I am a primary school teacher with a knack for teaching to the multiple intelligences, particularly the visual learner. My resources are inspired by my experience of teaching different students with unique ways of learning. I love the magic of helping them to make connections in learning. The grades 3-5 are mostly what I cater to, however, I also have some great resources for grades 1 and 2.
I am a primary school teacher with a knack for teaching to the multiple intelligences, particularly the visual learner. My resources are inspired by my experience of teaching different students with unique ways of learning. I love the magic of helping them to make connections in learning. The grades 3-5 are mostly what I cater to, however, I also have some great resources for grades 1 and 2.
Food Chains and Food Webs illustrated definition cards are a handy reference for your students to memorize all of the terms associated with Food Chains and Food Webs. Each card is color coded in green, red and brown to match the theme of the words used. The green cards have pictures and definitions for the words producer, herbivore and photosynthesis. The red cards are presented in the same way but are for words such as carnivore, consumer, predator, prey, etc. There are also brown cards for organism, omnivore, decomposer, scavenger, micro-organism and fungus. The rest of the cards are mostly non-living things like habitat, energy, food chain and food web.
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Use these Prefix + Root word + Suffix cards in many ways. It contains thirty sets of Big Words which are really root words with their matching prefixes and suffixes. These are words like: disagreement, unacceptable, indefinitely, maladjusted, unemployment, disrespectful, etc. The prefixes used are: un, dis, mal, pre, in, re and inter. The suffixes used are: ful, able, ed, ment, ly, and ible.
Ways to use them:
Use the cards as they are (already matched up) in your word walls.
Sorting Game: Cut out each prefix, root word and suffix and group them into three groups - prefixes only, root words only, and suffixes only. Then students can take turns to pull out a root word from the root word pile and match it correctly to a prefix from the prefix pile and to a suffix from the suffix pile.
Say It, Keep It: Use the cards with the prefix + root word + suffix intact for this game. A caller will keep all of the cards in the deck, pick the first card and read the root word out loud (without showing it to the other players). He can ask the others to name either a prefix or suffix that would match the root word. The first player to name it gets to keep the card. Then the caller picks another card and this process is repeated until all of the cards are used up. The player with the most cards wins the game!
These cards are created in two different sizes. The original set has 6 words per page and the larger set has 4 words per page. The small set will save you ink and paper but many teachers have indicated to me that they preferred to have a larger set to make a bulletin board display. So, that's why I added the larger version.
Make learning fun by using these fans and puzzles to teach the rules of comparison for adjectives and adverbs.
The six types of rules are categorized on separate sheets for easy reference.
This set also includes a worksheet and answer key.
Use this set in three ways:
Comparison Race - A game for two or more players.
1 2 3 Puzzle Activity - A learning center for matching up positive, comparative and superlative adjective puzzle pieces.
A bulletin board display.
Fulfills the CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
18 pages. Grades 1-4.
Prefix Word Wall: 36 prefix word wall cards, each prefix word card has a matching picture with its meaning in brackets. It can be used as headers for doing ‘prefix of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. These cards incorporate simple definitions and examples of common prefixes. Prefixes are tricky for English Language Learners but the illustrations are a huge help for getting students to make connections to each prefix and its real world applications and meaning. You can also use this set to make a bulletin board of prefixes. For Grades 4-6.
Over two dozen of the most commonly used prefixes are used in these cards: mis, de, a, ab, abs, fore, tri, pre, re, dis, in, dif, semi, micro, ex, un, im(1), sub, inter, pro, im(2), tele, bi, super, under, uni/mono, bi/duo, tri, tetra/quad, quint/penta, sex/hexa, hepta/sept, oct, nona, deca, hecto, and kilo.
