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Once students have completed your schools Handwriting curriculum, how can you continue to practice handwriting?! Use these interesting and educational nonfiction passages about animals. Students can read the passages to learn information and then copy the passages onto lined paper to practice Handwriting. Students can then keep these passages in their reading folders/baggies or turn them into a collection/nonfiction book about animals upon finishing.

Keep your child engaged in learning over the summer with this activity packet! In this packet, you will find a variety of math problems, reading prompts/activities, and writing prompts/activities for your first grade child. This packet is intended for independent use -- all concepts that students learn in the first grade -- to keep brains active over the summer and prevent any academic regression!

This is a fun way to engage your learners in focusing on one letter at a time! With each letter, learners are asked to: say it, stamp it, find it, fill it, trace it and write it. This engaging activity is intended to be guided practice towards independently writing letters. For the "stamp it" section, I use letter stamps. For the "find it" section, I ask learners to use a fun pen to circle the letters or even a highlighter to highlight the letters. For the "fill it" section, you can get creative

A packet of story problems at your finger tips! In this packet you will find various levels of problems: beginner, intermediate, and challenging. Addition and subtraction included. In the challenging section you will find story problems of varying structures.

If you are teaching a Character Study for Reading Workshop, this is the kit for you! You will find inventive whole class charts, individualized charts, worksheets for students, and more! This kit focuses on character traits, feelings, and the skill of INFERRING. I hope you find the resources as useful as I do :)

Use these kid-friendly strategies to make Writing Workshop more efficient for you! Choose from 5 writing strategies based on student need. Print them on labels to stick to student folders or strategy sheets to foster independence. These strategies align with Teachers College (TC) reading/writing curriculum and support student growth in language conventions and writing development.

Several individualized behavior plans and behavior management tickets to get your classroom started on the best possible foot! I have used these tools in my classroom for many years, and always find them to be super successful based on individual student needs.

A common core aligned math assessment packet to use for the end of first grade! This packet can be used to guide report card grades and comments, or simply to show progress to parents at the end of the year. This can also be used as a summer activity packet. This packet includes concepts such as: sequencing numbers, solving story problems, counting by 2's/5's/10's, and more!

Can be used with dot stickers or without! Simply reinforce one-to-one correspondence for learners by asking them to count the images and identify how many. You can either provide a sheet of dot stickers and have learners pull the correct sticker from the sheet to place in the circle or learners can write the numbers on their own, depending on their current skillset.

A packet full of math challenges for first graders - story problems with various structures, true/false questions, and more! Keep your child's brain active over the summer with a challenge a day :).

A great task to take on in your classroom, or to give to a teaching assistant or student teacher -- keep track of students performance outside of pure academics. Social/emotional learning is super important too!

Instead of labeling your library book bins by letter, use this color/number system to keep students from thinking that reading levels are a race! Use the red 1,2,3 to represent levels A, B, C and so on.

Use these math strategies as visuals for students to keep in their math folders! This is a quick and easy way to set different goals for different learners and hold students accountable for checking their strategy when problem solving. Copy and paste into a label format in Microsoft word to print onto labels and stick in students math folders.

Use this template to print out cute, kid-friendly labels for your Author Bins in the classroom library! Includes: Kevin Henkes, David Shannon, Leo Leonni, Mo Willems, Eric Carle, and more!

A 4-page packet of story problems including addition, subtraction, and how many of each! There are a few 3-part story problems included as well. Use these to support students who are beginning to master story problem solving through strategies like counting all, counting on, counting back, and using doubles!

Hang this mini chart outside of your classroom door and use a clothespin to indicate where your class is throughout the day.

Motivate your students with tickets or 5 minutes of "choice time" for achieving their goals! This is a 3 chart series - you can either use one chart for a few weeks at a time and then move into the next, or alternate the charts weekly to keep students engaged.

For the child who seems to always seek teacher assistance or reassurance, when he/she may not actually need it! Use the check-in chart and the teacher talk tickets to encourage students to try other means before coming to a teacher. This will help them to become more confident until eventually they are asking others for help or "reading the room" without the chart as a reminder!

For the child who is particularly chatty -- help him or her to monitor focus throughout the day!

Use these photos with lines underneath to do some Interactive Writing around some of the Historical Heroes to study during Black History Month!