Glow Day room transformation activities! Everything you need from shopping lists, prep and planning, management ideas, 14 centers, printables and signs. Your class won't be disappointed to have a fun learning day with Glow Day! Use for a fun review day or transform your classroom for an end of the year party! Bring on all things NEON and GLOW! Designed with 2nd graders in mind :) Includes GLOW DAY & LETS GLOW banner letters as well! Preview includes a sample of the pages included :) UPDATED MA
20+ activities to learn about and celebrate the 2026 Big Game! Patriots vs. Seahawks! This product will be updated from the previous year, so buy it once and have activities each year with the two football teams! Football themed literacy and math activities including informational text, graphic organizers, opinion writing: Who Would Win?, reading charts, Roman numerals, syllables, compound words, nouns & verbs, math/graphing and text dependent questions! Designed with 2nd graders in mind! *All a
Focus on scientific inquiry while studying oobleck properties using this fun 8 page, printable lab book. Includes both science lesson and interactive read aloud lesson plan and 7 reading response choices. Students will be highly engaged with this hands-on experiment! Enjoy!
The Spider and the Fly Book Companion: Read-Aloud Activities K-3 | Literacy Centers, Comprehension, Vocabulary. The Spider and the Fly is a fun read aloud for the primary classroom. This story teaches the important lesson that you should NEVER be tricked by sweet, flattering words. This HUGE collection of activities (over 30 pages) will provide you will numerous options for reading engagement and response. Most of the activities come in a variety of response styles to allow for differentiation/e
Curriculum Based Measures are a quick and easy way to collect high quality student data to measure and show growth over time. CBM also provide teachers with the ability to analyze student data according to national writing norms. This product provides simple and specific directions for administering a 3-minute writing assessment, scoring, and tracking student data for writing. This product features a national norms chart focusing on grades 1-6 for three specific writing assessments including: T
Text sets 1-5 are all here at a discount price! Over 150 response pages (6 response pages per text)- 5 weeks of easy-peasy lesson planning. Featuring book companions for 2nd grade interactive read alouds. Using interactive read alouds is one of the best ways to expose your students to higher level questioning - thinking within, beyond, and about a text that is slightly above their independent reading level. These resources include a focus on elements of nonfiction and fiction, text features, sci
Mr. Peabody's Apples is a great story to teach students about the power of their words and not spreading rumors or gossip. This activity would be great to incorporate into your back to school lesson plans and/or character education resources. Included with this product is a full interactive read aloud lesson plan with pre-made questions to print on post-its, a variety of resources including home-to-school connection and parent letter, listening center, response pages and more! Here's What's Incl
Ready to start hitting your CCSS research standards? Use this unit plan to engage students in shared research or independent research of famous people - all the printouts you need to get the project finished! Includes ideas for student presentation and a Wax Museum event! Designed with second graders in mind! Includes: unit lesson plans, 14 printable biographies to use for close reading as well as reading response pages, fact collector page, graphic organizers, timeline template, paragraph writ
The Alaskan Iditarod Race is an exciting event! Designed for students to research and learn the history behind this iconic event! A 5 day mini-unit, with easy to follow plans that streamline just the right amount of nonfiction and fictional texts for students to be engaged. Included are resources for the trade book: Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod, by Robert J. Blake. This captivating tale tells the story of a lead sled dog named Akiak who, while competing in the Iditarod race, injures her paw
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Literature
A strong foundation in phonics and decoding builds fluent readers. Teaching sight words (Heart words) or irregular words requires explicit instruction. This product will provide a routine for teaching and practicing the spelling of irregular words, featuring a multi-sensory approach. Learn the difference between irregular, sight words, and high frequency words and become a pro at implementing a routine for teaching these important words. Great for introduction of new spelling words, reinforcemen
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Put the timeline creation in your student’s hands by providing them the opportunity to connect with important inventions that changed our way of life. Print out these posters for students to illustrate. Students can be a part of the sequencing process. Display the timeline in your classroom as a year-long display, or during your history unit. This activity is also great for math – determining how many years ago these monumental creations were invented. Also includes a handout so that student
