Kathie Mandra

This is a quick and easy resource to support students in discrimination of the features of the letters p,q, d,b. There is a separate page for each of those letters. It is beneficial as practice as well as supporting students who struggle with letter reversal.

Graphic organizer to help young writers develop more interesting and creative sentences. Practice with the organizer leads students to create better sentences automatically on their own.

Students give a ticket after doing random, genuine acts of kindness. The recipient of the ticket then performs his/her own act and gives the new person the ticket. This continues exponentially. It is a great way to develop kindness, caring, and an awareness of others.

Use these activity cards to build skills in math, engineering, critical thinking, creative thinking, etc. Each card has a different activity and the set can be used for a variety of abilities. Great for small group, individual instructions or in a center. 36 cards plus 4 blank cards.

Graphic organizer to assist students in building more complex and more interesting sentences. Helps develop accuracy with sytax and sentence construction. User-friendly format enables student to build skills for independence.

Each individidual learns differently. Knowing your students' learning styles will help you reach all of them. Here are concise descriptions of four learning styles and a worksheet. Read the descriptors and jot notes on the worksheet to help you determine which learning style is the strongest for any or all of your students. 5 Pages.

Help your students think more introspectively and plan New Year's resolutions. This is a writing resource appropriate for grades 3-6. It includes two different graphic organizers to help students plan their writing. There is a prompt poster as well as two pages of themed writing paper. This is a great resource for process writing. I like this writing activity after the holiday break to help ease students back into our routines.

Great set of 20 initial consonant clip cards. Students just place clips (spring-clasp clothespins) on the correct consonant that represents the initial sound for each picture card. Great for individual practice, small group instruction, centers homeschool, partner work, etc.

Time saving activities and forms for the first days of school. Includes: a form for recording rules infractions; three facts and a fib icebreaker activity;classroom jobs chart; While You Were Out form for absent students; two different scavenger hunt activities; survival kit welcome activity. Includes an overview of each form/activity. Each is ready to print out.

This is a book for students to add words with blends as they learn them. There are 28 programmed blend pages plus a blank page. Each blend page includes a graphic with the first entry word included. Students can then add words on the appropriate pages as they are found in their reading or as covered in lessons. Initial blends can be tricky and this is great way for students to build a personal blend resource. Thanks for checking it out!

When your students speed through a writing task, issue a ticket. Teachers can select if the tickets will be used on a classwork or homework assignment and then the areas for the student to focus on for revision. Just attach a ticket to student work and return. It is a more fun way to provide feedback.

Exit tickets are a quick and easy assessment tool. Includes one programmed page and the second one can be edited to meet your specific needs.

These is a project that students will complete to show their understanding of various nouns.

This can be used for classwork, assessment, homework, small group work, etc. It will help students distinguish between types of adverbs and/or show their understanding of them.

Unit assessment for unit 7 of second grade Trailblazers Math. Also includes review questions for telling time and giving the value of sets of coins. Cube model plans; cube model building.