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Kris Rushing
United States - Virginia - Portsmouth
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Reference Materials have become a difficult skill for many of my third graders. Not only do they need to know the types of references, but what ...
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When it comes to answering questions on comprehension passages, nonfiction passages seem to be the most challenging for my students. In this pac...
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Drawing Conclusion is a comprehension strategy that tends to confuse and give students a great deal of difficulty. These 28 individual task card...
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Students need to identify vowel sounds including digraph and diphthongs. They can be very difficult for the average child much less the weaker s...
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As a Title I teacher I am always trying to develop activities that I can use with my students. This activity provides practice of basic sight wo...
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As teachers we are constantly asking our students to decode words within the context of reading. For some this is very difficult to do. These s...
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Working with Title I students I have found teaching onset and rime can be a challenge. They are just grasping their sounds and are now being ask...
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We need to begin providing comprehension questions as early as first grade for students to locate and answer independently. This activity provid...
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Preschooler and kindergarten students who have not had a reach exposure to reading as toddlers and preschoolers tend to lack knowledge of many an...
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These activities or worksheets provide practice for your students in phonics. They will review the following:
initial blends
final blends
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Phoneme Blending is a very important step in the development of literacy, as well as general language development. A child whose blending skills...
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These are worksheets designed to help students use higher level thinking skills to understand equality, and review basic addition and subtraction...
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As a Title I teacher I am always trying to develop activities that I can use with my first graders. This activity provides practice with basic ...
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This packet contains printable books that can be used for your Guided Reading. The levels range from A-C, ideal for Kindergarten or very low fi...
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This activity provides students with practice on ending consonant blends. It can easily be made into a file folder activity. It includes picture...
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This activity provides practice with test formatted phonics questions that tend to give students a hard time on standardized tests in third and f...
Vocabulary is the basis for learning language. As children learn to read, they must learn to decode words, but they also must have word knowledg...
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This packet contains printable books that can be used for your Guided Reading. The levels range from A-C, ideal for Kindergarten or very low fi...
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This packet of 18 colorful worksheets has been developed for the students in your class that have a very difficult time with consonant sounds.
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This activity requires students to really understand numbers to 100. Students will have to count forward, backwards as well as by 10's. It is ...
FEEDBACK
bburke8
Really helpful! Thank you :)
May 24, 2013
mbrothers
Looks like a great review!
May 24, 2013
Cynthia Bean Frey (TpT Seller)
Love the syllable color-coding. So helpful for my visual learners. Thank you! :)
May 22, 2013
cooper00
thanks
May 22, 2013
ngolec
great booklets for guided reading
May 21, 2013
cclemencich
great!
May 20, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. Hope your students enjoy this activity.
May 21, 2013 
Jennifer Shepherd (TpT Seller)
My class had a blast with these cards... we played "are you my mother?" to match up parent and baby
May 19, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY Jennifer for your feedback. One of my favorite stories. I am sure the kids had a lot of fun. Kris
May 20, 2013
kpampalone
Very helpful in teaching my students about reference materials.
May 17, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. Enjoy the remainder of your school year. Kris
May 17, 2013
kpampalone
Great activities!
May 17, 2013
Ashley Anderson
This was a great product! It was beneficial to have pictures of the balance scales because that is what I used to explain it to my students.
May 13, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback Mrs Anderson. I am so glad these worksheets were helpful. Kris
May 14, 2013
Queenie74
Students loved the activity
May 12, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. I am so glad your students enjoyed this activity. Kris
May 14, 2013
kalben1234
Perfect for my intervention groups.
May 12, 2013
kalben1234
Perfect for my groups!
May 12, 2013
kalben1234
Great for my kindergarteners!
May 10, 2013
graysu76
Thank you!
May 10, 2013
absolutls
Excited to use!
May 9, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. I hope your students enjoy these little stories. Kris
May 9, 2013
userpj
Very nice. Thank you
May 8, 2013
browningka
Absolutely loved this! Perfect for teaching and reinforcing reference materials. Was able to teach and then extend the activity to an independent center.
May 7, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Ty for your feedback. So glad to hear it worked out during your centers. Kris
May 8, 2013
kwaltzee
Beautiful resource to use with struggling learners.
May 6, 2013
vvstovar
Great drawing conclusions activity! My students enjoyed this activity working in small groups.
May 6, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for the feedback. Enjoy the remainder of your school year. Kris
May 6, 2013
slrussell
Thanks for the materials.
May 6, 2013
speech32
Thanks - great activity - love the size and pictures!
May 2, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for the feedback. Great activity to stimulate those quiet nonverbal kids. Hope it will help your students. Kris
May 6, 2013
nadams1
Thank you!
