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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Halloween FREE ABC 123”

by Linda Post – The Teacher’s Post

Pre-Kindergarten – 1st Grade

 

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Halloween FREE Literacy Center Activities

★ Halloween FREE ABC 123

★ Matching Upper and Lower Case Letters and Counting to 20 and Award Certificates

★ 4 Ways to Play – 72 different Halloween Costumes in All

★ Halloween costume graphics with the lower case letters of the alphabet match up to other Halloween costume graphics with the upper case letters.

★ Numbers 1-20 to arrange in order as well.

★ Optional recording sheets for students to write the alphabet and the numbers.

★ 6 Different Spooktacular Award Certificates at various levels.

Pages 1-2 – these directions & Seller Info
Pages 3-5 -Halloween costume graphics with lower case letters and numbers 1-10
Pages 6-8 – Halloween costume graphics with upper case letters and numbers 11-20
Pages 9-11 – Optional recording sheets
Pages 12-14 – 6 Different Spooktacular Award Certificates at Different Levels

Cut the sheets on the paper cutter into 12 square cards each.

Ways to Use

1. Match the upper case letters to the lower case letters.
2. Arrange the lower case letters in alphabetical order.
3. Arrange the upper case letters in alphabetical order.
4. Arrange the cards in order for numbers
5. 1-10 or 1-20.
6. Print the upper and lower case letters.
7. Print the numerals 1-20.

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Halloween Build A Word Wheels – Set 1 – Different Ways To Use and Record – 63 Different Combinations of Wheels, so you can make 63 Word Builder Wheels with this set! – Includes 4 Word Builder Awards and 8 Recording Sheets – Great for Differentiating Word Building Practice with your students – 7 inner wheels and 9 outer wheels.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Candy-Corn-Compound-Words-Puzzles-96-Compound-Words-365903
Halloween Candy Corn Compound Words Puzzles – 96 Compound Words – Self Correcting!
8 sets with 12 different compound words in each set. 20 Page Download
Answer keys, 4 optional recording sheets and 4 awards are included. 1 blank set of candy corn puzzles and answer cards in case you’d like to make some additional compound words you need.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Counting-and-Skip-Counting-Math-Centers-389986
Halloween Counting and Skip Counting Activities – 30 Page Download – 60 Different Trick or Treaters make this activity perfect for a Halloween review of counting and skip counting by ones, twos, fives and tens to 100.


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Halloween Emergent Readers – 2 Different Reading Levels – 3 Books -4 Versions of Each -26 Page Download –
Easy Assembly – 12 books in all-8 Pages Per Book – Use for guided reading, and send home for extra practice.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Literacy-Centers-Sight-Words-Game-Boards-First-100-Dolch-Words-360529
Halloween Sight Words Literacy Centers Game Board Activities – 5 Different Game Boards Set 1 – All Halloween Themed – Contains spinners, gameboards, recording sheets, and awards. This file contains 5 different Halloween game boards for the first 100 Dolch sight vocabulary words. I have included 6 spinners.


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Halloween Sight Word Literacy Centers Gameboard Activities – 5 Different Games – Set 2 – Last 120 Dolch Sight Words – This file contains 5 different gameboards for the last 109 Dolch sight vocabulary words. (First 111 Dolch words are on Set 1). Spinners, Gameboards, Recording Sheets, and Awards.

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Halloween Sight Word Activities Ghost BOOsters! – Level 1 – First 100 Dolch Words – Memory and Ghost BOOsters Card Game – 10 Sets – 5 Ways to Play – 55 page download – First 100 Dolch Words. (See set 2 in my other product listings for the last 120 Dolch Words.) You can print it out as is, but it is designed to be printed out back to back with 10 different sets of HALLOWEEN graphics printing on the reverse side to keep the 10 sets separate. Optional recording sheets with matching graphics and 4 Ghost-BOOsters Awards.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Spook-tacular-Antonyms-Literacy-Centers-60-Pairs-389259
Halloween Spook-tacular Antonyms Literacy Centers Recording Sheets and Award – 120 Words (60 pairs of antonyms) – 60 Different Trick-or-Treaters Match Up to Halloween Houses! – 4 Ways to Play – 29 page download – 5 complete sets with different backings and print color to keep them separate

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Spook-tacular-Contractions-Literacy-Centers-48-Pairs-387924
Halloween Spook-tacular Contractions Literacy Center Activities– Recording Sheets and Award –
23 Page Download – 48 Contractions – 4 different sets with 12 different pairs in each set. Students match contractions to the words from which they are made.


