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This product includes 21 weeks worth of PowerPoints (at least 5 per week). These PowerPoints systematically teach arithmetic fluency including: Addition within 20Subtraction within 20Addition within 100Addition within 200 (2 two-digit numbers, with a sum over 100)Subtraction Within 100

A few important notes: There are 20 pages of practice phonics questions (7 questions per page) and 5 practice phonemic awareness tests (13 questions per test).I reviewed every published resource I could find to help write practice questions that match ACAP phonics and phonemic awareness questions as best I could (except that I made my questions more difficult than I expect the ACAP test will be). That said, some of how the questions will be worded is guesswork. The one big deviation I made from

This product contains 144 subtraction worksheets (and answer keys), with a mix of questions requiring and not requiring regrouping: 24 pages subtracting within 100 using base-ten blocks (5 questions each)24 pages subtracting within 100 using partial differences (5 questions each)24 pages subtracting within 100 using an open number line (5 questions each)24 pages subtracting within 1000 using base-ten blocks (3 questions each)24 pages subtracting within 1000 using partial differences (3 questions

This product contains 60 addition worksheets. At the top of each worksheet are examples for how to solve addition equations using partial sums (making them especially helpful for homework, as parents can see how the problems are being solved). There are: 24 worksheets for addition within 10012 worksheets for addition within 20024 worksheets for addition within 1000The addition within 200 problems (all two-digit plus two-digit) help bridge the gap between addition within 100 and addition within

The primary focus of this product is 10 PowerPoints (5 are Doubles +1 and 5 are Doubles +2). These PowerPoints are essentially the same, just with slides in different orders (to help make sure students are not merely memorizing the answers). The Doubles +1 PowerPoints start by having students practice decomposing the number 10, which is then leveraged to help students understand doubles facts (shown with tens frames and moving counters). After this, students are taught the relationship between d

The primary focus of this product is 5 PowerPoints. These PowerPoints use tens frames and counters to show students how to quickly know the answer to +5 facts. After that, they have students quickly answer +5 facts (without the tens frames and counters – removing the scaffold). These PowerPoints are essentially the same, just with slides in different orders (to help make sure students are not merely memorizing the answers). Also, this product includes a word document that can be used to print fl

The primary focus of this product is 5 PowerPoints. These PowerPoints use tens frames and moving counters to show students how to instantly know the answer to +8 facts. After that, they have students quickly answer +8 facts (without the tens frames and counters – removing the scaffold). These PowerPoints are essentially the same, just with slides in different orders (to help make sure students are not merely memorizing the answers). Also, this product includes a word document that can be used to

The primary focus of this product is 5 PowerPoints. These PowerPoints use tens frames and moving counters to show students how to instantly know the answer to +9 facts. After that, they have students quickly answer +9 facts (without the tens frames and counters – removing the scaffold). These PowerPoints are essentially the same, just with slides in different orders (to help make sure students are not merely memorizing the answers). Also, this product includes a word document that can be used to

15 worksheets are provided. These are used to have students practice splitting words into a base word and affix(es). The first 10 worksheets have words with just one affix. The last 5 worksheets have words with two or more affixes. The affixes that are used, and their meaning, is provided at the top of each page. NOTE: For many words, determining the meaning is as simple as combining the base word and the meaning of the affix. For example, "tallest" means "most tall." For some, the wording might

This product is two simple second-grade shapes tests (2 pages each). One is labeled as a practice test. There is nothing special or difficult about the test. It is meant to test very basic knowledge regarding polygons, triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A STANDALONE LESSON. There is one PowerPoint that teaches six addition facts, in part by emphasizing the relationships between these facts. These are 3 + 6, 3 + 7, 4 + 7, 6 + 3, 7 + 3, and 7 + 4. I put this together because my other addition within 20 resources cover every fact (often repeated in multiple lessons), other than these six. Flash cards for these six facts are included. Also, there are 5 PowerPoints that teach students how to handle addition within 20 with a

This poster breaks down how I teach long-vowel spellings. Obviously, there is room for debate on some of the details. I teach that there are two long u sounds (compare "rude" and "cube") because I believe this approach helps students, but some will explain these patterns differently. Also, some very infrequent patterns are excluded (but others might see fit to include them). Patterns that are green are used frequently and patterns that are red are used rarely (although they are used enough that

These worksheets (2 pages) are very simple. They are meant to provide practice for how standardized tests often test partitioning rectangles (to make sure students understand what is being asked).

This is a one-page worksheet. There are four (mostly written) paragraphs that students add a concluding sentence to.

This product includes two worksheets where students turn sentence fragments into complete sentences.

This is a worksheet (1 page) for students to practice filling in missing parts of relatively complex patterns.

This document contains 60 skip counting worksheets (counting by 100s, 10s, 5s, 2s, 1s). Skip counting by 1s and 2s are not Common Core standards, but both are helpful and almost certainly worth teaching (including crossing into new 100s). For each worksheet, it tells students what they are to skip count by. This is really solid practice for second-grade standards, except that students should also practice skip counting when they are shown a pattern but are not told what the pattern is (not inclu

The two posters included are used for text-dependent writing. The posters are very similar, but one is less detailed and the other is more detailed. In my opinion, the first poster is more appropriate for 1st grade and the second poster is more appropriate for 2nd and 3rd grades. However, one good ways to use these (if it makes sense for your class), regardless of the grade, might be to teach using the simpler poster and then to transition to the more detailed poster. Also included is a simple g

A simple poster to display and reference for the rule that English words (almost) never end with the letters i, u, v, or j.

This is a poster, and corresponding graphic organizer, that teaches paragraph structure. This works for most types of writing (not narrative).