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A collection of all the resources from my Teacher's Pay Teachers (TpT) store, Taryn's Unique Learning. Includes activities for the early elementary pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first, second, and third grade classroom. Lesson plans and teacher resources include reading, phonics, writing, literacy, English Language Arts, and resources for distance learning such as BOOM task cards.
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Are you looking for some great staff morale booster ideas and activities? Looking to add some fun into your routine? As head of the Sunshine or Social Committee or Principal of a School, you should consider yourself tender of your staff morale garden. Celebrating real and silly holidays can cause smiles all around. Happy & appreciated staff members lead to engaged & prosperous students. Show your staff how much they are valued and appreciated. And everyone will win!
Are you looking to introduce context clues to your young readers? This is where reading comprehension begins. These task cards are simple to read and engaging for your students. They fit perfectly into your task card boxes. Just copy, cut, and tuck in with some clothespins and you have an instant activity. These come in individual sets and bundled for extra savings. Why not try them with your young readers.
Are you celebrating a colleague who is retiring? Send them out in style with everyone filling out a slip and tucking in in this adorable jar for the road. These are fun to boost staff morale and can be used for all staff members. Just print on colorful paper, tuck them in a jar, and tie a colorful ribbon around for extra fun. These sentiments are greatly appreciated by retirees and staff alike!

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Writing can be a challenge for your kindergarten and first-grade students. Luckily for you, I've created this picture dictionary and word bank for words your students are constantly asking you how to spell. You and your students can add to it throughout the year. Perfect for your writing and English Language Arts class. Check it out.
If you teach kindergarten, first or second graders, you are tired of hearing your students ask how to spell words while writing. Support your students with this growing word bank. Copy for individual students in B&W, or copy as a classroom resource in color. You can share individual pages as they become relevant based on your theme, season, or month. Included is a link so you can request an addition to your download, as this is a growing product. Click for more details! Writing just got easier!
If you teach kindergarten, first or second graders, you are tired of hearing your students ask how to spell words while writing. Support your students with this growing word bank. Copy for individual students in B&W, or copy as a classroom resource in color. You can share individual pages as they become relevant based on your theme, season, or month. Included is a link so you can request an addition to your download, as this is a growing product. Click for more details! Writing just got easier!

Language Arts

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Are you looking for some engaging letter recognition games? Do your K-1 students need some fun and hands on ways to practice letter identification. This blog post will give you some great ideas that are just perfect for your classroom. Some will use items that you already have in your classroom, while others require nothing additional. These are great for individual practice, small group instruction, or literacy centers. They include a variety of modes to meet all learning styles.
Are you looking for fun and engaging ways to reinforce beginning consonant sounds with your pre-k, kindergarten, and 1st grade emergent readers? Your students will love spinning the double spinners and deciding if the pictures on both have the same beginning sound. Check it out now!
Learning to identify letters and sounds fluently is so much fun for your kindergarten and first graders using this bundle. This download includes 11 different monthly spinners and gameboards to use throughout the year. Students spin the spinner and find the matching line of letters beside it. Then they name the letters or the sounds the letters make as quickly as they can. Perfect practice to support DIBELS, EasyCBM, or Aimsweb. Engaging small group or literacy center. Click for more details.

Letter Id/ Letter Sound Correspondence

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Scissor safety and skills are a must-have skill for all little learners entering pre-school, kindergarten, or first grade. This BOOM Card™ deck is just what you need when training your whole class or individual students. Great for back to school. Check it out!
All new learners first entering preschool or kindergarten need to learn scissor safety and skills. This story was written to read to kindergarten students who were being unsafe when using scissors. Just some of the skills included are how to hand scissors to someone else safely, what to cut with scissors...(hint, not your hair), and more. Check it out.
Dice games are a fun way to practice beginning addition to 12. All But 7 is perfect for all year. Students roll, add, and if they land on 7, they put a tally mark in the box. They try to cross out the other sums or addends prior to getting seven 7's tallied to win the game. Includes boards for every month of the calendar year. Perfect for sub tub! My K-1 students loved playing this ALL YEAR LONG. Print 2/page and in color or black and white versions. Click here to take a closer look.

