Are you looking for something to help assess all of the 1st grade Common Core Language Arts standards? This comprehensive assessment packet is for you. Having an assessment for every standard all in one place is a huge time saver. What does this product include?This assessment packet includes at least one assessment for EVERY Common Core Language Standard including each sub-category within the standards. The assessments include a variety of whole group, small group, and individual assessment

Get your little learners excited about opinion writing with this super cute crayon craftivity! Use the suggested texts "Red Is Best" and "The Day the Crayons Quit" with this 10 day unit on constructing an opinion! Each lesson includes all of the necessary materials. Your kiddos are sure to be engaged as you complete this persuasive letter to their favorite color/colour! Both American and English spellings are included. WHAT'S INCLUDED AS OF APRIL 2018: - 10 Day Lesson Plan - Crayon Craft

Use these discussion starters as part of morning meeting, a writing center, work on writing, partner work, morning work, or as writing prompts.Included are 108 discussion starters, as well as 9 blank cards that you can use to create your own. There are 9 prompts per page in black and white which makes for easy printing.UPDATED 2/4/18 to include a digital version of each card which are perfect for projecting in your classroom. The digital discussion starters are easy to read, but include a colorf

The mind + heart Social Emotional Learning Curriculum includes 8 units (40+ detailed, character education LESSONS) filled with hands-on and mindful activities that encourage children in Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade to build important social skills and emotional awareness.Teach children the most important lessons in life when they need them the most with units and activities on emotions, self-regulation, growth mindset, empathy, and social awareness, friendship, kindness, respect,

❤️Implementing a reading workshop approach to teach reading does not have to be stressful! When you take the time to establish routines and set expectations for your readers, you will see them flourish into a class of life long readers who have a deep love for reading. ❤️This will be your go-to resource to help you implement reading workshop in your primary classroom. It will take you step by step by listing different mini-lessons that you will teach to make reading workshop a success! Most impo

Literature Circles Adapted for Lower Elementary Grades: Literature Circles make the perfect Book Clubs and are an effective and engaging way to get students invested in reading and they align perfectly with the standards for speaking and listening!I like to think of Literature Circles as a structured book group. After explicit modeling, these groups can become independent. Each student takes on a role that rotates with each meeting. These roles include discussion director, illustrator, word

Teach reading comprehension strategies with these lesson plans, posters, graphic organizers, and materials for your Kindergarten or first grade students!------This 380+ page yearlong curriculum is designed to teach Kindergarteners and 1st graders reading comprehension strategies. Each unit focuses on a different reading comprehension strategy. The lessons gradually release responsibility to students, so that students can eventually use the reading strategies as they read independently. The les

*** EVERYTHING YOU NEED *** for your ELA Common Core Assessment needs- no answer key- all student pages167 student assessments and 51 binder divider pages-Great Resource - Just print and go. Some assessments are 2 pages- we only counted them as 1 assessment - So there are 280 plus pages in all with this packet.IMPORTANT- We combined all of our 1st grade ELA Common Core Packets into this one big I WANT IT ALL bundle packet- If you buy this packet there is no need to purchase the 1st grade domain

Are you looking for something to help assess all of the 1st grade Common Core Language Arts and Math standards? This comprehensive assessment packet is for you. Having an assessment for every standard all in one place is a huge time saver. What does this product include?This assessment packet is HUGE and includes both my best selling Common Core Language Arts Assessments and my Common Core Math Assessments for 1st grade. Each packet includes at least one assessment for EVERY Common Core Stan

Eye-catching & organized with many, many options for every month and season, you and your students will LOVE this collection of poetry and songs! Through singing and chanting, your students will have a blast AND develop crucial reading skills along with their....❤️ oral language❤️ auditory memory❤️ sequencing❤️ patterning❤️ small motor skills (many finger plays are included) and❤️ imagination!You’ll also see kids really build their reading fluency through singing the songs over and over (wh

The resources in the ELL Newcomers bundle cover all 4 language domains to weekly help students go from having little or no English to developing ESL speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in English. This 28-week bundle is filled with ELL vocabulary, pictures, and games to help promote a comfortable environment that will give your newcomers the success and confidence they need to learn English. The clear layout and routine week after week allow for increased confidence for both the te

Do your students know how to have REAL discussions where they actually listen to each other and link their ideas to others in the group? If not, Discussion Connections has the tools you need to foster effective cooperative learning discussions. This product includes five lessons that make it easy for K-8 teachers to meet CCSS standards for speaking and listening and to foster effective text-based discussions. Not all lessons can be used with all grade levels, so preview this packet before purcha

