Alison Barton

This worksheet is used when you are teaching your class about making predictions. Start a story, discussing small predictions along the way. Stop at a particular spot and have the students go to write their prediction of what will happen next. This particular sheet has a detective on it and I used it for the mystery story "Piggins." The kids LOVED it!

This activity is perfect for a word work station. Students are matching words with suffixes -y and -ly to their definition. There is a recording sheet for the students to record the base word, suffix, and definition.

This activity has a short, fun poem that includes 6 metaphors. The directions tell the students to underline the 6 metaphors and then has a place for the students to explain one of the metaphors.

This is a great Kagan activity to use at the beginning of the year with your students. It will help the students get to know one another and start to build upon your positive classroom community. The students enjoy it!

This product includes a list of the blends and sight words that are introduced in the BOB Books Stage 1- Starting to Read series. This series includes Set 1 Beginning Readers, First Stories, and Rhyming Words. This product organizes which blends and sight words are introduced during each book in the series.

Attach this tag to a goodie bag filled with items in the survival kit. It is a great gift for students at the beginning of the year!

This Novel Study goes with the novel Space Case by Stuart Gibbs. It has an activity per chapter along with 3 vocabulary words per chapter. The chapter activities are engaging writing activities, such as creating haikus or a character analysis.

Use this sheet for your children to write promises to the Earth on Earth Day. Hang it onto the bottom of an Earth that they make.

Use this organizer for students to create a poem inspired by Eloise Greenfield's "Honey I Love." I have also included a print out to put on a bulletin board with the students' poems.

This quiz-quiz-trade game is perfect for a getting to know you activity for the beginning of the year or as a way to teach how quiz-quiz-trade works. You could even use it for a brain break in your classroom. It has 26 cards and non-academic questions such as "What is your favorite fast food restaurant?" and "Would you rather turn into a bird or a fish?"

Do a minilesson on character development. Use this organizer to have your students develop characters. The students brainstorm about their characters and use this organizer. When they are writing, their characters will come to life because they will already know all about them!

Read the students My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. Have the students write metaphors about their own colored days.

The students will read these short stories with a partner to determine which character is telling the story. They must include the text evidence that proves the point of view.

Use these short 3-questions quizzes to assess your students' knowledge about each chapter of "Blast Off! Alien in my Pocket."

Use these writing task cards at a writing station. They have short, engaging writing activities for the students to do during a station rotation.

Students create an alliteration using their name. Example- Sally sits sadly in the sun.

This multiple-day lesson teaches measurement using inches, feet, and yards. It is Princess and the Pea themed. My kids LOVED it!

This is a question sheet for students to answer after/during watching the Magic School Bus- Lost in Space video.

Students will create similes to fill in this mother's day poem.

Use this reading interest inventory at the beginning of the year to learn about your students' opinions on reading.