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1st grade critical thinking literature resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Reading Log Alternative: "Tower of Books" {An Independent Reading Challenge}
Replace that hum-drum reading log and Infuse new life into students’ independent reading, at school or at home, with the “Tower of Books” Challenge! Perfect for a summer reading challenge or an alternative to the stuck-in-a-rut reading log assignment. Printable and digital versions included!The challenge is built on two core ideas: to encourage students to read some different genres of books and authors they may not try otherwise, and to give them a fresh and motivating way to keep track of thei
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1st - 6th
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Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade Reading Fluency Passages Bundle Timed Comprehension
This is a bundle of my fiction timed practice Reading Fluency Passages with comprehension questions, Set 1, for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade, reading levels A-M. This bundle includes 48 reading fluency passages with comprehension questions, for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade or 2nd Grade reading at Levels A-M. These reading fluency passages are great for quick timed fluency assessments and to work on improving students' fluency.Fluency is such an important skill to work on, and as
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K - 2nd
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Room on the Broom Unit, Crafts, Sequencing, Puppets, Character Sorts, & Writing
This Room on the Broom inspired unit is packed with essential ELA skills! Practice retell, sequencing, writing, rhyming, number words, cause & effect, Science of Reading aligned word mapping skills, and so much more! Your students will love creating the unique paper towel retell craft and the showstopper extra large broom craft. You will love that students are working on key writing and sequencing skills!These activities pair perfectly with the book written by Julia Donaldson.You will find
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PreK - 1st
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Literature Circles - Book Clubs | Roles & Reflection Pages | Print and Digital
Literature Circles Adapted for Lower Elementary Grades: Literature Circles make the perfect Book Clubs and are an effective and engaging way to get students invested in reading and they align perfectly with the standards for speaking and listening!I like to think of Literature Circles as a structured book group. After explicit modeling, these groups can become independent. Each student takes on a role that rotates with each meeting. These roles include discussion director, illustrator, word
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1st - 4th
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15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Book Clubs for 1st and 2nd Grade
Book club activities for first and second grade classrooms!★Can you run successful book clubs in the primary grades?★It may seem like a stretch, but the spring is such a great time to get your students ready and used to reading, thinking about, and discussing books with their peers instead of me, the teacher!I created this unit as a guide to running book clubs in your primary classroom and provided some tools that your kids can successfully use! In this unit:IntroductionWhat book clubs look like
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K - 2nd
Magic Tree House #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark Printable and Digital Activities
Are your students ready to join Jack and Annie on an adventure through time in the Magic Tree House? This book companion contains comprehension questions for each chapter of Dinosaurs Before Dark. It also includes vocabulary practice, a book quiz, a sequence of events page, and plenty of graphic organizers to help guide your students through this book.When you download this .zip file, you will find three resources:Original File - this is a printable packet for students with teacher answer keysGo
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Magic Tree House Bundle for Books 1-8 Printable and Digital Activities
100th Day of School Activities STEM Activities
Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These Smitten with First 100th Day STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. See preview! Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (student
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade Year Long STEM Activities Bundle
Nursery Rhymes Printables - Story Retelling Worksheets - NO PREP
These 12 NO PREP nursery rhymes printables will make your story retelling and sequencing review fun! These worksheets are fantastic for preschool and kindergarten because your students will build fine motor skills when they color, cut and paste events from the story to recreate the nursery rhyme in the correct order.Each worksheet features one nursery rhyme and 4 events to cut and paste in sequence. The worksheet also includes a copy of the nursery rhyme for reference.Featured Nursery Rhymes:♥
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PreK - 1st
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3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Describing & Inferring Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely"
***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an
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K - 6th
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First Day Jitters Back to School Activities DIGITAL & PDF First Day of School
This Back to School Bestseller includes differentiated, low-prep activities that are perfect to use for back to school and distance learning. Use this First Day Jitters Book Study resource with the book, First Day Jitters by Julie Dannenberg, my First Grade Jitters Book Study, and my First Day Jitters Banner to engage students at the beginning of the year. More importantly, it includes a variety of activities to put up in your room and have it ready for Back to School Night, Open House, Meet t
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: First Day Jitters Back to School Activities BUNDLE, Digital & Printable
Story Elements | Characters, Setting, and Plot
Teach story elements to your kindergarten and first grade students with this unit focused on the story elements Characters, Setting, and Plot. Use classic the classic folktales and nursery rhymes in this set, as well as books of your choosing with these anchor charts, whole group activities, small group activities, stations, and no-prep printables! Listed are ALL the activities included in this set!Characters:• Poster• Poem• Main Character/Other Character chart for The Little Red Hen• Character
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K - 1st
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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Story Map Graphic Organizers + FREE Spanish
Support your beginner writers with these visual graphic organizers. They can be used to help students remember what to include and how to organize their story. The first organizer helps students brainstorm the key elements, while the second one helps them further plan the sequence of events. You can print them back to back to use together, or single sided to be used as needed. This resource was created by Nikki and Nacho - previously known as Nicole and Eliceo.TEACHER-FRlENDLY FEATURESThis resou
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K - 3rd
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Reading Bulletin Boards - Classroom Library Decor - Reading Corner - Interactive
These ELA reading bulletin boards make the perfect classroom library wall decor. They can also be used to decorate the door or walls of the school library, in a classroom reading corner, or any other part of the school where you want to promote reading. Just print all of the pieces of the phrase that you want onto paper, cut, and then attach them to your bulletin board, your door, or onto a wall. Please note that these reading bulletin boards are part of two bundles:1. Monthly Bulletin Boards B
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1st - 12th
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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1st Grade Reading Fluency Passages | Level E-J | Comprehension | Timed Practice
This resource includes 15 fiction timed practice reading fluency passages with comprehension questions for students reading at a 1st Grade reading level, Levels E-J. These passages are great for quick timed fluency assessments and to work on improving students' fluency.Fluency is such an important skill to work on, and assess, as it helps many literacy skills, including comprehension. The purpose of this pack is to help students develop their fluent reading skills. The goal is not to be the fast
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1st
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Novel Study - Roald Dahl Novel Unit Activities
Teaching the beloved novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl in your classroom this year? Then you need to grab this comprehensive Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Novel Study to help your students get the most out of it! This Roald Dahl novel study unit comes complete with differentiated worksheets and activities to reach all levels of learners. Plus, you will love that this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Novel Study Unit is substitute teacher ready! That’s right, just provide
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1st - 3rd
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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction | Fiction vs Nonfiction
Teach your students fiction vs nonfiction using this Comparing Fiction and Non-Fiction Resource! This resource includes fiction and nonfiction teaching posters and whole group sorting activities you can use to build an anchor chart that students can refer to as they learn the differences between fiction and nonfiction. You'll also get a variety of fiction vs. non-fiction student printables that can be used in literacy centers, for homework, or as an assessment. After you build a fiction vs.
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Activities Bundle
The Dot by Peter Reynolds Tower Builder READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity Dot Day STEM
Create Bravely! Integrate STEM while students learn and develop a Growth Mindset through this Dot Day STEM Challenge! The Dot STEM activity works as a great companion to The Dot by Peter Reynolds. This is an excellent International Dot Day Activity.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on
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1st - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Growth Mindset READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges Dot Day
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