Nicole Rios

This EDITABLE, Common Core Standards resource was designed to help you design a clear and attractive Open House or Back to School Night flip book, to share with parents. This resource is, for the most part, editable. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT TO USE AND EDIT THIS FILE. Graphics and some content are NOT editable in an attempt to protect copyright and design. NOTE: The 2nd tabbed section "To the Core" contains all the ELA and Math CCSS standards for 1st grade, and is a mandatory tab - It i

Have fun creating this learning flip book about Bats! The materials in this download will result in a 6+ page informational flip book about Bats. Includes: *black/white printing *5 original texts about Bats ( 2 DIFFERENTIATED TEXT LEVELS): Bat Basics, Life Cycle, Amazing Bats, Helpful Bats, and Threats to Bats *non-fiction text features: bold words, labels, captions, map, photograph, diagram, and a glossary *text dependent questions/activities for each passage *higher-level questions re

This I Have, Who Has...Segmenting and Blending Short A game set will put your students on the path to becoming expert decoders. This game includes 30 student cards and was carefully designed to review the short /a/ vowel sound and all consonant sounds except for k and q. Use this game as a daily, whole-class warm-up to your reading time, a ticket out the door, or as an intervention activity with a small group (each student would receive more than one card in this instance). Your students wi

This file now has updated fonts, whole class behavior posters, and now the message on each card is EDITABLE (You must have access to Powerpoint to access this file). This will allow you greater flexibility to customize these cards to meet the needs of each of your students, and make classroom management easy! As we all know, "One size doesn't fit all." These cute behavior cards can be used to motivate a wide range of students. When students accomplish a task or other goal, simply punch a hole

Use this Spring-themed student booklet to explore and solidify the concept of using multiplication to solve repeated addition number sentences in a fun way! This booklet is a fresh take on one of the four ways that I introduce multiplication to my second graders. We spend a lot of time exploring, and really solidifying their conceptual understanding of multiplication. The booklet begins by scaffolding the learning with examples, and gradually releases more of the responsibility to the stu

As we all know, "One size doesn't fit all." These cute behavior cards can be used to motivate a wide range of students, and make classroom management easy! When students accomplish a task or other goal, simply punch a hole in a number on the card. Don't want to use a hole punch? You can also use a unique stamp, or sticker. These can be used for behavior, homework, reading, and math achievement. Includes: 3 pages of information on how I have used these cards to encourage good behavior in my

Teaching my students to be aware, active, and self-reflective readers has been some of the most powerful teaching I have done in my 18 years in the classroom. I do these lessons in the beginning of the year before we begin learning about meaningful reading strategies like Making Connections, Asking Questions, Visualizing and Inferring, Evaluating and Synthesizing. “You can't know where you're going until you know where you've been.” - UnknownThe idea behind the above quote was the inspiration

Save on these great classroom management tools by buying this bundle! This bundle entitles you not only to my current behavior card creations, but also, any future behavior cards! NOTE: I am also in the process of including an editable file for each theme. This download currently contains 8 editable themes. See below for more information on which themes are editable. These themed behavior cards can be used to motivate a wide range of students. Included are 12 themes that will keep your stude

This adorable, fun, and Winter-themed packet includes the materials that I use to teach my students about syllables in second grade, in the first half of the year. As we know, understanding syllables is a huge strategy for being both a good reader, and writer. (NOTE: This packet is also available in a Christmas theme, in my store. The activities are virtually identical to this packet. However, the graphics, and some words in this Winter packet, have been altered to create neutral, learning

This activity flip book will keep your students engaged while learning about the /th/ digraph. (See a video with flip book assembly instructions in this blog post HERE ) Includes: /th/ mini picture/word web /th/ digraph song /th/ Making Words activity /th/ Word Hunt /th/ Sound Sort /th/ Words (empasizes position of digraph in words) /th/ Book Hunt and 5 Listeners Also includes 3 pages of Tips/Suggestions/Directions, a Suggested Instructional Sequence, and Answer Keys for Sound Sort/ /th/ Wor