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Suffix Word Wall: This is an illustrated Suffix word wall. Each suffix word card has a matching picture with its meaning in brackets. It can be used as headers for doing ‘suffix of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. This file incorporates simple definitions and examples of common suffixes. Suffixes are tricky for English Language Learners but the illustrations are a huge help for getting students to make connections to each suffix and its real world applications and meaning. You can also use this set to make a bulletin board of suffixes.
Thirty-six (36) of the most commonly used suffixes are used in these cards: ous, ory, ly, ling, el, fy, ant, able, ible, ness, ess, ment, er, less, ence, ive, eer, ier, et, or, ism, ship, hood, ful, dom, ist, en, sion, ish, al(1), acy, al(2), ate, tion, ical, and esque.
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This explains the nature of light and has transparent, translucent and opaque material sorting activities, posters and worksheets (with answer keys). Definition posters are also included for light terms such as reflection, refraction, lens, concave, convex, and prism. The sorting mats are to be used by sticking the object pictures unto the correct mat.
Each page is to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper.
Contents:
Light Poster 4
Transparent Translucent Opaque Posters 5 – 9
Definition Posters of Light Terminology 10 - 13
Transparent Translucent Opaque Sorting Mats 14 – 16
Transparent Translucent Opaque Picture cards 17 – 19
for sorting mats
Transparent Translucent Opaque Worksheets 20 – 23
For Grades 3-5.
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Latin Root word wall cards - Each Latin Root card has a matching picture with its meaning in brackets. It can be used as headers for doing ‘root of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall.
Over two dozen of the most commonly used Latin roots are used in these cards: ambi, aqua, aud, bene, cent, circum, contra, counter, dict, duc/duct, fac, form, fort, fract, ject, jud, mal, mater, mit, mort, multi, pater, port, rupt, scrib/scribe, sec/sect, sent, spec, struct, vid/vis, voc, fin/finit, and mob/mov/mot.
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These are classroom awards for positive traits. It includes 30 awards. This is the glitter border set. Classroom awards can really motivate students to continue to work hard and they also highlight each child's unique character traits to give each student a rewarding sense of pride.
The award titles are:
Number Expert Award, Observant Scientist Award, Peace Maker Award, Persistent Pupil Award, Responsible Decision-Maker Award, Sensational Speller Award, Super Citizen Award, Super Student Award, Thorough Thinker Award, Vivacious Reader Award, Vocabulary Explorer Award, Wonderful World Learner Award, Amazing Attendance Award, Attentive Listener Award, Awesome Achiever Award, Book Scout Award, Collaborative Kid Award, Comprehension Captain Award, Creative Problem Solver Award, Enthusiastic Participant Award, Good Friend Award, Imaginative Writer Award, Incredible Growth Award, Handy Helper Award, Industrious Worker Award, Kindest Kid Award, Inquisitive Learner Award, Terrific Writer Award, Most Improved Award, and Word Detective Award.
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Elapsed Time Rulers! There are many ways to teach elapsed time and over the years I've learned that having a visual time span for the students to follow is the easiest and fastest way for them to understand and map out elapsed time for themselves.
These elapsed time rulers are available in three different time spans:
- 24 hour ruler (from 12:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. to 12:00a.m. again)
- a.m. 12 hour ruler
- p.m. 12 hour ruler
I colour coded them in red and blue; red for the hours (upper half) and blue for the minutes (lower half). Five minute and fifteen minute increments are also shown in blue. Use it like a number line. Count on from the starting time to the completion time of an event. Directions are included.
Teachers can print them on transparent sheets to use with an overhead projector to demonstrate their use. To print them out for the students, use 8.5 x 14 (legal) sized paper to accommodate the full length of the rulers.
Use these Illustrated Homophone Dominoes Cards to keep your students engaged in a fun activity that encourages reading and matching. This game is ideal for re-teaching and reinforcement of homophones.
