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Students practice decodable reading and color words in this whole, small or partnered group activity. Read the words from the Eric Carle text. Students use picture cues and retelling skills to complete the sentences with color words from the list below. Also connects to beginning, middle and ending story structure. Your students will feel good about their reading skills with this activity!

Cut and prepare these alphabet letter lacing (or sewing) cards. Make a great center for small groups or independent practice! Increase fine motor skills, handwriting, letter recognition and task attention. Simple styling will not overstimulate any of your unique learners.

A fun and simple math manipulation game great for small group math work or a fun elective center. Add pattern blocks and cut each page in half. Laminating is optional, fun and learning are not! Enjoy! CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.3 Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”). CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.6 Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For

Promote independence and fine motor skill mastery in your class with this Zipper Up Club display. Students can self monitor and group themselves into "still practicing" or "expert zipper" as they dress themselves successfully to go outside each day. Great bulletin board, door decoration or poster for your class! Comes with 30 blank zipper images.

PreK, Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes will love this journal. It offers space to practice handwriting as well as a space for students to draw one or more items that use the letter. Organize the activity by using the shapes that come before the directions on each page. Ask students to "Point to the ____" shape and work together to follow the directions. This is TPR (Total Physical Response), which is a great strategy for ELL students. Furthermore, LEA (Langauge Experience Approach) Writing can

Hone fine-motor skills and phonics with this easy to assemble and maintain learning center. This set is easily cut-out and prepared, and great for collaborative or independent centers. Provide ribbon or yarn as is convenient.

Decodable Smartboard Activity, perfect for small or whole groups! How to use: 1). Pair with familiar chant. Repeated readings for concepts of print (tracking, one to one matching) 2). Pair with familiar chant, searching for a specific letter (or grapheme). Circle with SmartBoard marker. 3). Same as above, search for High Frequency Words like "little, on, a, one, off, and, the, said" or -ing ends.

A daily oral language activity brimming with higher-order thinking! Use the SmartBoard to guide students in collaborating with peers to compare, contrast (or more!) two items. This month's themes include: winter weather, winter animals, long vowels A, E, I and O. Use Think-Pair-Share and be amazed at your students' evaluation, synthesis and connections!

Organize your usernames and passwords, all at a glance. Perfect for everyone from the techy teacher to the substitute teacher. A must-have for classroom organization today! Also a great resource for older students (intermediate grades and higher) to stay organized among various programs.

Encourage fine motor skill mastery in your classroom! This can be a poster, bulletin board or door display, grouping your students among: Still Practicing and Shoelace Experts, for example. Write students' names under the graphic. Encourage them to move their own name to celebrate once they have demonstrated mastery. Leave one one paper or cut apart to make individual names. Laminate to save from year to year. 30 student names total.

Read, make and match playdough to numbers 1-20 using playdough and ten-frames. 1. Read the number word. 2. Use playdough to form the number. 3. Roll playdough balls to fill in the ten-frame with that quantity.

To promote English language proficiency and higher order thinking, I created a short daily activity in which students name 2 items and collaborate with partner to discuss how the objects are the same or are different. The file is for the SMARTBoard and requires Notebook software to be used. I use the activity in a think-pair-share structure. The kids are interested and blow me away with their thinking sometimes! Expect some theme-based photo pairs for Fire Safety Week and Halloween. Enjoy!

A quick two-page Notebook for SMARTBoard activity with decodable text based upon the nursery rhyme, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Page 1: Simply read for decoding practice. Picture cues provided. Page 2: Read to find out 4 missing sight words (little, missing twice and I, missing twice). Use the Smart Eraser in the space the sight words are missing to reveal. Continue reading for fluency and accuracy with picture cues.

One component of our class' math journals are Number of the Day pages. Attached you will find easy-to-use pages for numbers 1-9. They are perfect for small or whole group instruction. They can be used with manipulatives or independent of them.

Simple apple-based visuals for Before, During and After reading practices for any level reader. Used alongside Fountas & Pinnell, but can be used with any reading series or curriculum. Developed for Kindergarten, adapted to any grade! Included: -Half page size posters for small, group guided reading instruction OR anchor chart posters -1 full-page graphic organizer for the process of Before, During, After reading practices (with space to add detailed strategies for each)

Promote higher order thinking skills and analytical descriptive language with your class. Pair students to think-pair-share with this December themed activity. Themes include food, numbers 11-15 and Christmas. Easy to maintain and use every day as part of your routine!

Kindergarteners access higher order thinking in a collaborative setting with this SmartBoard activity. Each day, display another slide. Students think-pair-share to evaluate how two items are the same or different. End with class discussion that students look forward to each day! Easy to differentiate and great vocabulary for ELLs and young children. You'll love Same or Different, and the connections it has to the Common Core Standards are excellent!

Spanish version of at-a-glance username and password guide. Perfect for techy teachers, substitute teachers, and students of all grades.

Use this form to create an individual, partner or small group activity to practice K.CC.2: Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence. Directions In small group: Roll 2 dice. Record total in the circle. Then, have students relay-count beyond that total, writing and passing the form among themselves or in partners against one another.

Spanish language graphic organizer for Somebody-Wanted-But-So fiction text retelling.