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Cause & Effect for 1st and 2nd Grades

By Patty Rutenbar

If I do this, what will happen? Your students can find out the answer to that question by practicing with these pictures and phrases.They will ...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

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Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

26 ratings

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Ou & Ow Spellings (Color and Black & White)

By Patty Rutenbar

It's hard to know if you spell a word with the letters ou or ow. . . This activity will help your child practice looking at pictures and deciding...

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas, Task Cards

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27 ratings

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Vowel Teams Sweep!

By Patty Rutenbar

Those pesky vowel teams are tough to learn! I'm hoping this game will produce better readers and quick thinkers when it comes to this skill. Th...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

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

Types:

Fun Stuff, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

16 ratings

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Controlled R Spellings

By Patty Rutenbar

Those funky controlled r words can be difficult to spell. Is it ir? er? or ur? Sometimes kids just need the practice to LOOK at the word to see i...

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Literacy Center Ideas

$2.00

7 ratings

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Words in Context-Community Members

By Patty Rutenbar

Words in Context is a quick activity that can be used in centers, small groups, or even as a Scoot game with your whole class. Each card has a se...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Character Education

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

9 ratings

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Multiplication Cards

By Patty Rutenbar

This set of mulitiplication task cards contains both color and added black and white copies for those who can't copy in color. The clip art and ...

Subjects:

Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Other (Math)

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Math Centers

$3.00

6 ratings

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Pumpkin Pronouns in Color and Black & White

By Patty Rutenbar

Students need to know what a pronoun is and how to match it to the noun that means the same thing. This activity is made with DJ Inkers clipart a...

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

9 ratings

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Snownouns for Winter Pronouns

By Patty Rutenbar

This activity will help your child practice switching pronouns for the words they stand for. It's similar to my Halloween and Thanksgiving pronou...

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Winter

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

9 ratings

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Thanksgiving Thoughts Fact & Opinion

By Patty Rutenbar

This activity centers on reading passages and deciding if they are a fact or an opinion. Each card has a picture that helps them focus on the top...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Thanksgiving

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

10 ratings

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Thanksgiving Pronouns

By Patty Rutenbar

This pronoun activity is very similar to my Halloween Pronoun activity. It's just a different holiday. In this set you'll find 21 different cards...

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Thanksgiving

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

10 ratings

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Word Problems with Charts & Graphs

By Patty Rutenbar

If your students take the NWEA or MAPS test, these practice cards just may help them prepare for it. Each card shows a chart or a graph with a qu...

Subjects:

Graphing, Math Test Prep, Word Problems

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Test Prep, Math Centers

$4.00

10 ratings

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Winter Prefix Fight - Un, Dis, & Re

By Patty Rutenbar

Common Core asks our students to know common prefixes and suffixes. This activity lets your students learn the meanings of un, re, and dis. There...

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Winter

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

10 ratings

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Springy Pronouns

By Patty Rutenbar

This activity has 24 cards with sentences on each one. Your students must find the pronoun that matches the underlined words in the sentence. If ...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Spring

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

15 ratings

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Candy Corn Place Value in Color

By Patty Rutenbar

This Halloween activity is great for your kids to learn more about expanded notation. The numbers and their values are mixed up so they have to t...

Subjects:

Math Test Prep, Halloween, Place Value

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Math Centers

$3.00

7 ratings

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Monster Place Value

By Patty Rutenbar

Who doesn't love these cute little monsters? Just in time for Halloween! They can help your child enjoy finding the words that match the values o...

Subjects:

Halloween, Place Value

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Flash Cards, Math Centers

$3.00

6 ratings

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Halloween Fact & Opinion

By Patty Rutenbar

Second graders can handle separating fact and opinion. This activity is especially fun because it is centered around one of their favorite holida...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Halloween

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

5 ratings

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Contraction Spellings

By Patty Rutenbar

Learning how to write contractions can be tough. I know my 2nd graders struggle with it, so I can imagine that some 3rd and 4th graders also have...

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Printables, Literacy Center Ideas, Task Cards

$2.00

11 ratings

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Apple Addition Splits

By Patty Rutenbar

There are 30 apples with addition problems on them. There are 30 apples with the answers on them. Students will need to think about the tens and ...

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Back to School, Place Value

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Computation, Math Centers

$3.00

13 ratings

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Love Bug Valentine Facts and Opinions

By Patty Rutenbar

Thanks for stopping by! I know you'll love this fact and opinion activity because it is filled with CUTE DJ Inkers clip art © www.djinkers.com. ...

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Valentine's Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Fun Stuff, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

4 ratings

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Spellings with silent e or not

By Patty Rutenbar

Many students don't know whether to stick an e at the end of a word or not, so they just do because they think that's what they are supposed to d...

Subjects:

Spelling, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Literacy Center Ideas

$3.00

5 ratings

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have 36 years in 2nd grade

MY TEACHING STYLE

I like to teach in small groups while my students are either doing seat work or centers. We do whole group lessons once in a while.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I was honored to be named Teacher of the Year in my district.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor of Science from Central Michigan University in 1978 Master of Elementary Education from Western Michigan University in 1983.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I'm a mom to two who are also teachers, and who married teachers. And I married a teacher too!

GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Geometry, Graphing, Numbers, Order of Operations, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Math Test Prep, Life Skills, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Character Education, Word Problems, Problem Solving, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Handwriting, Test Preparation, Phonics