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Halloween Spook-tacular Synonyms Literacy Centers – Recording Sheets & Award (60 pairs of synonyms) and 60 Trick or Treaters in different costumes match up to Halloween houses for trick or treat!
4 Ways to Play -29 page download – 120 Words – 5 complete sets with different backings and print color to keep them separate.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Trick-or-Treat-Onset-Rime-DIBELS-Spook-Tacular-Literacy-Center-Set-1-368269
Halloween Trick or Treat Onset Rime DIBELS Literacy Center Activities – Level 1 – Match each Trick or Treater to a Halloween House to make a word… Real or Nonsense? Prints nicely in color or grayscale. All c-v-c words and some cc-v-c words, but you do not have to use the consonant digraphs for onsets.
23 Page Download – 3 Ways to Play – 24 different Trick or Treaters with onsets (beginning sounds and digraphs) match up to a variety of Halloween houses with rimes (–at, -ip, um, ed, ot, etc.). Optional recording sheets for students to write the cvc onset rime words they form. Play as a simple pick a Trick or Treater and match it to a Halloween House with a rime that forms a word. OR play “Real or Nonsense?” Trick or Treater onset cards can be placed in a decorated copy paper lid (Halloween scenery for sides inside and out provided). I have a Level 2 Version that you can find in my products listings. It can be added to set one gradually to make the activity more difficult and differentiate students’ practice.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Trick-or-Treat-Onset-Rime-Level-2-Spook-Tacular-Literacy-Center-370206
Halloween SPOOKtacular! Trick or Treat Literacy Center Activities – Level 2 –
Onset Rime – Match each Trick or Treater to a Halloween House to make a word… Real or Nonsense? 48 onsets and 84 rimes- Prints nicely in color or grayscale. 34 Page Download – 3 Ways to Play – 48 different Trick or Treaters with onsets (beginning sounds, digraphs, blends and trigraphs) match up to a variety of Halloween houses with more complex rimes than in set 1 (–ear, -ight, ain, eat, end, etc.). Optional recording sheets for students to write the words they form. Play as a simple pick a Trick or Treater and match it to a Halloween House with a rime that forms a word. OR play “Real or Nonsense?” Trick or Treater onset cards can be placed in a decorated copy paper lid (Halloween scenery for sides inside and out provided). I have a Level 1 Version (a smaller file and only $2.95) that you can find in my products listings. It can be combined with this set to make it easier for students who have a difficult time with this level. It contains just short vowel c-v-c words. Adding this set will allow you to truly differentiate.


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Trick-or-Treaters-Alphabet-and-Counting-Activities-391218

FREE – Halloween Literacy Center Activities – Matching Upper and Lower Case Letters and Counting to 20 and Award Certificates – 14 Page Download – 4 Ways to Play – 72 different Halloween Costumes in All –
Halloween costume graphics with the lower case letters of the alphabet match up to other Halloween costume graphics with the upper case letters. Numbers 1-20 to arrange in order as well. Optional recording sheets for students to write the alphabet and the numbers. 6 Different Spooktacular Award Certificates at various levels.

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Halloween Mini Candy Bar Wrappers – FREE!”

by Lisa Frase

Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade

 

Halloween Mini Candy Bar Wrappers

 

This pdf file contains a set of 10 miniature candy bar wrappers for Halloween. Simply print, cut, and wrap the wrappers around a mini candy bar. They are great for treats for your class, trick or treaters, faculty meetings, parties, and more!

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Halloween “Easyart” Strip Pumpkin”

by ART ACTION -Laurie Carpenter
Kindergarten – 5th Grade

 

Strip Pumpkin

 

What is more fun than a pumpkin at Halloween? This easy, free, Halloween seat work craftivity for elementary age students will make them happy and want to create even more projects for the holiday. So, if you enjoyed this lesson plan, there are many more in my store. Go to:
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FREE MATH LESSON – “Ghost Odd or Even FREEBIE!”

by Love of First

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

 

Ghost Odd or Even

 

This pocket chart sort activity makes for a great math center to reinforce the concepts of ODD and EVEN numbers.

Students must sort the numbers into the correct haunted house.

A follow up printable is included. This can be used with the center or separately to assess students’ understanding of the concept.

Check out my other Halloween Resources:
Halloween Cut and Glue Sentences
Halloween Word Problems
Halloween Math Centers
October Calendar Pieces

Enjoy!
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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Find Someone Who is An Expert On…”

by Trina Deboree

1st – 5th Grade

 

Find Someone Who is An Expert

 

This is prewriting activity by Trina Dralus is a great way to launch your All About writing unit (Writing to Inform). Or this activity can be used as a fun class builder to develop classroom community skills. If you like this activity check out the Writing to Inform unit!

 

 

 

 

 

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Be A Reading Star”

by Kathy Goosev Howell

Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

 

Be A Reading Star

 

Celebrate children’s reading by making them a Reading Star. Encourage and reward their reading success with reading incentives.

Each Reading Star has 4 Reading Star levels. You can choose a star that has minutes, pages, or books on it. Personalize it to fit your classroom needs. Copy the star on heavier paper, cut out, and laminated. You can then hang it in your classroom.

