Snippets From Second

Are you looking for a simple way to get to know your students' learning styles? This Student Learning Profile focuses on three areas: Group Orientation, Learning Environment, and Multiple Intelligences (based on the research of Tomlinson and Gardner). The profile utilizes pictures and child friendly terminology so that even our youngest students can express who they are and how they learn. In addition to the 2-page learning profile, this product includes: * Suggestions for teacher use for bot

Teach your students how to be effective reading partners! Use each anchor chart as a mini lesson. Model how partners read and discuss text. Then provide students with the corresponding bookmark so they can practice these skills with a partner. There are 4 posters and bookmark sets: * Partner Strategy Suggestions: Provide a list of cues and questions to coach a partner rather than just telling him/her the word (use with fiction or nonfiction) * Partner Compliments: Help students focus on buildi

Here is a great activity to help students focus before, during, and after reading a text. First, students preview the illustrations, headings, or table of contents and write down their predictions. As they are reading, they check off their predictions that were found in the text. Lastly, they confirm their predictions or explain what was different. While the focus is on making and confirming predictions, it also provides a way to check students' comprehension and understanding. Included are se

“How do you spell...?” That is the question we hear again and again from our students, especially at the beginning of the school year! Using a Student Dictionary or Writing Resource Book is a great way to build confidence, increase independence, and support students with the writing process. This writing resource includes 4 different cover options ("Spelling Dictionary" or "Writing Resource Book" with boys/girls), lists of high frequency spelling words from A to Z, space to write additional wo

In this Common Core aligned activity, students sort high frequency words based on common vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea, ie/y, oa/oe, ui/ue). The sorts are differentiated into two formats: Cut and paste for beginning readers and writers; and written sorts for proficient or advanced students. There are 10 pages altogether. The iPod format makes it a fun, new way to practice! CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3b Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. Thank you! ~Snippets From Sec

These versatile word sort templates allow your students to sort words from any list. For example, students may sort their spelling words by patterns, vowel sounds, or syllables. Sight words can be sorted by beginning or ending sounds. Another option is to have students draw pictures instead of words to sort vocabulary or concepts. Whether used for categorizing words, concepts, or pictures, the possibilities are endless! Word sorts can be completed during whole group instruction, literacy cente

In this Common Core aligned activity, students sort Dolch words based on long and short vowel sounds. The sorts are differentiated into two formats: Cut and paste for beginning readers and writers; and written sorts for proficient or advanced students. There are 10 pages altogether. The iPod format makes it a fun, new way to practice! CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3a Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. Thank you! ~Snippets From Second

The student writing journal is a great resource for students to utilize during Writers Workshop, independent work time, or writing at home. This product includes a cover page; a writing checklist page for narrative, informative, and opinion writing; and 50 lined writing pages, including a space at the top for a picture. I like to incorporate the writing checklists within the journal so my students always have these reminders at their fingertips. The checklists may also be printed separately, c