activities included with 5 word families are featured: -ig, -in, -ip, -ill, -ick -Each wor...
By Deedee Wills
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Thematic Writing for the Entire School Year!
Thematic Writing for the Entire School Year!
This product is a Month-by-Month thematic writing Unit! The unit is broken down into ten school months (September-June). Each month has a list of...
By Allyson
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TEETH: A differentiated writing resource for grades K-5
TEETH: A differentiated writing resource for grades K-5
Please visit my blog, www.CFClassroom.com for daily photos and tips on organizing and managing your classroom. You can view a video that include...
By Littlest Learners
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Subject: English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Writing Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Duration: N/A

Dictionary Skills Activities with Differentiation
Dictionary Skills Activities with Differentiation
This originally began as a Digging Through the Dictionary worksheet. I have updated and added lots of activities to the original worksheet! This p...
By Amanda Holland Gregory
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Grammar Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th Duration: N/A

Sound Hunt Literacy Activity
Sound Hunt Literacy Activity
Everything is more fun when it's a hunt! This activity will send your students around the room searching for sounds. They can search for beginning ...
By Mrs. Patton
$2.99
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Subject: English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Spelling Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Guided Reading Tips, Hints, Strategies, Activities, and Ideas FREE!
Guided Reading Tips, Hints, Strategies, Activities, and Ideas FREE!
Guided Reading Tips, Hints, Strategies, Activities, and Ideas FREE! Common Core Reading Standards: 1,2,3,4,6 This 9-page document will provide ...
By Wise Guys
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Homeschooler Duration: Lifelong Tool

President's Day Emergent Reader: George Washington
President's Day Emergent Reader: George Washington
This emergent reader is perfect for a primary classroom's study of George Washington or to prepare for President's Day!...
By Climbing The Monkey Bars
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Light Up the Night Read the Room Kit
Light Up the Night Read the Room Kit
We're going on a firefly hunt and we don't even need a net. These cute fireflies are programmed with ie and igh words. Place these around your room...
By Ms. Arnold
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

R-Controlled Vowels File Folder Word Walls
R-Controlled Vowels File Folder Word Walls
This download is for five r-controlled vowel file folder word walls with pictures. The following r-controlled vowels are included: -ar -er -i...
By Erica Bohrer
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Subject: English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Writing Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Mrs. Wishy Washy:  Literacy and Math Center Fun
Mrs. Wishy Washy: Literacy and Math Center Fun
This unit contains activities for literacy and math centers to go with the Mrs. Wishy Washy books. Easy to implement for Daily 5 and centers! Rea...
By Kristen Walsky
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Subject: Balanced Literacy Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Alphabet Game
Alphabet Game
This alphabet game is sure to be a winner with your children! Each card has an adorable picture representing the letter, the capital and lowercase...
By Donna Whyte
$4.75
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Subject: Balanced Literacy Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Ant ~ Rebecca Stefoff ~ Language Arts Workbook ~ Houghton Mifflin®
Ant ~ Rebecca Stefoff ~ Language Arts Workbook ~ Houghton Mifflin®
This is an 18 page workbook to accompany the story "Ant" by Rebecca Stefoff. Skills covered include: author's purpose, context clues, consonant clu...
By Christie Uribe
$5.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading Level(s): 2nd, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Making inferences with poems for young students
Making inferences with poems for young students
Collection of poems for students to practice inferring by using clues from the poem to determine the main idea. Encourages students to rely on sch...
By Heidi Weber
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Capture the Words--Fry Words 1-200
Capture the Words--Fry Words 1-200
A fun way to practice reading sight words with a Social Studies/Math twist. Students roll dice to get coordinates. They use the coordinates to...
By Kathy Law
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Reading, Balanced Literacy Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Gingerbread House Christmas Sound Sort - Segmenting Sounds in words
Gingerbread House Christmas Sound Sort - Segmenting Sounds in words
Gingerbread Sound Sort is a fun way for students to practice segmenting sounds and counting individual phonemes. This activity includes 3 Gingerbr...
By Mrs. Horvath's Kinder
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Gingerbread Man Class Book
Gingerbread Man Class Book
A colorful class book cover and accompanying page for students to complete. Glue the cover to a pronged pocket folder and insert student pages maki...
By Njf
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Life Skills Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