These 10 simple discussion strategies will increase engagement as your students have meaningful accountable talk conversations with their peers. The colorful posters are ready to print and hang or digitally project in your classroom for easy reference when you want to get kids speaking and listening about topics or text. Introduce and model a few strategies at a time then mix it up throughout the year to maintain high student engagement and accountability during discussions.Posters and accounta

You will receive over 746 pages of language arts and math I cans for EVERY CCSS! There are also editable pages for you to type in your own wording. You will also receive math and ELA checklists for each domain that help you keep track of what standards you have taught and which ones still need to be covered. This will help you ensure that you have taught every standard in the core. Included in this download are I Can Statements that cover:Language Arts:Reading: LiteratureReading: Informational T

Using discussion starters is a great way to incorporate speaking and listening standards while helping building a community of learners in your classroom.What are discussion starters?Discussion starters cards that contain a question, thought, or task for students to think about, and respond to. There are a range of topics within each month ranging from seasons and weather, to holidays and special events, to general themes I included for each month. Each discussion starter is on a small card, wit

The resources included in this product are designed to assist you in teaching the students the size of their everyday problems and appropriate reactions through hands on experiences, visuals, scenarios, group activities, self reflection, and independent practice!INCLUDED:★ Ideas for use★ Size of the problem posters & visuals ★ Size of the problem desk display★ Headers and scenario cards for sorting by problem size★ Headers and scenario cards for sorting by reaction size★ Adapted Book - What

Mini Classroom STEM Lab Starter Kit and STEM Task Cards Not sure where to start when it comes to incorporating STEM into your classroom routine? This STEM Lab Starter kit and STEM Task Cards are designed to help you easily add STEM activities to your everyday schedule in a meaningful and low prep way! WHY STEM? STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Educating students in STEM subjects prepare students for life, regardless of the profession they choose to follow. STEM

Lesson Warm-ups- Lesson Kick Starters for First GradeLiteracy Warm-Ups provide a year (over 200 warm-ups!) of engaging and meaningfullesson starting explorations for spiral review every day of the schoolyear. The warm-ups provide high-interest engaging prompts to promote standards-based exploration.This is a PowerPoint file that can be projected to a screen or board. You can also print this and place it under a document camera. Day of the Week AlliterationEach day of the week has three differe

Help kids in Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade identify feelings and manage emotions with this Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum. You will have what you need to teach emotional awareness using 5 detailed lessons filled with engaging classroom tools (feelings check-in chart, posters, & journal) and mindful activities that encourage children to express feelings in healthy ways and develop self-regulation skills. Check out the DETAILED PREVIEW for a look at this SEL unit up c

Reading comprehension lessons on retelling, key details, and main idea; supplemental posters and visual aids; graphic organizers; and other materials for your Kindergarten or first grade students!-----This reading comprehension strategies unit is designed to teach students retelling, story elements, characters, and main idea. The lessons use real literature, and you can select books from a list of many different suggestions.Through minilessons that gradually release responsibility, your students

Do you have students who struggle with taking turns and being patient? These best-selling social skills activities are exactly what you need to help those students who have trouble waiting their turn, and to improve your overall classroom behavior management. An informative social story, written in kid-friendly language, provided in PDF, Google Slides, and Video versions, along with suggested lesson plans, discussion cards, an engaging role-playing activity, classroom posters, individual student

Do you want your students to lead their own meaningful discussion as they engage in critical thinking without you orchestrating the process? Like other academic skills, student-led discussion needs to be taught explicitly. This pack is designed to give you the tools you need as the teacher to do just that! Here's what is included in this pack:--16 Meaningful Discussion Stems Posters (3 different sizes)--How to Be a Respectful Listener and Speaker Posters--Student-Led Discussion Rubrics and Recor

Do you have students who struggle with maintaining personal space and keeping their hands to themselves? These best-selling social skills activities are exactly what you need to improve your classroom behavior management. An informative social story, written in kid-friendly language, provided in PDF, Google Slides, and Video versions, along with suggested lesson plans, discussion cards, an engaging role-playing activity, classroom posters, individual student reference cards, an easy reader mini-

Are you tired of flipping through dozens of pages to figure out what a certain Common Core standard is?! I know I was. I decided to make this 1 page "Cheat Sheet" that I keep in the back of my ELA Lesson Plans Binder. It has been extremely useful. I find myself constantly looking at it when I need to know what a certain standard is. This cheat sheet includes all of the following 1st Grade Standards: Reading: Literature Reading: Informational Text Reading: Foundational Skills Language Writing S