These cards have fifty pairs (including a few triplets) of homophones, some of them are: aloud/allowed, eight/ate, flower/flour, mussel/muscle, cellar/seller, doe/dough, night/knight, rose/rows, rite/right/write, no/know, raise/rays, see/sea, you/ewe, pour/pore, bored/board, scene/seen, peace/piece, etc. The illustrations are there to help visual learners to remember the words by their images. Encourage students to read the homophone pairs when they match them out loud especially the auditory learners.
For grades 3-5. Fifty homophone pairs. 12 pages.
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Students often confuse homographs with multiple meaning words. In this booklet, students will engage in games and activities that will allow them to compare words and categorize them correctly as either homographs or multiple meaning words. It includes a set of seventy-two illustrated word cards with definitions, six pull-out graphic organizers which can be used as posters for charts or to create a bulletin board, and a worksheet for both homographs and multi-meaning words which include an answer key for the teacher. 19 Pages.
Use this pack of Illustrated Latin Roots with definitions to keep your students engaged in fun activities that reinforce the definition of each Latin root with examples of words that take on the meaning of the roots that they contain. Instructions are included for two games your students can play with these cards; 'Say It, Keep It' and 'Root Buzz'.
There are 31 Latin roots in this set. Each card has a root and two word examples that feature the latin root. The roots are: ambi, aqua, aud, bene, cent, circum, contra, counter, dict, duc/duct, fac, form, fort, fract, ject, jud, mal, mater, mit, mort, multi, pater, port, rupt, scrib/scribe, sec/sect, sent, spec, struct, vid/vis, and voc.
These cards are created in two different sizes. The original set has 8 cards per page and the larger set has 2 cards per page. The small set will save you ink and paper but many teachers have indicated to me that they preferred to have a larger set to make a bulletin board display. So, that's why I added the larger version.
A storage box template is also included for these cards.
Aligned to Common Core Standards (CCSS): L.4.4b and L.5.4b. 25 pages. For grades 4 & 5.
Use this pack of Illustrated Greek Roots with definitions to keep your students engaged in fun activities that reinforce the definition of each root with examples of words that take on the meaning of the roots that they contain. Instructions are included for two games your students can play with these cards; 'Say It, Keep It' and 'Root Buzz'.
Over two dozen of the most commonly used Greek roots are used in these cards. They are: auto, bio, chron, dyna, gram, graph, hetero, homo, hydr, hypo, logy, meter/metr, micro, mis/miso, mono, morph, nym, phil, phobia, phon, photo/phos, pseudo, psycho, scope, techno, tele, and therm.
These cards are created in two different sizes. The original set has 8 cards per page and the larger set has 2 cards per page. The small set will save you ink and paper but many teachers have indicated to me that they preferred to have a larger set to make a bulletin board display. So, that's why I added the larger version.
A storage box template is also included for these cards.
For Grades 4 & 5. 22 Pages. Aligned to Common Core Standards (CCSS): L.4.4b and L.5.4b
These silent E printables provide engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing silent e words for the five long vowel sounds. Use the word wheels to introduce your students to cvce word families.There are five word wheels, each for one of the cvce enclosed vowels. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to color them and colorful versions of the word wheels are also included for optional use.
Your students can use the foldables to:
Name the item in each picture.
Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap.
Sound out the long vowel sounds.
Read the words they traced.
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Year 3 Certificates: Use these editable certificates at the end of the school year. Just type in each student’s name and the school and class details then print. These come in six beautiful colours with watercolour borders and silhouettes of graduating kids. The fonts are already embedded for you. This is a PowerPoint file and it can only be used in PowerPoint and not Power Point Previewer. The images on each page cannot be moved but all of the text it fully editable. This means that you can retype the words, change the fonts, word size, word colour, etc. Have fun using these and have a memorable graduation!
Year 4 Certificates: Use these editable certificates at the end of the school year. Just type in each student’s name and the school and class details then print. These come in six beautiful colours with watercolour borders and silhouettes of graduating kids.
Note: The fonts will not look like they do on TES’s preview. You will get the beautiful graduation fonts because they are already embedded in the file.