ABC Order to the 2nd Letter FREEBIE
ABC Order to the 2nd Letter FREEBIE
Putting words into ABC order is an important skill for young children and moving to the 2nd letter can be challenging. Give your kids the practice ...
By Hilary Lewis
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Christmas Around the World 9-Day Unit
Christmas Around the World 9-Day Unit
Board the Polar Express with us to travel to each continent to learn about Christmas traditions around the world. This 49 page package contains a C...
By First Grade Garden
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Primary Penguin Unit-Literacy and Math
Primary Penguin Unit-Literacy and Math
This awesome unit includes book suggestions, a KWL, a bookmark, 5 songs/poems, an original story for guided reading or shared reading, tree map, br...
By Cecelia Magro I Love 1st Grade
$5.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, For All Subject Areas, Math Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: 2 Weeks

FREEBIE Groundhog Day Craftivity with Writing
FREEBIE Groundhog Day Craftivity with Writing
Here is a freebie for Groundhog Day. It includes a craftivity and writing. Great display for bulletin boards. PLEASE leave feedback! Thank you!...
By Cecelia Magro I Love 1st Grade
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Writing Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Parts of Speech: 2 Nouns and Verbs Gameboards
Parts of Speech: 2 Nouns and Verbs Gameboards
Help your students recognize nouns and verbs by playing these board games for two players.Ideal for your first grade and second grade literacy cent...
By Linda Nelson
$2.75
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Subject: Grammar, Balanced Literacy Level(s): 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Farm Friends! Writing Center
Farm Friends! Writing Center
Students will love using these Farm Friends Writing Mats in Literacy and Writing Centers. Colorful pictures, along with vocabulary words, are the p...
By Kerri B
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Subject: Writing, Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Baseball Sound Substitution Literacy Center
Baseball Sound Substitution Literacy Center
In this literacy center, students will strengthen their phonemic awareness skills. They will build CVC words and then change one letter to make a n...
By Katie Mense
$3.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Writing Level(s): Kindergarten Duration: N/A

Letter-Sound Identification-Barrel of Monkeys
Letter-Sound Identification-Barrel of Monkeys
Mommy and baby monkeys to help practice identifying upper and lower case letters and their corresponding sounds. Suggestions on how to use the mon...
By Mrs. Mckown
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Freak the Mighty Complete Literature and Grammar Unit
Freak the Mighty Complete Literature and Grammar Unit
This is a combined literature and grammar unit that contains everything you need to teach the novel and more! Included in the unit are pre-reading,...
By Cindy
$15.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Literature Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Duration: N/A
Type: Unit Plans

Elves' Busy Day Game
Elves' Busy Day Game
This file includes a full-colored game board, Elves' Busy Day, and cards that can be customized to fit ANY skill you wish to reinforce. Directions...
By J & K's Curriculum Connection
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Guided Reading Cards-SIMPLE!
Guided Reading Cards-SIMPLE!
After 17 years of teaching, I've experimented with many ways to keep data and lessons for guided reading.These cards are the result of many years o...
By Cecelia Magro I Love 1st Grade
$3.99
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Duration: 1 Year

Common Core Kindergarten Rubrics for Writing and Language
Common Core Kindergarten Rubrics for Writing and Language
There are two rubrics to better align with the most common writing assignments: A story response and journal writing. Each rubric is directly ali...
By Griffink
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Literacy Center Labels
Literacy Center Labels
Can't seem to find labels for your literacy centers? Well here they are! I have created these 25 center labels to help organize my literacy center ...
By Meghan Bryan
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Irregular Verbs Student Practice Page
Irregular Verbs Student Practice Page
This crossword puzzle activity has students identify the present tense verbs with visual clues and then write the irregula past-tense verb in the c...
By Tbsrwilson
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Subject: English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, EFL - ESL - ELD Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: 30 Minutes

Magnetic Letter Spelling Center
Magnetic Letter Spelling Center
Inexpensive refrigerator magnet letters become an engaging, meaningful center with these task cards. Students can use the magnets on the whitebo...
By Sunnydays
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Spelling Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

The Three Little Pigs:  Literacy and Math Center Fun
The Three Little Pigs: Literacy and Math Center Fun
This unit contains activities to go with the book The Three Little Pigs. Activities include patterns, addition, subtraction, alphabet, decodable r...
By Kristen Walsky
$1.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Math Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Analyze This - Pet Glyph
Analyze This - Pet Glyph
Children complete the “art project” by answering the glyph questions. Then, they complete a book to analyze their own data as well as completin...
By Kim Adsit
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Graphing, Math Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: 30 Minutes

