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 bundle includes my Snowman and Snowflake Incentive Charts. Use them to mark reading or behavior progress with individual students, groups or classes. Use stamps, stickers or even your initials to mark off the squares. Charts are 4x5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
Use these Snowman Incentive Reward Charts to mark reading or behavior progress with individual students, groups or classes. Use stamps, stickers or even your initials to mark off the squares. Charts are 4×5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
Includes 2 main designs in multiple colorful backgrounds, 2 with white background, and 2 variety pages.
Here are 4+ Activity Sheets to use after reading A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting.
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw their favorite part, write their favorite Thanksgiving foods, define the word “bellow”, answer some questions, and write about their favorite holiday memory on the back. An Answer Key is included for this sheet.
2. Compare and Contrast- This page asks students to compare and contrast a real moose to a make believe moose.
3. Story Maps - 3 Story Maps to choose from.
a. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end
b. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, moral of the story
c. characters, setting, problem, solution
4. Bonus Research a Moose Page - Students are asked to research about moose.
** See the Preview for all the pages included.
Use these Apple Themed Incentive Charts to mark reading or behavior progress with individual students, groups or classes. Use stamps, stickers or even your initials to mark off the squares.
Charts are 4x5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
This includes multiple chart designs in Full Color, Less Color and Classic Border.
Bonus: I’ve also included 3 Variety pages to make it easier for you to print.
Please see the Preview for what is included. 14 pages total.
This 8.5" x 11" Activity Poster asks students to name a community helper, tell what they do, what they wear, what tools they use and what they drive. There is an easel where they draw where the community helper works and show the helper at work.
Students can color and decorate the rest of the poster when done.
Makes a great substitute activity or bulletin board. Just Print and Go!
Here is a fun poster for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
This 8.5" x 11" Soar Into a Good Book! poster comes with space for the student’s rating (using the sun’s rays), profile pic, title and author of book, recommendation, and space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book.
Just Print and Go! Makes a great time filler, bulletin board, center or substitute plan.
Here is a fun poster for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
This 8.5" x 11" Pop Into a Good Book! poster comes with space for the student’s rating (using popcorn kernels), title and author of book, recommendation, and space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book. Students then color in the poster to finish it off!
Just Print and Go! Makes a great time filler, bulletin board, center or substitute plan.
Here is a fun Fall or Autumn Themed Book Review poster (with a pumpkin, leaves, squirrel and owl) is for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
This 8.5" x 11" Fall Into a Good Book! poster comes with space for the student’s rating (using the sun’s rays), profile pic, title and author of book, recommendation, and space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book. Students then color in the poster to finish it off!
Just Print PDF and Go! Makes a great time filler, bulletin board, center or substitute plan.
Spring is a great time to try out a new or good book! Have your students choose a new genre, author, or series and write a review on the book they read.
This 8.5" x 11" poster comes with 2 different titles for you to choose from “Spring Into a New Book!” and “Spring Into a Good Book!”
It has space for the student’s rating, profile pic, title and author of book, recommendation, and a space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book.
Here’s a class book you can make to go with your Old MacDonald Unit.
This packet includes 28 sheets:
Book Cover with title “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” in color and B&W.
Verses for pigs, ducks, cows, hens, sheep, horses, dogs, turkeys, geese, cats, and goats. Each animal’s verse is two pages. A clip art of the animal is included in a farm scene for the first page. The second page leaves space for the student to illustrate the animal.
Two generic “Old MacDonald” story pages that can be used for additional animals.
Two generic writing pages for you to use with your own prompt OR have students copy the sentence onto their own paper. Room for an illustration and writing.
This Transportation Coloring Sheet Bundle is in a Power Point program ready for you to type in the words you are currently teaching. Simply type them in the spaces provided, print, and go!
Currently Includes the following activity pages: helicopter, hot air balloon, airplane, and train.
Great filler, easy center or individual activity.
This is included in my [Sight Word Bundle]( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/bundle-of-sight-word-coloring-activity-sheets-all-editable-11694927).
Here are 7 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read The Velveteen Rabbit to your students.
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
2. Writing - This page asks students to illustrate and write about their favorite toy.
3. Compare & Contrast the Velveteen Rabbit with real rabbits.
4. Compare & Contrast Old Fashioned Toys with Modern Toys.
5. 3 Story Maps to choose from.
