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.

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

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 set of parent questionnaires is a great way to learn about your students. It gives families the opportunity to share concerns, goals, and important information about their child. There are 7 different designs available!

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.

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".

Adding details in narrative writing can be tricky for young writers. Use the organizer to help students brainstorm ways to make their characters move and talk in their stories.

This turkey themed set gives students the opportunity to practice decoding and sorting short vowel words with consonant digraphs. The digraphs included are: sh, th, ch, wh, & ck. Students can use the word cards and digraph headers to complete a word sort and record their answers on the matching recording page. Students may also use the digraph word cards, along with the "Gobble" cards, to play a fun decoding game! The instructions are included within the set.

This product includes response organizers for 9 different Christmas stories. Each organizer includes an excerpt from the text and a question that can be answered directly from the excerpt. The student will practice restating the question as a part of their answer, while writing their answer in a complete sentence. They will cite their evidence by underling the portion of the text that supports their answer. This follows the 'RAC' portions of the RACE strategy for responding to text related quest

This product is a fun way to let your students know you are thankful for them! There are two options available to complete these thankful notes to your students. You may use the link included in the document to complete the notes in canva by typing in your responses. Instructions are included within the document. There is also a page within the document that could be printed and completed by writing in your responses.

This fun idea is a great way to calm anxieties and help students feel excited for the first day of school! Attach these tags to a baggie of play dough. To make "Magic Play dough", take white play dough and add a couple of drops of food coloring in the middle. As students play with the dough, it will magically change colors!

Use this organizer to help your students visualize that their brain is where all their prior knowledge is stored. This is called schema. Schema helps us think, infer, and understand!