Authentic Adventures

These differentiated graphic organizers are the perfect addition to reading centers or to a lesson on author's purpose.

It’s time to go apple picking! This differentiated Read the Room activity is an engaging way to practice essential Common Core skills while meeting the needs of all your students. In this activity, students search for 10 apples (red or green depending on ability level) that feature words containing short a vowels. Red apples include a picture for those students who may need some extra help! The students sort the words by word family on the recording sheet. 20 apple activity cards and a recording

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

It’s time to fly some kites! This differentiated Read the Room activity is an engaging way to practice essential Common Core skills while meeting the needs of all your students. In this activity, students search for 10 kites (red or green depending on ability level) that feature words containing “long i” vowels. Red kites include a picture for those students who may need some extra help! The students sort the words by their word family on the recording sheet. 20 kite activity cards and a recordi

These challenge cards were created as a way to differentiate my Common Core Math Meetings (found in my store). I cut out challenge cards 1-10 and put them on a ring. My fast finishers who perform consistently well on the Math Meetings and need a challenge grab a ring of challenge cards. If they finish a problem quickly during the Math Meeting, they can do the activity listed on the challenge card under the same number and write it next to their original answer. This is a wonderful way to keep al