Next, choose how you would like to have your students log in their reading. There are 3 ways: using minutes, pages, or books. Color stars are provided for all 3 ways with blank lines to fill in the numbers that best fit your grade level.

There is a Reading Star Log to record reading that is completed with classroom books, library books, or books read at home. This Log can be used in the classroom and also sent home for logging in homework reading.

Printable Reading Star necklaces are included.

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “FREE: Clock Buddy Sheet”

by Brooke Beverly

1st – 6th Grade

 

Clock Buddy Sheet

 

Looking for a creative way to partner your students up? Give each of your students a clock buddy sheet. For each time slot, have students find a partner. They write each other’s names for the clock time. Fill in all 12 time slots. It works well if you let them pick their partner for some of the time slots, and you pair some students in other time slots. The idea is for students to get different classmates for each of the time slots. Have your students store the clock buddy sheet in a safe place, and whenever students need a partner throughout the year, just call out any clock time. Partners are instantly decided!

 

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “FREE Alphabet Book Template”

by SunnyDays

Pre-Kindergarten – 8th Grade

 

Alphabet Book Template

 

Alphabet books are a staple in most elementary classroom libraries. Creating ABC books is a familiar writing activity for the primary grades, but there are many ways to use these great resources with intermediate students as well. Use this template and included lesson activity ideas to get your students writing across the curriculum.

File includes lesson ideas, book recommendations, a great link to more free resources, three different covers and one page for each letter of the alphabet book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rethinking Reading Logs for young readers

Rethinking Reading Logs for young readers

I have spent most of my career teaching little people, and a good part of that time parenting little people, too. One topic of great discussion (well beyond kindergarten and grade one) was that of the Reading Log.

As a first grade teacher, I had mixed feelings about sending them home. It’s fairly easy to figure out early on what will become of one’s students’ reading logs throughout the year. As parents, we all have the best intentions. Teachers know that. Many of us fill both roles.

Life gets busy, especially that in-between school and bed time when you have to make and clean up dinner between driving kids everywhere ensure they’re somewhat clean, and maybe even do some homework. I believe that most parents do read with, or to, their kids. Writing it down (especially when we’re exhausted and feeling like we’re being policed?) Well, that’s a whole other story.

How many evenings did I spend at the end of each month, sitting at my kitchen table with a selection of different colored pens, filling in my kids’ reading logs? We absolutely read each night, probably for too long, but we sure didn’t break the spell to keep track of it all!

It is because I valued passing on the love of reading that, in the case of traditional Reading Logs, our kids learned from me that I was okay with dishonesty (under very specific circumstances). Yep, they learned that the magic of reading trumped honesty. GULP.

The Parent / Teacher Connection:

When I was teaching Reading Recovery, between my training and the variety of students I had, I began to really understand the difference between passive and active learners, and the connection between our roles as parents and teachers. Have you heard the phrase ‘Never do for a child what he can do for himself’? I’m a believer.

There was a very definite link between how quickly my students that were more independent with getting ready for recess or home, for example, and using the strategies I was teaching them, were progressing through the program. Those who simply shrugged when I asked them a question, or stood daydreaming in the hall, expecting someone to come and zip up their jackets were the ones who seemed to struggle the most. They were also the ones who left their reading bags at home, waited to be directed for every step of the same structured lesson we had each day. Some of my students did not have bedtime stories because they ‘didn’t have time’. (That did not surprise me with the amount of time it took to travel down a short hallway!)

I have ‘rejigged’ the reading log for the little people, with the purpose of parents and teachers focusing on maintaining the natural enthusiasm and building responsibility for their learning in our little people! Have a look:


Th 2 Reading Log bw cover

This is the front

cover, with space

for the student’s

portrait and

name. Copy onto

colored paper

or let them color

it themselves! 


Th 3 Reading Logs

This is the first

inside page of

the Reading

Log, with the

legend and a

note for parents

explaining how

it all works! 


Th 4 10 June Reading Log

Students draw in &

submit reading

log with a page

completed monthly.

after discussing  

the 3 boxes at 

bottom at home.


strips - Copy

This is a later addition

to Reading Logs –

rejigged, for anyone

wishing to add extra

strips for additional

tracking (weekly?)

Simply return to your

My Purchases page &

download an update!


Th1 Familiar Reading explained! Free handout for parents and volunteers by ThatFunReadingTeacher

While this is not part of

Reading Logs – rejigged

it is the ideal info sheet

(& freebie) to include

with it or in your

familiar reading bags! 


It is my hope, that by focusing on each child as an individual ‘Superstar’ Reader (front cover), who has an important job to do in bringing his or her special Reading Folder or bag home regularly (hopefully with a library book to listen to, and/or some familiar reading), and returning it to school, it help foster a sense of pride in being a big kid who ‘reads’.

