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Laura Spezzano

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United States - North Carolina - Wilmington

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"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana".

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Beginning Reading Strategies

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Color Lessons and Activities

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Healthy Habits Book to make

By Laura Spezzano

This is a six page book that your students can make that covers healthy habits. You can arrange the 6 pages in any order you would like. After discussing all of the things that help keep us healthy, your class can make the book and read it

Subjects:

Reading, Health

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Printables

$2.00

37 ratings

3.9

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Story Retelling Pictures and Lesson Ideas

By Laura Spezzano

This item contains retelling pictures for seven popular children's stories including; Brown Bear, The Mitten, Five Little Monkeys, Old MacDonald, Cookies Week,Five Little Ducks, Little Red Hen and I Went Walking. There are pictures to retell and

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Minilessons

$1.00

25 ratings

3.7

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Pumpkins

By Laura Spezzano

This item includes a book to make with your students illustrating the life cycle of a pumpkin. It also includes photos of the different stages of the life cycle as well as book and lesson suggestions.

Subjects:

Reading, Earth Sciences, Autumn

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Printables

$1.50

23 ratings

3.9

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Beginning Reading Strategies

By Laura Spezzano

These 6 items give reading stategies to use with your students for instruction and as a reference. There are also materials directed to parents to explain how they can help their child learn to read. The Reading Strategies chart with it's picture

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Lesson Plans (Individual), Printables, For Parents

$1.00

8 ratings

4.0

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December Holiday and Five Senses book

By Laura Spezzano

This is a great book to make during December. It's a 7 page book, including the cover. It covers the 5 senses as well as different things that we have to celebrate the December holidays.

Subjects:

Reading, Biology, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

$1.00

14 ratings

3.9

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Seasonal Poems

By Laura Spezzano

This is a collection of 10 seasonal poems including Goodbye Hello, March, Snow, The March Winds, Yellow Daffodils, Let's Go Fly A Kite, May Time Six Frosty Snowmen, Snowball and Wonderful Weather. Enjoy them to introduce the characteristics of a

Subjects:

Holidays/Seasonal, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Printables

$1.00

8 ratings

4.0

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Pictures for Rhyming

By Laura Spezzano

This item contains 52 pairs of kid-friendly rhyming pictures to use with your students to help develop their sense of rhyme. They can be used as lesson tools, center activities and for games.

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

$1.00

11 ratings

3.9

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Report Card Phrases

By Laura Spezzano

We all know how hard it is to come up with just the right words for those report card comments. Here is a list of phrases that have worked well for me over the years.

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Assessment, Professional Documents, Scripts

$0.25

7 ratings

4.0

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Poems for the beginning of the year

By Laura Spezzano

These six poems are great for the beginning of the year. They cover friends, manners, numbers, letters and self. The poems can be used as a large group activity to encourage discussions and can also be used for shared reading activities.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Printables

$0.50

8 ratings

3.9

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Eric Carle

By Laura Spezzano

Eric Carle is a great author study to do with primary students. His books are fun and appealing to young readers and teach great lessons. I've outlined how to put on a class play of The Hungry Caterpillar in this product. All the parts are here.

Subjects:

Reading, Drama

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Projects, Activities, Scripts

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3 ratings

3.8

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Brown Bear Brown Bear in Sign Language

By Laura Spezzano

A children's favorite story, Brown Bear Brown Bear, can be expanded with these simple ASL instructions for retelling the story. A great way to teach about tolerance and differences. Also makes a great presentation for families once the children

Subjects:

Reading, American Sign Language

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, For Parents

$1.00

1 rating

4.0

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Pictures to use as Writing Prompts

By Laura Spezzano

When your students say they don't know what to write about pull these pictures out. These 10 pictures make great writing prompts for primary grades. They can also be used at the preschool or kindergarten level as discussion starters.

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, Writing

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Literacy Center Ideas

$0.50

4 ratings

4.0

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Fill in the blanks using Kindergarten Core Words

By Laura Spezzano

These three worksheets each contain 5 sentences with blanks in them. There are 5 Kindergarten core words listed below the sentences. The student needs to write in the correct core word. It can be used as a homework activity or in a Literacy Center.

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Homework, Literacy Center Ideas

$0.50

3 ratings

3.8

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Books to Make with Color Themes

By Laura Spezzano

This item contains pages for three books that your students can make, all dealing with colors. The first is an adaptation of Crews' Freight Train. The second is a rhyming book showing things that are each color. There are templates you can use to

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Printables

$1.00

4 ratings

3.9

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Apple Unit

By Laura Spezzano

Apples are a wonderful subject for young children to study and they offer a bushelful of lesson ideas. Late September, early October is the perfect time for this unit. October is Apple month so apples are everywhere. Also, September 26th is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Measurement, Autumn

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Lesson Plans (Bundled), Activities, Clip Art

$2.00

2 ratings

4.0

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Reading Readiness Poetry Homework

By Laura Spezzano

These are three homework pages that help children get ready to read. The fun poems are used to help the children notice print, recognize letters and learn some vocabulary. Having the parents do the activities at home with their child, also helps

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Homework, For Parents

$0.50

3 ratings

4.0

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$First Grade Math EOY practice$

First Grade Math EOY practice

By Laura Spezzano

Here are 5 pages of worksheets to review some first grade math skils such as addition, subtraction, adding 3 numbers, greater than/less than, missing addend and the commutative property of addition.

Subjects:

Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Math Test Prep

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Test Prep, Homework

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Writing Strategies

By Laura Spezzano

These three documents contains graphic cues to help early writers as well as practical instructions for teaching young children how to write. There are also helpful hints for parents so that they can support their child's learning.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Printables, For Parents

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Addition and Subtraction Practice

By Laura Spezzano

Here are worksheets and an interactive whiteboard activity to help your students practice addition and subtraction and help them understand the relationship between addition and subtraction. There are 5 worksheets and 8 interactive pages for you

Subjects:

Arithmetic, Basic Operations

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard, Homework

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Snow Themed Lessons

By Laura Spezzano

These activities are fun when the snowy weather arrives. There are writing prompts, a glyph, a dice game and a project idea related to Lois Ehlert's Snowballs. A snowman poem and illustration is also included and can also be used to teach the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Basic Operations, Winter

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Games

$1.50

1 rating

4.0

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching for 14 years in the primary grades, Pre K through 1st. I've been a classroom teacher, reading teacher and literacy coordinator. I started teaching in New York and now teach in North Carolina.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I want my students to love learning and become lifelong learners.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in elementary education.

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GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Sciences, Social Studies - History, Civics, World Language, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Music, Drama, Health, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, For All Subject Areas, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Winter, Place Value, Informational Text, American Sign Language, Handwriting, Phonics

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