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

This Heart word Mapping Practice set includes 110 practice pages. Using orthographic mapping strategies, the science-based heart word method teaches students to sound out the parts of irregular words that do follow phonics rules.  Students then only need to learn a small portion of the word that is the “tricky part” by heart. These practice pages give students multiple opportunities to practice the orthographic mapping of each word. **THIS PRODUCT IS NOW EDITABLE** There is a link included on t

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 includes over 120 heart words. There are small flash cards, individual practice pages, and large focus wall cards for each word. Over 200 pages included! **THIS PRODUCT IS NOW EDITABLE** The document includes a link to an editable template on Canva. You can adjust the pages, add new words, or whatever needs you have to make it fit your classroom!

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 product contains blending lines in sequential order for a year's worth of phonics skills. Each page contains a double copy of words and phrases that pertain to a specific phonics skill. The Scope and Sequence can be found below. This activity can be used as practice in small groups. I recommend having students highlight or underline the phonics pattern in each. They can also be used in literacy stations or sent home for home reading practice. Short /a/ Short /i/ Short /u/ Short /o/ Short /

This Heart Word Mapping Practice set includes 100 practice pages. Using orthographic mapping strategies, the science-based heart word method teaches students to sound out the parts of irregular words that do not follow phonics rules. Students then only need to learn a small portion of the word that is the "tricky part" by heart. These practice pages give students multiple opportunities to practice the orthographic mapping of each word. These words are more geared for 2nd and 3rd grade students.

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 Heart Word Pop-it activities allows students to use Fidget Poppers to count the sounds in over 120 Heart Words. The accompanying recording sheet allows students to write each Heart Word and orthographically map the word according to how many sounds are in the word and which parts of the word they need to know by heart. The student's use of fidget poppers also gives students the opportunity for kinesthetic and tactile sensory support which means more ENGAGEMENT for your little learners! Thi

This bundle includes four of my top Heart Word activities. These activities teach students their sight words through orthographic mapping using their phonics knowledge. They offer opportunities to read, write, trace, and map 100 heart words. The products are in the form of worksheets, flashcards, and reading templates. This bundle would be all that you needed to have a years worth of sight word practice and center work. The heart words included in these activities are also included in the RGR H

This sight word Mapping and Flashcard Practice set can be used to help your students quickly master sight words (Heart Words) by teaching them to map the words orthographically. This product includes the words from the Fastbridge curriculum, but this product is not affiliated with the company in any way. This contains orthographically mapped flashcards for all 150 heart words, so the students can easily see the parts they need to "know by heart". There are also individual practice pages for eac

Get your students excited to learn with fidget poppers! This packet is designed to make word work hands-on and engaging! It includes 200 words that covers a year long first grade scope and sequence. Each word is represented in three different ways: as a picture card so that students will stretch and decipher their own spelling, with word cards so that students will decode to determine the word, and as a picture/word card so that students can identify and self check their decoding and spelling.

This bundle includes my TOP ELEVEN (I couldn't stop at 10!) Heart Word Activities! These activities teach students their sight words through orthographic mapping using their phonics knowledge. They offer opportunities to read, write, trace, map, and manipulate over 120 heart words. The products are in the form of worksheets, flashcards, word work templates, centers, and games. This bundle would be everything you need and more to have a years worth of sight word practice and center activities.

This product contains orthographically mapped flashcards for 110 heart words and over 20 fluency pages of heart word practice for a year's worth of fluency practice. These words are typical of most first grade sight word lists. This activity can be used as practice in small groups, during whole group instruction, in centers, or sent home for reading practice.

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

This Heart Word Activity not only gives students the opportunity to practice reading, writing, and mapping heart words (sight words) orthographically; but they will also gain practice in handwriting, letter formation, and sentence structure. This set includes over 120 heart word cards, along with an individual practice page for each heart word. The heart words included follow the RGR Blast units; however, I am not affiliated with the company or program in any way. On each page, students will t

This heart word set gives students the opportunity to practice handwriting while reading and mapping heart words. This set includes over 120 heart words and follows popular scope and sequence of heart words and phonics skills. Each page includes practice writing the heart word and then sentences that students will trace and decode using their phonics skills. This set also includes a link to an editable template in canva so you can make it fit your classroom needs.

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