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Playdough Word Work Pack (Literacy Center Activities)
**TOP RATED** Hands-on literacy that is FUN! Playdough letters, sight words and stamping cvc words makes word work centers and stations productive and age-appropriate for kindergarten. Easily create a play dough literacy center that can last all year long. Designed to be quick to set up, teach and maintain. Includes:44 Sight Word Workmats - Students see the word, stamp the word and then roll out the letters in playdough to form the word +BONUS editable pages to add your own sight words.38 ABC
PreK - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RF.K.1d
, RF.K.2
+10
Sing to Learn Sight Word Songs (Music & Lyrics)
Meet your reading standards by teaching through song!
KindergartenWorks brings you 31 original song lyrics set to classic tunes that will have all of your students singing along - learning how to spell and recognize their sight words!
You can also use these songs to prompt students while students are reading and writing independently.
Included are:
-31 mp3 files (songs you can play on a computer or burn to a CD) of original song lyrics set to classic tunes
- 4 pages of the sight word song lyr
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
CCSS
RF.K.3c
The Gingerbread Man Retelling Props (Masks)
Bring the story of the Gingerbread Man to life with these printable masks. Don't waste this classic story as just another read aloud! Capture your students' love for learning and maximize what students get out of reading 'The Gingerbread Man' with these 8 printable full-color masks just the right size for young students. The Gingerbread Man is a classic story. These prop masks will allow you to accomplish retelling, sequencing, developing "book language" and so much more! The characters are b
PreK - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Behavior Plan and Parent Notes
Want parents to be on the same page regarding your classroom expectations and behavior management system? Want a parent-friendly note to send home that is quick for you to fill out should a child have a red day?
This agreement plan is simple, effective and easy to use for parents. Best of all, when you collect them you have documentation of your parent and student willingness to cooperate and support classroom efforts when needed. Two different versions included to better fit your needs (PDF)
K - 1st
For All Subjects
Sunlight Sight Word Catchers Pokey Pinning Literacy Center Activity Kindergarten
Create a pokey pinning literacy center and hang sunlight sight word catchers in your classroom. Work on developing fine motor skills at the same time as working with sight words. These easy reader pokey pin templates have either: a simple sight word, sight word phrase or sight word sentence and a single picture. Students poke through the template onto a piece of construction paper stapled behind to create stunning sunlight catchers. It's an easy literacy center activity for kindergarten to teac
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
CCSS
RF.K.1b
, RF.K.1c
, RF.K.3c
+1
Playdough Word Work Extension Pack
This extension pack that builds on the skills developed in the original Playdough Word Work Pack, so your students can get the hands-on literacy learning that playdough provides!
Includes:
- Addition to Literacy Center Poster to include extension activities, and bin/materials picture icon labels
- 88 Sight Word Workmats (that students use to stamp the sight word and then roll out the letters in playdough to form the word) In addition to the original pack, you'll now have number words 1-10, the
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS
RF.K.2e
, RF.K.3
, RF.K.3a
+2
Teacher Planning Pages - Make Your Own Teacher Plan Book
Create Your Own Weekly Lesson Plan Pages – Just the Way You Like Them!Ditch the cookie-cutter plan books and design one that actually fits your teaching style! This customizable weekly planning template lets you build your own teacher planner pages using either PowerPoint or Excel – whichever you're more comfortable with (or willing to try!). It’s designed to lay flat in your binder, showing your entire week across two pages, with plenty of room to write, plan, and add standards. Whether you
PreK - 5th
Detective Read & Write the Room Pack (Literacy Center Activities)
An organized and well-designed balanced literacy center can show student growth over the entire year. My favorite center that grows with my kinders is our detective center. Get your kinders on mission being letter and word detectives!
