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I have taught kindergarten for 16 years. I have also taught education majors how to teach reading and writing to pre-k through 3rd graders, at the University of Nevada Reno for 5 years. I was an English Language Development Teacher/Coach in an Elementary School where I worked with kindergarten and first grade classess and I was a learning facilitator (coach) for 2 years.
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Preview of Book of 40 Christmas Carols' Lyrics

Book of 40 Christmas Carols' Lyrics

This book includes 40 of your most favorite Christmas carols and is perfect for going Christmas caroling, or teaching your students Christmas songs in your class. It would even make a great Christmas gift to send home to parents. Just print, laminate, and bind or staple to create the book. This book is provided in color or in black and white and it includes a two page table of contents to make finding your favorite songs easier and quicker. The followings songs are included: Rudolph the Red
Preview of Colonial Times:  Then and Now  Emergent Reader

Colonial Times: Then and Now Emergent Reader

This emergent reader teaches kiddos some of the differences between life during colonial towns vs. their own lives now. This book is written with enlarged text and exaggerated spacing to assist emergent readers while reading. This book will go great with your Core Knowledge Colonial Towns and Townspeople Unit. You may also be interested in the following emergent readers about colonial trades (jobs): Emergent Reader: Colonial Tradespeople Level 4Emergent Reader: Colonial Tradespeople Level
Preview of Spelling Practice Printable Worksheets:CVC, CVCe, CVVC, CCVC Patterns

Spelling Practice Printable Worksheets:CVC, CVCe, CVVC, CCVC Patterns

These printables are great for your kiddos to practice spelling with CVC, CVCe, CVVC, & CCVC spelling patterns including digraphs and blends. This set includes the following practice pages: Spelling CVC Words Spelling CVC Words Spelling Short a CVC Words Spelling Short e CVC Words Spelling Short i CVC Words Spelling Short o CVC Words Spelling Short u CVC Words Spelling CVCe Words Spelling CVVC Words Spelling Long a Words Spelling Long e Words Spelling Long i Words Spelling Long o Words Spelli
Preview of Emergent Reader:  Native American Homes

Emergent Reader: Native American Homes

This emergent reader is perfect to use during your Native American unit or your Native American Core Knowledge theme. It is all about the different types of homes or shelter different Native American tribes used to live in. It is written with enlarged font & exaggerated spacing to assist your beginning readers. The following high frequency words or sight words are included: Here, this, is, a, an For more Native American activities, games, emergent readers and printables, just click on the f
Preview of Good Choices & Sad Choices Behavior Picture Sort

Good Choices & Sad Choices Behavior Picture Sort

This activity is a great way to teach or reinforce appropriate, and inappropriate behaviors, and it provides an opportunity to talk about why these behaviors are expected. How they keep everyone safe & happy and helps them learn, which is perfect for their Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and helps with Classroom Management. Just print, cut cards apart, and laminate them to make them more durable. This set includes the following picture cards for sorting: Good Choices - Be kind, Clean up, Ha
Preview of 50 Personal Narrative Writing Prompts and Papers

50 Personal Narrative Writing Prompts and Papers

This set includes 50 different writing papers. 49 with personal narrative prompts where your kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students can write about events they have experienced and 1 page where the title is left blank, so you or your kiddos can write your own title. Each page has 3 boxes at the top so they can sketch a picture of what happens first, next, and last before writing their sentences. You might also be interested in the following writing prompts and papers: 50 Creative Fict
Preview of Shapes Poems or Songs

Shapes Poems or Songs

These shape poems or songs are a great way for your kiddos to learn their 2D and 3D shapes. You can post them in your classroom, and/or put them in your students' personal readers. I did not write these poems. The authors are unknown. I created attractive pages with the shapes and their poems written on them. This set includes poems/songs for the following shapes: circle square triangle rectangle oval rhombus hexagon octagon cube cylinder sphere cone For more shapes related products, jus
Preview of Real Life Objects 2D & 3D Shapes Sorts

Real Life Objects 2D & 3D Shapes Sorts

Your kiddos will sort real life objects by their respective shapes. The following sorts are included: 2D / 3D sort circle / sphere sort square / cube sort triangle / cone sort rectangle / cylinder sort For more shapes related products, just click on the links below: Tracing Shapes Shapes Poems or Songs Emergent Reader: All About the Circle Emergent Reader: All About the Cone Emergent Reader: All About the Cube Emergent Reader: All About the Cylinder Emergent Reader: All About the Hexago
Preview of Themed & Patterned Calendar Pieces

Themed & Patterned Calendar Pieces

This complete calendar set can be used to teach the days of the week, months of the year, dates of the year, counting, & patterning, This set includes the following: Aug. (ab ab pattern - bus, backpack) cards Sept. (ab ab pattern - tree, apple) cards Oct.- (abc abc pattern - haunted house, black cat, jack-o-lantern) Nov. - (aab aab pattern -turkey, turkey, pumpkin pie) cards Dec - (aabb aabb pattern - elf, elf, Santa, Santa) cards Jan. - (abb abb pattern - ice skate, snowman, snowman) cards Feb
Preview of Valentine Emergent Reader: Little Frog, Little Frog, Who Do You Love

Valentine Emergent Reader: Little Frog, Little Frog, Who Do You Love

This adorable Valentine Emergent reader is written with enlarged font and exaggerated spacing to assist your beginning readers. It is written in a similar pattern to Eric Carl's Brown Bear, Brown Bear. It includes the following sight words, or high frequency words: little, who, do, you, love, I, that's, all, my For more Valentines Day Printables, emergent readers, games, activities, and gifts, just click on the links below: Broken Hearts Letter Sound Matching Valentine GameValentine Broken Hea
Preview of 100 Days Smarter Emergent Reader

