Abby Farnsworth

This is activity 4 of 5 for CCSS first grade lessons we have put together. RL.1.4 standard is reached in this cute activity from the Shel Silverstein poem "Snowball". This is a great introduction to young learners for the emotion poetry can make you feel when reading.

This original story and supporting worksheets will help students examine a fiction story closer. Delve into the story of Rex and Billy looking for context clues and hidden meaning. Students will identify author, purpose, setting, plot, and sort words by parts of speech. Includes graphic organizers for /wh/ questioning, parts of speech tracking, and a reading fluency chart for tracking student progress. Space for full sentence writing will help students form complete answers. This is a print

This activity includes a sequencing chart for the students to complete as they explore retelling a story while looking at key ideas and details. This hits on 2 CCSS...RL.1.1 and RL.1.2 If you find this activity helpful please give us a rating! Thanks.

A complete assessment packet for early learners of addition. Each sheet reviews one addend. Packets includes addends 1-10 with 25 problems on each page. Students can use the page for timed sprint in class, homework, or quiz review. Problems are listed in order to aid the students in finding a pattern. You want students to see addition as a pattern of adding on the addend and NOT as a series of facts to memorize in isolation.

This school readiness assessment is helpful for gauging the abilities of Pre-K and Kindergarten students. Packet includes everything you need to start a portfolio. The assessment can be used quarterly to show growth or for incoming student leveling within the classroom. Includes color, letter, number, and shape recognition tasks; quantity and counting to 5; vocabulary prompts; writing samples; and drawing samples. Aligned with expectations for school readiness, NOT inclusive of all Kindergar

This is a matching game for expanding vocabulary by teaching synonyms at an early level. Many sight words are used for easy word recognition and support. This is an engaging activity that is good for centers or small group work.

Simply print this packet and your lesson planning for a graphing unit is done- for 2 WEEKS! Two-week outline lists standards for grades 1 & 2 with a focus on reading and creating graphs from tables, charts, or raw data. All pages are useful for assessment or homework purposes. Your Principal will LOVE the blend of literature and math and you will SAVE HOURS of work pulling resources. Includes: 10 days of class activities 5 book titles to consider for your math library* 9 worksheets for w

This activity was made to try to take some of the headache out of teaching (or reteaching) letter sizing and formation for the primary teacher. Students engage in their own learning with this lesson that has them putting lower-case letters of the alphabet into the compartments where they belong physically (tall, small or letters that fall below the line). This activity is great for small group or independent centers.

Help your students bridge from concrete to pictorial number sense with the easy to learn and easier to play board game. Can be used as a partner activity with quick printing or printed in color, laminated, and made into a long-lasting center activity. Students will need one die for round one and two dice for round two.

Hone your children's ability to understand numbers to 100 with five different hidden word activities! Each one comes with scripted teacher answer key and a page for students to color along. Level one asks students to find one more, one less, numbers to the right and to the left, as well as the number between two numbers. Students will love coloring and trying to guess what the word might be! Rotate through pictures from every level again and again to build solid number sense. Print and Go!

This simple worksheet will help your students organize parts of speech to make a descriptive sentence. The first page offers an example sentence while the second page has the first space blank for assessment purpose. This will help your students see how sentences are made up of parts. To extend the activity have your students write sentence in which the subject is not the first part of the sentence. Can they write multiple sentences using the same parts in a different order? Students can use

A great activity for building, reading, writing, and learning sight words. This can be done as a small group (teacher directed) or as an independent word study center. This is the complete packet and includes all 9 pages. My class sight word recognition has soared by using this strategy... I think yours will too!

An informational reading activity that meets the CCSS for this time of first grade. This activity compares and contrasts the North and South Poles and includes a brainstorming list and activity page along with 2 reading passages.

This thirty-two page packet includes word problems for reviewing or assessing operation and algebraic standards. Each page has numeral and number words side by side. Students will love the story related graphics and the ease of use for organizing information. Try a page a day for morning work, team work, or assessing mastery. Can be laminated for math center work time or for students to work independently before explaining their work to the class. Follow us on Facebook, TPT or our blog fo

This Bingo game with 4 different game boards includes numerals, number words, and subitizing dots for numbers 1-10. This activity helps students learn the three ways to represent numbers in a fun and interactive whole or small group game. Includes 4 different Bingo boards, caller cards and a graphic organizer for tracking the calling cards

A Comparing/Contrasting printable activity that includes 2 stories and a venn diagram. The informational text is aligned with CCSS and is fun and interesting for the students to read. Great for large group read alouds and targets specific comprehension skills.

This sight word assessment is meant to be used as a quick, non-formal, interactive and engaging tool to measure sight word knowledge. If the student recognizes and correctly reads the sight word, they color it and the teacher checks it off the record keeping sheet. A great way to empower the learner and a visual for portfolio reference.

Do you students struggle with positional words and following directions carefully? Use this sheet as a fun way to get your kids listening, coloring in the lines, and learning ordinal, positional, and number words. Kids have a blast coloring and you get a quick visual assessment tool to gauge student comprehension and skill mastery of common core math standards.

Students can progress in spelling ability quicker using an easy to fill in beginning, middle, ending sound chart. Practice segmenting and blending any words from your phonics program. Pages include an intro page to send home for studying, student-created word find, scrabble letter decoder activity, and blank page for end of week student assessment. Beginning, middle, and ending sound chart must be filled in by the teacher at the start of the week so students get an idea of the format. Example:

This cooperative spinner game will help students learn how to record data in both bar graph and tally chart tables. Activity can be done with one of two spinners with different results each time they play for endless ways to practice recording data. 32 questions to answer based on the graph results will help students learn the language of data analysis. Students can record each spin on individual or team charts and complete an assessment page for credit.