Classroom Labels with Full Sentences - Teach Reading and Sight Words

Do you want to naturally immerse your students in language and create authentic reading opportunities? Reinforce sight words, English grammar, and punctuation using these 60 Complete Sentence Classroom Labels. These classroom labels are more than just classroom decor, they are a teaching tool!

I created these full-sentence labels for my beginning readers and my dual-language ESL/EAL students, so that they were immersed in written language and in English sentence structure wherever they looked. Most classroom labels only contain single-word vocabulary (e.g. “table”) - I wanted my labels to do more: to teach sight words, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation too (e.g. “This is a table.”).

Just print the PDF, cut the labels, and stick onto items around your room. These complete-sentence classroom labels can be used in different ways, including:

• As a back-to-school activity - have students find the items and attach the labels, using sticky-tack (you can use tape to put the labels on more permanently later).
• As standard classroom labels, to create a print-rich environment.
• As simple, professional-looking classroom decor.
• To teach the correct usage of this is/these are; here is/here are; this is a/this is the.
• To reinforce sight words: this, these, a, the, here, is, are.
• To reinforce beginning and end punctuation (capital/uppercase letters, and periods/full stops).
• As a paired game - one child holds up a label, the other child must read it and find where it belongs.
• As a group game - give each group a label, and see which group finds their item first.
• As models for students to create their own labels (“Here are my pencils.”, “This is my water bottle.” etc) - a great beginning of year authentic writing activity.
• As part of a ‘read the room’ reading centre or activity.

I have focused mainly on larger items such as furniture, because the labels are 11 inches long (the width of a landscape page) . I wanted the students to really ‘see’ the sentences wherever they looked, so they could read them easily (I found it is better to use single words for smaller items like pencils and crayons).

I hope you find these labels useful!

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