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Guided Reading Made Easy {A Complete Resource}

By Kristen Smith

Do you ever wish you had all the tools you needed to run your guided reading lessons at your fingertips? If you answered yes, then this packet is for you! It includes EVERYTHING you need to have successful guided reading lessons with your students.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Lesson Plans (Bundled), Activities, Guided Reading Books

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Weather Activities: experiments, crafts, writing, and more!

By Kristen Smith

Do you want to make your Science lessons come to life? Then this is the packet for you. This unit includes 15 hands-on activities that you could use while studying weather in your classroom. This packet is different from most that you buy on TpT.

Subjects:

Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Activities, Fun Stuff, Laboratory

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Help Me Sound It Out- {small group games that help with phonemic awareness}

By Kristen Smith

Students come into our classrooms from many different backgrounds. They also come to us at many different levels. For this reason, it is essential to differentiate our instruction. Teaching small groups is a great way to help all the students in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Activities, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

CCSS:

K.CC.A.1, RF.K.2a, RF.K.2b, RF.K.2d, RF.K.2e, RF.1.2a, RF.1.2b, RF.1.2c, RF.1.2d

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I Can Be A Pal-- building your classroom community

By Kristen Smith

This packet is designed to help you successfully build a community of children who genuinely care for one another. It teaches students how to be a good friend and how to accept other students. It includes many different activities that you can use

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Character Education, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Cooperative Learning

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903 ratings

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Making Literacy Centers Work- Starting The Year Off Right

By Kristen Smith

* A TOP 10 BEST SELLER!!* This packet is designed to help you set up and run Literacy Centers in your kindergarten or first grade classroom. It provides you with everything you need to get started. Detailed explanations are given to instruct you

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas, Posters

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Guided Reading Made Easy {A Complete Resource} For Kinders!

By Kristen Smith

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Lesson Plans (Bundled), Activities, Guided Reading Books

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Main Idea and Details Resource

By Kristen Smith

This main idea and details pack will help your students master the skill of finding these story elements through the use of engaging nonfiction passages. To help students find the main idea and details of a text, I have written 18 nonfiction

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Literacy Center Ideas

CCSS:

RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.7

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Get your students up and moving with a 120 number chart!

By Kristen Smith

This product is designed to help build the community in your classroom while practicing number skills and concepts. Using the 120 number chart, students will practice number sense, recognition, 10 more/10 less, 1 more/1 less and more! This packet

Subjects:

Math, Numbers, Oral Communication

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Math Centers, Cooperative Learning

$5.00

681 ratings

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Force and Motion: a mini unit full of science experiments and fun

By Kristen Smith

This mini unit includes everything you need to teach your students about force and motion. The packet includes six 5-E lesson plans for each of these essential questions: How do things move? What is speed? What is gravity? What is a ramp? What is

Subjects:

Science, Physical Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Lesson Plans (Bundled), Activities, Science Centers

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A Science Unit on Making Predictions

By Kristen Smith

Do you want to make your Science lessons come to life? Then this is the packet for you. This unit includes 7 hands-on experiments that you could use in your classroom. First graders are expected to make "good" predictions. In the beginning of the

Subjects:

Science, Basic Principles

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff

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611 ratings

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All About Thanksgiving- student books, interactive notebook pages, and more!

By Kristen Smith

This packet includes everything you need to make your Thanksgiving Unit come to life. It includes student readers, interactive notebook pages, crafts, activities and more. It goes into depth explaining both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags. In

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Thanksgiving

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Fun Stuff

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575 ratings

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Cause and Effect Resource

By Kristen Smith

Cause and Effect is one of those target skills that takes a little bit of practice before your students really master it. This packet will help give you games to play, posters to display, passages to read, and lesson plan ideas to help your students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Printables

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All About Johnny Appleseed

By Kristen Smith

This unit is FULL of fun for you and your students. This will help your Johnny Appleseed Unit really come to life. It includes center activities, science experiments, stations for you to have your own Johnny Appleseed Day, cooking activities,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Autumn

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Literacy Center Ideas

$8.50

423 ratings

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Mastering CVCe words with Sam Shorty and Larry Long

By Kristen Smith

Reading CVCe words can be a tricky skill for students to master. Therefore, I created a packet and a series of lessons to really help your students master this skill. This packet includes: posters to display in your classroom, super engaging and fun

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$6.00

455 ratings

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Science For All Seasons: Fall Edition

By Kristen Smith

Do you want to make your Science lessons come to life? Then this is the packet for you. This unit includes 12 hands-on activities that you could use during the Fall! This packet is different from most that you buy on TpT. Instead of giving you

Subjects:

Science, Writing, Autumn

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Laboratory

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All About Spiders - using and learning science vocabulary

By Kristen Smith

All About Spiders will help students learn, understand, and practice using the science terms used when talking about spiders. It also will provide you with resources to make your unit on spiders come to life. This packet includes: student readers,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Science

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Word Walls, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

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$33 Math Centers for Anytime of the Year!! {Aligned to the$

33 Math Centers for Anytime of the Year!! {Aligned to the Common Core!!}

By Kristen Smith

This packet includes 33 math centers that are aligned to the common core. In a theme that you can use at anytime of the year, this packet will be a great addition to your classroom! The 33 centers include: cards games, spinner games, board games,

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Math Centers

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Phonics Flags- blends, digraphs, diphthongs and more! {teal and orange}

By Kristen Smith

This packet is designed to help your students master their blends, digraphs, diphthongs, and special sounds. Students need visual, audio, and kinesthetic cues when learning something new. Learning how to read and write are no exception to this

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Other, Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

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$A week of Bats! -- Word Work, Vocabulary, Math Bins, Lesso$

A week of Bats! -- Word Work, Vocabulary, Math Bins, Lesson Plans and more!!

By Kristen Smith

This packet is everything you will need to have an amazing bat week in your classroom. It is complete with vocabulary cards, definitions, games, word work activities, writing pages, brain maps, math bins and lesson plans! Vocabulary Words

Subjects:

Reading, Math, Science

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Literacy Center Ideas, Math Centers

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Phonics Mastery- helping students read & write blends, digraphs, & diphthongs

By Kristen Smith

This packet covers 46 special sounds including blends, digraphs and diphthongs. Each special sound has one flashcard and three worksheets to go with it. Starting on day one students will read, circle, trace, write and highlight their new special

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

$9.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

This is my 10th year teaching and I still love every day. I have taught kindergarten, a combined third/fourth grade class, and currently teach first grade.

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HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Graduated from Elmira College in 2003

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GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Astronomy, Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, Social Studies - History, Elections - Voting, Native Americans, EFL - ESL - ELD, Other (Specialty), Religion, For All Subject Areas, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Word Problems, Physical Science, Short Stories, Writing, Asian Studies, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Earth Day, Summer, Informational Text, Handwriting, End of Year, Phonics