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Students cut and glue the picture to match the CVCe word.

Students must cut out the words and put them in the right order. They must also choose the correct ending for the verb (-s, -ed, -ing) for the sentence to make sense.

Virtually or in-person, have your students practice grade-level word problems with these slides. Students can click the text box to input their answer. Use this as an asynchronous assignment, assessment, or guided practice to demonstrate the counting-on strategy as well as how to use related facts to solve subtraction or addition.

Have students identify, build and type /oo/ words in these Google Slides. Excellent for asynchronous work during virtual and hybrid learning, or as a guided practice for targeted phonics instruction.

Use these slides as a visual to have students practice the ¨counting on¨ strategy as well as seeing the relationship between addition and subtraction when solving word problems. These slides can be used for remote or hybrid learning for guided or independent practice with this skill.

Have your students try their hand at finding information using samples of table of contents, glossary, and captions.

Use these pages to have students practice adding 10 to any number on both a number line, 2-digit addition model, and skip-counting. These can be great practice at your teacher table, as homework, or as independent practice.

Students can practice double facts as well as the Math Practice of critiquing others' work and attending to precision. Students must look at each fact and decide if it's true or false. If it's true they can color the circle; if it's false, they will cross it out.

Solve the double fact by gluing the correct number of scoops on each empty cone, then add and write the sum in the box.

Cut and glue the bug that shows the number of legs equivalent to the doubles fact.

Cut and glue the food order to make the equation a double, then cut and glue the answer.

A fun coloring activity to practice doubles facts.

Page 1: Read these poems aloud to students and have them guess what the classrioom object is. This serves as a interactive model for the "i spy" poem format and rhyme scheme that students can then read and have a chance to answer independently on Page 2. Page 2 answers: 1. eraser 2. bookshelf 3. PBIS clip chart 4. mailbox/cubby

Celebrate your class' love of reading! I put this one up outside my classroom when the snow started to fall last year. Photocopy the covers of some books your students love to read. I also had my students decorate cutouts of snowflakes and gingerbread men to add a personal touch.

Put the names of your new students on colored circles and invite them into the new school year with this fun, larger-than-life gumball machine.

This bundle provides 4 weeks worth of printable writing prompt cards for your students to cut and glue into their writing journals. Topics include metaphors and similes, adjectives, detailed descriptions and story starters. Excellent as a warm up or independent practice. Students can draw, write, discuss and edit as you see fit based on grade, ability, time and curriculum. Make writing fun!

What's your opinion? Students can use this graphic organizer to pre-write an opinion piece on any topic. They can focus their topic with the sentence starter, "In my opinion, ___ is the best." By organizing 4 reasons that revolve around their opinion, students will be better prepared to move on to the next step in the process and write a quality piece with supporting details that can then be edited and published later.

Everyone has an opinion! First and second grade writers can practice stating their opinion and giving valid reasons using the magic word BECAUSE. With this preliminary sentence starter, students can begin to create an opinion writing project that can be edited and revised in the future. Or, students can share their writing with their peers and discuss similarities and differences in opinion, then create a graph of the class' favorite desserts to display.

Creating informative/explanatory texts is just one of the multiple purposes of writing that first and second grade students are exposed to. Students can use observations, shared research, demonstrations, or their own background knowledge to sequence the steps of putting together a taco in the correct order and with the details necessary to convey information on a given topic. This worksheet will add spice to your existing explanatory writing unit as a warm up or practice session. When your stude

This blank template is perfect as a final draft of a How-To piece that your students have been working on through the writing process and are ready to publish. As a warm up or practice session, use the Tikki Taco "How to Make a Taco" worksheet from the SmartieStuff store!