Bethany Gardner

Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday and American symbols with this engaging write-the-room writing activity.  Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, or second grade, this engaging activity can be used with your 4th of July activities, social studies units, as a classroom center, whole-group activity, and more! This patriotic-themed write the room set is an engaging and effective writing activity that can be used with early and emerging writers. You may choose to use it as a literacy center, whole

Hoping to avoid summer slide?  This first grade summer reading packet and daily summer math review resource is full of engaging and effective summer bridge activities that will help rising 2nd graders continue their learning throughout the summer and be prepared for second grade. First Grade Summer Review Packet Features60 pages for efficient and effective daily practice6 different review activities on each pageIncludes a cover page and checklistPhonemic Awareness review includes: alphabetic kno

These Memorial Day writing crafts are NO PREP, engaging and effective for your little writers, and would make the perfect Memorial Day bulletin board!  With 35 unique pages students will be able to pick their favorite Memorial Day craft and simply write, color, cut, and glue. These Memorial Day writing activities are PERFECT for a whole-class writing lesson, centers, fast-finishers, writing journals, homework, and they make the cutest classroom display!  Check out the preview to see more! PRO

This Memorial Day-themed write the room set is an engaging and effective Memorial Day activities that can be used with early and emerging writers. You may choose to use it as a literacy center, whole-class activity, fast finisher, as part of your Memorial Day lesson, and more! Students will be engaged as they move around the classroom hunting for Memorial Day vocabulary words, writing them down on their recording sheets, and then completing the Memorial Day coloring page fast finisher! I LOVE

These phonics lesson teaching slides are science of reading-aligned and will be your go-to for teaching IE, IGH, and Y as Long I.*Quick Note: These are the exact slides I use to teach my first grade class phonics lessons every day!  These have made such a huge difference in my students’ reading growth and proficiency.  Make it easy on yourself and snag these as your go-to!**These slides are now part of a highly-discounted Year-Long Phonics Slides BUNDLE!*Providing our students with systematic,

This Mother's Day-themed write the room set is an engaging and effective activity that can be used with early and emerging writers. You may choose to use it as a literacy center, whole-class activity, fast finisher, and more! Students will be engaged as they move around the room hunting for Mother's Day vocabulary words and writing them down on their recording sheets. I LOVE that this one simple activity reinforces letter recognition and formation, spacing, capitalization, reading, writing,

This space-themed write the room challenge is an engaging and effective activity that can be used with early and emerging writers. You may choose to use it as a literacy center, whole-class activity, fast finisher, and more! Students will be engaged as they move around the room hunting for space/solar system/galaxy-themed vocabulary words and writing them down on their recording sheets. I LOVE that this one simple activity reinforces letter recognition and formation, spacing, capitalization,

These May 4th Star Wars activities are perfect for your space theme loving students! With galaxy and star wars coloring sheets, math activities, word searches, and MORE, these printables are engaging, NO PREP, and fun!  With ELA, math, phonics, writing and just-for-fun options, over 70 pages are included so you can find just the right activities for your space-loving students! A measurement activity, Star Wars Bingo, Space-themed Write-the-Room, puzzles, coloring, and more are included

This engaging multisyllabic roll and read activity will give your students a fun way to practice multisyllabic cvc words, multisyllabic words with vowel teams, and a variety of combinations of all 6 syllable types.  This resource includes 26 multisyllabic word lists with 4 page variations of each (with or without stars, with or without word/syllable splits), your students will love to roll and read multisyllabic words all year long! Be sure to open the product preview to take a closer look!To

With these ten science of reading-aligned ee ea ey vowel team decodable passages and mini-books you can take your readers to higher levels of decoding and reading comprehension. SOR decodables give students quality phonics-based, in-text practice as they confront tricky phonics skills like long e spelled ee or ea or ey. What are decodable texts and how do they benefit my students?These 10 unique decodable readers feature mostly decodable words including the vowel teams EE, EA, and EY phonic