It is also my hope that our earliest little readers and their parents find reading stories at bedtime something they look forward to each night, and that stories accompany them elsewhere in their lives!

Below, please find the links to the free one month trial version and the full versions of Reading Logs – rejigged! If you like this idea, please pass it on!

I would love to hear your thoughts on reading logs, this new one, and alternatives you use.

Best wishes to all of you as we embark on another school year!



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November, December and April to keep options open regardless of country or religion!
Reading Log preview.png - Copy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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Reading Logs for young readers? Here’s an alternative!

Rethinking Reading Logs for young readers

I have spent most of my career teaching little people, and a good part of that time parenting little people, too. One topic of great discussion (well beyond kindergarten and grade one) was that of the Reading Log.

As a first grade teacher, I had mixed feelings about sending them home. It’s fairly easy to figure out early on what will become of one’s students’ reading logs throughout the year. As parents, we all have the best intentions. Teachers know that. Many of us fill both roles.

Life gets busy, especially that in-between school and bed time when you have to make and clean up dinner between driving kids everywhere ensure they’re somewhat clean, and maybe even do some homework. I believe that most parents do read with, or to, their kids. Writing it down (especially when we’re exhausted and feeling like we’re being policed?) Well, that’s a whole other story.

How many evenings did I spend at the end of each month, sitting at my kitchen table with a selection of different colored pens, filling in my kids’ reading logs? We absolutely read each night, probably for too long, but we sure didn’t break the spell to keep track of it all!

It is because I valued passing on the love of reading that, in the case of traditional Reading Logs, our kids learned from me that I was okay with dishonesty (under very specific circumstances). Yep, they learned that the magic of reading trumped honesty. GULP.

The Parent / Teacher Connection:

When I was teaching Reading Recovery, between my training and the variety of students I had, I began to really understand the difference between passive and active learners, and the connection between our roles as parents and teachers. Have you heard the phrase ‘Never do for a child what he can do for himself’? I’m a believer.

There was a very definite link between how quickly my students that were more independent with getting ready for recess or home, for example, and using the strategies I was teaching them, were progressing through the program. Those who simply shrugged when I asked them a question, or stood daydreaming in the hall, expecting someone to come and zip up their jackets were the ones who seemed to struggle the most. They were also the ones who left their reading bags at home, waited to be directed for every step of the same structured lesson we had each day. Some of my students did not have bedtime stories because they ‘didn’t have time’. (That did not surprise me with the amount of time it took to travel down a short hallway!)

I have ‘rejigged’ the reading log for the little people, with the purpose of parents and teachers focusing on maintaining the natural enthusiasm and building responsibility for their learning in our little people! Have a look:


Th 2 Reading Log bw cover

This is the front

cover, with space

for the student’s

portrait and

name. Copy onto

colored paper

or let them color

it themselves! 


Th 3 Reading Logs

This is the first

inside page of

the Reading

Log, with the

legend and a

note for parents

explaining how

it all works! 


Th 4 10 June Reading Log

Students draw in &

submit reading

log with a page

completed monthly.

after discussing  

the 3 boxes at 

bottom at home.


strips - Copy

This is a later addition

to Reading Logs –

rejigged, for anyone

wishing to add extra

strips for additional

tracking (weekly?)

Simply return to your

My Purchases page &

download an update!


Th1 Familiar Reading explained! Free handout for parents and volunteers by ThatFunReadingTeacher

While this is not part of

Reading Logs – rejigged

it is the ideal info sheet

(& freebie) to include

with it or in your

familiar reading bags! 


It is my hope, that by focusing on each child as an individual ‘Superstar’ Reader (front cover), who has an important job to do in bringing his or her special Reading Folder or bag home regularly (hopefully with a library book to listen to, and/or some familiar reading), and returning it to school, it help foster a sense of pride in being a big kid who ‘reads’.

It is also my hope that our earliest little readers and their parents find reading stories at bedtime something they look forward to each night, and that stories accompany them elsewhere in their lives!

Below, please find the links to the free one month trial version and the full versions of Reading Logs – rejigged! If you like this idea, please pass it on!

I would love to hear your thoughts on reading logs, this new one, and alternatives you use.

Best wishes to all of you as we embark on another school year!



 FULL PRODUCT
RL fr sample FREE SAMPLE

The full product comes with all 12 months, plus additional months  for August, October,

November, December and April to keep options open regardless of country or religion!
Reading Log preview.png - Copy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Related:

First Grade and Kindergarten Literacy Bundle


Follow That Fun Reading Teacher’s board Kindergarten Literacy Fun on Pinterest.

 

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ThatFunReadingTeacher@gmail.com

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Same & Different Card Activity”

by SnoopSistas

Pre-Kindergarten – 1st Grade

 

Same & Different Card Activity

 

The goal of this activity is to teach children visual discrimination skills. As the student looks at each group of cards, they have to determine which picture is out of place.

