I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
This Listening Center file comes with Ready to Go AND Editable Response Sheets to make your own response sheet for primary grades.
I Can statement poster
Response sheet with room for picture: “My favorite part was when…”
Response sheet with room for picture: “My favorite character is…because…”
2 Generic Response Sheets with different choice of lines
EDITABLE Response Sheet PowerPoint file! 2 pages you type your own prompt and print. AND, a page that is TOTALLY Editable! You can move around, delete and add what you would like.
Book Report form - students fill out basic information and outline the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
This Bundle includes all of my Just Right Book Activity Sheets, Writing Papers and Bookmarks. Use for your Just Right Unit or after you read Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians, by Jackie Mims Hopkins. Great items for your Literacy Center, too!
Product #1: Activity Sheets for after reading Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians.
1. Comprehension Activity Page: It asks them to draw their favorite part, identify antonyms, define the word “browse”, and answer some questions. Answer Key included.
2. Beginning, Middle, End Activity Page: Students write what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
3. Draw & Write Page: Students draw and write to your Teacher Prompt. Or, place this in your Literacy Center for their choice writing topic.
4. Design a Book Cover: Goldie Socks loved books! Let students design a cover of a book they would love!
5. Retell the Story Activity: Choose the puppets that work best for your kiddos.
* Finger Puppets in Color & B&W
* Popsicle Puppets in Color & B&W
* House Setting on 8.5″ x 11″ paper in Color and B&W
Product #2: Just Right Book Word Search. Comes in Color as well as B&W format. Easy – Words are only across or down. (Based on Goldie Socks and the 3 Libearians book.)
Product #3: Activity Sheets and Writing Papers
Activity #1: Identify an easy, hard, and Just Right book.
Activity #2: A writing assignment that asks them to justify WHY a book is Just Right for them.
Writing Activity: How to Choose a Just Right Book with First, Next, Then and Finally prompts.
Writing Paper: The three Bears and Goldie Socks 1/2 coloring and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students.
Writing Paper: Goldie Socks 1/2 draw your own illustration and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students. Great for your Teacher Writing Prompt in a Literacy Center!
Product #4: Just Right Bookmarks:
5 Finger Rule with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W only
Just Right Book with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W and Color
Also included is a 2nd printable version where each of the above B&W versions comes with 4 bookmarks to a page that can print back to back and save paper!e looking for in a Just Right book.
I have found that my elementary students need a little bit of structure and accountability during their Makerspace time in my elementary library. Thus, this kit addresses that need by giving them a structure via a Mission sheet that they guides them, gives them time limits (set by you), and assesses their group work with a rubric.
This Makerspace Bundle has the printables you need for a Poetry Performance Green Screen Makerspace Center in which students create a video by performing their own poem or one of their choice in front of the green screen. In a nutshell, students use the Mission Log sheet to guide them through the process of procuring, practicing, and performing their poem in front of the green screen. The student instruction handouts help them to figure out how to produce their videos independently without you needing to hold their hand every step of the way. Finally, they write a review statement, fill out a rubric on their individual performances with you, and share their video.
The technology I use in this kit includes a green screen and an iPad with the DoInk (TM) Green Screen app (a minimal fee in the iTunes store).
A lot of the resources come in an editable format so that you can make them your own depending on your environment and needs.
1. Materials list
2. Poetry Mission Log - This is a Step-by-Step Instruction Sheet for the students to follow at the center. It follows the Plan, Do, Review format. There are two versions that differ in the type of Review you'd like to have your students do. I've included both as a PDF and as Editable Excel documents should you need to make changes to fit your situation.
3. 2 Page How to Make Your Video Handout for students (PDF and editable PPT file)
4. Poetry Performance I Can Poster
5. Finding a Poem Poster (PDF & Editable PPT file)
6. Makerspace Rubric (PDF & editable versions) I created this rubric as a way to hold students accountable for their time. It includes the goals of: staying on task, being responsible, producing quality work, working cooperatively, and cleaning up. Again, I've included an editable Excel file should you wish to make changes.
