Ladybug Teacher

This is a comprehensive layout of all the first grade standards to be taught for the whole school year. Standards are listed week by week for each quarter. This guide follows the Cobb County Schools 2013-2014 calendar, report card and content area pacing from the district. Important dates, such as furlough days, holidays, professional development days, and conference week, etc. are noted. This guide includes math, science, social studies, reading, language, writing, and health standards. I have

This is a year-long pacing guide that includes all the ELA Common Core Standards for First Grade. I included the dates for each week during the 2012-2013 school year. This guide follows the Cobb County School Calendar. The dates can be easily changed if necessary. Each quarter and the associated writing genre for that semester is noted. I hope this helps you feel more comfortable with teaching the new standards. If you use this guide, you will know all the ELA standards have been taught. Thank y

This is a comprehensive layout of all the first grade standards to be taught for the whole school year. It will be make lesson planning so much easier! Standards are listed week by week for each quarter. This guide follows the Cobb County Schools 2014-2015 calendar, report card and content area pacing from the district. Important dates, such as testing dates, holidays, professional development days, and conference week, etc. are noted. Thankfully, there are no furlough days this year! This guid

This is a 26 page, handy, time-saving guide that contains information about all the guided reading leveled books (levels 6-16)that are part of the First Grade Good Habits, Great Readers language arts program by Pearson Publishers that was adopted by the Cobb County School District, as well as many others. The 115 books are arranged by reading level, and in alphabetical order within each level. For each book, there is a brief overview of the text, suggested teaching ideas, book talk suggestion

This is a set of over 200 high frequency word cards, in the order that I teach them.There are 14 per page. Students use them to practice at home. I give each student a small zipper sandwich bag to store their word cards. I have included the cute label that I affix to the baggy with wide packaging tape. Every few weeks I give a new page of words to cut and add to their bags. Each Friday when students return completed homework, they also return their sight word bags. I call each child up to my tab

I have taught my first graders the first 200 High Frequency - Dolch words in this order for over 6 years and have found it to be quite successful. The grouping of words is sequenced by difficulty level and aligned to the WTW spelling and phonics program sequencing. Long and short vowel words are taught together to promote flexibility with long and short vowels. This pacing introduces the words grouped by phonics/spelling patterns, making it easier for children to master and surpass the benchmark

This is an organizer for writing a descriptive piece using the senses. It has worked very well in my classroom. I hope you enjoy it!