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Your students will love this engaging word and picture matching center! Included in this resource are 42 easy to prep picture mats with matching 504 word cards for you to set out as a word work center during reading center time. These word cards and picture matching mats are easy for you to differentiate for your students. I have followed the EL Education Skills Block pacing for phonics skills. The color of the border indicates the difficulty level. Tell students which color(s) they are allowed

This SCIENCE OF READING resource includes multiple color options of TWO different sound charts. One chart is for students that are just learning letters, sounds, digraphs, and beginning sight words. The other reference sheet is for more advanced spellers and includes consonants, long and short vowel sounds, digraphs / trigraphs, glued syllables, r-controlled vowels, and vowel teams. The pictures for the beginning sounds of the consonants and vowels correspond to the EL Education's skills block w

This word work center is perfect for students at the pre, partial, full, and consolidated alphabetic stages to practice their decoding words at their level! Differentiate this center for your students by telling them which color mats they are allowed to work on. Assign students the color based off of their reading ability. There are 27 mats included in this resource. The mats have different phonics skills depending on the level. I used the scope and sequence of the EL Education skills block to p

This word work center is perfect for students at the pre, partial, and full alphabetic levels to practice the phonics / word work skills that they are learning through EL Education. This center is easy to differentiate! Tell students which color or animal they are allowed to work on when they go to each center based off of the phonics skill they need to practice. I have included a key for each word ladder. Allow students to check their work when they are done. There are 24 leveled 'Word Ladder'

This sight word fishing center is perfect for all levels of readers in your classroom. I have upper and lower case letter identification for students who are at the very beginning of reading along with 100s of high frequency words. The sight words I use come from EL Education's scope and sequence, but this center would be great for any early elementary teacher to help your students stay engaged and learning during center time. Differentiate this center by telling students which color sight word

I created this resource to use for myself to help me stay organized this school year. This has helped me keep track of all of the notes a faculty meetings, important dates, and passwords. This printable is in an editable Power Point format with a link to edit it in your Google Drive as well. Only 3 pages need to be edited with your name, grade level, school system name, and class schedule. There is a quick print guide at the front to help you print quickly if you do not make edits. Laminate the

Decorate your classroom with this colorful and BRIGHT classroom decor bundle! Get the Sprinkle Kindness Rainbow border online or wherever teacher supplies are sold and print all of the files included in this resource! You will have EVERYTHING you need to decorate your elementary school classroom walls with this resource! What's Included:Alphabet PostersNumber LineNumbers 1-20 PostersHundred ChartCounting by 10s PostersWord WallDesk Name LabelsComputer LabelsBirthday PostersClock NumbersBunting B

Print out these large numbers on white or colored paper. Hang up each printed number in a corner of your classroom. Help your students get to know each other or practice classroom content by playing 4 corners with these large corner numbers.

This is a hyperlinked digital journal so that you can grade papers and record student grades anywhere. This journal has 6 classes- Period 1, Period 2, Period 3, Period 4, Period 5, and Period 6. Each class period has grades for quarter 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well as 24 assignment pages for each grade and quarter. That is over 600+ pages of recording sheets hyperlinked together so that you can access the page you want quickly and easily! I use Goodnotes5 on my iPad to take digital notes on everythin

Do your students love finding the Shelf Elf every morning during the month of December? Give them something else to enjoy! This math center or mathematical task activity will help students practice using positional words to describe where the Shelf Elf is around the present. Your students will practice using the words on top of, in front of, next to, above, in between, behind, to the left/right of, below, and beside. Your students will love learning the position words with their favorite winter