The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®***TOP 5 ALL TIME BEST-SELLING RESOURCE ON TPT!***INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!!Want to see my STEM Bins® up close and personal?! Watch my STEM Bins 101 video series on YouTube! ★STEM BINS 101 VIDEO SERIESClick below to see my answers to Frequently Asked Questions about STEM Bins® :★STEM BINS FAQSTEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based solution for:Early FinishersMorning WorkCente

This Guided Reading resource is packed full of guided reading activities and lessons for your small group instruction! Just add books! This resource contains everything you need to conduct successful, engaging guided reading group lessons. NOTE: This resource underwent a HUGE revision on May 6, 2021, and it doubled in size. This best selling guided reading resource includes:Reading Strategy Charts for each strategy in pennant format and poster formatReading Strategy Chart for StudentsTrading Ca

Making Inferences is an important reading skill, and these inferencing task cards and digital activities can help!Each card/slide features a short passage with a text-dependent question plus a follow-up question asking students to explain their reasoning. Students will need to use clues within the text to infer their answers. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDirections & SuggestionsDIGITAL:Google Slides (Regular & Self-c

This pack includes everything you need to create your own classroom writing center!! Make an office on a tri-fold board, create a writing bulletin board, or simply use the pieces in a writer's notebook/folder!Inside, you'll find everything shown in my completed project:9 regular writing samples-- letter (2), postcard (2), poem, recipe, list, card, story7 longer/indented writing samples-- letter (2), postcard, poem, recipe, list, story13 labels (poem, story, good writers, etc.)8 reference sheets

Reading Interactive Notebooks Literature - Literary Elements for Common Core. This Reading Interactive Notebook is the true original - over 55,000 copies sold!After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for every concept I taught to my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade literature students. Now that I’ve used this in my classroom for over a year, I have compiled all of my reading interactive notebook lessons for teaching literary elements here.Each of the 2

This sight word stick packet includes 10 games and recording sheets. Students will draw sticks out of a cup/can/or container to play literacy games while having fun. The packet includes 10 games with recording sheets. These games can be done using sight words or weekly spelling words for more targeted practice. (I do both!)These games are easy to understand and complete for students as young as kinder and they still provide excellent practice for older students as well.I included the dolch w

**OVER 125 END OF THE YEAR AWARDS IN MULTIPLE FORMATS, INCLUDING GOOGLE SLIDES!** End of Year Awards Classroom Superlatives are Positive for ALL students! These awards are the ultimate way to celebrate your students at the end of the year! Included are 125 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. Every single award is unique to your students so no two students get the same a

DIFFERENTIATED Place Value Math Project, Place Value Detectives! Your students will love practicing their place value skills as real-life, crime-solving detectives. As the students start up their own detective agency, they must also solve 5 crimes that require them to use their place value skills. {4 of the pages have two different options to maximize your differentiation!)Check out the preview for a look at all 8 student work pages (Also includes 4 additional pages with larger numbers, up to t

This is a collection of 65 different Brain Breaks for the classroom. These can be used as transitions, breaks in the middle of an activity, something to raise or lower the energy of the group, team-building activities, and more!*UPDATE 7/2020: NEW CLIP ART, including diver students!Each brain break is accompanied by a description of how to do the exercise that can be glued onto the BACK of each activity, making it easy for you to remember all of these and for a sub, parent, principal, or student

This back-to-school resource has everything you need to promote team building in your classroom and to help you learn about your students. There are 30 printable paper activities and 11 digital activities to bring community into your classroom! This resource includes printables, no-prep games, independent activities, small-group activities, whole-class activities, digital activities for use with Google Classroom, activities to have fun on your Zoom meetings, and so much more. You can even use th

Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold!--------------------------------------------------------------After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for e

This is a U.S. Money I have... Who has? Game to help students learn to identify coins and count money $1 and under. This money activity features 42 cards in total (each card features a different sum of mixed coins).2nd Grade Common Core ReferenceCC.2.MD.8 - Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?Educator Testimonial and Tips/Suggestions for this

This grammar interactive notebook is truly interactive with templates that fold and flip for the students to interact with. This product is NOT simply pages and pages of definitions and descriptions for students to glue into their notebooks.Each of the 36 lessons in this interactive grammar notebook includes a color photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes (what to write in or on the template), complete teacher’s step-by-step lesson plan and assembly instructions, and student black lines.

