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This is a summer reading list to give to your classroom families. The books are leveled A through K. This is a great resource for parents to use to keep track of summer reading. They can find books at Scholastic or your local public library.

We use easy readers every Friday. Each easy reader has a sight word. This easy reader is called "I like Apples." The sight word is LIKE Students write their name. Students highlight the word like. Students illustrate the book. Students take the book over the weekend to read. This is a great way to create "at-home" libraries and learn new sight words.

This is a emergent reader you can use with your students. It will help exposing them to the possibility of wearing a mask at school. Emergent readers are great to use when focusing on 1:1 correspondence, fluency, accuracy and sight words.

My class is using DRA reading levels this year. You can look online and convert the levels to F&P levels if needed. While I send some books home, I wanted to give parents a few more resources to use. I researched some books at each level (-1-12). These are books and book collections that can be found online or at the library.

This is my classroom reading program. This document is easy to edit. You can edit the dates, expectations, guidelines, etc. This log is an easy one for parents to follow and teachers to read when it is returned to school. Outline: 1. Students take home "Zippy" (ziploc bag of books & log) 2. Students read at home four times and log reading. 3. Students bring Zippy back to school to trade books. 4. Once they meet the monthly goal, they receive a Book It certificate.

This is a handout to use in a math center. You can also use this whole group, small group, or with a math tutor. The children identify the missing number by counting and write it in the box. I use this in the beginning of the year.

This is an easy reader. We use these every Friday in kindergarten. This book features our sight word: when. Students read the easy reader. Students highlight the word when with a yellow crayon. Student draw pictures connected to the story. Students take the book home and practice reading. This is a very effective way to learn sight words and increase books in the at-home libraries.

This is a report that can be sent home daily to parents. It is a note that you keep copied. If a student is misbehaving, you can fill it out, staple it to their folder, and send it home. I write their name and date. Highlight the rules/behaviors that need to be discussed at home. Write the consequence in teacher note or any other information. The parent must sign and return it by the next day. It is a great way to have daily communication with parents and encourage behavior that supports lear

This can be used in a reading center or listening center. The students complete this after they have read a book or listened to a book. This is a response handout for the beginning of the year. I still encourage them to label their drawings.

This is a emergent reader you can use with your students in grades PreK, K and 1. It will help exposing them to the possibility of wearing a mask at school. Emergent readers are great to use when focusing on 1:1 correspondence, fluency, accuracy and sight words. For this reader, I would focus on the sight word "see." 1. Display the reader. 2. Read the book together and students come up to the front to point to the sight word. 3. Pass out the reader. 4. Students put their name on the front co

This cute decodable reader is Valentine's themed. Beginning readers can practice their reading skills with this decodable reader. First, I have students write their name on the first and last page. Next, students can identify one sight word. For this reader, I have students highlight the word "on," but students can identify the word "day," "I," "can," or "give," if your class has already mastered the word "on." Then, students can turn to the final page of the story and finish the sentence "On Va

Students work on writing their name and identifying the first sound in their name. They also find a word with the same beginning sound. Then they can draw a picture. This is a good activity for beginning writers. I used this activity at our writing center.

Celebrate fall with this freebie! After reading From Seed to Pumpkin or another nonfiction pumpkin book, students can complete their own life cycle of a pumpkin by drawing each stage in the labeled circle. Simple and easy! Perfect for pairing with a nonfiction read aloud and great activity for the beginning of the year.

Students can brainstorm CH words. They can draw CH pictures.