This EDITABLE, Common Core Standards resource was designed to help you design a clear and attractive Meet the Teacher / Open House / Back to School Night flip book, to share with parents.This resource is, for the most part, editable. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT TO USE AND EDIT THIS FILE. Graphics and some content are NOT editable in an attempt to protect copyright and design. NOTE: The 2nd tabbed section "To the Core" contains all the ELA and Math CCSS standards for 2nd grade, and is a ma

Head back to school with these ice breakers and community building activities. Students will love getting to know each other through the following activities: -materials for making Back to School Nameplates-materials for students to write an "I Am" poem-materials for students to create an "All About Me" Flip book. (See a video with flip book assembly instructions in this blog post HERE ) Please click on Download Preview button above to preview all product components before purchasing. Fi

Rhyming always seems to be a fundamental skill that is missing with students struggling to read and write. Good readers and writers are able to make connections between similar words. Rhyming is at the very heart of this skill. So, I have developed these systematic, and differentiated, materials to provide both instruction, and practice, in this important area. (Addresses Common Core Standard RF.K.2a: Recognizes and produces rhyming words. But, is appropriate for any child struggling with ph

These fun, easy to assemble, activity flipbooks will keep your students engaged while learning about the CVCe pattern and long vowel sounds. (See a video with flip book assembly instructions in this blog post HERE ) This bundle gets you all 4 short vowel flip books at a considerable savings. Includes the following for each vowels A, I, O, and U: Mini picture/word web Song Making Words activity Word Hunt Sound Sort Word Family practice Book Hunt / 5 Listeners Also includes Tips, a Suggested

Your students will love this kinesthetic review of place value. This activity will ask students to look at numbers written with digits or words, and numbers represented with base-ten blocks, to determine: 1) how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in the number 2) the value of each digit in that number (expanded notation) For this activity, I have created differentiated Response Sheets. Version 1: Only asks students to determine number of hundreds, tens, ones and then write numbers in expand

This activity flip book will keep your students engaged while learning digraphs (/sh/, /th/, /ch/, /wh/, and /ck/. (See a video with flip book assembly instructions in this blog post HERE ) Includes for each digraph listed above: Mini picture / word web digraph song Making Words activity Word Hunt Sound Sort Digraph Words (empasizes position of digraph in words) Book Hunt and 5 Listeners Also includes Tips/Suggestions/Directions, Suggested Instructional Sequence, and Answer Keys for Sound Sort

This file now has updated fonts, 3 whole class posters, and now the message on each card is EDITABLE. This will allow you greater flexibility to customize these cards to meet the needs of each of your students! NOTE: You will need access to Powerpoint to use the editable file. As we all know, "One size doesn't fit all." These cute Christmas/Winter-themed behavior cards can be used to motivate a wide range of students. When students accomplish a task or other goal, simply punch a hole in a nu

This adorable, fun, and Christmas-themed packet includes the materials that I use to teach my students about syllables in second grade, in the first half of the year. As we know, understanding syllables is a huge strategy for being both a good reader, and writer. (NOTE: This packet is also available in a Winter theme, in my store. The activities are virtually identical to this packet. However, the graphics, and some words in the Winter packet, have been altered to create neutral learning m

Behavior management charts are a tried and true way to help students, parents, and teachers keep track of behavior and choices, and can make classroom management easy! Each day, place each child’s clip on the large, green, Ready to Learn section. Have students move their clips either up or down during the day, depending on their behavior. This is a great system because it rewards students for making good choices! NOTE: This is a zip file. The editable file is provided in Powerpoint. Please,

This EDITABLE, Common Core Standards, TEKS resource was designed to help you design a clear and attractive Meet the Teacher / Open House / Back to School Night flip book to share with your Kindergarten students' parents. This resource is, for the most part, editable. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT TO USE AND EDIT THIS FILE. Graphics and some content are NOT editable in an attempt to protect copyright and design. NOTE: The 2nd tabbed section contains all the ELA and Math TEKS OR CCSS for Kinde