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 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

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

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 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

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!

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 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 Little Red Fox Has Feelings book companion is a fun way to help students practice how to react when they have different feelings. It is a great tool for practice with different social emotional skills. Included are tools for creating an interactive anchor chart, a story elements graphic organizer, a feelings graphic organizer, and a writing activity.

This Number Bond Practice Set has everything you need to set up a math center to help students master number bonds and build fact fluency. The resources could also be used in small group or whole group math instruction. Included Activities: *A variety of Number Bond Mats *A variety of Number Bond Recording Pages *Number Bond Flashcards *Partners of 10 Matching Cards *Missing Part Number Bond Puzzles

These slides can be printed or uploaded to Seesaw or Google Classroom. They serve as a quick checkpoint or assessment for initial and final consonant blends. The document includes 5 slides for students to complete and a sixth page that can be used as a scoring guide.

This narrative plan page will help young authors bring their stories to life by helping them remember to make their characters move, talk, and feel! It also helps them to include an intro and closing in their beginning, middle, and end.

This graphic organizer is a great tool to introduce students to inferring about characters and their actions. I recommend starting with the mentor text "No, David!" to discuss the actions of the character and what could or does happen as a result (as the example on the page). You could use while reading by stopping to allow students to write their inferences about characters as the teacher reads aloud.

Use this organizer to help students brainstorm ways to bring their characters to life in their stories. You can also use this for students to record ways other authors bring their characters to life in read-alouds or other student writing.