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Do you use Thinking Routines in your classroom? Are you learning more about Cultures of Thinking and are ready to begin using some of the routines? No matter if you are new at making thinking visible in your classroom, or if you are a pro...this pack is for you! This pack includes 21 posters (in color and in black and white) of the 21 most popular thinking routines. Each poster includes a brief description of the routine so you can use it to display in the hall or on a bulletin board along s

Do you use DIBELS, AIMSweb, or do you simply need a way to progress monitor your students' ability to decode short vowel words? These progress monitoring tools will help drive your instruction and intervention groups. Each concept has 3 different tests with 10 short vowel nonsense words on each sheet. There is student page for the child to read from and a matching recording sheet for the teacher. I have also included instructions/advice on how to administer the test as well as a binder cover

**Updated in 2017! : ) This is a fun pack of activities to go along with Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books. In this pack you will find an elephant and pig paper plate craft with detailed pictures and instructions, partner reading ideas, inference activities, character study activities, a scavenger hunt, and more!

Please enjoy these fun and simple digraph practice pages! Each digraph (sh, ch, th and wh) has one page each that helps students identify words with the targeted digraph, practice tracing words with the digraph and completing sentences with words that have the digraph. I use these sheets when I am working with my digraph groups in my Words Their Way program to help extend their learning. Thanks for looking!

Do you have a rubber duck theme in your classroom? This set will help you make your theme complete! Included in this set: 6 Large Pastel Colored Ducks for Decoration (all other materials are in the traditional yellow) Months Days of the Week A-Z cards for Word Wall or Flash Cards Numbers 0-120 4 Different Versions of Blank Cards/Strips for supplies, book bins, etc. Consider following my store so you don't miss out on any more fun or freebies!

Are you looking for a quick and simple unit to teach about the season of spring? **Newly Updated Spring 2017 You will get: A Pre and Post Check About Spring A Poem About Spring Spring Activity Sort and Glue Sheet Season of Spring Mini Book for Students to Illustrate Word Wall/Vocabulary Spring Season Cards A Spring Board Game Spring Season 5 Senses Graphic Organizer A Mini Book of Signs of Spring (single sheet foldable) A Fill-In-The-Blank Comic Strip About Spring Simple Spring dice game Comp

Do you use DIBELS or AIMSweb to test for Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF), Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) or Letter Sound Fluency (LSF)? *****This pack is my Nonsense Word practice page pack and my Letter Naming/Letter Sound Fluency practice page pack combined to help save you money! These nonsense word fluency pages will help your young readers practice decoding nonsense words in a fun way! Each day of the week has 5 CVC words (all vowels are featured) that they will practice reading either at sch

This hands-on science unit will get your kids excited about the life cycle of plants! Turn your classroom windows into a mini greenhouse full of lima bean plants. Clear directions, a template and a photo of the "baggie greenhouses" are included. Get your students engaged each day while they observe the seeds sprout into tiny plants. A student observation booklet is included so they can keep track of their plant's growth. In this pack, you will also enjoy: --a label the parts of a plant sh

This 16 page unit includes many activities to accompany Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends. There is a graphing activity (using your own buttons), and a skip count by 5's maze adorned with darling frog clip art from Scrappin Doodles. An art activity is included to go along with Toad's adventure in The Swim. Your students will enjoy participating in a Treats and Share (directions are included) after you have read the book to them (or they have read it themselves). Also included are some

Every four years in November, our students' parents hit the polls (hopefully) to vote for a new president. Make it fun for your students by having a little election of your own in your classroom! This unit is designed to make it easy for little learners to understand a little about the way an election works. Parts of this unit are also beneficial for holding any other type of vote in your classroom! Included are the following: A mini book written by me to explain a little about voting Voter