This is a revolutionary way to handle that time in the morning when students are trickling in! No more scurrying to the copier to run off a worksheet for morning work! ***Updated 2021****This is a year-long differentiated hands-on interactive notebook that will engage your students each morning! This binder is customized for the needs of your students K-2. Includes:Write on wipe off day, month, yearWrite on wipe off number of the dayBuild, Color, Draw wipe off number of the dayBefore and aft

This set of ready-to-go First Grade Back to School Activities & Bulletin Board Displays for First Day of School will not only save you time as you prep for the beginning of the school year, but it will also engage your first graders in meaningful and fun activities. It's the perfect set to use the first day of school, and will for sure make the first week of school a blast!Teachers love how engaging and simple these activities are to prep, all while getting to know their students and buildin

These fun and engaging differentiated sight words mystery pictures are perfect for literacy centers, morning work, early finishers, distance learning, substitutes and homework. This bundle includes 14 unique pictures, one for each of the following occasions/themes: Back to School, Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter, Valentine's Day, Earth Day, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day, End of Year Graduation, Summer Bee and Superhero.Teachers have commented:"Absolutely, positively,

Have you heard of Toothy® yet?! Toothy® task kits are highly engaging task card math games or math centers that allow students to practice math skills and answer questions in a fun, motivating way. The answers on the back of the math task cards make the activity self-paced and self-correcting.Teach the rules for Toothy® once at the beginning of the year, then simply switch out the topic each week and use the activity all year! Toothy® Task Kits - an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Littl

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.For an online version to use with Google Classroom follow this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Pennant-Google-Slides-Version-for-Distance-Learning-5645304

6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.These activities are perfect for weekly homework, daily/bell work, classwork, review, test prep, or assessment.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A: Identify Figurative Language - Read the story and annotate (highlight or underline and

This interactive math notebook contains 38 different math journal activities - with each one containing an interactive hands-on aspect for the student that helps deepen understanding and gives students a concrete explanation and example they can refer to all year long. Each journal activity contains organization ideas, left-side and right-side of the page ideas, pictures, detailed instructions, and student templates to build the interactive tools. Assessment ideas, checklists, and reflection p

Do you have students struggling to recognize and identify the letters of the alphabet? This BEST SELLING kindergarten letter identification and recognition intervention curriculum is the perfect support to any science of reading or phonics-based program. It's ideal for RTI, small group instruction, intervention groups, tier support, ELL and ESL students, and even literacy centers. It has proven success and has been used in thousands classrooms all over the world!★ Click the PREVIEW button to se

Struggling to find challenging vocabulary practice for your upper elementary students? These vocabulary activities are the perfect upper elementary word work for any list of words. Students will love choosing a new vocabulary activity each day to practice their vocabulary words. With these no-prep vocabulary activities, just print, laminate, and place in your Word Work center for easy student instructions. Students then complete the vocabulary activities or create their own vocabulary graphic or

Writing Interactive Notebooks ~ Sentences and Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8. This Writing Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT Best Sellers for Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text.Get the *original* Interactive Writing Notebooks - Over 30,000 copies sold!This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.***********************************************Each of the 26 lessons includes a photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes, teacher’s

This is a no-prep reading intervention binder that is aligned to the science of reading and explicitly teaches and reinforces letter identification, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, handwriting, CVC words, blends, digraphs, nonsense words, phoneme segmentation, sentence fluency, and more! When and where should I use this binder?The No-Prep Reading Intervention Binder is ideal for one-on-one instruction, small reading groups, paraprofessional groups, Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention groups, pract