 

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Which letters are most important to young learners, and a fun (and FREE) activity!

Which letters are important to young learners, and a fun activity to do with them! Blog post by That Fun Reading Teacher


If you want to get children’s interest, ask about their world.It really does revolve around them! The letters young kids learn to identify first are those that they see most often. Many of these are the letters in their names.There are a number of benefits beginning letter learning with letters a child is most familiar with.

Children learn best when they are happily engaged in what they are doing and are most enthusiastic when they feel confident.

With that in mind, here is the ‘how-to’ on the preparation and lesson for the ‘Letters in your name’ flipbook:

Preparation:

  • Using 8 ½ x 14 paper, prepare the blank flip books.  If a child has six letters in his name, you will need three sheets of paper to lay one on top of the other, leaving approximately two centimeters, or just under an inch between the bottoms of each piece of paper.  When you fold the three papers in half, you will have six layers (see photo).  Staple these pages together, covering any sharp staple ends safely.  You now have the template for the ‘Letters in your name’ flipbook!  Be sure to adjust for the length of each child’s name.
  • Usually the children associate themselves with the first letter of their name.  Consider whether or not you would like a photo to be used on the front cover so it can be ready for the activity, or provide people shaped tracers or stamps, and students can personalize from there
  • Have a variety of options available to the children for illustrating the pages in their book.  As noted in The benefits of a personal alphabet book, it is important to find out what the child naturally associates with each letter sound on her own.  Reading Recovery teachers are equipped with a collection similar to the index car box in the photo, which allows for a quickly accessible variety of pictures for every letter.  If what the child suggests is not available, it can simply be drawn.  Many sticker collections can provide great content for these files as well as photocopies and pictures from fliers.  Holiday fliers are particularly useful.  ‘Witch’ and ‘ghost’ are popular alphabet book flier additions, thanks to Party Packagers and their terrific advertisements!

    A Reading Recovery teacher's alpha photo file.

    A Reading Recovery teacher’s alpha photo file.

Materials for the activity: 

  • Upper case and lower case letter stamps (optional, but helpful)
  • Prepared flip books (with child’s name lightly marked in pencil on the back)
  • Glue sticks and coloring materials
  • Small group setting (best done as a center)
  • Scissors if using fliers that have not been cut
  • Pictures for pages of flip books

The Activity:

  • Introduce the activity by talking about names, how special they are, and reinforce that individuality and uniqueness are positive traits.

    For Joshua, 'a' is for 'apple'

    For Joshua, ‘a’ is for ‘apple’.

  • Talk about the importance of the first letter of a name. Make big emphasis on capitalization here.
  • Show the kids a model of the ‘Letters in your name’ flip book and ask them if they notice anything different about the first letter.
  • If you are using stamps, show them the two sets.  Explain how to use them, and about the difference between the upper and lower-case set.
  • Explain that just like every person is different and special, everyone’s name book will also be different.  Even if two children have the same name, it is important for them to choose a picture that jumps into their own mind right away when they hear a letter sound.
  • Aim for two or three letters per day with each child.  Say the letter sounds for the kids and ask them what comes into their mind when they hear them.  If nothing, then leave that letter and move on.  It is okay to leave a page blank.  This is the start of a record of the child’s letter learning.
  • Allow the children to make their pages special with colour and décor.
  • Once the class is finished with this activity, send it home to be shared, but only after the information is transferred into a more permanent alphabet book that the child will continue to work on at school. This alphabet book will be a reference for the entire school year, and perhaps the next one, too.
  • Have the children ‘read’ their ‘Letters in your name’ flipbook to others with pride.  Reading buddies, volunteers, family members etc.
  • Most importantly have fun!

What are some ways you introduce letter learning to kids?

 

Related:

 

The benefits of a personal alphabet book - lessons learned from my Reading Recovery days. A blog post by That Fun Reading Teacher.

 

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON – “Animal Classes Reference Chart”

by Primary Inspiration by Linda Nelson

Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

 

Animal Classes Reference Chart

 

Supplement your sciences studies of animal classification with this 2-page full color chart. It features photographs of animals from these classes: mammals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, and amphibians. The background is color-coded to a key at the top of the chart, so your students will also be practicing using a key. Print and attach to the inside of a file folder for referencing in centers or mount both pages on 12X18 posterboard for a wall poster.

This chart is part of Animal Classes ~ A Literacy/Science Cross-Curricular Unit, a collection of 14 animal-themed literacy activities.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Literacy Centers Labels ~ Lime”

by Teaching MrsT

Kindergarten – 5th Grade

 

Literacy Centers Labels

 

Use these cards to label your centers so your students can find them easily! No more, “Where’s the spelling center Mrs.T?” This file includes 16 labels, 14 of them are labeled (Newspaper, Buddy Reading, Work with Teacher, Vocabulary, Grammar, Computer, Game, Smart Board, Working with Words, Writing, Poetry, Listening, Strategies, Content Area) and two blank. There are 4 round labels per page.