FREE Scott Foresman Reading Street Running Records Units 1-5 1st Grade
FREE Scott Foresman Reading Street Running Records Units 1-5 1st Grade
This file contains running records for all of the stories in Scott Foresman Reading Street for 1st Grade (Units 1-5). Running records are usually d...
By Mrs. Magee
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Subject: Reading, Vocabulary, Balanced Literacy Level(s): 1st Duration: 1 Year

Building Sentences: Trucks! Trucks! Trucks!
Building Sentences: Trucks! Trucks! Trucks!
Your K-1 students will enjoy using these cards to build sentences about something that intrigues and excites them...big rigs! In addition to 22 wor...
By Linda Nelson
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Writing Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

Any Book Literature Mega Pack - Ready to Use, Over 175 Pages!
Any Book Literature Mega Pack - Ready to Use, Over 175 Pages!
This zip file contains 7 products that are also sold separately. These are some of the best selling products on TPT, as can be seen on the Top 100 ...
By Rachel Lynette
$25.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Literature Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Homeschooler Duration: Lifelong Tool

St. Patrick's Day Making Words
St. Patrick's Day Making Words
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day while building word skills with two "Making Words" challenges. By manipulating the included letter tiles, students mak...
By D Conway
$1.50
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A

Making Words Long A
Making Words Long A
Here is a quick and easy Word Work station that incorporates math. Two for the price of one. Students will have fun building and calculating points...
By Ms. Arnold
$2.00
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Non-Fiction Text Feature Booklet
Non-Fiction Text Feature Booklet
This is booklet that need to be filled in examples of non-fiction text features. There is a cover, a synopsis on the back, a table of contents, an ...
By Kimberley Laflamme
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Book Response - Comprehension
Book Response - Comprehension
Using this literature response form with any book, kindergarten and first grade students will increase their comprehension skills. Prompted to thi...
By D Conway
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Thanksgiving Word Work Game
Thanksgiving Word Work Game
This fun Thanksgiving Word Work Game, "Don't Let the Crows Eat the Corn!", will bring lots of smiles to your students! They won't even realize the...
By Teaching Tales
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Thanksgiving, Autumn Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Phoneme Segmentation- Breaking Up Words
Phoneme Segmentation- Breaking Up Words
Your students will love this activity designed to teach phoneme segmentation. The Make, Take and Teach Breaking Up Words activity is perfect for s...
By Julie Van Alst
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Duration: N/A

Winter Snowman Theme unit Literacy and Math Common Core
Winter Snowman Theme unit Literacy and Math Common Core
A kindergarten printable thematic unit for Snowmen. Reading, writing, math lessons include colored worksheet/activities for centers, guided reading...
By Griffink
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Math Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Reading Response Worksheets
Reading Response Worksheets
You will find a variety of reading response sheets your students can use with making connections, mental images, synthesizing, inferences, story el...
By Christina Petite
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Writing Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A

I Have, Who Has-Monster Sight Words
I Have, Who Has-Monster Sight Words
The ability to read sight words is an important part of learning to read and is included in Common Core standards beginning in Kindergarten. "I Hav...
By Laura Martin
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: 30 Minutes

Cats and Dogs Word Sort and Hunt -ank, -ink, -unk
Cats and Dogs Word Sort and Hunt -ank, -ink, -unk
Adorable cats and dogs make word sorting and hunting fun.Day! Two activities included with 3 word families are featured: -ank, -ink, -ank -Each...
By Deedee Wills
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

-aw and -au Word Work Activities
-aw and -au Word Work Activities
This packet of word work activities focuses on variant vowels -aw and -au. It goes with the Second Grade Treasures story Nutik, the Wolf Pup, but ...
By Tiffany Gannon
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Subject: Balanced Literacy, Spelling, English Language Arts Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A

Reading-similar to Daily 5 Headers/Checkin Sheets/T-Charts
Reading-similar to Daily 5 Headers/Checkin Sheets/T-Charts
Here is an awesome resource for your reading block similar to Daily 5. You have headers, a variety of check in sheets and t-charts (Icharts) for t...
By Cecelia Magro I Love 1st Grade
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Subject: Balanced Literacy Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Duration: Other