This pack features:
- a poster explaining what goals and choices are available (what to do)
- a literacy center icon - 6 bin/materials picture icon labels
- 37 page detective notebook (Students grow from simply copying words, to reading them and noticing chunks,
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Editable Student Information Sheet
Get to know your students when parents register them with this parent and teacher-friendly information sheet. Both a PowerPoint version and link to a Google Slides version are included. I've also included links to matching fonts to download/install if you use the Powerpoint version. Includes these pre-made sections: Basic informationParent communicationPersonality, motivation, goalsDevelopment and social skills checklist (you add the checklist items)You can change any of the text and pieces on
PreK - 2nd
For All Subjects
"What to Say When Your Child is Reading to You" Parent Handout
Give parents the tool they need to help their child with reading at home. This is a perfect guide to help parents ask questions to their beginning reader so that they are not relying on, "sound it out."
KindergartenWorks brings you a parent-friendly, powerful tool in guiding parents as they are listening to their blossoming reader. As teachers we know that it is helpful when we can give parents a resource that is simple to follow and appealing to the eye.
This handout is just that!
Also inclu
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Guided Reading Pack (Lesson Plans, Strategy Posters & Running Records)
This pack has what you need to help make your guided reading lesson planning, organization and strategies used a snap! Get the lesson plan templates that makes planning for your guided reading lessons more simple and time-effective! Filling in the template will save you time and allow you to review your plans quickly what it is you want to accomplish with your group. Keep yourself organized using the individual reading log and running record forms. They help you keep it all in one place and easi
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Poetry Pack (Literacy Center Activities)
Create a poetry center or use these nursery rhymes and poems to accomplish meeting your standards!
KindergartenWorks brings you 45 pages of material for you to print and use. You can print them as 8 1/2" x 11" or enlarge to 11" x 17" on your copy machine and they'll still work perfectly in your smallest sized pocket chart. Print two copies of each and create a second set that you can cut and allow students to match words to the sentence strips.
Don't stop there - allow students to order the se
PreK - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.K.5
, RI.K.10
, RF.K.1a
+4
Ten Frame Teacher Font
This font is created after my own Kinder-modeled ten frame drawings. It is designed for you to be able to create math problems, and work using numbers organized into ten frames! It is a .ttf (True-Type Font) file in a zipped folder. You'll need to unzip (right click and select "extract") the folder in order to access the font to install. Includes: - numerals 0 - 10 - quantities 0 - 10 in a ten frame - quantities 1 - 9 in an unorganized layout - groups of ten for numbers 20 - 90 in ten frames (ha
K - 1st
Math, Place Value
Writing Process Pack (Posters, Chant, Conferencing Sheet & More!)
Teach kindergarten students how to write without getting bogged down by details! This pack helps students remember what is expected (and learn the mechanics of writing) through a fun chant that is easy to recall and has posters, icons and sheets to coordinate your writer's workshop, writing center or writing time efforts. This pack includes: 1. Writing Process Song Lyrics - Original song lyrics (and an audio download) to a popular tune that will have all of your students chanting along! - Desig
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
W.K.1
, W.K.2
, W.K.3
+6
Poetry Notebooks
Use poetry notebooks to accomplish your goals in your classroom. This notebook is easy to print, bind and each student can have their own. It features one poem that reinforces a letter of the alphabet. You could use these poetry notebooks as an extension of doing one poem a week whole class so these are familiar and could then be used as a literacy center activity. Sample directions could be to read with a pointer (practicing 1:1), highlighting the letter of the week and then illustrating the p
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Quick Reminder Bracelets
10 printable bracelets as quick reminders for school and special events. There are 6-7 bracelets per page and they are fast to cut and use. A fun alternative to sending home paper flyer reminders.
Includes:
- Gym Shoes Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- Conference Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- Popcorn Day Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- $0.25 Popcorn Day Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- $0.50 Popcorn Day Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- Library Day Tomorrow (Let's Remember)
- Library Books Due Tomorrow (Let's Rememb
K - 1st
For All Subjects
Substitute Survival and Thrive-al Packet
This packet is designed to help you explain the way your classroom functions to a sub and give them the hands-on information they need to have a successful day in your classroom.
Help your sub go from just surviving to thriving!
