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I've been a substitute teacher (grades K-12) in California for 20 years, and a private tutor for the past 8 years. Teachers have been telling me for years that I should make a book about all the ideas I've shared with them, so I'm here to do just that. I hope you enjoy my products.
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Preview of R Controlled Vowels Worksheets & Activites,  ar, er, ir, or, ur, are, ear, ore

R Controlled Vowels Worksheets & Activites, ar, er, ir, or, ur, are, ear, ore

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you'll enjoy my products. Added 12.02.22 - R-Controlled Collective Nouns mini lesson, includes template to use with any collective noun lesson. Here are 25+ pages of worksheets and some fun activities. I had a great time creating these and I hope you'll enjoy them, too. The R-controlled vowel combinations covered include ar, are, er, ir, or, ur, as well as are, ear, ore, our. Included also are some short, nonfiction reading texts about birds and
Preview of Prefixes uni, bi, tri and quad - word sort of a different sort!

Prefixes uni, bi, tri and quad - word sort of a different sort!

Updated 12-07-2022 - streamlined word list, added copy of list without category hints so students can ascertain to which category the words belong Here are some worksheets for your students to enhance their prefix knowledge. Included is a word sort page for students to use with (or without) the rest of the packet, and a list of words that are categorized. Then you'll find a page for 4 words to be defined. Finally is a mini page of clip art for cutting/pasting or for display on a document came
Preview of Adding Doubles Plus One worksheets, cut/paste activity, word problem

Adding Doubles Plus One worksheets, cut/paste activity, word problem

Added 9/28/2023: Fact Families worksheet - not Doubles Plus One, but a doubles worksheet just for fun Here are 7 worksheets for your class to study Doubles Plus Ones. A mini assessment is included. Most of the packet is in the Preview section, although it is the original version, not the updated one I just posted. I appreciate your stopping by today. If you leave feedback on paid items, TPT gives you credit towards future purchases of any author on here! Should you have any questions or comme
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 3 Spelling worksheets & actvities - California

Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 3 Spelling worksheets & actvities - California

Here are Unit three's spelling worksheets and activities. There is a dice game among the worksheets which include word searches, unscramble, grammar and punctuation, and writing sentences. You'll also find some fun coloring activities. There are at least 4 worksheets for each week. Some weeks have one or two more. This unit mostly focused on R-controlled vowels. Please notice that the Preview section shows 2 worksheets for each week. If you have any questions or comments, please contact
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Spelling Worksheets & Printing Practice Units 1 & 2

Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Spelling Worksheets & Printing Practice Units 1 & 2

Here are the first 2 units of Benchmark Advance - California - that include worksheets and printing practice. There are at least 4 worksheets in each week and one printing practice per unit designed for homework packets. My school district is switching to BA this coming school year, so I put this packet together to help make the transition a bit easier. If you are interested in future units, please let me know. Some of the answer Keys will follow directly after the unit, and some will follow r
Preview of Benchmark Advance 1st Grade Spelling Units 1-10 Printing Practice, ABC Order

Benchmark Advance 1st Grade Spelling Units 1-10 Printing Practice, ABC Order

Here is a great addition to your homework packets. There are 4 columns. The first is trace the dots, the 2nd is for coloring, the 3rd is for regular printing, and the last is for ABC order. I designed this as students I tutored were bored with just writing their spelling words 3 times. This should make the task more enjoyable. There is a great coloring page included that goes with several spelling units! Thank you for stopping by today. Please note: Unit 7 Week 1 - I've written the word
Preview of Morning Work 4th grade Language Arts, Social Studies, & Math

Morning Work 4th grade Language Arts, Social Studies, & Math

Added 05.20.2025 - one more week focusing on national monuments/parks for editing, cursive writing, and in math Added 12.06.2022 - two more weeks focusing on dinosaurs/fossils in the Language Arts section - writing paragraphs Here is a packet of 55 days of questions for your 4th graders. The pages are designed to use with a document camera, or any overhead projector, so the students can write the answers in a journal. Each day has one Language Arts, Social Studies, or a science question, along
Preview of Winter Holiday Math 1st & 2nd grades * Adding Doubles, Word Problems,

Winter Holiday Math 1st & 2nd grades * Adding Doubles, Word Problems,

Added 12.03.2022: 4 Arrays for math projects. Here are some fun worksheets, journal word problems, and writing/drawing word problems. I've added some clip art for one of the worksheets and some more to make your own worksheets. Please send me any comments or suggestions. I sincerely want to hear from you. Diane Larson Thanks so much for stopping by and downloading my Winter Holiday Math for first and second graders. The Math Journal word problems are mostly for 3rd graders.
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 7 worksheets & activities

Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 7 worksheets & activities

Here is Unit 7 Week 1, 2, and 3. Each week has a word Unscramble page. The worksheets and activities vary in other types week to week. You will find 2 word searches, writing sentences, matching clip art to the spelling words, root words, and the suffixes ful and tion. There are others, too, that will engage your students interest in spelling. It was my favorite subject! Weeks 1 and 2 each have 4 worksheets. Week 3 has seven. Most worksheets have answer keys. Check out the Preview sec
Preview of Benchmark Advance 4th grd Spelling Units 1-10, wordsearch & Lang Arts

Benchmark Advance 4th grd Spelling Units 1-10, wordsearch & Lang Arts

Here are some fun worksheets for spelling units 1-10. These are ideal for Monday mornings to help kick off the new week's spelling words. Each page has a mini word search along with assorted Language Arts work. Among the covered areas are suffixes, prefixes, antonyms, synonyms, and root words. These words are from Spelling City's website and are used in California. There are a few matching spelling words to pictures to color. NOTICE: Something weird happened when I made the Preview file.
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Vocabulary Units 1-10 Calif.

Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Vocabulary Units 1-10 Calif.

Here are vocabulary worksheets for printing practice. There are 3 columns. The 1st is for tracing, the 2nd for coloring (some fun fonts), and the last for printing, ABC order, or draw the definition. Thank you for stopping by today.
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grd Unit 5 worksheets: ABC order, unscrambles, & more!

Benchmark Advance 2nd grd Unit 5 worksheets: ABC order, unscrambles, & more!

Here it is! Unit 5 Benchmark Advance's unit 5 worksheets packet. Included are what's listed in the title, and a new concept of graphing the number of letters in each spelling word. Each week has 4 worksheets with each week getting an unscramble, ABC order, a word search, and the graph. Other subject covered are suffixes and writing sentences. In Week 2 I added a half page coloring picture of a town. The town is in brown ink, so you might need to add a little extra black ink on the copier
Preview of Benchmark Advance 3rd grd spelling/vocab on 1 page for Units 1 - 5

Benchmark Advance 3rd grd spelling/vocab on 1 page for Units 1 - 5

Here is the revised edition of this packet. I mixed up the spelling words some more as a teacher felt they were listed too closely to ABC order. One row is for tracing, one is for coloring, and the last is for ABC order. If you're looking for just the spelling words, check out my other 3rd grade packet that has Syllables instead of ABC Order. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 4 worksheets

Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 4 worksheets

Simple to complex worksheets contain:ContractionsApostrophesCommasSpace left for commas and apostrophesEasy word search left to right onlyDrawingWriting sentencesPrinting practiceNot all of the 3 weeks' worksheets have the same format. There are at least 4 worksheets per week.Thank you for stopping by today. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me here at TPT.Something weird happened when I made a new file and applied the watermark, so in the Preview File, most of the workshee
Preview of Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 6 worksheets & activities

Benchmark Advance 2nd grade Unit 6 worksheets & activities

Here is unit 6's weeks that have 4 worksheets each. There are word searches, ABC order, unscrambles, suffixes, compound words, and more to help your students remember their spelling words. Not every week has the same type of worksheets. Answer keys are provided for each worksheet and activity and are designed to show on a document camera so students can correct their own work. There is a sample of the worksheets in the Preview section. I've included a link to a free site for compound words.
Preview of Benchmark Advance Spelling 2nd Grade Units 1-10 California

Benchmark Advance Spelling 2nd Grade Units 1-10 California

Here are the spelling units 1 - 10 for California. There are 4 columns for printing and spelling practice: The first column shows dotted letters for tracing, the 2nd is fill in the color, the 3rd is for plain printing, and the last is for ABC order. Each spelling list includes 3 sentences for morning work or tests. Thank you for stopping by today.
Preview of Grades 3-5  - Compound Words with vivid Photographs & texts

Grades 3-5 - Compound Words with vivid Photographs & texts

Here are some photographs for your class to study compound words. This packet is designed to use with a document camera or any other projector source attached to a laptop. Students can use their white boards to write the compound words. In this packet, these words are right after each page. A lot of time was spent finding just the right level of details for grade levels 3-5. The photos were chosen for their topics and colorful images. An "answer" key follows each page. These photos are great to
Preview of Multiplication/Division Fact Families with Arrays

Multiplication/Division Fact Families with Arrays

Thank you for stopping by today. This project began with creating one worksheet for a teacher friend, then another, and so on. Then I had a light bulb moment to make these 10 worksheets into a packet. There are a few worksheets that are a bit different that regular arrays. These ask students to draw on the array icons or skip count. See the sample I included here to get an idea of the different array lesson. These 2 worksheets come with an answer key, but all of the others do not. A color
Preview of 40 R-Controlled Vowels Task Cards, ur sounds with ar, er, ir, or, ur spellings

40 R-Controlled Vowels Task Cards, ur sounds with ar, er, ir, or, ur spellings

Added 12-02-22: Word search using the color photos' words. Idea: Save cutting and laminating time by inserting 1 sheet in page protector. Then insert entire set in a binder or folder that has a pocket. Store the blank answer sheets for easy access. *20 color large (4 per page) *answer sheet: write correct spelling and write a sentence or definition of that word *vivid colors, assorted subjects *20 b/w smaller size (6 per page) *The 20 b/w cards have 3 categories: school (6), nature (12
Preview of R-Controlled Vowels by Categories

R-Controlled Vowels by Categories

Thank you for stopping by today. Here are 18 pages of R-Controlled worksheets in 3 different formats. A sample of these styles are shown here. I created this to augment my #1 seller of R-Controlled Vowels. This packet is focused on categories. These include military people, animals, sounds, outer space, earth, clothing, food, sports, birds, farms, weather, medical, anagrams, ocean life, jewelry, rhymes with "urge" and more. There are coloring pages and clip art for you to use. The jewelry
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Experience

I've been a substitute teacher (grades K-12) in California for 20 years, and a private tutor for the past 8 years. Teachers have been telling me for years that I should make a book about all the ideas I've shared with them, so I'm here to do just that. I hope you enjoy my products.

Teaching style

I always try to use my sense of humor and enthusiasm to teach.

My own education history

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration from University of California Chico.

Additional biographical information

My tutoring began on the Wyzant site, but now I get my tutor jobs from my regular teachers. Most of the subjects I tutor are reading comprehension, and writing.