April 30, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. Enjoy the rest of your school year. Kris
April 30, 2013
echaymond
Great activity
April 29, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. I hope your students benefit from this activity. Kris
April 30, 2013
bhealy
Perfect for testing review!
April 29, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
That is why I developed it! Hope it helps your students. TY for your feedback. kris
April 30, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY Tanya for your feedback. Enjoy the rest of your school year. Kris
April 30, 2013
chrisgrot
Warning product has errors. Don't buy until they are fixed.
April 28, 2013
acravatt
thank you!!
April 26, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for the feedback Lisa. Hope the rest of your school year goes well. Please visit again. Kris
April 23, 2013
slimthang
Excellent! Really what I need for my higher level kindergarten.
April 21, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. Hope you will visit again. Enjoy the rest of your school year. Kris
April 21, 2013
King Virtue (TpT Seller)
Mrs. Rushing, you are so creative! Your students are lucky to have such a wonderful teacher! Steve :)
April 14, 2013
scarlet6
Great job!
April 14, 2013
marthur11
Love this! used legos to make a the learning even more fun!
April 14, 2013
Vickybeans
I can't wait to start using these
April 13, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
This is one of my students favorite activities. TY for the feedback. I hope your students enjoy it as well. Kris
April 13, 2013
pamlogan
Great resource!
April 13, 2013
pamlogan
Great resource!
April 13, 2013
pamlogan
Great resource!
April 13, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your purchases and your feedback. Hope your students enjoy these activities. Kris
April 13, 2013
pamlogan
Thank you!
April 13, 2013
pamlogan
Thank you...I look forward to using them!
April 13, 2013
pickett5
Always need practice items. Thanks!
April 12, 2013
gigireads
Great!
April 11, 2013
mtmbarry
Used these in partners and loved listening to the rich discussions they created
April 9, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY so much for your feedback. Don't you just love to hear these little ones begin to grasp what sometimes is a difficult skill. So glad to hear they were thinking and conversing. Thanks for sharing your experience. Kris
April 9, 2013
speech32
Thanks for the free activity! It will be great to supplement what I have been working on!
April 8, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for your feedback. I hope your students enjoy. Please visit again. Kris
April 8, 2013
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
chrisgrot re: Drawing Conclusions / Early
You have made two mistakes on your answer cards. First the question about Patty - the cat does not have an answer card (you probably need to switch eat lunch with cat). Second The Do not feed the duck answer should not have a question mark. Please fix so that I can and anyone else who has purchased these can have to corrected cards.
I have to admit that I am very disappointed. It is quite costly and time consuming to print these colored cards and cut them out to only discover errors and that they can not be used.
Please rectify.
I have to admit that I am very disappointed. It is quite costly and time consuming to print these colored cards and cut them out to only discover errors and that they can not be used.
Please rectify.
April 28, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Error corrected. You will only have to reprint ONE page (first answer page). Would love to see your work some time? Sorry for the inconvenience.
April 28, 2013
userpj re: Vowel Digraphs & Diphthongs / Basic
Hi- I notice that you have au and aw pictures on the same page mixed in. What other patterns are also pictured and taught together? Thank you for your time.
April 21, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY for asking. Digraphs au, aw is the only one together. Ai, ay, long ea,ee, short ea are by themselves. Diphthongs oi, oy together, ou, ow together, and ue, ew together. Long oo, oa, short oo by themselves, for a total of 12 activity boards. Each page has 10 picture sounds to identify. I hope I have answered your question. Have a great day. Kris Rushing
April 21, 2013
ltrinkle
Hi Kris! Thank you so much for getting back to me. I did get the copy of the spinner, but I was unable to open it. This is a silly question, but how do I privately send you an email?
April 20, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
You would just have to give it here on the question board. That is the only way I know. TPT should have sent you another email or link to the new spinner game that I re-downloaded. Evidently they did not. Here is my email. Karush@cox.net Just send me a short text about what grade level you teach and I will take care of you right away. Kris :)
April 20, 2013
ltrinkle
I was wondering if you received the question I sent you about my purchase?
April 17, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Hello ltrinkle, I did get your email on April 9. When I went to investigate the problem I noticed that TPT downloaded my file as a PMX file, which is not compatible with most computers. I went to re-download the file and it denied me to duplicate an existing file without deleting the first one file. When I did, is also deleted all communication which was your original e-mail. The TPT site assured me they sent you a copy of the Comprehension Spinner activity you had purchased. I hope you received it as they stated. If NOT; PLEASE email me your email address or I will make contact with the Tech department again to see what has happened. Now that I have this contact with you I will make sure you get what you requested. I am so sorry for the mix up. Please respond ASAP so that I can make sure you get this activity. So for the delay from the 17th. I have been away at our state's reading conference. Best to You, Kris
April 20, 2013
ltrinkle re: Comprehension Spinners
Good morning! I purchased this yesterday, and I was wondering what program I need to be able to open it.
