Positively Primary

For success choose the best! Cookie, that is! Introduce your young students to the voting process by conducting a fun classroom election. The Cookie Elections packet includes detailed lesson plans for the components of an election cycle, including primary elections, candidate debates, campaign advertisements, registering to vote, and determining the winner. Classroom photographs, a voter roster, registration cards, and sample ballots are provided.

Do your first graders, second graders, or older struggling students hit a brick wall when they move on to long vowel patterns? Oftentimes, their struggles occur because they haven’t developed automaticity with short vowels, blends, and digraphs. In this packet from Positively Primary, you’ll find a wealth of activities for small group and individual work to strengthen these critical phonics skills. Contents include: Short Vowels Pictures and Hand Motions “Lines of Practice” Explanation Lines

Everybody loves looking at sweet animal pictures! Matching Moms and Babies is a fun activity for kids to match animals during your Mother's Day unit. You also have the option to extend the game into a writing project.

You will LOVE these fun science and math activities based on familiar Christmas traditions. Your students will be so focused and motivated, you will not have to stress about off task behavior! Each activity begins with a holiday story or information book, followed by a scientific observation using the senses. This packet includes lesson plans for science and math activities correlated to holiday literature; printable recording sheets for observing, measuring, and graphing; a super scientist safe

In these days of the Common Core and higher standards, are you looking for ideas to enhance your writing instruction? Who isn’t?! This e-book includes 188 pages of resources for teaching author’s craft to elementary-aged students. You’ll receive lessons, posters, rhyming couplets, photographs, literature links, student samples, and much more. Examples of topics include mini-lessons on vivid word choice, similes and metaphors, transition words, and onomatopoeia, all based around an acronym ca

This product is designed to provide multiple opportunities for students to practice the first 100 word phrases in the Fry Sight Word List. The following components are included: -Phrases in Alpha Order -Zap! Game -Punctuation Fluency -One-Breath Boxes -Roll and Read -Sight Word Stories

Ho Ho Ho! Develop literacy skills during shared reading using the poem, Santa's Sack. Students engage their imaginations, develop vocabulary, and work together to complete graphic organizers. This mini-unit includes lesson plans for one week and graphic organizer templates.

First graders understanding metaphor? Third graders using a poet’s palette? Yes, both are possible with the use of this poetry unit, described by one reviewer as “the best I’ve ever read for teaching poetry.” Students will be immersed in the language, rhythm, and power of poetry, and then they will analyze poems that the teacher reads aloud. Finally, using a palette of tools poets use (such as visual images, line breaks, alliteration, and white space), students will produce numerous poems in

Use this sheet to help you select prompts for written responses using text-based evidence. Questions are appropriate for both narrative and informational text and align with Common Core expectations.

These activity cards will give students good practice with the following: -Short Vowel Sounds -Short Vowel Sounds & Blends/Digraphs -R-controlled Vowels -Long Vowel Sounds with Silent E -Long Vowel Teams Students roll dice and then read corresponding lines of decodable words. The cards are perfect for differentiated small groups and provide 100% student engagement.

HONOR OUR HEROES! This Veterans Day Packet is designed to teach children the purpose of Veterans Day, when we remember and honor all the men and women who have served and are currently serving in the U.S. military. This packet includes lesson plans, a Power Point presentation, directions to implement a community service project for soldiers, a graphing recording sheet, and interactive drawing instructions. There are also templates for decorations and easy to make gifts for local veterans. Thi

Are you looking for a fun way to help children remember when to use a capital I during writing workshop? Read aloud this cute story about the day Capital I forgot to change his clothes. Pictures of the characters Capital I and lowercase i from the story are included.

Teaching the character trait "Responsibility" can be tricky! Children make the personal connection more easily when you use the resources available right there at your school. The School Workers packet is designed to create a sense of community within the school and help children understand the responsibilities of the various people working within the school building. This unit includes lesson plans for 5 school workers. Based on first person research, students learn to generate questions for in

This free poster shows students the three standard purposes for writing -- to Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. What's different about this poster is that it also links these purposes to the format for writing -- persuasive, expository, and narrative.

Lesson Description: Busy builder task cards are designed to motivate hard workers in literacy stations, as well as to provide tools for teachers who need to support emergent learners. We included 3 sets of task cards (alphabet, big book and construction task cards) that can be used with teacher support in RTI instruction, small group instruction, or in independent work stations for all young learners. Each task is supported by a picture to make independent work possible for students while you

Finally, children will LOVE doing homework with the Hop into Homework packet. These motivational homework activities provide students with practice in literacy skills, problem solving and real-world applications of math and science. Included are directions and homework sheets for 34 weeks of school

Charm your children with these exciting St. Patricks Day activities. This packet includes many hands on activities to improve literacy, math, social studies, and science skills. 1. Poem for shared reading 2. Map and flag for Ireland 3. Fun Food creations for following directions 4. Thinking maps 5. Readers theater script with retelling cards 6. Super fun science experiments 7. Recording sheets and teaching posters 8. Art activities 9. Math skip counting, time and graphing 10. Shamrocks, snak

Are you ready to GROW fabulous writers this year? Real writers utilize writer's notebooks as a place to collect and develop ideas for writing. After completing the Writer's Notebook homework assignments, your students will have an enormous collection of ideas for future writing. Your students will realize that writing happens all the time, not just at school. They will even start to think like writers as they practice using strategies to develop their ideas! We included several writing samples

Are you struggling to set up an effective writing program? Do you want to refine your writing program to make it more relevant and rigorous? This product is for you! "Writing Workshop: The Getting Started Guide" provides all you need to know to introduce and sustain effective writing instruction. Learn about mini-lessons, target skills, did-it dots, and more. Included within this must-have product are step-by-step directions, lesson resources, and a year-long scope and sequence.

Reading Prompts for Parents includes practical prompts, websites, apps, and publishers to help parents support their children in reading at home. It is also a useful resource for teachers who are developing a leveled library for their classrooms.