This is a PowerPoint file and it can only be used in PowerPoint and not Power Point Previewer. The images on each page cannot be moved but all of the text it fully editable. This means that you can retype the words, change the fonts, word size, word colour, etc. Have fun using these and have a memorable graduation!
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Teachers, this is an online interactive activity for your students to practice sequencing of events. This has 32 self-grading sequencing activities. With these Boom Cards™ students can order pictures of everyday events that are randomly shown at different stages of completion (beginning, middle, end). Students can drag each image into box 1, 2, or 3 to show the sequence for each activity. If a wrong answer is performed, students will be instantly cued and able to repeat it until the correct sequence is created. For Year 1, 2, and 3.
The theme of this deck is both general and seasonal. That’s why there are so many cards. However, if you only want seasonal cards or cards for a particular theme, you can find them at Nyla’s Crafty Teaching on the Boom Learning℠ platform. Note that there is no overlap with purchasing this deck and a themed deck. The seasonal cards in this set are totally different to the ones in my seasonal sequencing decks.
To be used on the Boom Learning℠ platform.
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Students can drag each image into box 1, 2, or 3 to show the sequence for each activity. If a wrong answer is performed, students will be instantly cued and able to repeat until the correct sequence is created.
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This Illustrated Homophone Word Wall set includes...
- 64 Word wall cards with pairs of homophones (some triplets too).
- A homophone definition poster in the form of a graphic organizer.
- A large 'definition of a homophone' sentence strip.
Each card is just over a foot wide, that's 33cm by 6cm. They are laid out as three cards per page on landscape legal sized paper.
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Fraction Strips - these will help you teach about equivalency among fractions, decimals, and percents. Each card is colour-coded allowing students to make connections when they see relational card values for proper fractions, percents, and decimals. For example, ¼, 25%, and 0.25 are always yellow.
Fraction word name cards are also included to help students learn how to pronounce the numbers correctly.
The cards included can be used to focus on just one skill (e.g. decimals) or use the cards together to learn equivalencies.
Extra copies can be made to allow students to cut out the fraction tiles and use them to create word problems. All Fraction Strips are available in whole, halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths and twelfths. The same goes for their decimal, percent and word-name counterparts. Everything here is also included in black and white form for ease of making photocopies.
Synonyms Word Wall. This Illustrated Synonym Word Wall set includes 60 word wall cards with pairs of synonyms and a large ‘definition of a synonym’ sentence strip, plus extra blank cards. Each word card has a pair of synonyms as well as corresponding pictures which portray the meaning of each word. Also included is a black and white version. Each card is just over a foot wide, that's 33cm by 6cm. They are laid out as three cards per page on landscape legal sized paper.
Here is a complete list of the cards in the order that they appear. They have been divided into two sets; Set 1 for grades 2 to 3 and Set 2 for grades 3, 4 and over.
Set 1:
Object/thing, observe/watch, angry/mad, assist/help, begin/start, bad/awful, below/under, bother/annoy, buy/purchase, close/shut, connect/join, combine/mix, easy/simple, equal/same, smart/intelligent, law/rule, lucky/fortunate, calm/peaceful, name/title, silent/quiet, rescue/save, trash/garbage, raise/lift, unusual/strange.
Set 2:
Accomplish/Achieve, answer/reply, artificial/man made, bargain/deal, choose/select, collect/gather, complete/finish, danger/hazard, empty/vacant, faithful/loyal, genuine/real, job/occupation, last/final, value/worth, order/sequence, reliable/dependable, brief/concise, casual/informal, clear/transparent, country/nation, enlarge/magnify, previous/former, instructions/directions, float/drift, hurry/rush, many/numerous, praise/compliment, dive/plunge, inspect/examine, necessary/required, beg/implore, amiable/friendly, gallant/brave, annul/cancel, abandon/forsake, sad/melancholy.