Use this to help students learn what addition means→ from a number sentence to an object (or pictorial) representation of the numbers → to counting the objects/ pictures altogether. The boxes are color coded to help students follow the steps… Once students learn how to use the recording sheet- you can make black/white copies. 

Please use this as you see fit- in a small group for pre-teaching or reteaching, as an independent center, or as a formative assessment to see what your students understand. 

The student follows these steps:

• Take a card with a number sentence
• Look at the first number- what is it? 
  • Write it in the first box
  • Make it with objects/ pictorial representations
• Look at the second number- what is it? 
  • Write it in the second box
  • Make it with objects/ pictorial representations
• How many are there altogether? 
  • Count all objects/ pictures together
  • Solve the number sentence- write the number in the last box

How to use this resource:

1. Print cards, one sided
2. Paste on cardstock
3. Cat into individual cards
4. Laminate
5. Cut into individual cards
6. Print multiple copies of the recording sheet (you can place them in sheet protectors and give students dry erase markers to write with)

Other related products are:

• Addition with Fingers
• One More, One Less- Game with Arrows
• One More, One Less- Game 
• One More, One Less- Worksheets
• Using A Number Line - Simple Addition Number Sentences
• Addition- First steps packet
• Ten Frame Addition- Within 10
• Teaching “Counting On” (within 10)- Missing Addends
• Let’s Count On
• Find the  Same- A Domino Game
• Grab and Count - Counting and Adding
• Simple Subtraction- Using A Number Line
• Simple Subtraction - with pictorial cues
• Addition and Subtraction- Making Connections Bundle