Included:
1. Editable Welcome Information Packet (PowerPoint) - type your information. Background images are not editable.
Pages:
- 2 Coversheets/Binder Covers (substitute welcome binder / substitute lesson plans)
- Welcome Page
- 2 Class Lists (names / names and stud
PreK - 5th
For All Subjects
Vacation Memory Book
Want your students to stay active while they're away on vacation? Is someone visiting Disney during the school year and parents want homework to take with?
Here is the perfect solution! This vacation memory book is ready to print and go along on vacation. Students will write simple responses to share pieces about themselves, their vacation and reflect on their time away. Students work also on knowing their birthday, using the calendar and can allow for creativity if the family wants to share ph
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Writing
Daily Folder Labels
Create a daily folder with labels that makes parent and teacher communication simple. Three labels that cover all bases: home, mail, and work. These categories allow your students to be responsible for filing their own paper in the right place and makes folders less of a teacher duty. Includes: - printable sheets of labels (uses Avery Labels 5395) - an enlarged version of each inside folder label for classroom display - photo image (.png) of each label that you can re-size to place on any label
K - 1st
Free KindergartenWorks Font {Leslie's Hand}
This font is created after my own Kinder-modeled handwriting. It is designed to be simple and clean! It is a .ttf (True-Type Font) file in a zipped folder. You'll need to unzip (right click and select "extract") the folder in order to access the font to install. Includes all uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numerals and main punctuation characters. Permissions: - You can use this font to create personal use and/or commercial use items. - Credit given back to KindergartenWorks is greatly app
PreK - 4th
For All Subjects
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About the store
Experience
Leslie, the creator of KindergartenWorks.com brings you 10+ years of model school teaching experience to save you time in your classroom! Rest assured it's been kid-tested and principal-approved!
Teaching style
ORGANZE. THINK. TEACH.
I believe in developing independence and teaching students to think on their own, think through their actions, and develop an awareness of good choices.
My work featured here on TeachersPayTeachers reflects that and the need to differentiate for all students as well as how to keep it streamlined, effective and simple for you, the teacher.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year 2009-2010
My own education history
BA Elementary Education
Additional biographical information
Kindergarten is awesome.
The world of kindergarten is such a unique place…
The stuff we get to teach for the first time, the cats we have to herd at the beginning of each year and the growth we get to see – makes it so special.
I’m Leslie and I’ll be the first to admit that I love it! ❤️
I’m all about revealing the things that help you organize, think and teach your best in k. 🙌🏻
I believe we can hold tight to the beauty in teaching kindergarten. While it’s not always easy – it can be simple: Planning, organization, rigorous expectations with an age-appropriate approach makes learning fun and the cool thing to do.
So – let’s do this together!
Just a warning:
Now, my website and my products are NOT for all teachers. Not even for all kindergarten teachers.
They're just for kindergarten teachers who want to:
✔️ think and work smart
✔️ teach in fun, age-appropriate ways
✔️ pick classroom systems and routines that lead to student responsibility and more effective lessons
And because I’m not a fan of worksheets (or curriculum for that matter) you won’t find the fluffy, busy-work stuff here.
I truly believe in teaching kindergarten students how to be pretty incredible along with teaching them to read, write and think for themselves. It’s how I ran my classroom for over 10 years.
All of my experience is in kindergarten – it’s my wheelhouse and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
On a Personal Note
I’m not your average kindergarten teacher. I won’t claim to be – nor will I claim to know everything about teaching kindergarten or claim to be a guru.
But I do have enough experience challenging the status quo of teaching and challenging myself to know what works and what doesn’t in the world of teaching five and six-year-olds.
Here are a few more things you should know about me:
✅ I love Jesus (I claim 2 Cor. 3:17 over this little slice of the internet), my family, hitting up zoos and aquariums and I’m a huge fan of Disney World.
✅ I have traveled the world which makes me recognize that I love home {wherever my family is} best. Currently, I am working from home as I raise my own pack of readers.
✅ I’ve been sharing online since 2010 and I’m pumped to have you here.
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