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K-4 Reading/ELA Vertical Alignment AZMake planning and collaboration easier with this K–4 Reading/ELA Vertical Alignment Guide aligned to Arizona standards! This resource clearly outlines how key literacy skills progress from Kindergarten through 4th grade, helping teachers identify prerequisite skills, support student growth, and ensure instructional alignment across grade levels. Perfect for PLCs, curriculum planning, intervention support, and understanding the learning progression of essentia

Have students fill out this BINGO sheet and then play the game! I laminated mine and used dry erase markers so that we could play multiple times without making a ton of copies! Call your student names and either use chips or cross out squares until someone gets 5 in a row.

To keep students on task use the secret student strategy. Each morning write a name down under the secret student poster on your whiteboard. I laminated mine and put magnetic strips on the back. Tell students that if the secret student was behaved well all day they will receive a prize. If not, don't show the name and try again the next day. Remind students throughout the day "I hope my secret student is on task." This is great tool for when the end of the year starts getting closer and studen

Use this word work choice board to practice spelling words, sight words, or any words your class is focusing on! I use it as one of my stations during our reading rotations.

Use the around the room activity to hang the task cards around the room and have students fill in the blank on their grid!

Download this PDF to send home with students to create a cereal box book report! Can be used in any grade. We created reports and then ate cereal in class the day it was due!

Students can locate the text features given and circle them according to the colors given. This is a way to assess your students knowledge of text features! Nonfiction Text Features First Grade

my new friend - back to school activity first day of school activity I pair this with Gerald & Piggie's My New Friend story!

Here are a few worksheets for the prefixes re, un, pre, and dis!

Attach these to bubble wands for an end of the year gift for your kiddos!

Use these slides to find the theme with a read aloud from Thelma the Unicorn. If you do not have the book there are lots of read alouds on Youtube!

Magic Dough is the perfect first day or week activity. Making the dough is really easy and recipe is included. Students will find a color hidden in their dough once squeezed to show the year is going to be great.

Use this health choice board to get your students exploring health! If my first graders can do it then your kiddos can too!

Students use playdoh to build the punctuation needed on each slide! Super easy to use and engaging!