August/September

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Literacy fun for spring for your new readers. Included in your download you will find a Spring poem for reading and putting together in your pocket chart. Assemble the entire poem in black font and students can match word by word in blue font. Includes a copy for fluency practice too. Also included is an engaging CVC word activity. Spin the spinner, pick a card, and read the CVC word from the sorted piles. Your students will love this activity. It's just perfect for small group or lit centers.
Keeping those newly acquired literacy skills sharp over the summer is crucial for kindergarten and first grade students. This packet of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics activities will help your young readers, It includes a fun summer, beach theme and is very game oriented, to keep your students engaged. Included you will find: reading CVC words, changing a letter to make a new word, determining letter, word, or sentence, and reading real & nonsense words. Bright and colorful. Click for details!
Are you looking for a meaningful way to thank your classroom or school volunteers who helped you out this school year? These adorable gift tags can be attached to any gift you give as a gift, each with a cute saying on them. They can also be laminated with a magnet affixed to the back for a keepsake. Or even attached to a stick and inserted into a small plant or individual potted flower. Your volunteers will appreciate the gesture. Click for more details and to take a closer look.

May/June/July

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Songs and poetry in the classroom can be helpful for beginning readers and their reading fluency. Linking what we know to the printed word can be a valuable tool when teaching new readers.. Putting the printed word in front of your students when your students already know the song can be a great way to focus on reading skills such as: conventions of print, sight word recognition, and phonics skills. Create a reading fluency notebook and watch students improve fluency with repeated readings.
Literacy is one of the most important skills for any elementary student. Why not have "literacy" nights at school for parents and kids? This packet has different activities broken down by early elementary and upper elementary ability levels. Check it out!
Scissors Safety is just as important as cutting with scissors. Your PreK, Kindergarten, First Graders, OT, and Art Students will benefit from this explicit lesson on Scissors Safety. These Boom Cards includes a full audio story outlining safety rules. It is followed by interactive cards, allowing your students to show understanding. Sitting while cutting, how to hand scissors to a friend, cutting paper only, and walking with scissors are all included here with others. Click for more details.

Reading and Literature

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This set of recording sheets is truly versatile for your primary students in Kindergarten, First, or Second Grade. No matter what spelling skill you are working on, sight words, CVC words, word families, or multi-syllabic words, your students will enjoy building words from the letters in each phrase at the top of each sheet. September word work, Back to School, and Literacy centers have never been this fun. Always add magnetic letters to build the word before recording. Click for more details!
These making word | word work activities are truly versatile for students in K-3. 9 different activities are included around Spring Holidays & themes. Just use your magnetic letters and you have an instant literacy center. Word Families, sight words, prefixes/suffixes, vowel teams, hunks and chunks, no matter what skill your students are working on, you can integrate it into this activity. Available individually by month or in a bundle. Click here for more details. Your students will love this!
These Word Family Anchor charts are perfect for your students to refer to when learning word families. 24 different word families are included in your download & are perfect to post on your classroom wall. Your kindergarten readers, first and second grade students will refer to them often. Each card has a bright key picture on the left side with a word list on the right. The word family chunk is emphasized in red. They are available individually and in a cost saving bundle. Click for details.

Word Work

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Do you teach kindergarten and first graders,? This Syllable Game is a must have activity. This activity can be used as a literacy center or my favorite way- SCOOT. Your students will love to participate, either way you choose to use this. For scoot, spread the cards around the perimeter of your classroom. Each student gets a recording sheet on a clipboard and has a pencil. Students rotate around the room, identify the card, and determine the number of syllables. Click for more details.
Are you looking to have your students do some writing about taking care of the earth this April? This FREEBIE will prompt your students to tell about just that. This writing printable comes complete with a first page and an additional page that you may copy, allowing your students to write as much about the subject as they would like. Perfect for your elementary students. Stop by Taryn's Unique Learning to download this FREE item and take a peek around for more great literacy products. .
Sorting Real and Nonsense CVC words is a perfect small group, whole group, or literacy center for your kindergarten and first grade students. Included in your colorful download you will find 2 header cards as seen in the picture, along with 42 word cards that are for sorting into real or nonsense categories. My students love to sort on the floor or on a table, but it's also perfect for a pocket chart as well. The bright bunny PEEPS will be super engaging for your students. Click for more detail.

