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Fool your students with this fun "quiz" where kids get some practice following directions and also celebrate this silly holiday! Students have to read the quiz to the end and follow the directions carefully in order to find out that the whole thing is a joke!

Use this blank words template for testing CVC words, long/short vowel words, sight words, words, r-controlled vowel words, blends, or any other group of words that you have been working on in class. I find it especially helpful to write in the words and then copy onto cardstock and put in plastic sheet protectors so that I can re-use it year after year. Then I can track the data of who knows what!

Story cards tell the favorite fairy tale of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" and then students cut out the cards and sequence them with a partner (reading level G/H). Important vocabulary words are highlighted with pictures and a matching activity. Students complete a multi-modal worksheet on compound words.

Use this form for students to highlight their choices each day for Daily Five. I use one form per Guided Reading group. This way, I can easily see who is doing what and manage their literacy time. The choices on my form (it can be edited for your individual needs) are as follows: Read to Self, Writing, Word Work, Technology, Read to Others/Listen. I have extra spaces for Read to Self and Technology because I want students to do those twice during the week but, again, you can make it work for you

These simple, editable Daily Five signs are useful for creating menu boards for the classroom for your Daily Five area. You can also use them to make anchor posters for expectationWord s for each of the areas. I post them an then change what the options are in each area. For my needs, I have a technology component. You can change the headings to fit your needs. The current headings are: Read to Self, Word Work, Technology, Writing, Read to Others/Listen.

Teaching Haikus helps with syllables and can be a great way to teach sensory language. It is also a great way to make poetry more accessible to young children. These Haikus are fun for early elementary and also teach some great vocabulary. I used them to introduce the genre, then we had another week of Haikus before writing some of our own!

Use with Mystery Unit to Introduce and/or access prior knowledge about mysteries. The vocabulary test can also be used as a summary assessment after teaching the unit on mysteries to evaluate the effectiveness of your teaching.