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These hand signal posters are meant to be used during Number Talks. Number Talks is based off the book "Number Talks" by Sherry Parrish. The student places a hand close to their chest to signal to the teacher without distracting other students.

For this activity you will need to purchase a class set of suckers or lollipops. Have students observe the size of their sucker. Students lick the sucker 100 times and place a check mark in a box each time they lick. After they lick 100 times have students decide if the size of their sucker changed. My students loved this activity!

This bundle of red word cards is based on the sight word list from the Orton Gillingham Phonics First program. These cards can be used as display cards or used on a word wall. The words included in the Layer One list are: a, I, the, for, is, and, see, has, of, was, he, to, his, go, she, by, do, from, put, how, you, saw, come, what, want, does, have, who, are, they. The words included in the Layer Two list are: as, all, or, give, any, your, here, why, there, her, been, say, one, where, says, goe

This set of red word cards is based on the sight word list from the Orton Gillingham Phonics First program. These cards can be used as display cards or used on a word wall. The words included in this list are: a, I, the, for, is, and, see, has, of, was, he, to, his, go, she, by, do, from, put, how, you, saw, come, what, want, does, have, who, are, they. If you are interested in Layer 2 red words check out my Layer 1 and 2 bundle!

Do your students need help choosing a "right fit" book? One strategy to help them is to use the 5 Finger Rule! Students open any book to any page and start reading. When they come to a word they don't know they put up a finger. The number of fingers they are holding up will help them determine if the book is a just right book, too easy, or too hard. My students use this daily!

If you are teaching types of sentences you can use these cute little punctuation people to help students remember the different types of sentences! Hang these on your wall or Literacy Board for students to use as a resource.

Do you give your students weekly spelling tests? This Spelling Test assessment can be used to assess student's knowledge of spelling words, while also giving them handwriting practice using lines correctly.

Are you teaching prefixes in your class? If the answer to this question is YES, then you NEED the Prefix Poster Pack! I have created prefix posters/anchor charts for the 40 most common prefixes. Each poster includes the prefix, the meaning of the prefix, and four example words. All you have to do is print, laminate if you choose, and voila! They are ready to hang on your wall. Your students will have an instant resource to help them remember the meanings of common prefixes. The prefixes includ

Are you studying pumpkins in your class? Use these sentence strips and cards in a pocket chart as a whole group activity or at a center to have students retell the story of Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington.

This set of red word cards is based on the sight word list from the Orton Gillingham Phonics First program. These cards can be used as display cards or used on a word wall. The words included in Layer 3 are: off, sure, said, knew, great, such, much, know, could, would, should, new, too, also, once, always, were, its, whose, only, won, through, against, other, move, though, because, thought, enough. The words included in Layer 4 are: above, across, wear, around, almost, bought, toward, anyone, al

This set of red word cards is based on the sight word list from the Orton Gillingham Phonics First program. These cards can be used as display cards or used on a word wall. The words included in the Layer Two list are: as, all, or, give, any, your, here, why, there, her, been, say, one, where, says, goes, some, done, again, very, many, look, our, which, every, live, their, about, even, own, gone, watch. To purchase Layer 1 and Layer 2, you can purchase the bundle here! https://www.teacherspay

In a response for stronger reading education, programs are being put in place to train educators in the Science of Reading. To help strengthen reading education, we as educators, need to focus on changing instructional practices in the classroom and incorporating the knowledge and practices of the Science of Reading. Students need to be taught based on scientific reading instruction. One piece of scientific reading instruction is morphology. In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how

This product was created for students to use for daily journal writing. Each day has a theme – Imagination Monday, Tell Me About it Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday, This or That Thursday, and Free Choice Friday. 40 Weeks of Writing Prompts 4 Weeks per month, August - May Seasonal Prompts Each page includes one week of prompts, Monday-Friday. They are designed to be cut into strips and then glued into a composition book, spiral notebook, or at the top of a piece of paper. They can be used as bell wo

Why do students need to know the four different types of sentences? Knowing the sentence types and how to use them correctly can help students improve their writing and communication skills. Using a variety of sentence types can help keep writing fresh and interesting. Use this product in conjunction with The Writing Revolution or when you are teaching sentence level writing. **Product Includes: -4 Anchor Charts (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory) -1 Guided Notes Page -1 Mu

These colorful days of the week organization labels are sure to help you get organized! The labels fit the standard Sterilite 3 drawer organizer. Labels include Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Need to Copy.

Learning Through Literature is a unit focused on reading skills that is designed for 4th Grade, but appropriate for 3rd and 5th grades as well with modifications/adjustments. The books used in this unit are: Snowflake Bentley - Character Development The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Setting Bedhead - Plot Jumanji - Problem and Solution Chicken Sunday - Summarizing What to do With an Idea - Theme In Learning Through Literature you will find skill posters, graphic organizers, interactive notebook

In my former teacher life I taught Kindergarten and 1st Grade students who read books with very few pages. Fast forward to teaching in a 4th Grade classroom and the majority of my students are in chapter books. Those same students never have bookmarks! They went through countless Post It note pads to use as bookmarks my first year. I began my bookmark creating when I designed personalized bookmarks for my homeroom class as Christmas gifts. They were a huge hit and the students never asked for a

Do your students need to build their reading stamina? So many students are missing the ability to focus and read independently for an extended period of time without being distracted or distracting others. Improving reading stamina will help not only help build reading fluency, but also comprehension, and reading vocabulary.

Are you working on writing at the sentence level? Do your students need help writing sentences with varied sentence structure? Practicing appositives will help your students with an effective strategy for creating topic and conclusion sentences. It will also enable students to add more information to a sentence and add complexity. This product includes an anchor chart and practice pages for identifying appositives, matching appositives, and creating sentences using appositives.

Are you working on writing at the sentence level? Do your students need to expand on their ideas and learn how to develop strong sentences? Beginning with kernel sentences and moving into photographs and passages, students will begin to develop strong sentence construction skills and see how they can expand sentences. > Kernel Sentence Expansion > Photo Caption Writing > Note Taking + Sentence Expansion > Sentence Expansion Check (Quiz)