April

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Perfect for teaching and practicing using context clues while reading, these task cards are low-prep and can be used for small group instruction or literacy centers. Pre-K, kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade will love using these cards and clipping the correct answer with a clothespin. Check it out.
Looking for a hidden word inside a bigger word is a great decoding strategy for new readers. No book includes this reading strategy better than Bernard Most's "There's an Ant in Anthony". The black and red fonts demonstrate this strategy clearly. This download supports that book, utilizing a game board format. Your students roll and read, decoding words that may be bigger than what they typically read. Simply download, add a die, and pawns, and your students will play. Click for more details.
Using a young student's words can be a powerful strategy in learning to read. Based on the Reading Recovery Strategy, simply take dictation from a student, writing their words down on a strip of construction paper. Reread together emphasizing the spacing, the left to right progression, beginning sounds, etc. Snip apart in the spaces and mix up the words. Student uses cues such as capital letters, punctuation, and sounds to put the sentence back together. Glue words back in order in booklet.

Reading Strategies

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If you teach young students, you know how important it is to include structured phonics into your day. Programs such as OG are becoming part of the classroom core and not just for intervention support. Come find some amazing new ideas to support your phonics instruction by making learning multi-sensory for your students while providing fun activities and visual support for students who may struggle, as well as all students in your primary classroom. Click to read more on my blog!
Focus on beginning consonant letter sounds with this BOOM Card™ bundle. Your kindergarten or 1st-grade students determine if the given picture begins with the given sound by clicking the thumbs up for yes or the thumbs down for no. Perfect for your phonics or reading class. Check it out!
Are you working on blends and digraphs in your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-grade phonics class? These one-time prep riddle cards will be great to use for whole group instruction, as an exit ticket, as a line-up activity, or literacy center in your primary classroom. Includes bl, cr, fl, and many more. Check it out!

Phonics

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Are your kindergarten and first graders struggling with rhyming and phonemic awareness? You can never have too many different activities to work on rhyming. Your download includes riddles, memory, dice games, path games, and fold and flip rhyming word family cards. These are perfect to prep once and use for years. The bundle is cost saving too. Perfect for small group and literacy centers. Your kinders and first graders will practice this skill eagerly. Click for more details and a closer look!
Counting Syllables in words is part of Phonemic Awareness and a necessary skill to being a successful reader. Your download includes 78 different task cards that fit perfectly into your bright and colorful task boxes. These are perfect for whole group, small group instruction, or for a literacy center. Simply print, cut, and laminate if you wish. Bright and colorful cards will be engaging for your learners. Just add clothespins or chip clips. Click for more details and to take a closer look.
Hearing the number of syllables in a word is a crucial skill for your youngest readers. Phonemic Awareness must develop to experience reading success. This download includes 78 different cards with 1-4 syllables each. Header cards are included to help your students organize the words based on the number of syllables. This is perfect for whole group in a pocket chart, small group at the reading table, or literacy centers. Bright and colorful pictures are engaging. Click for more details.

Phonemic Awareness

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Avoid the winter blues with these staff morale boosters designed to energize your school team! This blog post offers practical and fun ideas for principals, administrators, and Sunshine Committee members to support teachers and staff during January. Discover ways to foster positivity, connection, and motivation among your staff. Perfect for strengthening school culture and keeping spirits high throughout the winter months! Click through to read the post and get planning your January staff morale boosters now!
Are you planning staff morale events for your school? Trying to come up with some fresh, new ideas? Grab this FREE Calendar of Staff Morale Events and Ideas. Includes a variety of fun and easy activities you can use all school year long. This free download is divided by month so you can find activities to fit each season. How about a special treat on Eat an Extra Dessert Day or 5 minutes of "free time" while admin does a read aloud in your classroom for Read a Book Day. On this Staff Morale Events and Ideas Calendar you will find so many fun ideas that your teachers and school staff will love. Make your school work environment a great one with these easy to do employee appreciation ideas.
Whether you are a school principal, administrator, or Sunshine committe / social committee member, finding funds for staff morale activities is probably something you are familiar with. If you are looking for tips and ideas on funding and budgeting for your staff encouragement and appreciation efforts then this blog post is for you. Head over to find lots of practical tips and ideas for finding the money or supplies to complete your chosen staff morale activities. From tapping into the school budget to connecting with community members there are lots of ideas you can use.

