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Looking for a writers workshop curriculum for the beginning of the year? Writers Workshop Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ was created by two kindergarten teachers with over 20 years of classroom experience. Each writing lesson has been classroom-tested and student-approved.Writers Workshop is a wonderful way to incorporate all of the ELA standards while introducing your students to the love of writing. This is the first unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, yo

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 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

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

This phonics poetry unit includes 79 different decodable phonics worksheets and activities that focus on different word families, phonemes, and/or phonics patterns.PLEASE NOTE: As of 9/2022, a decodable set of each poem has been added to this unit! So there will be two completely unique poems (one decodable and one not) for each word family!★Why Use Phonics Poetry?★Poetry is such a great way for students to practice fluency, visualization, and phonics skills. I created this unit to help my stude

What is KinderSurvival? KinderSurvival Curriculum is a week long program designed to assist teachers in their first week of kindergarten. The saying goes, “Get them fed and get them home and that’s a successful first day of kindergarten!” Well, we know that there is so much more than that going into a successful first day and week. This program was designed by a teacher, for a teacher in hopes that all necessary material could be found in one document. Furthermore, that all material could be

A TpT TOP SELLER!!!! Take your students on a magical trip aboard Christmas Airlines to learn about Christmas in other countries! This interactive Christmas Around the World Scrapbook is a creative way to track student learning, and is a wonderful keepsake! This 63 page packet comes with a student scrapbook, Christmas Airlines plane boarding passes, passports and passport stamps for the journey, a teacher's guide with suggestions for books to read on your trip, food ideas, and fun crafts for eac

It's time to STRENGTHEN those SENTENCES with engaging and interactive activities for capitalization, punctuation, and complete sentences. These focus posters, sorts, anchor charts, printables, and more will help your students become SUPER sentence writers!Here's what is included in this 80-page pack!12 Focus Posters: Writing Sentences, Using Capitals, Using Periods, Using Question Marks, Using Exclamation Marks, Complete Sentences, Incomplete Sentences, Checking Our SentencesWe Can Write Sentenc

This first grade writing bundle is aligned to the Common Core standards and helps students with personal narratives, opinion writing, and informative writing as they work through the writing process. Students will brainstorm, draw, write, revise, edit and publish their own writing pieces for each genre of writing. This unit covers narrative writing, opinion writing and informative writing for all first grade writing standards!Each unit includes:Daily lessons set up in the "I do, We do, You do" f

KinderSocialSkills: A social skills curriculum for primary-aged students! This packet is designed for the preschool and kindergarten classroom and easily adapted to fit a guardian-led homeschool setting! If inquiring about this bundle for a homeschool setting, feel free to email me directly with any questions at tara@littlemindsatwork.org!**THIS PACKET RECEIVED A FREE UPDATE! ALL OF THE DAY ONE STORIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN A GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION ALONG WITH THE PRINTABLES! >>> VIEW A PR

hello2ndgradeWho says you can't incorporate classroom rules and a sense of community into your math lesson plans? Build a math community with your little mathematicians using these hands-on math activities! Just perfect for the first week back to school! You'll focus on becoming mathematicians, math tools, cooperative learning, partner games, word problems, making numbers, and more!TEN Activities Included in this Unit:1. Let's Talk About Math: As a class, create a T-Chart to discuss what you al

Looking for a unit to teach personal narrative writing in kindergarten and first grade? Writers Workshop is a wonderful way to incorporate all of the ELA standards while introducing your students to the love of writing. Writers Workshop Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ was created by two kindergarten teachers with over 20 years of classroom experience. Each writing lesson has been classroom-tested and student-approved.This is the second unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum

This set includes 20 days of everything needed for a reading intervention program with students whose reading abilities fall in the Fountas and Pinnell reading range of levels L-P.DIGITAL UPDATE!This set of The Reading Intervention Program is now available in a DIGITAL VERSION included in this download!Text boxes, coloring boxes, and multiple choice circles are all included.Digital versions are available for format 1 (student pages of all the components) and format 5 (fluency practice)FONT UPDAT

