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Your students "Arrr" going to love this cute reading comprehension craftivity! Gingerbread Pirates is one of my favorite stories to read during the holidays! After reading the story, choose which retelling treasure chest pages meet the needs of your students. This pack includes the following treasure chest patterns to choose from: -Treasure Chest Cover -Beginning, Middle, End -Story Summary -Characters and Setting Girls will decorate a gingerbread girl pirate to attach to the top of their

Do you ever get tired of hearing "What do I do now?" Students will know what to do when they have their own Think-Tac-Toe activities to complete. Students will be able to pull out their Think-Tac-Toe choice board and choose from the activities to complete. This set includes a different Think-Tac-Toe choice board for each month of school from August to May. These engaging activities are on a second grade level, but can be used to differentiate for advanced first graders or third graders perfo

Graphs Galore Common Core Activity Pack is a fun way to teach your students about surveys, picture graphs, and bar graphs. This pack comes with 10 different graphing activities that you can use in your guided math groups, math stations, or independent assignments. Four of the activities are leveled (remediation, on-level, and advanced) so you can choose the appropriate activity for each student. Game Pack Description: Ice Cream Pictograph, Favorite Food Pictograph, and Favorite Sport Picto

Making Measurements is a fun differentiated math station where students estimate and measure the length of objects in the classroom! This station includes a direction card, math talk card, and 7 different independent practice worksheets to choose from. Independent Practice Worksheets: 1. Estimate & Measure Classroom Objects in Inches 2. Choose Your Own Objects to Estimate & Measure in Inches 3. Estimate & Measure Classroom Objects in Centimeters 4. Choose Your Own Objects to Estimate & Measu

These cute Bloom's Taxonomy posters will be a great addition to your classroom! Each poster includes a student-friendly "I Can" statement so your students can see which level of Bloom's they are achieving. Each poster also includes key words that correlate with each level of Bloom's so you can promote higher level thinking and questions for your students. Each poster is color coded in rainbow order to reflect the progression of difficulty in Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply, Anal

What great differentiated common core resource to use to teach place value! This scoot game includes 3 leveled games to meet the needs of your students in your classroom. The games are aligned with the Common Core Standards for grades K-2. Students may play as a teacher directed whole group scoot activity or once you have leveled your students into math groups, they can use the leveled cards to practice identifying the correct number in their math station, small guided math group, or with a par

Your students will have a great time helping Cowboy Roy read the oi and oy words to get back to his ranch. Students roll the dice and read the word to his or her partner. He or she then writes the word in a sentence to earn a point. Whoever earns the most points by the end of the game wins! Go to the link below for free recording sheets to go along with this game! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Street-Spelling-and-Phonics-Game-Recording-Sheets-Freebie-729222 Be sure to

If you use the McGraw-Hill Wonders Reading Series, these homework contracts will motivate your students by making spelling homework fun! Students choose 2 or 3 of the activities to complete to practice their spelling words in a fun and engaging way. Each spelling contract is also translated in Spanish so parents and ELL students can practice their spelling words each week. Each spelling contract is differentiated and has the spelling words that correlate with each basal story from the unit. I u

This is one of my favorite craftivities that I use with my students! First, we read a penguin story such as Cinderella Penguin by Janet Perlman. I then teach them how to use the summary graphic organizer (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then). Students then write their summary of the story on the summary card. After students write their summary, they use the penguin pattern to create their penguin. I also had my students become "fashion designers" by using construction paper to dress up their pe

If you are looking for fun ocean themed sight word games, activities, I can posters, word wall alphabet cards, and an assessment then this pack is for you! Included are 18 different sight word and word wall games, ocean themed alphabet cards for your word wall, Fry's 1st 100 sight words and word phrase cards, and I can statement anchor posters. These games are designed for whole group, small group, and independent practice. This pack is also aligned with the common core standards for K-2nd gr

What a fun way to encourage positive behavior in your classroom! Use this bee themed clip chart to monitor your students' behavior and choices. My students have really enjoyed it! The clip chart is divided into seven colored sections and each day every child will start out on green, “Ready To Learn,” which is located in the middle of the chart. Students will have a clip that they will physically move up or down the chart, depending on their choices. If a student makes it “Off The Chart” I wear t

Your students will love adding money with Ice Cream Money Bump! Spin the money bump spinner twice. Add the money together. Place a counter on that value. If another player’s counter is on that number, BUMP it off. If your counter is on that number, stack the counters together and it freezes that spot. The winner is the player that uses all of his or her counters first. Be sure to check out my other math stations, literacy stations, and bump games!

Gingerbread Mouse is one of my favorite stories to read during the holidays! After reading the story Gingerbread Mouse, students will summarize or retell the main events of the story. You may have them choose between writing the beginning, middle, and end of the story or write a summary of the entire story. They can then draw a picture of each event in the blank space above their writing. Students will then use the decorations to decorate their own gingerbread house cover or use the cover

What a fun and easy way to implement Bloom’s Taxonomy in your classroom and make sure your students are being challenged in reading! These question cards and activities are great because they can be used with any fiction book during your whole group, small guided reading group, literacy station, or partner accountable text talk discussions. Each card is color coded in rainbow order to reflect the progression of difficulty in Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate,

What a great back to school resource for 1st and 2nd grade teachers! This pack contains reading comprehension activities, class books, a Splat the Cat Craftivity, and much more using your favorite back to school picture books! See below for a list of the picture books and activities that correlate. Curious George Goes to School *Story Prediction Back to School, Splat *Compare and Contrast *Summer Vacation Class Book *Splat Craftivity and Writing Activity Miss Nelson's Missing *Want

Enjoy this free part part whole mat to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division! I use this mat to model during my whole group and small group lessons while my students are practicing the skills with their own personal mat. You can laminate these mats so they can be used with either manipulatives or number tiles. Then, have your students use a dry erase marker to record their equation. Check out my differentiated math games at the link below: https://www.teacherspayteacher

If you use the McGraw-Hill Wonders Reading Series, these homework contracts will motivate your students by making spelling homework fun! Students choose 3 of the activities to complete to practice their spelling words in a fun and engaging way. Each spelling contract is also translated in Spanish so parents and ELL students can practice their spelling words each week. Each spelling contract is differentiated and has the spelling words that correlate with each basal story from the unit. I usuall

Your students will have a great time helping Phil the Dolphin read the words to rescue his nephew Joseph. Students roll the dice and read the word to his or her partner. He or she then writes the word in a sentence to earn a point. Whoever earns the most points by the end of the game wins! Go to the link below for free recording sheets to go along with this game! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Street-Spelling-and-Phonics-Game-Recording-Sheets-Freebie-729222 Be sure to chec

Dino-mite Differentiated Money Games is a great way to review and practice identifying coins and their values, counting coin combinations, and solving money word problems. The games and activities included in this pack are aligned with the Common Core Standards for second grade. A learning target poster and 6 money posters are also included. *Dino-mite Money Games Leveled Cards: These 4 sets of game cards are leveled (remediation, on-level, and advanced) so you can choose the appropriate acti

Your students will have a great time helping Sherry the Bumble Bee read the words to find her family and get back to their hive. Students roll the dice and read the word to his or her partner. He or she then writes the word in a sentence to earn a point. Whoever earns the most points by the end of the game wins! *This game correlates with the suffixes _tion and _ture spelling and phonics patterns for the Reading Street story A Birthday Basket for Tia from Unit 6. Go to the link below for free