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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

Make teaching comparisons simple and engaging with these Comparative and Superlative Daily Slides! This ready-to-use resource gives students consistent, bite-sized practice with adjectives like taller, faster, biggest, and smallest through interactive questions, visuals, and sentence activities. Perfect for morning work, mini-lessons, or spiral review, the slides help build grammar skills, vocabulary, and confident sentence writing in just minutes a day. Easy to project and no prep for you—ju

Commas made easy! ✏️ These slides help students master commas in dates with clear examples and student-friendly explanations—perfect for quick lessons and writing support. 5 days of commas in dates slides

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

math tool kit first grade tools laminate & use includes: number line number bond clock 120 chart part part whole fact family house tens frames ten more ten less

Practice counting the syllables and sounds in words with you students! I use whiteboards to have them write the amount and show me.