Kim Brooks

Get your kiddos excited about pencil control skills with this fun Back to School-themed pencil control resource for your Pre-K and Kindergarten students. This pencil control resource is for students that are at the practice level. Students at this level can use an adequate tripod grip to hold a pencil, understands left-to-right progression, and can trace a line with 3 to 4 deviations. The tracing lines become progressively more complex with each page. Prewriting skills are essential to establi

This is a fun Back to School Prewriting Pencil Control resource for students that need a challenge with their fine motor prewriting skills. This resource was developed for Mastery level students that can use the correct pencil grip, trace a line with one/2 deviations, and follow a dotted line from left to right. The engaging Back to School prewriting resource gives students the fine motor/pencil control practice needed to refine those skills and prepare for formal handwriting instruction. The M

Ready for a swashbuckling prewriting pencil control resource for the Beginner level? This fun pirate-themed resource will introduce your pre-K, Kindergarten Buccaneers to a prewriting adventure at the introductory level. This prewriting resource is for students that are just beginning their fine motor adventure. They are learning how to use the correct pencil grip, tracing in a path, where to place their pencil, left to right progression, and prewriting strokes. This resource will have your lit

Ahoy! Get your students engaged with this fun prewriting pencil control pirate themed handwriting activity. Your students will have a swashbuckling adventure practicing their prewriting strokes and improving their pencil control. This activity is for the Practice level student. The Practice level student knows where to place their pencil, understands to trace from the left to right direction, will stop tracing at the end of the dotted line, and makes about 2-3 deviations per tracing line. Thi

Fine-Tuning for prewriting skills is here with the Pirate-Themed Prewriting and Pencil Control Mastery level resource. Your Pre-K and Kindergarten students will become true prewriting champions and swashbuckling Buccaneers. This resource is designed for those who are fine-tuning their pencil grip, making only 1-2 deviations while tracing, and want to take their skills to new heights. With progressively more complex lines to trace, students will experience the thrill of a challenge and success! T

Blast off with a fun Fry's First 100 sight word activity for students that are Proficient at identifying at least 25-39 Fry sight words. The students will search for the letters on each rocket to match the Fry sight word and trace/color the letters. The student will then trace the dotted font sight word printed on each page. The Fry words are an expanded and updated version of the Dolch sight words. There are 50 color slides/pages and 50 B/ W slides/pages with two rockets per page. The Fry sig

Your students will Blast off with a fun Fry sight word activity for students that are just beginning to learn their sight words( emergent). To help the students find the letters to match Fry's sight word easily, a circle has been drawn around an area the letters can be found. The Fry sight words are expanded and updated from the Dolch sight words. This Emergent activity is differentiated by a yellow outline surrounding some of the letters in the rocket. This visual cue helps to decrease the

Practice fine motor skills with a fun Valentine Holiday theme. There are 9 b/w and 9 color pages. The pages are differentiated by Emergent, Proficient, and Advanced levels. The more you combine the levels the greater the Differentiation. A student could start at the Emergent level and then progress to the Proficient level etc... The Emergent level is for students that are acquiring a skill and is differentiated by: • Wide tracing paths that become progressively harder as the student progress

Engage students with Differentiated winter math activities that reinforce writing teen numbers 10-19. This writing and sequencing teen numbers resource will help students with the transition from writing one-digit numbers to writing and sequencing two-digit numbers 10-19. This resource has a fun winter theme. There are 9 color pages and 9 B/w pages. The activities are the same at each level but Differentiated by the Emergent, Proficient, and Advanced levels. The Emergent level is for stu

Practice with Differentiated Resources for Writing numbers, Sequencing Numbers, Identifying Numbers 0-20 with a festive Christmas Ornament theme. The activity is Differentiated by Emergent, Proficient, and Advanced Skill Levels. There are 3 color Pages and 3 B/w pages. The activity is the same for all the levels but is Differentiated by:Emergent Level: •Numbers 0-20 are printed on each ornament to provide a visual cue for printing the numbers and sequencing. •the Numbers 0-20 Are Printed in a