7. Poetry Performance Rubric - Easily gives you a grade by scoring posture, volume, speed, expression and memorization. (PDF & editable Excel file)
Make a class book with this cover and writing pages. Great activity to use in a center, for a substitute, or homework.
Includes:
1. Color cover to print "Needs vs. Wants"
2. 2 writing pages with prompt "I want.....but I don't need it."
3. 2 blank writing pages with primary and regular lines for your own prompt.
This Monster Writing pack comes with:
1. 6 half sheets with monster B&W clip art. 2 versions with three choices of line spacing each.
2. 1 MONSTER Acrostic poem page.
3. 2 Monster Characters pages - Color and B&W. Students can name the monsters, color them in, cut out and create a story with them.
4. 2 Monster Character pages - larger B&W monsters to color and cut out.
5. 2 Character Traits printables - Color and B&W
6. 1 Story Planning Sheet - monster themed with beginning, middle and end prompts.
7. 2 Book Covers "What Are Monsters Scared Of?" in Color and B&W
8. 2 Book Covers - generic - You write your own title in Color and B&W
9. 1 Book Activity Page - "My monster's name is___. He is scared of ________ ."
10. 9 generic writing sheets - no clip art
11. Editable Physical Traits page (PPT file)
3 Storyboard Templates to meet the needs of your individual students.
Same basic design on each storyboard, but each has different number of lines.
One storyboard has just 2 large lines with larger boxes to draw in.
EASY version: 12 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle - horizontally and vertically only. No backwards words.
HARDER version: 18 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle. Any direction, even backwards!
Comes in full color for those that like to laminate and reuse in a center.
Also comes in B&W for easy printing.
Easy Version: 18 Winter related words hidden in this puzzle. Words are horizontal and vertical only in an all CAPS puzzle.
Harder Version: 18 Winter related words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and even backwards in this all CAPS puzzle.
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Primary Version: An EASY fun, printable word search to go with your unit on Transportation.
This word search has students searching for transportation items! The words themselves have clip art with them to help beginning readers. Words are vertical and horizontal only. No diagonal words. No backwards words.
Easy Version: Words horizontal and vertical only in an all CAPS puzzle
In full color if you like to laminate and use over and over with a vis a vis marker.
Also in black line master ready for photocopying.
Easier: 12 Summer words hidden in this Easy Word Search. Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Harder: 19 Summer words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words can be found in any direction - even backwards!
In full color for those that like to laminate and reuse as a center activity.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Answer Key included.
1. An EASY fun, printable word search. This word search contains words related to St. Patrick's Day - with clip art next to each word to help beginning readers. Black line master ready for photocopying. Words are vertical and horizontal only. No diagonal words. No backwards words. Includes Answer Key.
2. Bookmarks with Color Clip Art for printers as well as B&W for photocopying.
Easier: 12 Spring words hidden in this Easy Word Search. Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Harder: 20 Spring words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words can be found in any direction - even backwards!
In full color for those that like to laminate and reuse as a center activity.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Easy version: 12 words related to handheld devices are hidden in this Easy Word Search. Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Harder version: Portable Electronics words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words can be found vertically, horizontally, diagonally and backwards.
In full color for those that like to laminate and reuse as a center activity.
2 Parts of a Book Word Searches.
1. Harder Version: Words are vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. No words are backwards.
2. Easier Version: Parts of a Book words hidden in this Easy Word Search. Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Here is an easy farm animal word search for your students.
Words are only vertical and horizontal. No backwards words.
Color Version
B&W reproducible
Answer Key
15 farm animals are hidden in this puzzle. Any direction, even backwards!
Comes in full color for those that like to laminate and reuse in a center.
Also comes in B&W for easy printing.
18 Fall related words hidden in this Hard Word Search.
Words horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and even backwards in this all CAPS puzzle.
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible.
This also comes in an easier version for differentiation purposes, available separately in my Teacher Store.
A printable word search for Earth Day!
All CAPS in this one and the words can be found in any direction!
Comes in 2 printable choices: color clip art or B&W.
Includes Answer Key.
12 Dinosaurs hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words can be found in any direction - even backwards!
In full color for those that like to laminate and reuse as a center activity.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Answer Key included.