I would be happy to add any other names you use for your centers or change the color by request.

 

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Math The Equation Game”

by That Science Guy

Kindergarten – 1st Grade

 

Math The Equation Game

 

CCSS Math The Equation Game: A Math Board Game that allows students to practice skills learned and allows teachers to assess student knowledge of equations. This resource is First Grade CCSS aligned and has been used in many classrooms. Students and teachers enjoy this activity. A great way to have your students apply what they have learned while having fun. Laminate and use for years to come.

 

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Cut Out Letters”

by Colleen Bergin

Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade

 

Cut out Letters

 

Letters of the Alphabet that you can print out and cut easily! Fantastic for bulletin boards!

 

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “8 Sight Word (Pre-primer) Booklets”

Grades K-2
by Reading on Strawberry Lane
Preprimer Bundle CoverThese 8 interactive sight word booklet teaches all the preprimer words. Each booklet teaches 5 words. Assemble the booklet by running the copies front and back and cutting in half and then stapling. There are 14 interactive tasks in each booklet:
1. Unscramble the Words
2. ABC Order
3. Spy & Highlight
4. Count & Graph
5. Color the Words
6. Solve the Clues
7. Fill in the Missing Letters
8. Write a Sentence
9. Try Spelling
10. Connect the Dots
11. Roll & Read
12. Proofread
13. Pyramid Spelling
14. Illustrate a Sight Word (on the last page of the booklet
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FREE MATH LESSON – “Fast Food Fast Facts (Multiplication)”

by Keep Your Chin Up

2nd – 4th Grade

 

Fast Food Fast Facts

 

A fun game for your students to practice beginning multiplication facts from 1 x 1 to 6 x 6. Each student rolls 2 number cubes then multiplies the two numbers. Place a counter on the product of the two numbers. Whoever covers up all their spaces first wins the race!

**Cut the game board pages in half so each student has one “tray”.

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Bundle Packet”

Grades K-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

This “Reading Vowel Digraph & Vowel Diphthong Syllables” unit provides 86 word lists vowel digraphs and vowel diphthongs syllable type words. Also, a master word list is included and can be used as a quick reference. A vowel digraph or vowel diphthong is one of the six types of syllables in reading. The lists in this unit include words spelled using vowel teams or vowel/consonant teams to create each vowel sound. These lists of words will help students recognize the vowel digraph or vowel diphthong patterns. Reading will become more manageable for students once they understand syllable types.


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10 V & V Pic 110 V & V Pic 210 V & V Games Pic 3

The “10 Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Activities & Games” packet includes 10 activities and games give students a fun way to learn and sort vowel digraph and diphthong syllable words. A vowel digraph is two vowels that spell one of the vowel sounds in the team such as /ea/ spells the –e sound in ‘eat’.  The four diphthongs vowel teams are /ou/, /ow/, /oi/ /oy/. Together these four vowel teams create their own unique sounds. The words used in this packet target the common vowel combinations that create vowel digraphs and diphthongs. The activities/games can be placed in language stations, or they can be played during small groups.

The following activities and games are included in this packet:
1. Color the Rainbow
2. Ghost OUT
3. Move the Mouse to the Cheese
4. Guess the Word
5. Shark
6. Go Fish
7. PIG
8. Old Maid, Old Man
9. Skunk
10. Thirteen Digraph/Diphthong Booklets—These are booklets the students can cut apart, staple, color, and spell the words to match the pictures. The books target :
• digraph ai—rain, tail, snail, paint, mail, air, sailboat, rainbow
• digraph ay—hay, gray, pray, May, birthday, tray, say, pay
• digraph long ea—peace, peanut, eat, treat, tea, read, teacher, feast
• digraph short ea—bread, weather, sweater, breakfast
• digraph ee—bee, cheese, tree, three
• digraph igh—goodnight, light, bright, right
• digraph oa—coat, boat, toad, soap
• digraph ow—shadow, pillow, elbow, snow
• digraph long oo—balloon, broom, igloo, mushroom, pool, root, school, zoo
• digraph short oo—cookie, looking, book, football
• diphthong ou—cloud, mouse, out, groundhog
• diphthong ow—towel, clown, frown, shower
• diphthong oy—cowboy, ahoy, toys, joy

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Free Classroom Rules Poster and Instructions

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Classroom Rules Poster and Instructions

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Free Classroom Rules Poster and Instructions

It sounds very idealistic to say this, but it’s true. From personal experience, I assure you that simplifying your rules will simplify your life.

