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Each of 24 inference cards features a short passage with a text-dependent question. Students must not only infer, but also justify their responses.
Perfect for test prep. Use orally in small groups, or individually as a writing assignment at a
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Each of these Main Idea cards features a short informational text (nonfiction) passage to help your students master this challenging reading strategy.
The 48 cards are divided into two sets of 24 cards each for differentiated learning. The
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By Cara Carroll
This activity packet includes 9 mystery cards students have to solve to unveil a surprise picture! Each mystery card contains pictures of various sets of base 10 blocks. Students must read each set, write the corresponding number, and color in
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Use these 16 short story cards to help your students infer the theme of a story. There are three different answer sheets so that you can differentiate as needed: multiple choice, short answer, and half and half. There are also answer keys for each
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Each of these 24 Task Cards features a short, nonfiction paragraph. Students are challenged to summarize the paragraph in just twelve words or less. By presenting only one paragraph at a time, the often overwhelming task of summarizing becomes much
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Laminate these two page back to back and you have one useful resource card for your students. It includes letters and pictures clues for the sounds, vowels, digraphs, blends money, 120's chart (per common core), a writer's checklist, months, number
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Have students create this pennant at the beginning of the year as a great get to know me activity. I plan to laminate them and hang them up in a banner style in the front of my class. The pennant is made to be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper.
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End of Year Awards Classroom Superlatives Positive for ALL students! Included are 105 unique award certificates to hand out to kids as awards or superlatives toward the end of the year. You can have students vote on these or choose them yourself.
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DIFFERENTIATED Place Value Project! Your students will love practicing their place value skills as a real life, crime-solving detective. As the students start up their own detective agency, they must also solve 5 crimes that require them to use
By Amy Lemons
Need a fun and cute fraction activity? Have your students make this cute pizza craftivity while they learn about fractions!
*Updated February 2015: Now your pizza can be used to learn about thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths!
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Comparing and contrasting is a challenging reading skill. Each of these 24 cards features a short passage along with two text-dependent questions. To add more rigor, several of the cards may also require some inference for full understanding. Each
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CVC Word Family Word work is a FUN, hands-on approach to learning and practicing 24 CVC word families! These interactive worksheets are a great way to engage all learners while making learning FUN!
Each sheet will focus on one word family and
Here are 24 cards to help your students practice determining the author's purpose. Each card features a short reading passage and the three multiple choice PIE options. Students are also asked to justify their answers. This activity is meant to be
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By Amy Lemons
This is a book for your students to make, and can be used in several different grade levels. You can include fractions from 1 whole to 1/16 in your book for your kids to make. It just depends on how far you teach with fractions.
*There are 2
Use these 24 cards to help your students identify cause and effect relationships in text. Each card features a short passage and asks students to identify both a cause and an effect from the text.
Great for test prep or as extra practice for your
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By Sarah Cooley
**Updated 3/25/14** Now EDITABLE and with new fonts!
This is hands-down, the best motivator I have found to get my students practicing, learning, and retaining their sight words!
This version includes all 220 DOLCH words. There are 5
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Long division takes copious amounts of practice to master, and the best kind of practice is real world and authentic! Engage your students in practicing long division (no matter what method you teach) with this 9 page project designed to enrich and
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By Jamie Rector
** NEW LOOK, SAME Product ** BEST SELLER * Are you teaching with the Common Core Standards yet? I have dissected the 2nd grade standards and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students in reading! The graphic organizers included
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Is there a doctor in the house????
A Contraction Doctor that is!!!
It's time for a little word surgery!
Just have your little surgeons grab their scalpels {scissors} and trim away some extra letters and then bandage it back
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Many parents are willing to help their child become better readers but they aren't sure HOW beyond saying, "Sound it out." This Quick-Reference Guide can be sent home so parents can reinforce the same strategies you are teaching at school.
This
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Engage your students with a real world fraction project! Includes 13 Pages of fraction practice aligned to common core standards. You can use this as an extended project, for individual skill practice, math center work, enrichment, assessment, or
These 32 short passage drawing conclusions task cards are a great way to practice inference, which can be one of the trickier reading strategies. The multiple choice format makes them ideal for test prep. Students can use these cards individually
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Nonfiction Text Features Task Cards for Informational Text & Close Reading!
Use these 24 Nonfiction Text Feature Task Cards as a supplemental activity to increase your students' understanding and to help them to use nonfiction (informational
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Here are 32 short passage cards to help students identify different types of informational text structures. Five text structures are used: description, sequence (sometime called chronological), compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem
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Two sets of 40 task cards (80 cards total) that help students practice making inferences. The first 20 cards have pictures that students make inferences from. The next 20 cards have short stories that students make inferences from.
The sets are
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Put important back-to-school class information at parents’ fingertips with this editable flip book! Perfect for Open House!
