Libby's Firsties

Do your students struggle to restate their question when writing answers? If so, this set can help your students with forming a complete sentence by restating a portion of the question. These set includes an example page, along with 12 student practice pages. Students will respond to opinion prompts, simple recall questions, or simple inferring prompts. Each student page reminds students to begin their sentence with a capital, write neatly on the line, and to add a punctuation mark at the end of

Use this fun writing prompt to help your students brainstorm ways they share with their friends. Students can then color the rainbow fish. As added fun, let your students brush on a white glue and glitter mixture after they color to help their rainbow fish glimmer!

This set of 30 phonics blending lines gives students the option to roll a dice to determine the line they will read. This will keep students engaged for repeated readings that will further support their phonics knowledge and build reading fluency. These blending lines follow a first grade phonics scope and sequence that includes skills such as: cvc words, digraphs, consonant blends, VCe words, vowel teams, open and closed syllables, two-syllable words, inflectional endings, r-controlled vowels,

This fun student booklet is a great activity after reading the story A Letter From Your Teacher. In this activity, students complete a booklet giving their teacher information about themselves in a similar format to the story. There is a boy or girl themed cover and it includes 8 pages that can be stapled to complete the booklet. This is a great activity to start off the year and build classroom community.

This Backwards Decoding and Blending set helps your students build decoding fluency while reviewing and applying their phonics skills. It allows students to decode a word by first focusing on the vowel pattern, blending the ending with the vowel, and then blending the initial sound. Students will be trained to look through the ends of words to accurately decode without guessing! This includes 7 phonics sets that have up to 40+ slides each! Students will watch the word grow and will call out each

This is the 10th set in a series of 10 phonemic awareness activities. In this set, students will look at a picture and a prompt for a sound to delete from the beginning or end of the word. They will then circle the picture to show the new word that was created. Links are included to open this file in Seesaw and Google Slides. The activity is set up so students can complete these activities independently. On Seesaw, the slides include audio instructions. The other phonemic awareness sets in my T

These reading and writing activities support the mentor text, A Place for Pluto By Stef Wade. In this story, Pluto is told he is no longer considered a planet. He becomes sad and thinks he is too different to stay in the solar system with his planet friends, so he sets off to find others like him. In the end, he learns that no matter how different you may be from others, it is still okay to be friends! Activities included in this set: *Retelling Organizer (First, Next, Then, Last) *Story Elemen

These Heart Word Flashcards over 120 Heart Words that are orthographically mapped to help students identify the 'tricky parts' of each word. These Heart Word Flashcards could be used for the following activities: *Creating a "Heart Word" Word Wall *Flashcard style Heart Word Practice *Tools for Heart Word Mapping Practice in Centers (Students can write, map, or build each of the words) *Create Heart Word "baggies" for individual students to differentiate the words each student is working on *Se

These space themed covers can be used for whatever tool you use for daily communication with your student's families!

Use this fun, pumpkin themed writing activity to help your students practice sequencing in their writing. Included is a brainstorming page, multiple options of writing pages, and two versions of book covers. Students can write a narrative story or an informative how-to about a fall themed topic, such as: Halloween parties, trick or treating, carving pumpkins, fall family activities, pumpkin patch visits, fall festivals, dressing up for Halloween, etc.

This color sorting and addition activity allows students to practice sorting items and allows practice with single and double digit addition. There are two versions depending on the snack or candy you choose to use. One version includes the color blue for snacks such as fruit loops. The other version does not include the color blue for candies such as Skittles or jelly beans.

This product is a fun way for your students to practice persuasive writing! Students will choose a pet, brainstorm persuasive reasons why the pet should be adopted, and then write a persuasive piece about the pet. This set includes three different brainstorming/planning pages and five different options for writing paper. A fun suggestion: contact your local animal shelter or find them on petfinder.com. Print out photos of pets needing adopted and have your students choose one to write about. Ma

This activity is a fun way to practice addition and subtraction for Easter! There are eight different fact pages to choose from to best fit the needs of your students. These include: Addition to 10 Subtraction to 10 Addition to 20 Subtraction to 20 Addition to 100 without regrouping Subtraction to 100 without regrouping Addition to 100 with regrouping Subtraction to 100 with regrouping

This Christmas themed word building activity gives students practice with 15 different short vowel word patterns; such as: cvc words, r-blends, l-blends, s-blends, digraphs sh/ch/wh/th/ck, trigraphs tch/dge, double consonant endings ll/ss/ff, etc. Students have the opportunity of building 60 words by stretching each word into it's sounds and spelling them by sound chunks. For example, words with digraphs, trigraphs, and double consonants will just be split into 3 parts (ship=sh-i-p) because th

Use then fun worksheet along with the book The Invisible Boy. Students can write or draw a way they can include others to make everyone feel visible. For added fun, have students draw or write their response with a white crayon, then color over it with a marker to make their invisible work appear!

This product contains 20 fluency pages of heart word reading practice, including 100 heart words that are orthographically mapped. This activity can be used as practice in small groups, during whole group instruction, in centers, or sent home for reading practice. These words are included in RGR HD Word, but I am not affliliated with the company in any way.

There are many uses for the above resources. Get students excited about diving into character traits and feelings using EMOJIS!! Students can choose which emoji best represents characters in a story. Use the trading cards on pages 2-4 for cooperative learning activities! For example, make multiple copies of the cards and place them in a bag. Students will choose a card out of a bag to complete after listening to a read aloud. Then have students mix-pair-share to explain their thinking.

Students can use the graphic organizers to identify the actions of a main character and the reason for those actions. Complete while listening to a read aloud or on their own after an independent read. There is clipart to match each season of the school year!

This fun Donut Themed Back to School Classroom Wishlist is a creative way to have your classroom families donate items to you and your students! Display this set on Meet the Teacher Night, during morning drop-off, at parent-teacher conferences, etc. to help get your classroom needs furnished. It includes donuts with ideas of many classroom items. There are also donuts available to edit OR blank donuts that can simply be printed and hand written on. To edit the document, please use the link on t

Use this fun graphic organizer to help your students brainstorm things that their brain knows how to do! This is a great tool to use along with the picture book "Your Fantastic Elastic Brain".