Here are 6 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read The Elves and the Shoemaker to your students. (The story is not included, but the questions should work for any Brothers Grimm retelling. I used the version that was retold from the Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Jim LaMarche in my classroom.)
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
2. Writing - This page asks students why they think the elves helped the shoemaker. It also asks them what they think might have happened to the elves after they left the shoemaker.
3. Design a Shoe - Students are asked to invent a shoe and describe it.
**4. Story Maps **- 3 Story Maps to choose from.
a. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end
b. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, moral of the story
c. characters, setting, problem, solution
**Here are some activity sheets that you can pick and choose from for your Book Care unit. **
These are pirate and treasure themed as I needed some activities to go along with my read aloud of the book Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi (book not included).
This includes 12 pages.
“I Treasure Books” Activity. Students draw a picture of a way they take care of books and color the illustration. – 2 pages (one boy and one girl pirate themed)
“Books are Treasure” Activity. Students draw a cover for their favorite book and make sure to add the title and author. – 1 page
Bookshelf “Book Rules” Activity. Students write four important book care rules. – 2 pages – 1 with writing lines and one without.
YOUR Writing Prompt/Coloring/Writing Activity – Students color the top portion and write a sentence or two below it. You choose what you want them to write about. – 2 pages (one boy and one girl pirate themed)
“How to Take Care of a Book” Activity – Students use first, next, then and last to explain how to take care of a book. – 1 sheet
Generic writing paper with book clip art. Comes with boxes on top for illustrations and a variety of lines for writing. – 3 sheets
“Books are Treasure” bookmarks to color and keep.
Want to introduce your K/1 students to research skills? Here is a 4 page booklet that they can be successful with.
I used these with my Kinders. We read an online encyclopedia entry together and write in answers as we find them.
Included:
1. Research Booklet - Copy front to back and fold into a booklet.
2. Mexico 2 page Reading Passage in B&W reproducible and in Color. (PDF)
3. Two graphic organizers - For those that want to do their own research.
Use the PDF Reading Passage Read Aloud function and you have a Research Center for second graders.
Here are ready-to-go poster/graphic organizers for your students to research Dinosaurs.
Includes 4 Versions:
Letter size 8.5" x 11" with and without Source box.
Legal size 8.5" x 14" with and without Source box.
Please note: Minor variations in content occur between the versions do to space constraints. The legal size allows for more research due to its larger size.
Please see the Preview for all four page versions.
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Here are some Ocean themed reading incentive bookmarks both in color and B&W.
They have a grid of 12 boxes for students and/or parents to check off progress on their reading goal.
**Here are ready-to-go poster/graphic organizers for your students to research Ocean animals. Includes posters for the following animals: swordfish, squid, sharks, seahorses, parrotfish, octopuses, killer whales, jellyfish, eels, dolphins, crabs and clownfish. ** *Also includes 3 Generic Sheets to use with any additional animal you may think of. *
Animal Research Poster Activity Sheets 8.5" x 11" **
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Includes 4 Versions (14 pages each):
Version 1: U.S. Spelling with Sources box.
Version 2: U.S. Spelling without Sources box.
Version 3: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling with Sources box.
Version 4: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling without Sources box.
**Information asked for: **
What the animal looks like.
Habitat
Diet
Interesting Facts
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Want to put editing back into the student's hands and stop pestering them about capital letters, spacing and spelling?
I use these edit sticks in our Media Center whenever our students type up their work. It has definitely cut down on my verbal reminders.
Just print, cut and tape onto popsicle sticks!
Here are ready-to-go farm animal poster or graphic organizers for your students to research barnyard animals. Includes pages for: cows, chickens, dogs, ducks, goats, horses, pigs and sheep. It also includes 1 additional Generic Sheet to use with any additional animals.
**Realistic Farm Animal Clip Art on these 8.5" x 11" activity sheets!
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Includes 4 Versions (9 pages each):
Version 1: U.S. Spelling with Sources box.
Version 2: U.S. Spelling without Sources box.
Version 3: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling with Sources box.
Version 4: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling without Sources box.
Information asked for:
What the animal looks like
Babies - what they are called and what they are fed
Diet
Interesting Facts
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.