Shared Teaching

Are your students struggling to figure out the flow of your day? These EDITABLE class daily schedule cards with pictures and large print serve as a visual cue for students to follow throughout the day. Perfect for students with autism! Students love to read the classroom schedule and can use the bold, bright graphics for reading cues to know what comes next in their day – perfect for ELL students and special needs. Plus the large font makes it easy to see from the back of the classroom. Functi

Parents will love this Parent Guide to First Grade Skills print and go packet that outlines the main skills needed in reading, writing, and math as well as a brief overview of the Common Core Standards. Written in parent-friendly language, it provides examples of how parents can help their child at home and breaks down the basic components of the Common Core. This first grade parent information guide will save you time and your sanity during back to school, curriculum night, parent conferences

Parents will love this printable guide for second grade expectations that outlines main skills needed in reading, writing, and math as well as an overview of Common Core Standards. Written in parent-friendly language, it breaks down the basic components of the Common Core and provides examples of what can be done at home to help. Not a Common Core state teacher? You can still use this guide. Just simply omit printing the standards pages. The second grade skills mentioned are universally ne

Looking for an easy way to pre-assess your students on their coin identification? These simple forms come with everything you need to assess before (during or after) your money unit plus inform parents of their child’s progress. I created this coin assessment for use with my first grade class when I realized how few students were recognizing pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters plus their values. I also needed a way to share with parents the assessment results that wouldn’t take much addition

Searching for simple, uncluttered desk name tags for your early learners? These student name tags are what your students need to help eliminate distractions in the beginning of the year. Students will have constant access to what is most important - a model of their name, the alphabet with pictures, and numbers to 30. Created with a clean, simple design these desk name tags are perfect for your primary class and ELL students. Each desk name tag includes a large dotted handwriting area for names

Parents will love this Parent Guide to Kindergarten Skills print and go packet that outlines the main skills needed in reading, writing, and math as well as a brief overview of the Common Core Standards. Written in parent-friendly language, it provides examples of how parents can help their child at home and breaks down the basic components of the Common Core. This kindergarten parent information guide will save you time and your sanity during back to school, curriculum night, parent conferenc

Parents will love this printable guide for third grade expectations that outlines main skills needed in reading, writing, and math as well as an overview of Common Core Standards. Written in parent-friendly language, it breaks down the basic components of the Common Core and provides examples of what can be done at home to help. Not a Common Core state teacher? You can still use this guide. Just simply omit printing the standards pages. The third grade skills mentioned are universally need

Do your families struggle with ways to help with learning sight words at home? This booklet is a great alternative to the sight word parent letter and includes 12 simple ideas for hands-on practice at home. The sight word book makes a great addition to your teacher bag of tricks to have on hand for when parents ask how they can help. It’s also great to hand out during parent-teacher conferences or curriculum night. **************************************************************************

Searching for simple, uncluttered desk name tags for your early learners? These editable student name tags are what your students need to help eliminate distractions in the beginning of the year. Students will have constant access to what is most important - a model of their name, the alphabet with pictures, and numbers to 30. Created with a clean, simple design these editable desk name tags are perfect for your primary class and ELL students. Each desk name tag includes a large dotted handwriti

Looking for sturdy interactive notebook dividers that will last all year? You found them! These notebook divider tabs were designed to be folded over and printed on regular paper. No need to print on costly cardstock! Each divider tab is double-sided so students can find their pages quickly. For extra reinforcement you could add tape to the tabs. Choose from 1 to 5 staggered tabs to print and use with composition or spiral notebooks. Table of contents pages and tabs included to customize as need

These Parts of Speech Posters activity are perfect for upper elementary students who still need a gentle reminder to label parts of speech. As a fourth grade teacher I did not like many of the grammar/parts of speech products I was finding. I wanted simple, clean posters with just enough information to be helpful but not cluttered. I ended up making my own and I found my students referencing these daily! These grammar posters were updated to include a second option for articles to be colored

Ready to save some time, sanity, and copies with those dreaded counting assessments? This set of 8 different assessments will take the guesswork out of knowing your students' individual oral counting and writing numbers abilities. One sheet of paper per student lasts the whole year and records their progress on that assessment for you to see at a glance. Perfect for RTI and guided math groups! When I taught first grade we were asked to assess our students’ ability to count to 100 but were no

Start your school year off right by organizing classroom jobs in teams. Having class teams makes jobs simpler to keep track of and promotes classroom community by asking students to work together. These editable team job signs and badges will promote working in teams and students will love putting on their team badge each day. Your classroom will be running smoothly all year! Reasons to Love Job Crews for the Classroom:♥ Promotes teamwork ♥ Identify job crews with matching crew badges ♥ Simpl

A collection of 12 poems for shared reading including the topics of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets. *Anchor chart capable for whole-class teaching (just cut and glue to poster board) *Individual sized poems for poetry notebooks or take-home practice - also great for the document camera *Weekly Poem Set-Up Guide *Monthly Poem Set-Up Guide Poems are appropriate for 1st thru 3rd grade and poem authors are listed where applicable. This is the perfect poem packet for shared reading

These 2D shape task cards are perfect for your kindergartners and only include the basic shapes (circle, rectangle, triangle, and square). They are not your average pattern block cards but use simple 2D shapes with your young learners in mind - I use them for my ELL early kindergartners (preschool age) to begin thinking creatively when building shapes and naming the four basic shapes. Included in the packet are 14 task card composite shapes, task cards in 2 sizes, ink saving black and white card

This is a fun and engaging way to get your students learning how to use a pan balance scale. Students will use the 45 included task cards to measure and learn concepts of heavier, lighter, and balanced while using easy to find classroom manipulative for nonstandard measurement. Task cards are differentiated for 3 levels of difficulty and color coded to make it easy to assign students a level. The highest level includes matching recording sheets for students. Manipulatives used include: countin

Are you on the hunt for that perfect teaching job? Whether it's your first job or your last having a teaching portfolio for your interview may be what helps get you the position. I've made it super easy to create an awesome showcase worthy portfolio by making it 100% editable. Even better, watch me in a video as I show you exactly how to add photos, customize the fonts and the layout so it suits you and your personality. ***************************************************************************

This Community Helpers Color the Room activity is a great way to introduce write the room to your early learners who are struggling to form letters, read or write. Students are asked to find a card and color it to match on the recording sheet, testing their observation and coloring skills. As a first grade teacher in a low socio-economic setting, I often had a very skewed classroom spectrum of students who could read, struggled with letter names, and others who were several reading levels ahead

These Arabic and English shape posters for the classroom include 32 total shape posters (16 shapes) for you to mix and match. Shapes are provided with or without a solid black background and feature a simple, clean design with easy to read font. These shape posters coordinate perfectly with my Bilingual Number Posters for the Classroom. Reasons to Love these Arabic and English Bilingual Shape Posters: ♥ Large font for easy reference across the room ♥ Black or ink friendly white backgrounds i

This Hibernation Color the Room activity is a great way to introduce write the room to your early learners who are struggling to form letters, read or write. Students are asked to find a card and color it to match on the recording sheet, testing their observation and coloring skills. As a first grade teacher in a low socio-economic setting, I often had a very skewed classroom spectrum of students who could read, struggled with letter names, and others who were several reading levels ahead.