This CVC Word Mapping resource is packed with 50 NO PREP science of reading-aligned practice pages that will nurture orthographic mapping in your young readers.  These short vowel worksheets feature targeted word families and essential phonics skills that nurture encoding and reading fluency.Orthographic mapping is the vital process that enables learners to make the crucial connections between phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letters and letter combinations).  Beginning as a word stored in a

Need to prepare your students for end of year Dibels or Acadience Reading testing?  These 7 engaging games will improve nonsense word fluency (NWF) and help your students master decoding VC and CVC nonsense words.  Each game includes five different versions for the ultimate nonsense word fluency practice! The following Nonsense Word fluency-building games are included:Fluency Race: students set a timer (or use a sand timer) and read as many nonsense words as they can, recording their number.

These phonics lesson teaching slides are science of reading-aligned and will be your go-to for teaching Y as Long E and Y as Long I!*Quick Note: These are the exact slides I use to teach my first grade class phonics lessons every day!  These have made such a huge difference in my students’ reading growth and proficiency.  Make it easy on yourself and snag these as your go-to!**These slides are now part of a highly-discounted Year-Long Phonics Slides BUNDLE!*Providing our students with systemati

These science of reading-aligned phonics repeated reading drills will help you nurture confident, fluent readers! Students will love trying to be fast like a Cheetah! The 88 drills include letter naming fluency, VC, CVC short vowels, blends, digraphs, FLSZ, CVCe long vowel silent e, r-controlled vowels/bossy r, long vowel teams, diphthongs, and more! Repeated reading is a highly effective strategy to improve a child’s reading fluency. When rereading strategic code-based reading lists student

DOLLAR DEAL! Students will practice representing place value by composing and decompose base ten blocks. Perfect for an Earth Day activity or center time, your students will engage in identifying the represented quantity and recording it on their recording sheet. This product features a recording sheet and twelve Earth Day-themed animal place value cards. Both color and black-and-white versions are included! Do you have any questions about this product?  Please feel free to email me at ship

This engaging Earth Day-themed sight word feed me activity is perfect for an Earth Day activity or center time. Your students will love reading the sight words, writing them on their recording sheet, and then feeding it to the Earth! This product features a recording sheet, feed me Earth and 48 sight word cards. Just attach the Earth to the top of a small plastic tub (I used one piece of tape so the earth can swing open and my students can start again when needed) and you've got yourself an e

These phonics lesson teaching slides are science of reading-aligned and will be your go-to for teaching the EE and EA vowel teams!*Quick Note: These are the exact slides I use to teach my first grade class phonics lessons every day!  These have made such a huge difference in my students’ reading growth and proficiency.  Make it easy on yourself and snag these as your go-to!**These slides are now part of a highly-discounted Year-Long Phonics Slides BUNDLE!*Providing our students with systematic,

This engaging feed me activity doubles as a recyclables sort and short vowel CVC word sort! Perfect for an Earth Day activity or center time, your students will love feeding the short vowel CVC words into the correct recycling bin! This product features a recording sheet, five recycling bins (short a = paper, short e = glass, short i = plastics, short o = organics, short u = metals) and 16 CVC word cards for each vowel for a total of 80 cards to sort and record! Just attach each bin to the t

This massive GROWING BUNDLE of Boom Cards includes every deck of Boom Cards I have ever made or will ever make! It currently includes over 300 engaging decks for your little learners and it will only continue to grow! Carefully crafted decks include math, literacy, social studies, science and monthly/seasonal themes. Students will practice a wide variety of essential skills in a fun and engaging way. Decks include fill-in-the-blanks, drag-and-drops, multiple-choice responses, open responses,

This visually engaging deck of 30 Boom Cards will teach your students all about Earth Day. This fun Earth Day activity includes 15 instructional cards and 15 multiple-choice quiz cards so students will actively engage in reading and listening comprehension. Each card features optional audio for convenience. You can access a PLAYABLE PREVIEW by clicking HERE.Why Boom Cards? Once you try out Boom Cards you'll never look back! They are self-assessing, automatically gather data, easy to use at