Are you looking for a Science of Reading / Phonics-based short u resource to help your students hear the short u sound? This Practice level Short U Picture Hunt is just the activity you need. Students will hunt for short u pictures from other pictures that Don't have the short u sound. The practice level is for students that can identify 3 short u pictures from the picture hunt worksheet. The use of pictures helps to train your students' ears to hear the sound of the short u. This is an importa

Do you have students that can identify the short O vowel sound but need just a little bit of a challenge? Then this advanced short o vowel sound picture hunt is for you! The Advanced level student will be able to identify 6 pictures with the short O vowel sound from the advanced level worksheet. Students will search for pictures with the short o vowel sound from other pictures that don't have the short o vowel sound. The use of pictures helps students train their ears to hear the short o vowel s

Your students have been introduced to the short vowel O, now they need some more practice. This short vowel O Picture Hunt and Game differentiated for the Practice level will help to meet this need! The practice level is for students that can identify 3 short vowel o pictures on the Practice level worksheet. Students will hunt for short vowel o pictures from other pictures that don't have the short O vowel sound. Using short vowel O pictures helps students to train their ears to hear the short

Do you need an easy-peasy way to introduce the short O vowel sound? This Beginner level short O vowel sound Picture Hunt and Game is the exact resource you need. The Beginner level is for students with no prior knowledge or experience with the short O vowel sound. There are two worksheets. The worksheets have the same short vowel O pictures but one has a gray partial circle around 3 pictures for a visual cue. The other worksheet has the same pictures but NO visual cue. The students will hunt for

Do your students need just a little more fine-tuning with hearing the short vowel i sound and a challenge? This short vowel i activity will help your students progress to the Advanced level and master the short vowel i sound. This short vowel i resource is differentiated for the advanced level. This means the student can identify 6 pictures with the short vowel i sound from the worksheet. Your students will love trying to hunt for all the pictures with the short vowel i from the pictures that d

Do you want a fun, quick, and easy way to practice the short i vowel sound with a game included? Your students will be engaged in trying to hunt for pictures with the short i vowel sound with this Science of Reading/Phonics-based resource. This resource is differentiated for the student that is past the introduction of the short i vowel sound and is now at the PRACTICE level. This means the student can identify 3 pictures from the worksheet that contain the short i vowel sound. Students will cir

Do you need a fun activity to teach the short i vowel sound that will engage students and help train their ears to hear the short i vowel sound? It is all right here in this introductory Science of Reading and Phonics-based activity. The students will search for short i vowel sound pictures from other pictures  that don't have the short /i/ sound. Students need to be able to hear the short i vowel sound by naming the pictures rather than beginning with CVC words. Hearing the short i vowel sound

Do your students need an enrichment activity for the short E vowel sound? This Science of Reading-based Picture Hunt is a fun way to enrich students that are at the advanced level of identifying the short E vowel sound. The advanced student level is for students that don't have difficulty identifying the short E vowel sounds. This is an opportunity to help students fine-tune their ability to hear the short E vowel sound with various pictures. The use of pictures helps the student to hear the sho

Are you introducing the short E vowel sound to your students? This Beginner skill level short E vowel sound activity is just the resource you need to help your students to hear the short E vowel sound. One page has a visual cue with a couple of pictures partially circled for students that need more scaffolding with hearing the short E vowel sound. There is another page that has the same pictures but no partial line visual cue for the short E vowel sound picture. Students can start with the vi

Give your students a fun new twist to practice the short A vowel sound with this Science of Reading-aligned activity! This Short A phonics is differentiated for the Practice Level and is for students that can identify 3 short A pictures from the practice level worksheet. Students will hunt for short A pictures from other pictures that Don't have the short A sound. The use of pictures is based on the Science of Reading concept that students need to train their ears to hear the sound of a letter