At the beginning of the school year, when it’s time to introduce the class rules I show students this poster and read the three words. Then, using the Socratic method of questioning I go through the rules one by one and discuss the implications of those rules (which is the reason you don’t need many.)

Total Pages
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Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Whooo Am I? Riddle Craftivity Freebie”

by I Love 1st Grade by Cecelia Magro

1st – 3rd Grade

 

Riddle Craftivity

 

Here is a darling owl riddle writing freebie. Everything is included to make this adorable bulletin board.

 

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “IB Learner Profile Bracelets”

by An Element of Fun in First

Pre-Kindergarten – 5th Grade

 

IB Learner Profile Bracelets

 

Students can wear these bracelets when they are demonstrating one of the learner profiles. These bracelets are in color only, so print in black and white if you would rather not have color.
These bracelets have clip art that matches “The Big IB Bundle”, which includes the learner profile, attitudes, skills, action cycle, themes, and key concepts and can be found here at The Big IB Bundle.
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FREE MATH LESSON – “Sticker Addition Worksheet – Up to 10”

by Kindergarten is Grrreat

Pre-Kindergarten – 1st Grade

 

Sticker Addition Worksheet

 

These 5 worksheets are great reinforcement for those who are learning addition. Each sheet has 4 problems with the sum being no greater than 10.

Students use stickers to solve the problem in the shape. They then count all the stickers and write the answer on the line.

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “8 Sight word (Pre-primer) Booklets”

Grades K-2
by Reading on Strawberry Lane
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1. Unscramble the Words
2. ABC Order
3. Spy & Highlight
4. Count & Graph
5. Color the Words
6. Solve the Clues
7. Fill in the Missing Letters
8. Write a Sentence
9. Try Spelling
10. Connect the Dots
11. Roll & Read
12. Proofread
13. Pyramid Spelling
14. Illustrate a Sight Word (on the last page of the booklet
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Benefits of a personal alphabet book – a lesson from my Reading Recovery days

The benefits of a personal alphabet book - lessons learned from my Reading Recovery days. A blog post by That Fun Reading Teacher.

 

Why go to the trouble of creating a personal Alphabet Book for your students, instead of having everyone in the class work through each letter together? It sounds like a lot to manage, but creating links to a child’s life early in literacy learning is worth the confidence and gains they make later.

When I taught Reading Recovery to grade one students early in the school year, creating a personal alphabet book was one of the first things we did together when we started lessons. It wasn’t until seven years in to my teaching career that I understood the benefits of a personal alphabet book, and I have Dr. Marie Clay and my Reading Recovery teacher leaders to thank for that.

In Literacy Lessons Part Two, Dr. Clay explains:

The alphabet book is merely a record of what is known with spaces for what is ‘yet to be learned’  That gives the child a sense of the size of the task and a feeling of control over his own progress.  It also provides a location to return to when a troublesome letter, still being confused, turns up. (p37)

She explains that children do not generally learn to identify letters by name or sound in alphabetical order and that identifying a letter by name or sound is equally useful for a child early on, as it is most effective to teach both name and sound together.

 

When children have one word for each letter that he or she knows for sure makes that letter sound, they use it as an anchor, a concrete example to hold all other words against for comparison.

When they have their own sound alphabet that they have created from the words most meaningful to them, the words that pop into their minds with the initial letter sounds and that association gives them confidence that they know that particular sound.  It gives them the confidence to ‘spit’ that sound out when they see an unknown word on a page when they are reading, or put down that first letter when attempting to write a word they have never attempted before.

The personal alphabet book is the ultimate, at-a-glance reference guide. It is meaningful to each child, because that child constructed it from people and things that are meaningful to them already. The connections are already in place.

The key to the effectiveness of a personalized alphabet book is in its construction.  It must be done slowly but with enthusiasm, following the child’s lead, reviewed often and used as reference.

Years ago, we spent hours cutting up old coloring books and worksheets to use as images for our students’ alphabet books. This led to the creation of a kit as a time-saver! Try it free in the BTS Sampler, linked below!

Ready to create a personal alphabet book? Here’s how.

Related:

The Complete Alphabet Book Kit #BTS Big Bundle by That Fun Reader Teacher

Free Back to School Sampler by That Fun Reading Teacher How to create a personal alphabet book - a post by That Fun Reading Teacher.

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Bundle Packet”

Grades K-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

This “Reading Vowel Digraph & Vowel Diphthong Syllables” unit provides 86 word lists vowel digraphs and vowel diphthongs syllable type words. Also, a master word list is included and can be used as a quick reference. A vowel digraph or vowel diphthong is one of the six types of syllables in reading. The lists in this unit include words spelled using vowel teams or vowel/consonant teams to create each vowel sound. These lists of words will help students recognize the vowel digraph or vowel diphthong patterns. Reading will become more manageable for students once they understand syllable types.


