Growing Firsties

What a great way to get growth mindset oriented parent input during back to school or when you have new students! This Back to School Parent Input form for your new parents to fill out will give you SUCH helpful information so you can hit the ground running! The newly added Getting To Know Your Family page will help you make connections with your students and their families. This is a zipped (compressed) file containing both a non-editable PDF and an editable Powerpoint file. You will not be abl

Help your students build a strong understanding of addition and subtraction concepts by starting with Part Part Whole relationships ( aka Number Bonds ). By having a solid foundation with part part whole concepts students will have the skills needed to move forward with more complex addition, subtraction and problem solving. These NO PREP Part Part Whole Worksheets will provide your students with lots of practice using number bonds to develop a solid understanding of decomposing numbers into s

Your beginning readers will benefit from these Science of Reading aligned decoding reading strategies! The animals act as a scaffold for students to practice and learn decoding strategies. Great for use during whole group and small group instruction, as well as intervention or with take home reading materials. This reference set includes posters, bookmarks, an all in one poster in full page and half page format. 7 Decoding Strategies Posters and Bookmarks included:Full page posters for Eagle Eye

Teaching reading comprehension to beginning readers can be difficult. But with this scaffolded and differentiated resource, you will have everything you need to teach your students about finding text evidence, citing text evidence and making inferences using context clues. I like to call this Text Evidence 101! This text evidence and inferencing resource was purposefully designed to break these essential reading strategies into small parts and then slowly lead your students to independence. T

Teaching your students about writing a friendly letter is a valuable and fun activity. This Friendly Letter Unit has everything you need to introduce your students to this writing genre and guide them to independent friendly letter writing. Begin by teaching the parts of a friendly letter to your students and let them practice sorting them into the correct place. Then teach your students the format using the friendly letter templates provided in this resource. They will love the cut and past

Parent support for reading at home is beneficial for beginning readers! Parents are so busy that this parent letter will provide support for students reading take home books. It features comments that parents can make to support their child's word-solving (decoding), fluency and comprehension. Parents don't always have "reading-teacher-language" on the tip of their tongues to compliment and/or support their readers. This document will do just that, providing information on comprehension, fluency

These no prep Tally Marks practice pages provide extra practice reading and writing tally marks to build number sense, visually represent numbers, practice subitizing and collect and interpret data. These tally marks worksheets are scaffolded to increase in difficulty so you can differentiate or give tiered practice during whole group, small group or intervention. Everything you need to support your students growth with understanding and using tally marks is included. Supplements any curriculum

Looking to help build a growth mindset in your students? This interactive mini-book will help you out! It is a NON-EDITABLE PDF. Thank you for your interest! Check out my store! I love creating products with building growth mindset & independence in mind... ReadingWritingMath Skills PracticeIntegrated Sight Words & Math Practice

Make kindness a focus in your classroom or guidance lessons with this Social Emotional Learning Unit focused on being kind at Back to School time and beyond. This SEL Kindness Unit includes everything you need to teach your elementary students about kindness, provide them with kindness activities to help them identify what kindness looks like and use random acts of kindness to help them put kindness into action. Great for February Random Acts of Kindness, November World Kindness Day supplementat

We can help our beginning readers grow into independent readers with strong reading comprehension by teaching them important self monitoring skills they can use while reading. These self monitoring skills are great decoding strategies and reading comprehension strategies that will help them become more fluent readers that easily comprehend what they are reading. As a teacher you know the benefit of increased reading fluency and comprehension, so why not add these self monitoring skills to your

Personal Narrative writing units are a great way to help your writers identify writing topics and ideas from their lives. Help your students become great writers with these engaging, structured, systematic personal narrative writing lessons and activities designed for first grade. This Personal Narrative Writing unit will help you teach and enrich narrative writing in your classroom, as it includes well laid out lessons, structure and graphic organizers to guide your students through the process

No prep, print and go May printables perfect for busy teachers! Use for morning work, test prep, centers, assessment, sub plans, independent work, working with words, homework and you name it – very versatile! All printables are aligned with Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, but pages are not individually marked with the standard, so if you’re in a state or district without CCSS, you can still use them easily! This themed monthly printable ELA and Math series is most specifi

Base 10 Blocks are wonderful tools for building Place Value concepts! Playing games to work on place value is a fun way to learn. There are 3 versions of a dice game, a place value mat for Base 10 Blocks, cut your own Base 10 Blocks and 2 versions of a Concentration style matching game where students match a number or equation card to its matching Base 10 Block card. Use in centers, work places, soft start, homework and more! Note: This product is available in a Place Value BundleRelated Product

Teaching first grade look alike words can be really tricky! 1st grade students need lots of extra practice to master commonly confused sight words. This no-prep printable pack includes 43 pages of 1st grade sight word activities to help your early readers identify those commonly confused sight words with ease! If you’re looking for simple, NO PREP, 1st grade sight word practice, this resource is just what you need!  Not only will these 1st grade sight word activities help your students practice

This reading comprehension habits practice pack has everything you need to focus on student improvement in reading comprehension. This powerful pack focuses on building reading comprehension habits such as finding text evidence, inferring and building reading stamina with the STAR acronym meaning readers that Study Think Ask and Respond to their reading to improve reading comprehension. This is perfect for back to school or anytime during the year! This reading workshop resource focuses o

Reading beginning consonant blends can be difficult with students. Now you can grab everything you need with this Initial Consonant Blends resource for L Blends and R Blends. Helping your students master these commonly found consonant blends will help them improve their reading fluency, reading comprehension, spelling and writing. The no prep activities in this resource will help you focus on beginning L blends like bl, pl, gl, fl, cl and sl. You also have resources that focus on beginning R

Are you looking for 1st grade place value activities? These no prep place value worksheets are the answer! These number sense activities are designed to help your 1st grade students build their understanding of place value through multiple activities. These place value printables have tiered options so you can offer individualized and differentiated practice on place value to your students. Students will work with the place value of ones, tens, and hundreds. These are designed for 1st grade stud

No prep, print and go December ELA printables perfect for busy teachers! These December themed paper pencil work pages are great to use for morning work, test prep, centers, assessment, sub plans, independent work, working with words, homework and you name it – very versatile! All printables are aligned with Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, but pages are not individually marked with the standard, so if you’re in a state or district without CCSS, you can still use them easil

No prep, print and go January printables perfect for busy teachers looking for New Years, Winter or January themed practice! The page formats are simple, clean and predictable to build student independence and give teachers more time to do what they need to do. Use for morning work, test prep, RTI intervention, centers, assessment, sub plans, independent work, working with words, homework and you name it – very versatile! This themed monthly printable ELA and Math series is most specifically ai

No prep, print and go February printables perfect for busy teachers with Groundhog, Valentines Day, Presidents Day and Dental Health themes! Use for morning work, RTI intervention, test prep, centers, assessment, sub plans, independent work, working with words, homework and you name it – very versatile! All printables are aligned with Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, but pages are not individually marked with the standard, so if you’re in a state or district without CCSS, y