Fanciful First Grade

A quick and simple (double-sided if you prefer) graphic organizer for vocabulary development with your students. Print them as single sheets to hand out each week (or as necessary) or print a "booklet" worth and create a vocabulary booklet for your students by binding them with binding combs. :)

Student-friendly "just right" book report templates for guided reading levels A-H books and readers. No fuss printables for the busy primary teacher who also pulls small groups for guided reading. These easy to follow book reports can serve as either a guided reading small group extensions, to assist students in retelling a story, or as weekly send home book reports. The goal and focus changes in each of the 3 templates included. GENERAL FOCUS: -title -author -illustrator -characters SPECIFI

Differentiated 1-40 number charts that are pig/farm themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Do you need a quick morning warm up or spiral review of the alphabets for practice in the class or at home? My kinder. team wanted a weekly sheet to review letters, but we kept using the same boring tracing sheet that just had letters. Looking to spice things up and embed my monthly themes, I created these alphabet charts. My students loved them! They also improved in their letter alphabet identification and...(gasp...) letter formation. I know penmanship isn't a part of the standards, but I

Use these charts as a daily warm-up for the beginning of kindergarten. Each chart has 4 rows. Same format to build independence. Row 1 read the number (and/or trace the number with pencil or finger) Row 2 count and color the representational picture Row 3 trace the number Row 4 independently write the number or draw a representational picture Check out my other themed number charts. =)

Differentiated 1-30 number charts that are Easter/spring themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Sight word practice for guided reading. These words are from Jan Richardson's book Next Step Forward in Guided Reading (lists A-C). What's Missing will allow your students to self practice identifying the missing letters in sight words she/he has been taught during class or small group guided reading. You may also use these for homework to scaffold sight word review. Let me know your thoughts. I'll be posting additional lists soon. Cheers! =)

Daily 5 listening station or partner reading or independent reading + RIGOR = comprehension questions leveled with BLOOM's TAXONOMY. :) This file consists of: -2 pages of comprehension questions for each story *"Winners Never Quit" by Mia Hamm *"The Kite" by Arnold Lobel ***UPDATED 2/23 (added): -"Homes" by Abby Jackson (Imagine It! specific) -"Finding Shelter" by Daphne Butler (Imagine It! specific) -"Homes Around the World" by Deborah Eaton (Imagine It! specific) These 2 (+3) stories are p

Imagine It!, Dolch words, Fry's list, and district mandated. These are the 4 resources that I based my first grade sight word list on this year. A quick list of 192 words AND individual take-home notes to test your students on at his/her independent level each week or bi-weekly. -2 pages that list the 192 sight words for the year -10 pages of "test lists" to send home and to keep records of testing Quick and easy for the busy teacher trying to manage sight word testing and individualize the l

A quick and simple (double-sided if you prefer) graphic organizer for vocabulary development with your students. Modified Frayer Model vocabulary template. Grammalogue means a word represented by a sign or symbol. Each box could be used as visual representations for lower grades or ELD students. Print them as single sheets to hand out each week (or as necessary) or print a "booklet" worth and create a vocabulary booklet for your students by binding them with binding combs. :)

Sight word practice for guided reading. These words are from Jan Richardson's book Next Step Forward in Guided Reading (lists D-I). What's Missing will allow your students to self practice identifying the missing letters in sight words she/he has been taught during class or small group guided reading. You may also use these for homework to scaffold sight word review. Let me know your thoughts. Cheers! =)

Here is a book report template for a reader at level A-B/1-2 (depending on your guided reading curriculum). Very basic and EL supportive. The focus is on identifying: -title -author -illustrator -characters -main idea/focus of story -like/dislike story -favorite part with illustration box

Are you teaching about pumpkins? The life cycle of a pumpkin is a fun unit to teach in the fall! Included in this mini pack is: *Pumpkin Life Cycle writing templates (3 - scaffolded sequencing, blank sequencing, free writing w/vocabulary scaffold) *Pumpkin Life Cycle (whole class) sequencing picture cards (COLOR) *Pumpkin Life Cycle (independent/partner) sequencing pictures (B&W) *Pumpkin Booklet (Guided Reading EMERGENT level) - read, trace, color (sight words: I, can, see, the) *Pumpkin

Here's a quick missing beginning sounds practice set for the following letters: b c n p m r s t Some of my kindergarten students are still struggling with identifying the correct beginning/initial sound of a word and labeling it with the matching letter. This could be used whole class or in small groups. If used in small groups, I would actually give each student a set of the targeted letters to touch and use to place on each picture PRIOR to having them record the letter. Encourage y

Differentiated 1-30 number charts that are St. Patrick's themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Quick part-part-whole Valentine's themed number bonds. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, homework, or Valentine's themed math practice of putting together. Use candy conversation hearts as your counting manipulatives to go with the theme or use any math manipulative that you have handy in your class. 6 English and 6 Spanish pages are included. Also, blank templates are included for teacher's convenience in order to allow for differentiation for your class. Enjoy! :)

Quick reading reflection using "MY FAVORITE PART" as the focus. Just PRINT and GO! Use these two Scholastic stories, that are also available on CD, as a read aloud (or in your listening station). A sentence frame is provided to support your scholars in writing a complete sentence to explain why he/she liked that part the most. Stories included: 1. Where's the Big Bad Wolf? 2. The Three Little Aliens and The Big Bad Robot

Imagine It!, Dolch words, Fry's list, and district mandated. These are the 4 resources that I based my first grade sight word list on this year. A quick list of 192 words AND individual take-home notes to test your students on at his/her independent level each week or bi-weekly. -2 pages that list the 192 sight words for the year -10 pages of "test lists" to send home and to keep records of testing Quick and easy for the busy teacher trying to manage sight word testing and individualize the le

Here's the follow up lessons I taught after spending several lessons using concrete manipulatives to build students' understanding of "The Magic 10". These are NOT first day lessons, but follow-up lessons using base ten block pictorial representation. In these lessons, students are counting to the magical number 10, whether it's 10 ones or 10 tens, and bundling that group together. They then record how many hundreds, tens, or ones are represented in each problem and write the number in standard

PLC, PBIS, Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, etc... All good things that many schools have and are embracing. I really created this for my students (because I wanted the cheesy slogans "Growth Mindset" & "Growing Dendrites" {= ), so that they can set a goal for reading, writing, math, behavior, and/or for the year. Let me know if you like my first attempt at clip art in this freebie and as always...CHEERS! =)