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These 8.5 x 11 sized talk bubble pages feature a diverse group of famous people who overcame challenges and adversity. Each page contains a cartoon representation of each person with a short summary of how each person triumphed over the adversity in their lives.  The summaries are written at a lower to mid Elementary level.   There are also 1-2 motivational quote posters for each famous person. The following people are included in this document:Oprah Winfrey Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking Betha

Blast Foundations Heart Words Assessment/Checklist By Unit is an easy way to Progress Monitor students' learning of Heart Words (sight words or high frequency words) in this program from Really Great Reading. This PDF product includes a page for Teachers/Adults to use to assess each student in every Unit (3-24) as well as 2 pages that can be laminated for students to read from. For printable flashcards of these Heart Words, Click Here.

These color by sight word pages are designed to supplement instruction with the Edmark Program. These pages come in color and black and white for ease of printing. The pages follow the teaching order for Edmark in lessons 1-10 of the program. They can be used in small group, as a center, for reinfocement and extra practice of sight words. The words practiced in the coloring pages are: horse a car yellow see ball and fish boy I Thanks for your interest! Check out my store for more Edmark s

This resource is to help reading teachers and literacy instructors plan appropriate goals for students learning to read.  I use this calculation to create IEP goals and progress monitor those goals. It is also used for creating goals for the IAT / MTSS processes, 3rd-grade reading guarantee progress (TGRG), and classroom reading goals. This calculation should be used in conjunction with Acadience (DIBELS) Oral Reading Fluency (Benchmark and Progress Monitoring) Passages. You can access Acadience

Brand New! Heart Word Flashcards (sight words) for extra practice and use with Blast Foundations in the Really Great Reading Program. In PDF Format. Each Heart Word is on its own card. You will notice a number floating close to each word. This number represents the Unit in which the heart word is introduced. I chose to place this number close to the words so students are less likely to cut off the Unit numbers when cutting out their Hear Word/sight word cards. Also, look for my Blast Foundatio

Teachers are BUSY, Overwhelmed, and looking for time savers! So I created this Google Sheets resource to help reading teachers and literacy instructors "automatically" calculate an entire classroom of appropriate oral reading fluency goals for each student learning to read.  I use this calculation to create IEP goals and progress monitor those goals. It is also used for creating goals for the IAT / MTSS processes, 3rd-grade reading guarantee progress (TGRG), and classroom reading goals. This au

I created these word recognition slides to help motivate my students to practice the words they have been taught in Edmark Level 2 as part of an individual or whole group activity. The words are organized in the order they are taught with the first word "time" being the first slide in the deck and so on. There is one word on each slide. These slides could also be printed 2 - 6 slides to one page to be used as Flashcards, Task Cards, or as part of a Word Wall. See my Edmark Level 1 Practice Sli

I created these word recognition slides to help motivate my students to practice the words they have been taught in Edmark Level 1 as part of an individual or whole group activity. The words are organized in the order they are taught with the first word "horse" being the first slide in the deck and so on. There is one word on each slide. The first 34 words have fiction and non-fiction photos to help students with comprehension. This resource will be updated when more photos are added. These

FREE Labels for Small Plastic Drawer Organizer with Pictures I created this to use in my classroom. I wanted labels that included picture image icons so students who have difficulty reading could still find the items they were looking for. Special Thanks to Kristen Meek who created the clip art graphics from Full On Sunshine.

This file contains 20, no prep, fun, quick, time filler/ boredom buster task card activities (including 8 blank cards for you to create your own) to keep on hand when you find yourself needing to give students something to do while waiting in line. These task cards are designed to be adult-led activities to help students with short attention spans, or students who tend to get into trouble during times of transition by giving them something fun and creative to do. A couple options for use could