This Fractions Unit has EVERYTHING you need to teach FRACTIONS! Use it to supplement your math curriculum, by providing a variety of options to teach, reinforce, practice, and assess students’ understanding of fractions. This resource includes over 100 pages of:- Teaching Pages - Worksheets- Lessons & Activities- Journal Prompts- Word Problems- Quizzes and a Final Fractions Assessment- Plus, other activities!! These fraction pages were designed with 4th grade standards in mind. Howeve

Looking for an interactive read alouds notebook to teach reading comprehension strategies? Use ANY BOOK with these reading response activities. Perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade classrooms! The activities in this packet will enable your students to create reading response artifacts that they can refer to over and over. This resource includes journaling activities for EVERY Reading Literature Standard for Grades K-2.This interactive read aloud notebook will still be a wonderful a

Using a Guided Reading Lesson Plan Template ensures that you are teaching skills that students need to learn at each level.  Easily keep your Guided Reading Lessons aligned using these small group lesson templates. Each Guided Reading Lesson Plan Template has activities for what students need to learn at each level A-N for phonics, reading strategies, and comprehension. When I use these small group templates in my classroom I simply pull out the level needed for my group from my Guided Reading B

I have dissected the 2nd grade Common Core Standards and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students in reading! The reading graphic organizers included in this download will provide formative assessments that are ideal to show mastery for standards-based grading.Each graphic organizer highlights the specific vocabulary from the standard and some standards even have up to 6 different graphic organizers to target each specific part of the standard. Nothing is left out of this r

Guided Phonics + Beyond Curriculum contains material for your whole-group phonics instruction AND differentiated phonics-based small-groups! This is a ONE STOP resource for your Science of Reading needs using all of the SOR best practices.Guided Phonics + Beyond Curriculum contains materials which are all 100% aligned to a SOR phonics-based, comprehensive scope & sequence. Included in the lessons you will find orthographic word mapping, decodable high frequency words instruction, irregular (

Looking for a fun, meaningful, and engaging way to teach your students about inferencing this winter? This activity is perfect to do during the chilly months, or even in the weeks leading up to Christmas break since your students will be drawing conclusions from Snow Day clues! Your students will enjoy getting to investigate, infer, and make predictions based on various clues and evidence. A detailed lesson plan is included to help making planning this activity a breeze! By investigating "Snow D

This nonfiction text structure bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary and middle school students engaged as they learn about the FIVE informational text structures. It includes 92 nonfiction passages. The activities in this bundle make learning text structures fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These nonfiction text structure activities can be used for test prep, review,

KinderMath Curriculum: a kindergarten comprehensive math curriculum designed for a classroom's small-group or whole-group instruction and easily adapted to fit a guardian-led homeschool setting! If inquiring about this bundle for a homeschool setting, feel free to email me directly with any questions at tara@littlemindsatwork.org!SAVE BIG WITH THE BUNDLE! This listing is ALL of my KinderMath units BUNDLED into one easy download! You will get units 1-15 in this one download! Units 1-14 sell for

Do you need read aloud activities for back to school? SUPER CHARGE your back to school read aloud lesson plans with these print and teach activities!! These interactive reading lesson plans will guide you through your daily instruction in reading comprehension, responding to literature, sentence studies with mentor sentences, crafts and more! These No Prep Print and Go Lesson Plans will save your teaching life! SERIOUSLY!!! WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE READ ALOUD LESSONS AND ACTIVITIESThese book less

Looking for engaging lessons to teach your students how to identify and count coins (US Currency ONLY!)? This money unit has several activities to incorporate into your coin lessons! Here's what is included:*Money Posters for: Quarter, Dime, Nickel, Penny (Color and B&W)*Mini Money Posters for student journals and reference*Printable Coins for: Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies (Color and B&W)*Flapbook to describe coin characteristics (2 versions)*Coin Match-up: Students cut/glu