10 V & V Bundle Cover Pic

10 V & V Pic 110 V & V Pic 210 V & V Games Pic 3

The “10 Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Activities & Games” packet includes 10 activities and games give students a fun way to learn and sort vowel digraph and diphthong syllable words. A vowel digraph is two vowels that spell one of the vowel sounds in the team such as /ea/ spells the –e sound in ‘eat’.  The four diphthongs vowel teams are /ou/, /ow/, /oi/ /oy/. Together these four vowel teams create their own unique sounds. The words used in this packet target the common vowel combinations that create vowel digraphs and diphthongs. The activities/games can be placed in language stations, or they can be played during small groups.

The following activities and games are included in this packet:
1. Color the Rainbow
2. Ghost OUT
3. Move the Mouse to the Cheese
4. Guess the Word
5. Shark
6. Go Fish
7. PIG
8. Old Maid, Old Man
9. Skunk
10. Thirteen Digraph/Diphthong Booklets—These are booklets the students can cut apart, staple, color, and spell the words to match the pictures. The books target :
• digraph ai—rain, tail, snail, paint, mail, air, sailboat, rainbow
• digraph ay—hay, gray, pray, May, birthday, tray, say, pay
• digraph long ea—peace, peanut, eat, treat, tea, read, teacher, feast
• digraph short ea—bread, weather, sweater, breakfast
• digraph ee—bee, cheese, tree, three
• digraph igh—goodnight, light, bright, right
• digraph oa—coat, boat, toad, soap
• digraph ow—shadow, pillow, elbow, snow
• digraph long oo—balloon, broom, igloo, mushroom, pool, root, school, zoo
• digraph short oo—cookie, looking, book, football
• diphthong ou—cloud, mouse, out, groundhog
• diphthong ow—towel, clown, frown, shower
• diphthong oy—cowboy, ahoy, toys, joy

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FREE MATH LESSON – “August / September Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Back to School Theme)”

by Little Minds and Hearts

Pre-Kindergarten – 6th Grade

 

Owl Calendar Cards and Headers

 

These owl themed calendar cards will complement any classroom calendar for the first month of school, whether you start in August or September! Calendar number cards measure 3″ x 3″ and follow an AB pattern. The header is 3″ x 9.5″ and comes in both green and blue chevron (you choose which to use) to match the cards. Numbers up to 31 are included, as well as blank cards.

Sets available:
Full School Year Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Includes all 11 sets below at a discount)
August/September Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Back to School)
September Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Fall Leaves)
October Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Halloween)
November Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Thanksgiving)
December Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Christmas)
January Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Winter)
February Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Valentine’s Day)
March Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (St. Patrick’s Day)
April Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Spring/Easter)
May Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Flowers)
May/June Owl Calendar Cards and Headers (Graduation)

 

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “Back to School Clipart”

by Johnston Digital Designs

Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade

 

Back to School Clipart

 

There are 11 colorful png images with 300 dpi and 11 black and white png image. Overall, there is a total of 22 png images with 300 DPI.

All free and paid graphics may be used for personal and classroom use. In addition, Individuals may also use the graphics as part of creating products that are sold on TPT as long as the graphics are not being sold as is. Individuals may also use clipart for commercial use, as long as the graphics are not being sold as is. Overall, place images inside of another secured document and please give credit (Digital Graphics by Bobbi Johnston) and link back to my TPT shop, if you choose to use any free or paid clipart. Thank you! Enjoy!

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Open Syllable Bundle Packet”

Grades 1-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

Open Syllable Bundle Packet-compressed

This reading bundle packet provides 106 pages of the open syllable type word lists, activities, and games. The open syllable words in this packet include words using each vowel in conjunction with one, two, or multi-syllable words. The activities are presented in a fun and basic way so that students can easily and quickly grasp the idea of open syllable words. After some practice, students will easily locate the open syllable in the words–whether at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.

Here’s a list of the activities/games in the packet:
1. Bubble Yum Relay
2. Flower Power
3. Open Syllable Word Count, Sort & Write
4. Open Syllable Cut, Sort & Glue
5. Open Syllable Count & Divide
6. First or Last Syllable Open?
7. Fill Up the Jar
8. I Spy
10. First or Last Syllable Open Picture Sort
11. Hear, Write & Draw
12. Open Syllable Booklets
13. Dominoes
14. Try Spelling/Draw & Spell
15. Move the Cow to the Barn
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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Reading Syllable Types Bundle Packet”

Grades K-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

This bundle contains six units that give specific word examples of each syllable word type. The six syllable types of reading are Closed, V-C-e, Open, r-Controlled, Vowel Digraph & Diphthong, and Final Stable. Each unit provides a plethora of word lists that target each syllable type. Teaching reading by syllable types provides students with a clear-cut understanding of the English language. The basic overall purpose of learning syllable type reading is to give students 6 reading strategies to aid them in chunking longer words into short, readable parts.

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