Elizabeth Banco

This set of 10 vowel digraph (teams) word sorts are the perfect engaging activity for students learning the different vowel spelling patterns. This set features sorts with oi/oy, au/aw, ai/ay, ee/ea, ou/ow, oa/ow, and more! Your kids will thoroughly enjoy these simply and easy to do word sorts with pictures and examples to help them grasp the concepts of vowel digraph spellings.

Get your kiddos excited about non-fiction writing with this fun and organized All About Book writing unit!! All students do is choose a topic and gather materials for research, and this unit takes them the rest of the way! Included Resources: - All About Book Planning form (brainstorming ideas) - All About Book Rough Draft Form (helps kids to plan out each section of their book) - All About Book Template with pages for - All About Book Cover Page - Table of Contents

This fun and comprehensive animal unit will keep your students accountable for their learning!! This unit covers animal classification and all of the animal groups (Mammals, Birds, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Insects) and all of the Animal Habitats (Rainforest, Desert, Woodlands, Ocean, Grasslands, Arctic, Pond/Lake, & Farm). But the best part is the student response booklets for each so your kiddos can record what they have learned! HERE IS WHAT IS INCLUDED: * ANIMAL GROUP POSTERS

This Common Core Fairy Tale Unit is designed to help you instill a love of fairy tales AND fractured fairy tales within your students while holding them accountable for their learning. This unit features various reading response activities that will help your students learn to infer, compare and contrast, choose and expand upon an opinion, and much more!! Some responses are versatile and can be used with any fairy tale or fractured fairy tale of your choice, and some are designed to be used wit

This rhyming words match game is a simple, yet effective tool to use as a Literacy Center or Daily 5 Word Work Station for instruction and/or practice with rhyming words. The pictures and words on each card are simple and easy to read, making this activity an interactive and engaging experience for young children.

Take the confusion out of writing different types of poetry with this user friendly poetry booklet for your students!! This kid-friendly booklet introduces students to all different types of poetry including COUPLETS, HAIKU, CINQUAIN, FREE VERSE, LIMERICK, SHAPE POEM, COLOR POEM, and ACROSTIC!! For each type of poetry it gives an explanation of the format and an example...so no more "Mrs.______, what do I do again??" Before getting into specific types of poetry, though, this handly little

This all-in-one behavior management system gives you everything you need to manage student behavior in your classroom and communicate it effectively to parents on a daily basis. The clip chart system allows you to use a combination of both positive reinforcement for good choices and negative reinforcement for poor choices in the classroom. Students can use clothespins to move up and down on the clip chart throughout the day. The behavior calendars can be used to communicate daily behavior to

This 1st or 2nd grade word sort features the vowel digraph oi & oy. Students will sort the given words into the correct column. And the best news is... no cutting involved!

If you are looking for a fun, interactive, and comprehensive set of word work activities to give your students practice with vowel digraphs that requires minimal work and prep on your part, this is for you!! This pack contains 27 meaningful activities (9 for each vowel digraph pair - ai/ay, ee/ea, & oa/ow) to be used in Literacy Centers, Daily 5 Word Work Stations, or for independent seat work. Each activity helps review vowel digraphs, and the only materials needed for some of the activitie

If you are looking for a fun, interactive, and comprehensive set of word work activities to give your students practice with vowel digraphs that requires minimal work and prep on your part, this is for you!! This pack contains 27 meaningful activities (9 for each vowel digraph pair - ie/igh, ou/ow, oo/oo) to be used in Literacy Centers, Daily 5 Word Work Stations, or for independent seat work. Each activity helps review vowel digraphs, and the only materials needed for some of the activities

Immerse your students in informational text with this fun and engaging project-based learning activity! All you need is some magazines and this non-fiction text feature booklet, and your students will be well on their way to being able to identify and describe the purpose of all the non-fiction text features listed below. This project can be used as an assessment, a fun partner activity, a cooperative learning group activity, or an individual activity. Use all the features, or just the o

Articles, flyers, recipes, and more!! This collection of 9 HIGH INTEREST non-fiction texts will expose your students to all different genres of non-fiction reading. Comprehensions questions are paired with each text and cover finding text evidence, main idea, cause & effect, author's purpose, asking questions, and more. These are great for teaching how to be a "text detective," for close reading activities, and even for use as an assessment/cold read. Texts in this pack are: 1) Pred

This little booklet is a perfect activity or culminating review for your kids to learn about how we eat plants! This booklet allows your kids to write and illustrate all the different kinds of plant parts that we eat. Example: Broccoli is a flower, and beans are seeds...

This fun and interactive Literacy Station and Word Work puzzle game will help your students learn the different consonant blends that often appear at the beginnings of words. Students will match the pictures to which consonant blend they begin with in a fun puzzle format! Just cut out and laminate, and you're ready to roll! The Common Core Standards K.RF.2 and 1.RF.2 are addressed in this blends puzzle game: CCSS.K.RF.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonem

This collection of resources is for teaching your little ones about summarizing, using the format "Somebody-Wanted-But-So." Every fiction story can pretty much be summarized using this trick (Cinderella wanted to go to the ball, but her stepmother wouldn't let her, so her fairy godmother helped her and she got to go.) It contains the following: * Introduction to Somebody,Wanted,But,So * SWBS Poster * SWBS Fairy Tale Example Poster * 3 SWBS Response/Recording Sheets * SWBS flip book template

This pack of "No Fuss" interactive short vowel word work activities is PERFECT for the teacher who is tired of all the cutting and laminating!! This pack contains 35 meaningful activities (7 for each vowel) to be used in Literacy Centers, Daily 5 Word Work Stations, or for independent seat work. Each activity helps review short vowels, and the only materials needed for some of the activities is a dice and scissors. Just print and make copies for your students!! For each vowel (A,E, I, O, &

This pack of "No Fuss" interactive short vowel word work activities is PERFECT for the teacher who is tired of all the cutting and laminating!! This pack contains 35 meaningful activities (7 for each vowel) to be used in Literacy Centers, Daily 5 Word Work Stations, or for independent seat work. Each activity helps review short vowels, and the only materials needed for some of the activities is a dice and scissors. Just print and make copies for your students!! For each long vowel (a_e, e_e, i_

This 140+ page unit is the last resource you will need to meet the literacy needs of your K-2 students in small groups. This guide contains lesson templates, games, activities, word lists, word/picture sorts, word games, posters, etc. (all written for Common Core Standards for K and 1) on the following skills: Tricky Letters (b and d) - B and D Poster "bed" trick poster - B and D handwriting posters - B and D sort Beginning Sounds - Beginning Sound picture s

This is a set of two word work activities to review the short vowels e, o, and u. It includes a "write the room" activity where students hunt for pictures around the room with short e, o, and u vowels (included) that correspond to numbers on their recording sheet. Students have to spell the word using the short vowel sound on their recording sheet. The 2nd Word Work activity is a scavenger hunt where students have to find words with the short e, o, and u sounds in their books.

Your students will want to "eat up" this matching game on proper nouns. In this game, your students will have to sort through the cupcake tops and bottoms to match the common noun its corresponding proper noun. This game is a perfect Word Work or Literacy Center activity. Enjoy!