April 9, 2013
mysti00 re: Easy Picture Comprehension
How many phrases/answer pictures are included in this?
April 8, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Hello, There are 20 books with questions and 20 pencils with answers. I hope this helps. Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Kris
April 8, 2013
Treddybear
My email is: Tdesk1@comcast.net
Thanks again for the extra activity!
Thanks again for the extra activity!
March 17, 2013
Treddybear re: TV Cartoon-Fill in the Blank
Thank you for the extra activity. I just wanted you to know about the mistake. The students really loved your activity. I will pick the TV cartoon activity. Thanks again. Your products are super.
March 17, 2013
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Send me your email address so I can send it by PDF file. I just appreciate you finding my mistake. Kris
March 17, 2013
Nura re: Drawing Conclusions / Early
This looks great! Do you know how I can accommodate my lower students using this activity?
December 24, 2012
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Hi Nura, I suggest for your slower students to pair them with a stronger student who can read the passage to them. Together have them select the answer. Also have them go back and use a dry erase marker and justify why they selected the answer they did. Even your slower readers are working on the skill of drawing conclusions even if they can not read the entire passage. Good luck and have a wonderful holiday season. Kris
December 24, 2012
Fran Gordon (TpT Seller)
I downloaded again, and found Kobe corrected. There is a typo on the "Dictionary or Encyclopedia" page (5. To read today's new) and a grammar error on Reference Aids (Should be "At what temperture"). I'm trying to be nice and not just give you low numbers on the evaluation, because I think you have a B- product that should be a solid A. If I didn't value your effort and content, I wouldn't put this much time and effort into corresponding with you.
October 21, 2012
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
TY phrang, I appreciate your help. I need you sitting on my shoulder when I am typing. A second pair of eyes is so helpful. I corrected the two items you told me of and I hope you will try to use them with your students. I DO appreciate your help. I just didn't want you unhappy, that is the only reason I suggested a refund. If you couldn't use a part of the purchase because of the font size I wanted you to be satisfied. I wish for you a successful school year and thank you again for your assistance.
October 21, 2012
Fran Gordon (TpT Seller) re: Reference Material Activities
You still have Kobe Bryant's name misspelled. There is a capitalization error on an earlier page. The font is very difficult to read on a crowded page. I'm still going to use the game cards, but I'm disappointed that I can't use the handouts.
October 21, 2012
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
The font is 14. I do not know why you cannot use the pages. My students do not have any difficulty with its size. If you send me your email I will send the PDF directly to you if you think it will help. I did correct the Kobe as well as Circle. There was a lot of text and I am sorry for the errors. It has been resubmitted. If you are still dissatisfied just request a refund.
October 21, 2012
Fran Gordon (TpT Seller) re: Reference Material Activities
I could love this packet, but you have too many typos. I don't feel like I can use this with my students without retyping it. Any chance you would send me the file in Word so that I can clean it up? Thanks.
October 4, 2012
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Please forgive me. I wish I could send it to you however it was not created in Word. I did review my pages and corrected everything I could find. I have resubmitted the file so I hope this will take care of any concerns you have. Again I am very sorry.
October 5, 2012
prpledrgn1 re: Preschool/Kindergarten Task Cards
I am not able to download this, it is giving me a bad gateway notice? I have been able to download all the other items I bought so I don't think it is me, although I am not a computer genius:) Please let me know if there is anything I can try, thank you!
Mary
Mary
August 1, 2012
Kris Rushing (TpT Seller)
Hi Mary, You ahve asked a question even I am unsure of. The program was made on print master and converted to a PDF. Make sure you have the most current Adobe Reader on your computer. If you still have difficulty,there is a help area on TPT where a comp geek can help you. If you still have difficulty, I'm sure they can refund your money. I wish I could say I know what to do. If you can not download and are still interested I can try sending to you as a hard copy. SO SORRY Kris
August 2, 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have taught for 32 years in Virginia. I am currently a Title I teacher working in Reading remediation, grades 1-3 in Chesapeake VA.
MY TEACHING STYLE
I believe in a very hands on approach to teaching. Working with weaker students, I am constantly trying to come up with creative activities that will keep my students interested and willing to work to their fullest potential.
HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT
1986 Teacher of the Year, 1997 Teacher of the Year, 1999 Reading Teacher of the Year, 2011 Reading Teacher of the Year,
MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education K-4, Master's Degree in Reading K-12
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
I have been married for 31 years and have two wonderful children. Both grown and homeowners. Their rooms have been dismantled and made into a craft room and an office. So I am seriously hoping they will NEVER come back to live. But if they do I would take them in with open arms.
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