Sunshine Committee

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Sounding out CVC words and determining whether or not they are real or nonsense is a great skill that students should be able to do fluently. This activity is perfect for March and makes for a fun & engaging literacy center for your kindergarten and first graders. 5 different gameboards and matching spinners come in color and B&W for your printing preferences. Perfect for small group, homework, centers, or seatwork. Engaging during remote learning or Face to Face. Click for more details!
Your young students will love making words with this Word Work Activity that is just right for March. So many skills can be incorporated for a variety of grade levels. CVC Words, Sight Words, Word Families, Vowel Teams, Prefixes/Suffixes, and so much more can be practiced depending on the included letters. March, St. Patrick's Day, and Spring are all themes for the included 7 activities. Available by individual month or in a bundle. Click for more details.
Letter recognition and fluency are skills that are both predictors of reading success for kindergarten and first graders. This fun and low prep activity is perfect for February fun in your classroom. Add a spinner or paperclip/pencil combination. Students spin, find the corresponding space on the gameboard, and name the letters or say the letter sounds. If you monitor your kids using EasyCBM, DIBELS, or Aimsweb, this is great practice and helps develop fluency for your young students.

March

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Your primary students will go crazy for this January WORD WORK Activity. Making words is so engaging and your students will use the letters in New Years Resolution to make new words. Perfect for kindergarten through fourth grade. Easy to differentiate in your classroom. Different skills for each grade level. Sight Words, word families, blends/digraphs, prefixes/suffixes, multi-syllablic words. Your students will love this activity. Stop by and see why others love this activity RISK FREE.
Your young kindergarten and first grade emergent readers can never get enough CVC Word Practice. This set of 30 self-correcting digital task cards is hosted on Boom Learning. Absolutely no prep is required for you- no printing or cutting. Your students will identify the key picture and determine the correct spelling of the CVC word from the 2 spellings on the small snowflakes. Perfect for remote or in person learners. Works on any laptop, desktop, or tablet connected to the internet.
If you need an engaging way to practice letters & sounds during the winter months, this is the perfect activity for your preschoolers and kindergarten students. Alphabet mats come in both Capital and Lowercase letters and a key picture on an adorable mitten. Students can use a set of seasonal mini erasers and tweezers/tongs to "trace" each letter. Use as individual mats or you can bind them into sequential letter books. Perfect for January literacy fun! Click to take a closer peek!

January

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Are you looking for a little something to give your students at the end of the school year? These doorknob signs are cute, festive, and colorful and encourage your students to have a "fabulous summer". You may use these for your class year after year.
72 Visual Discrimination/Same and Different cards for your earliest emerging readers. Three different sets (different colored backgrounds) include shapes, school supplies, and foods we eat! Stop by and take a peek! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Same-or-Different-2580902
This product allows your students to keep their dictated "Reading Recovery" sentences all in one space for repeated readings. So many skills can be taught and learned through this practice. This little product is small but mighty. Your students will love doing this regularly and will love even more rereading their "stories" as the year progresses. This is a perfect activity for your emergent readers!

To Do- Make a New Long Pin For These

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Learning to sound out CVC words & determine whether or not they are real or nonsense, is an engaging activity for your students to participate in this November. Simply print off these fun & colorful turkey word cards and header cards. Students read and sort them according to whether or not they are real or nonsense. This is reading comprehension at it's most basic. Students learn to think about if what they read makes sense or sounds right! November literacy has never been this fun.
Colors, color words, and reading from left to right are just a few skills that your young readers can work on this November. Print these 11 colorful turkeys, matching color words and sentences. Add pocket chart and a pointer & your students will match turkeys, words, and sentences. Simple & low prep center that your students will request again and again. Bonus spinner game included with your download. SO MUCH FUN! Do not miss out if you teach young students. Click for more details.
Magnetic Letter activities are great tools for word work. This versatile activity is super for K-4th graders. Work on sight words, CVC words, changing out vowels, word families, and making multi-syllable words using prefixes and suffixes. One of the easiest activities to differentiate within a classroom or across grade levels. Celebrate all November has to offer. Year long bundle available too. Great activity for remote learners as well. Click to see more details in my TPT store.

November

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Number sense and learning the way around a Hundreds Chart is important learning for your first grade students. Having a helpful and consistent way to assess their number sense throughout the year is important. These probes include 4 seasonal assessments per month for the entire calendar year. Students simply fill in each column indicating numbers for plus and minus one and ten. Perfect info for all students and especially useful for RtI data tracking. Timed or untimed...just be consistent.
Number Sense can be tricky to quantify for your youngest students. Here is one way to assess and monitor year round. Do your students understand their way around a 120's Board? 4 probes per month for the entire year. Help compare apples to apples, month to month. Use for assessment and use for math centers as well. This is such a telling assessment and activity. No 2 students need the same copy with 4 different versions!
If you monitor writing progress of your students considering their total words written, correct writing sequences, and words spelled correctly but are constantly scrambling for a great writing prompt, take a closer look at this. Included you will not only find a two page record sheet to copy for each student, but great writing prompts to use throughout the school year. You can then graph the information so students can keep track of their own progress or you can document for RtI purposes.