Many teachers use 101 Dalmatians as a theme to celebrate the 101st day of school. Here are several fun reading, writing, and craft activities to boost engagement in the classroom as we zoom through the winter! Be sure to leave feedback! ENJOY! Activities include:101st day of school posters101 Days headband & Dog tag craftDalmatian craftIf I had 101 Dalmatians I would…“How to take care of a puppy” writer’s workshop book“All About Dogs” writer’s workshop bookNonfiction “All About Dalmatians” artic
Boho Rainbows are all the rage right now! Why not take this classy look to your teacher lesson plans! This product is an editable Google Slide version and can also be printed as a PDF. The perfect "all things teacher binder" for the 2025-2026 year (updated July, 2025 - download each year for an up to date product). Included:8 1/2 x 11 Monthly calendar (July 2025-June 2026) 2 page spread calendar + inspirational quote & note taking margin (July 2025-June 2026) Teacher checklists Teacher planni
Fry Bread is a great read aloud for any primary classroom. Students can learn about family traditions, cultures and being thankful. This book companion product features 8 different response activities and a home to school connection letter with QR code which will allow students to share the story with their family. *Designed with 2nd graders in mind*Response Pages Included:Writing about family traditionsConnectionsSocial Justice Standard: Identity 5 - I see that the way my family and I do thing
Using the popular Cinderella fairy tale, these response pages allow students to focus on comprehension and comparing other versions to Cinderella. Book companion (reading response pages) to accompany the read alouds: Cinderella, The Rough-Face Girl, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, and Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella. Designed with 2nd graders in mind! What Activities are Included?Cinderella: 6 response pages: fairy tale elements, retelling, good vs. evil, problem and solution, connectionsRough-Face Girl: 6
Getting started with shared reading texts this year in your curriculum? This product is a BUNDLE of fiction text companions for 2nd Grade shared reading texts. At least 10-13 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students for each text featured. Great for independent, guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. These activities have been designed to allow for repetitive practice of important literacy skills. You choose which to work on using your shared reading texts! This product includes
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Literature
Getting started with shared reading texts this year in your curriculum? This product is a BUNDLE of nonfiction text companions for 2nd Grade shared reading texts. At least 10 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students for each text featured. Great for independent, guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. These activities have been designed to allow for repetitive practice of important literacy skills. You choose which to work on using your shared reading texts! This product include
Ready to upgrade your phonics instruction? A sound wall is a great feature to add to your classroom. This visual display helps students make connections between the 44 phonemes (sounds) and numerous grapheme (letter) combinations. This resource provides a few options for display. Whether you are working with older students, requiring less visuals, or younger students that benefit from visual supports, this product can be used in a variety of ways based on the needs of your students. The full di
Do you already have an amazing phonics program? Do you need something quick and easy to reinforce each lesson? Something that doesn't require a million copies, cutting and gluing way too many pieces, and too much prep time?? These activities are quick and easy for students to complete independently to practice each phonics skill. This collection covers you for the entire school year! ✨ Follow me✨ to check out other print and go activities like: interactive read aloud 2nd grade text sets, room tr
Book companions for 2nd grade Interactive Read-Aloud set #25: Steve Jenkins -Exploring the Animal World. Includes over 30 different response pages for the five texts in the set. PLUS bonus Steve Jenkins author study resources. Includes a focus on elements of nonfiction, text features, science connections, vocabulary, author's purpose, opinions, recalling facts and more literary elements! Use to extend, reinforce, revisit, or assess comprehension and literacy skills. Looking for the ENTIRE YEAR
K - 3rd
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
Favorite practices: focusing on engaging topics to facilitate higher level thinking, cooperative learning, phonics skills based reading instruction, research, interactive read alouds, small group instruction, hands-on learning, SIOP for ELL students
My own education history
BS in Early Childhood Education
Masters in Teaching English Learners
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