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Boost Math Fact Fluency! Rainbow Math is a routine designed to help students practice their math facts and gain automaticity with facts. Grouped in sets of 10 flash cards at a time, students add on additional facts as each level is mastered (each level is a new color). The flash cards are put on a ring so your student can easily flip through their facts for practice (at home and at school). Students are motivated to practice and learn their facts so they can add all the colors of the rainbow to

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet was designed to give your students a chance to practice identifying, locating, and using text features. There are 12 activities in all. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have a ELA Print a Standard BUNDLE for RI (save 10%)! CLICK HERE for the ELA RI Print a Standard Bundle!We n

Thank you for your interest in 1st Grade Homework Shape Up! This almost 200 page document is created to make homework a breeze for you and it's family friendly! No tears this year! Included is: "Mighty Math" worksheets for each week (36 weeks in all). In our classrooms, our traditional math curriculum only focuses on one skill area, but benchmark assessments pull from all skill areas. We wanted a resource that would continually expose students to skills from each Common Core strand througho

Thank you for your interest in 2nd Grade Homework Shape Up! This almost 200 page document is created to make homework a breeze for you this year and it's family friendly! No tears this year! Included is: Reading Passages for each week (36 weeks in all). The Reading Passages are DIFFERENTIATED to meet the needs of all of your students. Each week there is an ON grade level, ABOVE grade level, and BELOW grade level passage (all about the same topic). We created these reading passages and quest

This set has a Reading Fluency Passages for each week (36 weeks in all). The Reading Passages are DIFFERENTIATED to meet the needs of all of your students. Each week there is an ON grade level, ABOVE grade level, and BELOW grade level passage (all about the same topic). We created these reading passages and questions to help kiddos practice reading and answering questions in a testing format. We included several forms of text including fiction, non fiction, poetry, and how to. The questions are

This NO PREP product was created to provide your students with an opportunity to work with passages, both fiction and non fiction. There are a total of 30 "packets" included in this product. The reading range is 2nd - 3rd grade. Each "packet" includes plenty of activities to use throughout the week. Included with each "packet"... passage (12 fiction, 12 nonfiction, 3 poems, 3 informational), comprehension questions, graphic organizers (strategies such as mental images, inferring, story elements

This NO PREP product was created to provide your students with an opportunity to work with passages, both fiction and non fiction. There are a total of 30 "packets" included in this product. The reading range is 1st/2nd grade. Each "packet" includes plenty of activities to use throughout the week. Included with each "packet"... passage (15 fiction / 15 nonfiction), comprehension questions, 3 graphic organizers (strategies such as mental images, inferring, story elements, etc. are addresse

This listing is the BUNDLE for the Reading Informational Text strand! The RI strand has 9 standards; therefore this BUNDLE includes 9 Print a Standard packs. Each pack contains 12 activities. This means there are over 90 activities included! As with all Print a Standard packs, some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! Please emai

Hello! Let us introduce you to Math Bags, our easy to prep and easy to use math centers! We have been using Math Bags for years! We created these to have a system where students could work on independent math activities while we met with students in small groups. We didn't want to... change math centers often OR use lots of colored ink, so our Math Bags are good to use for 9 weeks AND can be made with just a black and white printer / copy machine and colored card stock! What are Math Bags? Math

Hello! Let us introduce you to Math Bags, our easy to prep and easy to use math centers! We have been using Math Bags for years! We created these to have a system where students could work on independent math activities while we met with students in small groups. We didn't want to... change math centers often OR use lots of colored ink, so our Math Bags are good to use for 9 weeks AND can be made with just a black and white printer / copy machine and colored card stock! What are Math Bags? Math

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a nonfiction passage and answering specific questions about the text, including determining the main topic / main idea and supporting details. There are 12 activities in all. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have a EL

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet for RI 2.2 was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a nonfiction passage and answering specific questions about the text, including determining the main topic and the focus of each paragraph. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. There are 12 passages in all. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have

We have been using Math Bags for years and have seen a lot of great things come from them. We wanted a similar format for our Language Arts block (and we had several requests from Math Bag fans)....thus, Literacy Bags were born! When we created these, we wanted a system in which the students could work on independent LA activities while we meet with students in small groups. We didn’t want to... - change LA centers every week - 2 weeks OR - use tons of colored ink (which is often paid for

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet for RL 2.3 was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a passage and analyzing a character(s) and their actions, specifically looking at challenges and how they deal with them. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. There are 12 passages in all. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have a 2nd Grade RL Bu

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a passage and retelling the events that occurred, as well as, determining the central message (lesson). There are 12 passages in all. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We will continue to add more ELA “Print a Standard” pa

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a nonfiction passage and answering specific questions about the text. There are 12 activities in all. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have a ELA Print a Standard BUNDLE for RI! CLICK HERE for the ELA RI Print a St

This listing is the 2nd Grade BUNDLE for the RL strand! This RL BUNDLE includes 8 Print a Standard packs. Each pack contains 12 activities. This means there are over 80 activities included! As with all Print a Standard packs, some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! Please email us with any questions you may have prior to purcha

Rainbow Math is a routine designed to help students practice their math facts and gain automaticity with facts. Grouped in sets of 10 flash cards at a time, students add on additional facts as each level is mastered (each level is a new color). The flash cards are put on a ring so your student can easily flip through their facts for practice (at home and at school). Students are motivated to practice and learn their facts so they can add all the colors of the rainbow to their ring. Included in t

We created this product to encourage teachers to give pen pals a try! Pen pals can be whatever you’d like to make them – they can be across the country or across the hall! This product includes 10 templates to use throughout the year. Each month there is unique template, you will find an example and directions for each one in the pack. Blog post about our Pen Pal Through the Year product Blog PostFollow Our Blog and FB Page to Find More About Our Products in Action and Grab Freebies! First Gra

This no prep ELA Print a Standard packet for RL 2.7 was designed to give your students a chance to work on reading a passage and then determine / analyze the characters, setting, and plot. Some activities require kiddos to cut and paste and others simply require a pencil. These are great for whole class practice, independent practice, morning work, homework, small group instruction and more! We have a 2nd Grade RL Bundle (save 10%)! CLICK HERE for the 2nd Grade RL Print a Standard Bundle!Follo