This back to school parent information flip book is an easy way to get important class information to parents for Meet the
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You are receiving 9 different Math Posters for young students to help with addition problem solving. Great for mini lessons for Math Workshop/Stations or your Math Word Wall. Good support for Common Core instruction. All problem solving strategies
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By Amy Lemons
Looking for some fun and engaging ways to teach measuring with a ruler in centimeters and inches? This download includes:
Measurement KWL
Measure Me Activity with picture cards, recording sheet, and answer key (inches)
Measure Yourself: one for
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This super-cute paper backpack craft and learning activity is a great way to build community with your students! It also helps students develop the critical skills of following step by step directions and speaking and listening to members of a
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Each of these 32 Math Challenge Task Cards has a different multi-step math story problem. Students will use all four operations as they solve the problems. There are some that involve money, measurement, or elapsed time. Answers can all be expressed
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This packet of informational handouts is aimed at parents of children in grades K-2. Each subject-themed sheet contains tips, ideas, and strategies parents can do at home to build their child's skills. These would be perfect to attach to a weekly
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Mother's Day gift that a mother will never forget! An adorable purse filled with *honest* descriptions about mom! Both purse template and 5 pages of writing templates are included in this download.
It is recommended that you start this project well
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These 32 context clue task cards will help your students to better understand what they read and to improve their vocabularies. Great for test prep too! Students can use these cards individually at a center or they could also test each other in
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Enjoy these 32 getting to know you task cards to engage your students during the first few days of school!
They can be used to play Scoot , in a center, one by one as a whole class...or any other way you dream up! I have included a “Key” that
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Use these 32 short passage cards to practice inferring character traits. The multiple choice format makes these cards ideal for test prep or as a supplament to your reading skills lesson. If you want your students to go a little deeper, there are
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This is a fun way to engage students in a lesson, begin a new unit, or use as an activity for inferencing! It can be used with ANY content area or subject.
The Mystery Box is presented to students and students are then encouraged to guess what
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**HUGE UPDATE June 2016!**
Rather then sending home TONS of loose papers at the beginning of the school year, this flip book allows you to communicate with parents all in one place! This unique parent handbook will give your families an insight on
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By Amy Lemons
This download includes templates to make the sundae, as well as a recording sheet for your students to write their fractions!
*Updated February 2015 with new templates and recording sheets*
Word Work activities that work for any vocabulary words.
It can be so hard to find appropriate, challenging word work for big kids in the intermediate grades... These activities are perfect word work for big kids to use with Daily 5 or in literacy
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By Jamie Rector
* New Look, Same Product * If you need a fun way to teach the Common Core Standards for English-Language Arts, this unit is the one for you! This fairy tale unit includes tales for both boys and girls. Through reading, writing, and higher order
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Here are 32 sequencing cards to help your students master this important reading strategy. Each card features a short passage (with signal words) and a sequencing question about the order of events. Each paragraph is used on two consecutive cards to
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These cards are great to add to your word work center or your writing center. Students can practice writing the words with play-doh, magnetic letters, on white boards etc. They can also use these words while they are writing stories, cards, and lots
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Create a 3-D Pumpkin craft this fall that also teaches the life cycle of a pumpkin. This craft is perfect for fall or Autumn, Halloween, and even Thanksgiving. It's perfect for life cycle of a plant units too.
Your pumpkin craftivity includes
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Engage your students in understanding the difference between the main idea of a story and the theme of a story with these 16 unique, DIFFERENTIATED task cards!
The cards include 16 original stories. Set #1 includes a prompt card encouraging
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By Deanna Jump
Mother's Day is the perfect time for this easy peasy Mother's Day book. It's a keepsake that will be treasured forever and it makes the perfect Mother's Day gift. Just print out and have your little cuties draw and write about their mom.
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By Jamie Rector
** NEW LOOK, SAME Product ** BEST SELLER ** Are you teaching with the Common Core Standards yet? I have dissected the standards and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students in math! The quick assessments included in this packet
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Perfect for your informational text structure study, these differentiated information text structure task cards contain 48 engaging and informative paragraphs. You can choose to use the 16 half-page task cards with one main topic and three
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**Updated January 2, 2015** Engage your students with this real world application of multi-digit multiplication! Use this multiplication math project to practice multi-digit multiplication by outfitting your own resort hotel with all of the
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This is a week long collection of activities to teach descriptive writing using Pop Rocks candy! There are also opportunities to discuss adjectives and similes, too! It is intended to be used as a supplement to your current ELA curriculum, and
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32 half-page informational text task cards with 4 comprehension questions and tasks on EACH card for a total of 128 informational text questions! Engage your students in meaningful practice and review key reading skills associated with
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** Featured on the 2 Sisters' Tip of the Week 7/6/12**
This is a great activity to combine both math and word work!
I pair this sheet with a baggie of play coins and have students determine the worth of each of their spelling words. You could
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This Numbers 1-20 NO PREP packet is designed to help Kindergarten students master numbers from 1 to 20 in a variety of ways. Each page includes 11 different activities to help students fully understand and meet the Common Core standards in a FUN
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