Kate Daniel

Hey, upper grade teachers! Looking for some fun Halloween activities to supplement your ratios unit? This print-and-go product includes 11 interactive math activities about ratios and 5 ratio word problems! Students use Candy Corn as a math manipulative and work through activities to help them understand ratios! The activities start off basic and become more challenging as the activities progress. Also included are five ratio word problems that can be used for class discussions or challenge a

*Aligned with Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.* Want to add a problem solving routine to your math block so you can focus on conceptual understanding? This ready-to-go problem solving packet will get you started! Don't scramble looking for challenging word problems - these are ready-to-go and designed for a daily problem solving journal or notebook. This packet provides 12 weeks of problem solving (1 problem per day). This is designed for typical second grade pacing, but c

Need a fun, engaging way to practice making sums of ten? This activity can be used as a workshop task or math center, and gives students multiple opportunities to make sums of ten - and other numbers, too! Students can play by themselves or with a partner. Questions at the end require students to analyze their data. *This freebie is offered under Scrappin' Doodles license #71855.*

Do you need materials and activities to help you teach long vowel spelling patterns, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels? These easy-to-prep, colorful, 6-page mini-workbooks with graphics are perfect for whole and small group instruction! Students will enjoy learning the spelling patterns and will love applying their knowledge by reading words and completing word sorts. Product contents: * Materials for 10 word work/sound study mini-books Contains the following books: long a long e long i lon

This 13-page mini-workbook provides students an opportunity to learn the attributes of different coins and the value of the coins (and a one dollar bill). It will also allow students to begin to recognize coins by their attributes. Perfect to use when you start your money unit! Includes: * 13 page workbook - Cloze sentences describing coins & one dollar bill - Space for students to draw coins/ dollar bill - Space for students to write two facts about the coin/dollar

Product contains: - PDF - PowerPoint - Zip File Please make sure you have the appropriate software before purchasing. Thank you! ********* Need help organizing your instruction, ideas, and lessons for Close Reading for each and every text? This planner organizer pack is just what you need! The planner format provides areas for: - Key instructional focus - Close Reading topics - Text location/Question Chart - Breakdown for the reads 7 separate teacher organizers. Same clear & easy format adap

Just a short and sweet freebie for Earth Day! This freebie contains: - One acrostic poem page - Writing page (three size versions, can be used across grade levels) Thanks for visiting my store! *This freebie is offered under Scrappin' Doodles license #71855.* Graphics by Scrappin' Doodles and Sweet Times in First. Keywords: Earth Day, poem, writing, freebie, acrostic

Build number sense in a fun way! Beginner mathematicians will love making their own number line, and then using that line to solve problems by 'buzzing' up and down the line. Students learn what it means to add and subtract in terms of moving toward and away from zero. Contents: * 3 mini anchor charts: - Number line - Buzzin’ down the number line (addition) - Buzzin’ up the number line (subtraction) * 3 printables for number line practice - Each printable includes a ‘cut out’ bum

This product contains 21 different graphic organizers specifically designed for Common Core and teaching Informational Text! Can be used for ANY informational text, ANY subject. It contains a PDF for writing by hand and a digital version that can be used with text boxes. Great for Reader's Workshop, small group instruction, and whole group instruction! **17 Graphic organizers for text structure** 3 Description structure 3 Sequence structure 4 Problem/Solution 3 Compare/Contrast 4 Cause/Effec

Start off your new school year right! This 70-page product (including writing craftivity) has all you need to kick-off your literacy program while teaching classroom rules and building community at the same time. Literacy organizers are aligned with the new Common Core Literature standards, and are perfect for getting your students started in their understanding of story structure and characters. By using "The Heart of the Story" your class will create your classroom rules, all inspired by li

These bright and colorful mini-posters are designed to help your transitional and early fluent readers! As your readers begin shifting from basic decoding and sight word recognition toward monitoring comprehension and meaning, these mini-posters are perfect as a support tool for guided reading lessons and small group instruction. These "questions good readers ask themselves" provide support for student thinking and reading. Includes: - 13 posters (8.5" x 11") - 11 reading question posters

This product is perfect for students who are ready to apply their knowledge of long vowel spelling patterns in reading and spelling! Students roll colorful card stock dice to 'make a word' that has the desired long vowel sound. Contents: * Materials for 5 ‘Roll a Long Vowel Word’ centers/activities (one rolling activity for each long vowel) The following materials are included for each long vowel: * Long vowel spelling pattern die (Example: a, a__e, ai, ay) * Two consonant dice for beginnin

Looking for a fun way to review important math skills throughout the year? Try WhaM!, where students complete a quiz each week and work to master important basic math skills and concepts. Most students can complete all five quizzes in one school year when quizzes are given each week. This product includes: - Five WhaM! quizzes with telling time, fact practice, skip counting, fact families, addition and subtraction, regrouping, balancing equations) - Answer Keys - Student Tracker - Ideas for im

Do you want to build student fluency in a positive, fun way? How about a love for reading? Try Awesome Reader! Students bring their favorite book to school and read it to the class! (Teachers can also assign leveled books for the read aloud.) What's inside: * 'Awesome Reader' in a nutshell, explaining this classroom program * Parent letter explaining program to send home * Monthly student schedule for teacher and families * Individual student letter requesting participation (2 versions) * Direc

Do you need a way to organize your plan for the close reading of poetry? This freebie is a sample from my Close Reading Planners pack! It will help you organize your instructional focus for close reading lessons using poetry. Included is a sample based on Maya Angelou's poem "Human Family". (Poem not included, but it can easily be found online.) If you like this, check out my Close Reading Planners and my Common Core Graphic Organizers for Informational Text! Follow my blog, Second Gr

Do you make birthday goodie bags for your students? Here's a great label to decorate the outside of the bag! You can print these labels on card stock and then glue them to the bag or print them on a full page label sheet, cut them out, and stick them on! Pictures of sample birthday bags included.