Forever Five

A weeks worth of Halloween noun and verb fun! The silly Halloween theme is sure to put your kiddos in the Halloween spirit and they may not even realize how much they are learning about nouns and verbs. These printables helps students practice classifying, identifying, editing, and even using nouns and verbs to make their own Halloween sentence. I hope your kiddos enjoy this as much as mine have!

I Can Edit- Capitals and Punctuation. This is a fun and engaging way to help emerging writers master writing conventions. This is a critical skill not only for beginning writers that will help practice editing skills. Suggested Use: I encourage students to use decoding skills to read the sentence first. Next, I ask students to put on their “editing goggles” and look for mistakes. Then, I tell students to rewrite the sentences while making the corrections. Finally, I let them pick their f

Beginning sounds practice with letter stamps! This series encourages isolation of beginning sounds while also providing CVC decoding practice. Encourage kiddos to use the letter bank (beginning sounds) to help build a word to match the picture. The little guys will LOVE stamping the beginning sound to build the word. Next, decode the word, look at the picture, decide if you did it right! Finally, students can pick two favorite words and write them three times each OR go for a challenge and

Helping kiddos to hear word chunks is a big step in reading AND spelling. These interactive worksheets make spelling and decoding word families fun! Students stamp the target word family, read the new word, use the picture as a self checking tool. Students even have the opportunity to decode and entire sentence, listen for a word with the target word family sound and circle it. Finally, they get to strut their stuff and create their own word family sentence! So much practice, so little time!

Help you littles learn how to identify upper and lowercase letters with these fun fruit flash cards. These cards have multiple uses. They can sort by color, tall vs short letters, consonant vs vowels, the possibilities are endless! Plus the yummy fruit theme will keep them engaged for hours.

These printables practice many early reading skills. The images are fun and interesting and your kiddos will not even realize they are practicing their sight words! First, students practice reading a CVC and sight words sentences. They must then pick one of the three sight words to best complete the sentence. This is not only great decoding practice, but students have to depend on their comprehension and knowledge of sentence structure to choose the correct word! The concepts in this section

This 26 page complete alphabet sounds packet helps make teaching individual phonemes fun! Each page is complete with a sentence to track, 3 lowercase letters to trace, 3 uppercase letter to trace, and plenty of room for independent practice. When all the hard work is done, the littles can color a large scale easy to complete graphic. I always encourage my kiddos to create their own setting around the subject as a pre-cursor to teaching story elements. They always come up with the best stori

This is part two of my best seller, I Can Edit! In this version students edit for capitals, punctuation, the pronoun I, as well as proper nouns (limited to days of the week and months of the year). Then they choose their favorite sentence and illustrate it. The addition of adding an illustration, adds a reading comprehension component. This packet contains 12 worksheet great for working on once a week for an entire Trimester! -Thanks, Heather

These fun practice sheets can help your kiddos feel successful. The dotted font allows them to practice while you are teaching in small group. The large font, capital and lowercase letters are fun to color, fill in with bingo dabbers, paint, fill will play doh, or anything that comes to your imagination! Who knew letter writing could be so fun! :) Forever Five

I am so excited about the teacher manipulatives that come along with this series. The teacher manipulatives add a hands-on element to the lesson that really gets the kiddos interested. Furthermore the teacher manipulatives add a visual to help support a wide range of learners. I made these because I wanted my worksheets to be more of a lesson than practice. With the integration of teacher manipulatives and space for students to label images I can teach so many skills at once; segmenting, ble

Thank you for your purchase! These cute robot worksheet can be used so many ways! I use them for independent practice, as a partner activity, or in an explicit lesson (for beginners), and even as an assessment. Students love to color the funny robots when they are done and I love them because they allow my students to apply their knowledge of place value. I've included a blank worksheet, so you can differentiate to fir your students' needs! Concepts Standard, expanded, and word form number

Thank you for purchasing Stamp-a-Word Family. This word family worksheet is a fun and engaging way to help emerging readers master “chunks” of sounds.. This is a critical skill not only for beginning readers but also for beginning spellers! Suggested Use: I encourage students to use decoding skills to read the sentence listening for the targeted word family. Students then stamp the word family to build each word. I ask the kiddos to decode the new word and check to see if it matched the pi

Why use story maps? They improve students' comprehension. They provide students with a framework for identifying the elements of a story. They help students of varying abilities organize information and ideas efficiently. I keep these by my library. When students turn them in, they receive a nickel for their classroom banks! It always makes me smile to read the completed map.

I love it when the kiddos are ready to learn and recognize chunks of sounds. This "stamp" format make building CVC words a TON OF FUN! DONT HAVE STAMPS? This worksheet DOES NOT have to be used with stamps. Students can write the word family instead. Differentiated Use (writing lines): For those not quite ready to compose a sentence; write your favorite word three times each. Explicit sentence lesson using an -AT family word. Some of my kiddos are ready to write independently. I ask t

Thank you for purchasing Stamp-a-Word Family. This word family worksheet is a fun and engaging way to help emerging readers master “chunks” of sounds.. This is a critical skill not only for beginning readers but also for beginning spellers! Suggested Use: I encourage students to use decoding skills to read the sentence listening for the targeted word family and circle. Students then stamp the word family to build each word. I ask the kiddos to decode the new word and check to see if it mat

Alphabet flash cards to help your little ones learn recognition, sound, and identification. The images are colorful and should keep them engaged for hours!

I know rain, snow, and just bad weather days happen. When they catch us by surprise sometimes we only have time to grab some quick coloring sheets. I don’t know about you…… but, I have NEVER felt comfortable with SIMPLE coloring sheets. So, I made these Color and Write activities. Now your littles can color AND write a matching sentence. Encourage them to use a color word based on what they chose to intergrade some early grammar skills into their writing. All of a sudden a simple coloring

Thank you for trying Sight Word Play Mats. These printable practice many early reading skills. The images are fun and interesting and your kiddos will not even realize they are practicing their sight words! First, students practice reading CVC and sight words in a sentence. They must then pick the sight word to best complete the sentence. The concepts in this section alone are: blending, reading, comprehension, sight word recognition, and spelling. Next, students look at the mixed up sight