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Jenn Coates

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Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
About the store
I have taught in the primary grades for 19 years and have loved finding ways to keep students motivated to learn. I teach at an Arts school and pride myself on creating hands-on learning materials where students can learn through play and become involved in manipulating sounds within words. My classroom motto is, "See it, say it, hear it, do it!"
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Preview of States of Matter Poetry Pack

States of Matter Poetry Pack

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Jenn Coates
This package contains three states of matter poems, one each for solids, liquids, and gases. Each poem also has two follow up activities. For each state of matter, there is also one anchor chart.
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Cards Level C

Phonics Focus Word Cards Level C

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Jenn Coates
There are 60 cards in this pack and recommended for Grade One readers. Recommended for use in correspondence with the  Sound It Out Teacher Edition. Cards measure approximately 8 cm x 4 cm when printed and cut. Quick assessment tool provided.
Preview of Sound It Out Teacher Resource

Sound It Out Teacher Resource

Created by
Jenn Coates
Teaching our students to become detectives and to look for clues inside the word will help them develop their decoding abilities, writing skills, and motivation toward reading. This resource includes easy strategies for sounding out words, as well as suggestions for calming anxiety and overcoming avoidance in reading. Teach letter blends and digraphs through the quick, fun phrases! Simple and effective classroom activity suggestions are given. Assessment tool, small colour-coded letter tiles, an
Preview of Practicing Phonics with Poems - Set 1

Practicing Phonics with Poems - Set 1

Created by
Jenn Coates
These poems provide opportunities to search for the blends found in the Sound It Out books. There are 12 poems of various reading levels. Each poem uses rhyming words, provides space to colour code the blends that are found, and promotes fluency and phrasing. Each poem also has a follow-up activity. A great way to review, practice, and promote confidence! Great for Grades 1 and 2.
Preview of Letter Tiles - Phonics Instruction

Letter Tiles - Phonics Instruction

Created by
Jenn Coates
​These are an enlarged set of the tiles found in the Sound It Out book. Over 150 letter tiles, including colour coded letter blends and vowels and consonants. Use these tiles to build words in phonics lessons or simply to practice target sounds. Great for whole-class lessons or small groups!
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Cards Level D

Phonics Focus Word Cards Level D

Created by
Jenn Coates
There are 60 cards in this pack and recommended for Grade One and Grade Two readers. Recommended for use in correspondence with the  Sound It Out Teacher Edition. Cards measure approximately 8 cm x 4 cm when printed and cut. Quick assessment tool provided.
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Cards - Level B

Phonics Focus Word Cards - Level B

Created by
Jenn Coates
There are 60 cards in this pack and are recommended for Grade One readers. Recommended for use in correspondence with the  Sound It Out Teacher Edition. Cards measure approximately 8 cm x 4 cm when printed and cut out. Quick assessment tool provided.
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Cards Level E

Phonics Focus Word Cards Level E

Created by
Jenn Coates
There are 60 cards in this pack and recommended for Grade 2 and Grade 3 readers. Recommended for use in correspondence with the  Sound It Out Teacher Edition. Cards measure approximately 8 cm x 4 cm when printed and cut. Quick assessment tool provided.
Preview of Practicing Phonics with Poems - Set 2

Practicing Phonics with Poems - Set 2

Created by
Jenn Coates
This pack of poems builds on the original set. These 10 poems each have two follow-up activities. All poems and activities focus on the letter blends found in the Sound It Out books and guide the student through colour-coding their poems to foster reading success and confidence! A fun way to promote fluency, comprehension, and recognition of letter blends. Great for Grades 2 and 3.   ​This is a pdf version, ready for you to print.
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Cards - Level A

Phonics Focus Word Cards - Level A

Created by
Jenn Coates
There are 40 cards in this pack and recommended for emergent readers. Recommended for use in correspondence with the  Sound It Out Teacher Edition. Cards measure approximately 8 cm x 4 cm when printed and cut out. Quick assessment tool provided.
Preview of Proactive Behaviour Kit: Finding My Calm. Feeling Like Me.

Proactive Behaviour Kit: Finding My Calm. Feeling Like Me.