Assessment

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Your primary students will love reading with a purpose. Why not incorporate a set of seasonal task cards and a few craft items and have some fun this December? Your students will love reading and assembling adorable reindeer ornaments in 6 easy steps. They can gift them for the holidays and enjoy the process of creating, crafting, and giving. Let you kids be kids and enjoy some seasonal fun this December. Click the link for more details!
Your students will love working on their rhyming skills this December using this deck of Rhyming Task Cards hosted on BOOM Learning. Students identify which word does not rhyme with the other two on each of the 30 task cards. Correct answers get circled with a green circle, and wrong answers in red. Quick assessment for your. No preparations time as there is no need to print, cut, or laminate. Festive Christmas trains will draw in your students and keep them engaged. Click for more details!
Magnetic Letter activities are great tools for word work. This versatile activity is super for K-4th graders. Work on sight words, CVC words, changing out vowels, word families, and making multi-syllable words using prefixes and suffixes. One of the easiest activities to differentiate within a classroom or across grade levels. Celebrate all December has to offer. Year long bundle available too. Great activity for remote learners as well. Click to see more details in my TPT store.

December

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Another way to teach short vowel sounds to your kindergarten and 1stgrade phonics class! Kids love these stamping worksheets. This activity is great for small group activities or literacy centers. Your emergent readers will love picking a card, identifying it, and stamping out the proper spelling on the worksheet. Check it out!
Reading real and nonsense words (CVC patterns) is a skill that is perfect for kindergarten and first graders. Prep these cards once and use for years to come. They are suitable for small and whole group instruction, as well as literacy centers. Each set has 2 header cards and a set of seasonal card with CVC words for your students to read. They get sorted under the header cards in a pocket chart, on the floor, or on a large table. Festive and engaging. Save more than 20% with this bundle.
These CVC Word Activities are perfect for your small group lessons or literacy centers in a kindergarten, first grade, or reading intervention program. Engaging activities including magnetic letters, spinners , path games, and pocket charts will be requested by your students again and again. Be sure to look at the preview on TPT to take a closer look. A variety of printing options are available for you. Your students will love building, reading, and writing CVC words. Click for more details.

CVC/ Blending Sounds/ Word Families

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Starting off your school year feeling organized begins at the end of the school year prior. Download this FREE sign while packing up your classroom for summer break, and Back to School time will feel less frantic. Assemble your back to school bin by packing up the very things you need most while setting up your classroom. Door and classroom decor, calendar pieces, read alouds, classroom rules, centers, & Open House materials,. You will thank yourself when returning from SUMMER!
When teaching students in Kindergarten, first, or second grade, it will be common to have students who confuse and reverse the letters b and d. These FREE posters and desk plates will be helpful to have handy for those students. Using the word "bed", students can learn the correct position of letters b and d. Perfect to post in your classroom. Desk plates can be affixed to the desk of students who confuse the letters only. You will see these students refer to this often. Click for details.
If you celebrate the end of the school year with your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade students, you will want to download this FREE product. Your students will love coloring and assembling these promotion crowns. Your K and 1st graders will also have the opportunity to do some writing about their favorite part of the school year too. Send your students out the door on the last day of school wearing these adorable crowns. Click for more details and to take a closer peek at this product.

FREEBIES

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My students love Color by Code activities and this Hanukkah set will provide sight word practice for the holiday season. In your download you will find 13 worksheets. They include the FRY first 100 sight words, which are helpful in developing reading fluency for your emerging and early readers. Simply print off these sheets and students can use crayons, colored pencils, or markers. Use these in small and large group, and symbols of Hanukkah will appear. Click for more details.
There's no time like Christmas time to practice counting sets 0-31 and reading the matching number words. This includes festive trees requesting decorations. Add pony beads, pom poms, mini erasers, whatever is on hand. A numbers and number word sets are included. Print, cut, laminate, and add counters. Add tweezers for more fine motor practice. Perfect for math centers or small groups. Click to take a closer look. Your students will get in the holiday spirit and find this super engaging.
Pocket Chart activities are always engaging for my young readers. Your download will include an original Hanukkah poem for students to learn, read, & vsequence into your favorite pocket chart. The poem can be sequenced by line,by word, or both depending on the needs of your students. Also included you will find a Hanukkah word bank, just right for writer's notebooks or writing center. And finally, Hanukkah Memory, including all the signs and symbols of the festival of light! Click for details.