Do you use DIBELS or AIMS web assessments? Do your students need more practice with Nonsense Word Fluency? You need these games in your classroom! 5 games for the price of 2!! Each of these games are for sale individually in my store for $4 each! Grab this pack for just $8!! Included in this pack are the following games: 1. Nonsense Word Golf 2. Go Fish (nonsense word style) 3. Elf! A Nonsense Word Game 4. Snow Storm (2 nonsense word games included) 5. Out of This World Nonsense Word Game (

Do you use DIBELS or AIMSweb to test for Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)? Decoding nonsense words is a skill that children will need in order to become more fluent readers as they read more complex words. These fluency pages will help your young readers practice decoding nonsense words in a fun way! Each day of the week has 5 CVC words (all vowels are featured) that they will practice reading either at school or at home for homework each month August through June. A sample parent letter explai

Are you looking for a quick and simple unit to teach about the season of winter? This 44 page unit is packed with science experiments, fun and more! It has activities about animals in winter, people in winter and more! You will get: A Pre and Post Check About Winter A Poem About Sledding Winter Activity Sort and Glue Sheet Hibernating and Migrating Sorting Sheet Non-fiction Reading Passages for Close Reading with Follow-up Questions Season of Winter Mini Book Word Wall/Vocabulary Winter Seaso

Do you have the Word Detective Reading Workshop unit from Lucy Calkins? Do you want some other choices for the Official Word Detective badges? This pack is for you! Are your kiddos great word detectives? Do you want to make something they can wear to announce their detective skills? This pack is for you! I used traditional horizontal name badges, but if you want to go the cheaper route, you can simply print and put them on a string to make them into a necklace. There are 3 different choic

Do you have a Light Box from Walmart? The type with 2.5" high inserts? If you don't, what are you waiting for?!?!?!? They are only $10 instead of the $40 Heidi Swapp boxes! Are you frustrated that all of the inserts for sale on TPT only fit the Heidi Swapp Lightbox? The wait is over! This pack includes over 40 inserts for your Walmart sized Light Box! Please open the preview so you can see all of the inserts that are included. There are holiday slides, growth mindset slides, birthday slid

Do you use DIBELS or AimsWeb to measure your students' nonsense word fluency? Do you find yourself short on time and can't fit quite fit NWF practice into your day? Get parents involved and send home these nonsense word practice pages to help your students practice decoding CVC words. All 24 tests include 10 nonsense words for decoding and should take 15 seconds or less to administer to each child. Parent volunteers could also be trained to administer the tests. These tests are also perfect

Your students will LOVE counting down to Christmas with this interactive craftivity! I have done this activity with my kids for years and always get amazing feedback from parents. It is also fun to do with toddlers as well! Included with this pack is a parent letter explaining the Countdown Santa, detailed directions with pictures, templates and the countdown beard. **You will need to provide 25 cotton balls and one gallon sized baggie per child (I always ask parents to donate these). *

This set of writing templates is intended to be used as a kit to produce student authored, nonfiction books about your school. Informational writing for young children is fun, yet challenging! What better way to get kids writing than with a topic they are experts about…their own school! Write a book together as a class and use it as a mentor text for future books on different topics, or help guide your students to make a book of their own. Pages Included: Cover Page 2 Table of Contents cho

We all know how much teachers spend out-of-pocket! Why not ask your parents for donations in a creative way? Use these adorable apples, posters and thank-you notes to sweeten your classroom! Parents won't be able to resist donating an item or two when they see your cute apple display! I also have different themes if you are interested! (Owls, ducks, bees, jungle, beach, fun and funky frames, etc.) Included in this set are 108 apples with common items an elementary classroom can always use,

Are you celebrating Chinese New Year with your students? Do you need some fun ideas to get your students engaged? This fun activity pack is for you!!! In this pack, you will find: *A Poem for Poetry Notebooks *Word Cards from Poem for Pocket Charts *Book recommendations *Lucky Money explanation, template and lucky symbols *Zodiac Chart *Zodiac Characteristics Chart *Student recording sheet for Zodiac Activity *Comparing Chinese New Year with January 1st New Year *Word Sort and Math Sort Ga