Created by
Jenn Coates
This package includes the pages you would need to create a calm down binder or bins. Calm down binders and bins are set out in the classroom for students to use when their emotions are heightened in some way and they need support to regain control, find a calm feeling, and feel like themselves again. Includes breathing activities, emotion awareness, strategies for behaviour management, mandalas to refocus the mind, sensory pages, yoga, art, and a social story. Over 30 pages of strategies. Great
Preview of Phonics Games for Literacy Centres

Phonics Games for Literacy Centres

Created by
Jenn Coates
This game back includes games that help students work with phonics, encoding, and decoding. Games promote fun and involves students through hands on activities. Great for literacy centres, small group activities, or enrichment time.
Preview of Emergent Decodable Readers Set #1

Emergent Decodable Readers Set #1

Created by
Jenn Coates
There are four emergent readers in this set. They focus on simple sentences that provide the letter blend clues from the Sound It Out resource. Each story uses sentences that focus on the sight word or high-frequency word target and provide words that need to be sounded out with basic letter-sound knowledge and letter-blend knowledge.  One colour version and one grayscale version of each reader are provided. This set is a pdf version, ready for you to print.
Preview of Literacy Centre Game Pack 1

Literacy Centre Game Pack 1

Created by
Jenn Coates
These games will help your literacy stations run smoothly! Students will practice sounding out the blends in words with confidence with my colour-coded strategies from the Sound It Out! series of resources (www.jenncoates.com). This pack includes 15 mini match-up sets, 15 words to build, and a set of 9 games that help students read letters, words, and sentences with a roll of the dice.
Preview of Number Words and Phonics Poster Pack

Number Words and Phonics Poster Pack

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Jenn Coates
This pack helps students with number words. Numbers one through twenty are shown as well as every tenth number after that to one hundred.  All 28 posters connect to the SOUND IT OUT letter blends and tiles. Great for primary grades.
Preview of Science Poems

Science Poems

Created by
Jenn Coates
Learn about roots, force and motion, air, stars, the water cycle, and salmon through poems! The focus for this poem pack is the scientific concepts; however, each poem also lends itself well to finding common words, rhymes, and letter blends. This will help you integrate the sciences into your Language Arts program. Pair this with the SOUND IT OUT series of resources! Each topic has two poems; one is designed for upper primary or early intermediate, and the other is designed for the early primar
Preview of Guided Reading Letter Tiles Binder

Guided Reading Letter Tiles Binder

Created by
Jenn Coates
This pdf download gives you all of the pages needed to create your own binder of letter tiles. It includes vowels, consonants, and a wide variety of letter blends and digraphs. It also includes two games and instructions on how to assemble the binder.
Preview of Phonics Games That Motivate

Phonics Games That Motivate

Created by
Jenn Coates
This game pack includes root word and suffix practice, a memory game targeting letter blends, and a sound manipulation game. Useful for literacy centres, small group work, or enrichment time.
Preview of Phonics Focus Word Posters - High Frequency Words

Phonics Focus Word Posters - High Frequency Words

Created by
Jenn Coates
​55 high frequency words with a focus on phonics from various levels are reviewed in this pack. All posters connect to the SOUND IT OUT letter blends and tiles. Great for primary grades. This is a pdf version, ready for you to print.
Preview of Phonics Games to Increase Motivation

Phonics Games to Increase Motivation

Created by
Jenn Coates
This fourth game pack includes three activities to help children manipulate sounds. All games are in colour to help keep kids engaged! Study words through the Sound It Out letter tiles. Students enjoy learning and develop successful strategies for sounding out words! Great for word work time, early finishers, and literacy centres! Great for Grades 1 to 3!
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About the store

Experience

I have taught in the primary grades for 19 years and have loved finding ways to keep students motivated to learn. I teach at an Arts school and pride myself on creating hands-on learning materials where students can learn through play and become involved in manipulating sounds within words. My classroom motto is, "See it, say it, hear it, do it!"

Teaching style

My teaching style is simple: get them up, get them moving, and get them involved and invested in their learning.

Additional biographical information

My website has many resources for helping teachers and parents. Visit www.jenncoates.com