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* Product Update: Now includes the Early GR Plan!* Struggling to keep track of your daily, differentiated Guided Reading lesson plans for each group? This freebie is for you! Modified from Jan Richardson's Guided Reading lesson plan templates for Pre-A & Emergent Readers, these templates are for an entire week's worth of lessons for both levels! A quick & easy reference, this will cut your planning time down & leave you juggling less paperwork--always a plus! :) (Check out Dr. Richardso

Struggling to keep track of your daily, differentiated Guided Reading lesson plans for each group? This product is for you! Modified from Jan Richardson's Guided Reading lesson plan templates for Pre-A, Emergent, and Early readers, these templates are for an entire week's worth of lessons for all 3 levels! A quick & easy reference, this will cut your planning time down & leave you juggling less paperwork--always a plus! :) Before purchasing, please note: This editable product uses Hello Li

This forever freebie includes story maps for: -"The Hat" -"The Mitten" -"The 3 Snow Bears" -"The Animals' Santa" -"Trouble with Trolls" Students can use drawings and/or simple sentences to recall story elements including: setting, characters and events (beginning, middle and end) for some of Jan Brett's most cherished books! This booklet also includes pages to discuss Brett's work as an author and illustrator. Visit Brett's website to discuss the author/illustrator and to enjoy wonderful vid

Looking for an exciting and engaging way to review fractions with your kiddos? Students will play this fun game while reviewing: • Wholes • Halves and Fourths of a Region (To win, kiddos will need to get 5 in a row/line down the board :) ) This is perfect for an end-of-unit review or for station/center/Daily 3 math time. I hope you enjoy! If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I ♥ to hear how you use this product in your classroom so leave a comment below! :)

This freebie is completely adaptable to the needs of your kinders. In my classroom, we are currently using the Fly Swatter Swat as a whole group activity on the SMARTBoard to practice segmenting CVC words into onset and rime (VA SOL K.4d). Students are called to the board to segment the pictured word--pig, p-ig. If students segment the word correct, they can "swat" the fly. Some other skills that you could target with this fun activity would be: to produce a rhyming word and identify a word

Looking for a fun way to celebrate birthdays in your classroom? This fun, colorful Birthday Book is perfect for you! :) This pack includes: -An interview with the Birthday Boy/Girl -Pages for their classmates to share birthday wishes on the special day (color & black/white options!) -Ages included: 5-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope that you enjoyed this product! Please leave me feedback and let me know how you used this Birthday B

Are your kinders struggling to identify coins (penny, nickel, dime and quarter) and their values? Looking for an easy money review activity? This hands-on spinner game challenges students to identify the coins, based on images of the fronts and backs, and chart the coins that they land on. The second spinner game includes identifying the coins & their values. My kinders l-o-v-e spinner games & this activity is sure to be a hit in your classroom! :) VA SOL: K.7

These printables will allow your kiddos to practice their sight words in a new, exciting way! Sight Word & Picture Prompt: Use the sight word & picture prompt to create your own sentence(s) before coloring the work of art! Sight Word, Picture Prompt & Word List: Use the tools included to create your own sentence(s) before coloring your masterpiece. The word list will help students who may struggle with phonetic spelling or to help those kiddos who are working to lengthen their writing. Sigh

This is a freebie from my product: {Fall Fun!} Sight Word Sentences & Writing Prompts. These printables will allow your kiddos to practice their sight words in a new, exciting way! Sight Word & Picture Prompt: Use the sight word & picture prompt to create your own sentence(s) before coloring the work of art! Sight Word, Picture Prompt & Word List: Use the tools included to create your own sentence(s) before coloring your masterpiece. The word list will help students who may struggle with pho

This pack correlates to VAAP strand 7M-PSPFA 1 and VA SOL math strand 7.9. Looking for an easy way to teach and assess probability using the terms "possible" and "impossible?" Then this printable pack is for you! I have included 2 different types of worksheets--circling and cut/paste--with a few different themes (Christmas, cookies and candy!). ***Your students will have to view this in color (perhaps on the SMARTBoard with their own printable); a black/white version is coming soon! :)***

This pack correlates to VAAP strand 7M-PSPFA 1 and VA SOL math strand 7.9. Looking for an easy way to teach and assess probability using the terms "possible" and "impossible?" Then this printable pack is for you! I have included 2 different types of worksheets--circling and cut/paste--with an arctic theme. This is a growing bundle and more activities will be added soon! Please leave me feedback to let me know how you have used this product in your room!

This pack includes a variety of vowel (short & long vowels!) manipulatives to incorporate into your units. Anchor Chart Headers: Use these headers to create anchor charts for both short and long vowels. "Pinch" Cards: A wonderful hands-on, formative assessment tool. There are a million uses for this little guy! Call out a CVC word and students can "pinch" the correct vowel. Spinners: Another manipulative that is so versatile. Spin a letter and write a CVC word that incorporates the short vo

Looking for a way to make tallying practice more fun & engaging for your kinders? Then this product is for you! This product includes: • Roll, Make & Tally: Using tally manipulatives & dice, students will be able to practice showing numbers different ways *Includes an assessment task* • Grab, Make & Tally: Using math & tally manipulatives, students will be able to practice number sense different ways • Spin, Make & Write: Using a spinner & tally manipulatives, students will be able to practice

Looking for a quick & easy self-assessment tool for your kiddos to use when writing? Then this checklist pack is for you! :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This pack includes 2 different checklists based on your classroom and the needs of your students! Checklist 1 will have your kiddos checking for: uppercase letters, finger spaces and punctuation. Checklist 2 will have your kiddos checking for: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, finger s

Ready for a fresh take on your study on antonyms? This mini-unit is perfect for you, then :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mini-unit includes: • 3 worksheets that will reinforce your lessons (multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, cut & paste) • 1 center/task-card station (matching a word to it's antonym) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aligns with VAAP standards 7E-RW1

This math station/center pack is perfectly themed for your kinders to practice counting, identifying and writing numbers (1-20) with a Valentine's Day twist! :) It includes: -Count & Hook: Identify the number & "hook" on links -Tallies: Count the tallies & write the number -Ten Frames: Count the number on the ten-frame & write the number -Snap Cubes: Count the snap cubes & write the number Please leave me feedback so that I can hear how you incorporated my product in your classroom! :)

Looking for an exciting and engaging way to review fractions with your kiddos? Students will play this fun game while reviewing: • Equal and Unequal Shares of a Region • Halves and Fourths of a Region This is perfect for an end-of-unit review or for station/center/Daily 3 math time. I hope you enjoy! If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I ♥ to hear how you use this product in your classroom so leave a comment below! :)

This is the perfect product to begin integrating technology in your classroom--whether as an independent station/writing task during literacy station time or as a formative assessment to any phonics lesson on short vowel CVC words--in a fun, engaging & hands-on way! How does it work? After scanning the QR code, students will be shown a picture depicting a short vowel CVC word. Their next step is differentiated by you, the teacher, according to the printable assigned to them! Printables include

Using this printable, students can spin the spinner to pick 2 words to use when crafting sentences to describe the picture. Includes both fall & Halloween (bat) images! Sight words on spinners: like, jump, she, has, play, they. _____________________________________ I hope that you enjoyed this product! Please leave me feedback and let me know how you used this product in your classroom. ♥ Miss Dove

This set will help you get organized for parent-teacher conferences! :) Includes: Parent feedback formAppointment notesTeacher note sheetConference schedule