100 Days Smarter Emergent Reader

This emergent reader is perfect for your kiddos to read on the 100th day of school. It is all about the fun activities that a class does on the 100th day of school. For more school related or beginning of the year related emergent readers, activities, printables, assessments, homework, and classroom management items, just click on the links below: Emergent Reader: I Like to go to School Emergent Reader: School Rules Emergent Reader: Time for School How to Treat Our Books: Read Aloud Colo
Preview of The Important Thing About My Mom: A Mother's Day Poem Written By Your Students

The Important Thing About My Mom: A Mother's Day Poem Written By Your Students

For mother’s day, before having your kiddos write their mom's their poems, read aloud The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. Then have your kiddos write their own poem called The Important Thing About My Mom by completing the sentence stems included here. Then they will draw and color a picture of them with their moms on the cover page. Then fold a 12 X 18 piece of construction paper in half and glue the cover onto the outside, and the poem to the inside. These poems are personalized Mot
Preview of Emergent Reader: Farm Animals and Their Babies

Emergent Reader: Farm Animals and Their Babies

This emergent reader is great for your farm unit. It is written with enlarged font, exaggerated spacing, & patterned text to help your kiddos learn their concepts of print. Your kiddos will learn the names of baby farm animals and will practice reading the sight words (Here, is, a, & her). For more farm themed emergent readers and activities, just click on the links below: Emergent Reader: Farm Animals and Their Sounds Emergent Reader: Little Pig, Little Pig, What Do You See? Emergent Reade
Preview of The Things a Plant Needs to Live Sort

The Things a Plant Needs to Live Sort

This sort is a great way for students to practice their knowledge of the things a plant needs to live. It's also a great way to assess this knowledge. Students will cut out the pictures and sort them under the appropriate column. You might also be interested in the following plant activities and emergent readers: < a title="Emergent Reader:The Life Cycle of a Plant" href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Emergent-Reader-The-Life-Cycle-of-a-Plant-2183153" > Emergent R
Preview of Emergent Reader: Colonial Tradespeople (Level 2)

Emergent Reader: Colonial Tradespeople (Level 2)

This emergent reader teaches kiddos about some of the trades (jobs) that people had in colonial times while giving them practice reading. It is written with enlarged font and exaggerated spacing to assist beginning readers. You can find this book written in a level 4 in my store, so you can differentiate for your kindergarten learners. Just click on the link below to find it. This book will go great with your Colonial Towns and Townspeople Core Knowledge Unit. You might also be interested i
Preview of Colonial Tradespeople Emergent Reader (Level 4)

Colonial Tradespeople Emergent Reader (Level 4)

This emergent reader teaches kiddos about some of the trades (jobs) that people had in colonial times while giving them practice reading. It is written with enlarged font and exaggerated spacing to assist beginning readers. You can find this book written in a level 2 in my store, so you can differentiate for your kindergarten learners. Just click on the link below to find it. This book will go great with your Colonial Towns and Townspeople Core Knowledge Unit. You might also be interested i
Preview of How to Make Slime Emergent Reader

How to Make Slime Emergent Reader

This emergent reader tells the steps and recipe for making slime. It would be great to have your kiddos read prior to making slime in your classroom, or as a model for writing a "how to" with the transition words "first, next, last". You might also be interested in my How to Make Fluffy Slime reader. For these and more emergent readers, games, activities, printables, etc. please visit my store at http://www.teacherspayrteachers.com/Store/Learning-Should-Be-Fun.
Preview of 50 Creative Fictional Narrative Writing Prompts and Papers

50 Creative Fictional Narrative Writing Prompts and Papers

This set includes 51 different writing papers. 50 with fictional narrative prompts where students can get creative when writing a story in sequential order and 1 where the title is left blank, so you or your kiddos can write your own title. You may also be interested in the the following writing papers: 50 Opinion Writing Prompts and Papers Bundle for Primary Grades50 Personal Narrative Writing Prompts and Papers Bundle for Primary GradesPrimary Lined Stationary with Cute BordersExpository (Non
Preview of If I was a King, Queen, Prince, & Princess Writing  Freebie

If I was a King, Queen, Prince, & Princess Writing Freebie

This Freebie includes for pieces of creative writing stationary that would go perfect with your Core Knowledge Kings and Queens unit, any royalty unit, or just for fun. The pages read as follows: If I was a king I would... If I was a queen I would... If I was a prince I would... If I was a princess I would... For more Kings, Queens, Princesses, or Princes (royalty) themed games, activities, emergent readers, and printables, just click on the links below: Emergent Reader: Royalty Emergent R
Preview of Halloween Math: Pumpkin 5 Frames & 10 Frames

Halloween Math: Pumpkin 5 Frames & 10 Frames

These pumpkin 5 & 10 frames include large blank 5 and 10 frames, a recording sheet, 5 frames representing numbers 0 - 5, 10 frames representing numbers 0 - 10 and the corresponding numerals cards. The large blank cards can be used with manipulatives such as unifix cubes. Have your kiddos build certain numbers on their frames. Then have them tell how many manipulatives and how many blank spaces there are to make 5 & 10. Recording sheets are provided, if you would like them to write the nu
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About the store

Experience

I have taught kindergarten for 16 years. I have also taught education majors how to teach reading and writing to pre-k through 3rd graders, at the University of Nevada Reno for 5 years. I was an English Language Development Teacher/Coach in an Elementary School where I worked with kindergarten and first grade classess and I was a learning facilitator (coach) for 2 years.

My own education history

I have a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in literacy studies.