Holidays

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Elementary teachers everywhere dread indoor recess. But you don't have to if you have the right classroom supplies ready. In this blog post I dive into 10 fun and educational games that are perfect for indoor recess. Your elementary students will love playing and it will give them the break they need in the day. But each of these games has an educational focus that makes them a great use of time too. Head over to the post and read all about these games that are perfect for the classroom. Then get ready for the best indoor recess ever.
Scissors Safety is as important as Scissors Skills for your PreK-First Graders. Whether you are a classroom, OT, or Art Teacher, this explicit lesson on Scissors Safety will benefit your students. These Boom Cards include a read aloud including rules for scissors safety: how to handle them, pass them to friends, sitting while cutting, only cutting paper (not hair or clothes), and walking with scissors are included. Interactive slides are also included to demo learning. Click for more details!
Starting off your school year feeling organized begins at the end of the school year prior. Download this FREE sign while packing up your classroom for summer break, and Back to School time will feel less frantic. Assemble your back to school bin by packing up the very things you need most while setting up your classroom. Door and classroom decor, calendar pieces, read alouds, classroom rules, centers, & Open House materials,. You will thank yourself when returning from SUMMER!

Organized Classroom/ Teacher Helpers

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Number Sense Assessment- great way to assess your K-1 students number sense. 4 probes for each month of the year, not just the school year. Students can share their ability to move around 120 Board. Plus and minus 1 and 10. Great for students in the RtI process.
These math addition games are fun and engaging for your pre-k, kindergarten, and first-grade students. This year-long bundle has game boards for every month and season of the year, ghosts for October, hearts for February, and more. Check it out!
Number punch cards are a perfect and engaging way for kindergarten students to practice counting sets of 1-10 objects. These B&W cards print 4 per page. Copy on cardstock for easy handling by your students. Just add a hole punch. Students will learn to rotate the card (like a steering wheel) to locate all of the numbers matching the set of objects. Students brush up on fine motor skills while punching a hole through the matching numbers. Great for math centers. Click for more details.

Math

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Create structure & routine around sight words in your 1st or 2nd grade classroom. Introduce FRY Words 1-200, five at a time by following the calendar. Add to your word wall. 2 activities per set are included to use weekly. Scrambled Sight Words get your students familiar with the words on the wall, and how to locate them. What's the Missing Word allows your students to practice context. Copy back to back and use on the same day, or use them individually. Available individually, or bundled.
If you teach 1st graders and use the FRY list or any sight word list, you will want to look at this download. This adds organization to your world, maps out the sequence of introducing your words, gets your students looking at and using the word wall, and gives them 2 great seatwork activities to use weekly. This includes words 101-200 and is a mini bundle for two of my best selling sight word products. Available in other formats too. Click for more details and to take a closer look!
You can never have enough ways to practice sight words or spelling words in kindergarten or first grade. This spinner activity is perfect and goes with any list of words you use. Print the spinners and the matching worksheet. Add a paperclip/pencil spinner combination or a plastic spinner. Students will use a bunch of different crayon colors to write the word on top of itself, creating a rainbow word. Your students will love this. Click for details and find out how to add this to your centers.

Sight Word Recognition

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CVC words are vital for emergent readers, and nonsense words give those readers a chance to think about what they're reading. This October Nonsense Words Spin and Say product is the perfect combination of these two skills- reading and thinking! Perfect for your pre-k, kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd-grade phonics class. Check it out!
What goes together better than candy corn in the fall and at Halloween! Your pre-k through first-grade students will love these candy corn-themed puzzles for working on alphabet letter identification and sounds. There are 56 puzzles for your students to match lowercase and uppercase letters and sounds. Great for your reading and phonics class. Check it out!
This engaging activity will allow your students to practice letter id, beginning sounds, while allowing differentiation for students. Students can match letters, match opposite cases, find the correct letter given a picture clue, and find capital and lowercase letters while in sequence or out of sequence. The bonus is practicing fine motor skills with a hole punch. Available in color and B&W, individually and bundled to save money. Perfect Fall literacy center. Click for more details.

October

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