Mrs Word Nerd

Do you need an engaging way to study folktales, legends or Native Americans? Need a way to integrate literacy and social studies? Looking for more interesting texts for small groups? These readers theaters scripts will help you with all the above. I have used these readers theater scripts for the many years in my 2nd grade to 4th grade classroom as part of our Native American units and reading for small groups. I have performed these scripts in the classroom for other classes and as plays at

Do you need a fun and engaging place value project to help students review and work with place value? These Place Value Monsters will do just that. Save 20% on this resource by buying the Place Value Monster Bundle.Students create a monster out of base 10 blocks. Then they work to figure out how much their monster is worth by adding up the base 10 blocks they used to create their monsters or work to identify all the base 10 blocks they used. There are fun fact pages students can use to develop

Ever go to teach a phonics skill, but then draw a blank when thinking of words to use for teaching or for your students to practice applying the spelling? These word lists covering CVC , CVCE, vowel team word lists and more solves that problem. Time to no longer hunt down words for any word list from CVC words, long vowel team spellings, diphthongs, digraphs and some syllable types you are teaching. They are all right here! I created these word lists out of my need to better teach my student

We know that fractions especially equivalent fractions can be tricky for students. Where is one place that fractions are frequently found? … the kitchen. So why not get your students cooking with equivalent fractions? In this product, students get hands-on practice finding equivalent fractions with a tool they create called the fraction slider. They play a version of Four Corners to practice finding equivalent fractions. They use their skills to rewrite mixed up recipes with uncommon fraction

Need a way to help students identify and apply consonant blends when reading and writing? These initial and ending blends posters and flashcards will be a great reference for students for all your word work centers and small group lesson needs. Save 20% on this resource by buying the Ultimate Sound Wall Bundle for a poster and flashcard of each sound spelling. Why you will love this product?→ Simple posters that make a great display → Posters also double as flashcards with a click of a button

Looking for word work activities to help students practice Long Vowel spellings? These 192 word ladders and word slides will add some fun to your students' word work and practice encoding words with vowel teams and all long vowel spellings. In this product, students practice building and writing words in two ways: Word Ladders and Word Slides. With the Word Ladders, student keep changing a word to create 6 different words. Clues are given for each step. With Word Slides, students travel dow

Looking for word work activities to help students practice long vowel spellings? These 33 word ladders and word slides will add some fun to your students' word work and practice encoding words with vowel teams and long vowel spellings. Save 20% on this resource by buying the Long Vowel Word Ladder Bundle. In this product, students practice building and writing words in two ways: Word Ladders and Word Slides. With the Word Ladders, student keep changing a word to create 6 different words. Cl

Year after year the Paper Chain Measurement Challenge is a second grade favorite!! They are always blown away they can take one piece of paper and make a chain that is so long it goes outside our classroom door! What they aren’t so aware of is the fact in creating this super long chain they are practicing critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and measuring skills. I have done this for the past three year. Each year I have saved the measurements of each paper chain so students not on

Looking for a new way to practice double facts and those tricky double +1 facts?  Double Fact Math Monsters have your students building and creating a monster. Then they use their monster to identify and sort doubles and double +1 facts. A mini writing component is added so students can work on describing what their monster is like.  The fun of the product is watching students' creativity shine through math. My students were adding top hats and backgrounds to their monsters. Once they had their

It is important for students to identify beginning sounds. Yet sometimes it can be hard to find the sorting combinations our students need. Well not anymore! With this resource, you can make the sorts your students need to practice beginning sounds or challenge them with printable and digital sorts. Why you will love this product?→ Engaging for students to work with beginning sounds → Easy to differentiation so students focus on the beginning sounds they need to work on → Flexible in use with p

Do you need to increase your students' ability to isolate and substitute initial, medial and final sounds? These resource provides a hands-on way for students to work on phoneme substitution with any phonemes. In this product, students practice isolating and substituting the beginning, medial or ending phoneme in a CVC word in two ways: Word Ladders and Printables. With the Word Ladders, students take on a more hands-on approach to complete 2 step or 4 step ladders by changing beginning, mi

We know long vowel spellings can be tricky. You teach them, but aren't sure what to tell students when they asked "Well why does long u have 2 sounds? When does y acts like long e or long i?" Long Vowel Spelling Pattern Bundles answers those questions with tricks, examples, posters that, spelling charts and even songs and sayings. It takes vowel posters and spelling charts a step further so students not only know the different ways to spell any long vowel, but how to differentiate between the d

Need an engaging way to help students practice segmenting phonemes? These games are a way to help students strengthen their segmenting skills of onset and rime and phonemes to make words. Why you will love this product?→ Engaging game for guided reading groups or literacy centers → Has students working with short and long vowels → Easy to use- just print and use → Easy to differentiate In this product you will find:→ 25 game boards focusing on one vowel- 5 game boards for each vowel (3 focus o

Do your students need to strengthen their decoding skills and strategies? These Decode & Find Games are engaging, allow for student choice but also help students work on building the skills they need. Save 20% on this resource by getting the Decode & Find Game BundleWith these 30 different gameboards, students work on their decoding abilities where they are at while engaging in a game by setting a goal and working on it independently or with a partner. Why you will love this product?→ Help

It can be hard to keep students engaged and learning around the holidays. Trying adding this mystery to your Holiday Around the World unit to keep students engaged and learning. In this mystery, The Case of Swarovski Star, your students will be making inferences, identifying key information and make connections to figure out where the Swarovski Star from the Rockefeller Christmas Tree was taken and who did it. Why you will love this product?→ Engaging activity that has students applying liter

Do you need a fun and engaging activity to help students review and work with place value? These Printable or Digital Place Value Monsters will do just that. Students create a monster out of base 10 blocks digitally through Google Slides™ or with paper so you can make a display. After creating, students work to figure out how much their monster is worth by adding up the base 10 blocks they used to create their monsters or work to identify all the base 10 blocks they used. There are fun fact pa

Looking for something to support learning from speech to print or start bring the science of reading to your classroom? Try this Ultimate Sound Wall Posters and Flashcards. It is a sound wall with mouth pictures for each phoneme including all consonants, vowels, digraphs, r-controlled vowels and diphthongs. It supports how students truly to learn to read by focusing on speech and connecting it to print. This bundle was created to help you and your students get the most out of the sound wall. It

Do you need to increase your students' ability to isolate and substitute medial sounds? These resource provides a hands-on way for students to work on phoneme substitution with medial phonemes or short vowels. Save 20% on this resource by getting the Change a Sound Bundle.In this product, students practice isolating and substituting the medial phoneme in a CVC word in two ways: Word Ladders and Printables. With the Word Ladders, students take on a more hands-on approach to complete 2 step o

Looking for word work activities to help students practice Long A spellings? These 33 word ladders and word slides that are easy to differentiate will add some fun to your students' word work and practice encoding words with Long A spellings. Save 20% on this resource by buying the Long Vowel Word Ladder Bundle.In this product, students practice building and writing words in two ways: Word Ladders and Word Slides. With the Word Ladders, student keep changing a word to create 6 different wo

Having students identify beginning sounds is very important to connect letters to sounds and build their phonemic awareness. This bundle includes all you need to give your students practice in hearing and recognize beginning letter sounds. It provides pocket sort sorts for one letter to printable and digital 5 letter sorts. Why you will love this product?→ Engaging for students to work with beginning sounds → Easy to differentiation so students focus on the beginning sounds they need to work on