This simple mini book allows young students to write simple sentences that capture the true meaning of Christmas. Each page contains engaging graphics that makes writing both fun and engaging as they color and write about different Christmas elements that can be quite familiar to them. This makes a great activity for students ages 5 to 7.

Sight Words Sight Words: Did you ever wonder whether your chosen sight words were considered under the category Dolch, Fry or Fountas and Pinnell? Well here is a comparison table just for you. The first 400 words of Dolch’s list are compared to Fry’s Instant words and F&P’s high frequency words. This is handy for all teachers as an easy tool to organize your sight words especially if you need to tweak your existing pool of sight words to reflect the spectrum.

Christmas Around the World. This is a mini writing unit for students to focus on Christmas around the world. ******************************************************************************* It includes a research question guide sheet plus BLANK writing sheets for 14 countries including my own country of Trinidad and Tobago. This product does not contain facts. ******************************************************************************* I included 3 sets of sheets for your drawing and writing needs. Your kids will have fun completing this unit and most of all they will learn a lot more about Christmas in different parts of the world.

These letter confusion/reversal posters will help your students to distinguish the difference between confusing letters m and n. Included are matching cards to help them to establish a visual memory and note the difference between similar letters in the alphabet. There are letters with an without serifs.

Help your students remember the Long vowel sounds for Y (long I and long E) with these posters. These bright and colourful posters are clear and simple reminders making them the perfect resource to have on your classroom wall for students to refer to during their writing sessions. Included also are a black and white version plus a mini-version of each poster for students to keep in their notebooks or writing folders.

Christmas Activities: My Christmas Handwriting Sheets is a 28 page handwriting printable. It contains practice sheets for pre-K to Grade 1 students.

These letter confusion/reversal posters will help your students to distinguish the difference between confusing letters m and w. Included are matching cards to help them to establish a visual memory and note the difference between similar letters in the alphabet. There are letters with an without serifs.

Sentences: This is sentence building with fun! fun! fun! Your kiddos will make their sentences and do their own checking and editing. They will also challenge themselves into making more than one sentence using the picture prompt and words provided. At the end they will tick or x their creative abilities, of course with guidance from you. Those that were not sentences would be taken over to the ‘Fix It Up Revision Sheet’ for fixing up of course! This is another great addition to your literacy centers and your Keepin’ Busy corners! © 2013 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher’s Idea I pride myself on creating quality resources for teachers and students alike. Every effort has been made to make this resource error free. Should you find a mistake please let me know in the “Ask a Question” section or email me prior to feedback and I will quickly fix it. You can then redownload the corrected version for free! Your feedback is greatly appreciated. ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ All Rights Reserved by © Nicole Hernandez . This product is to be used by the original downloader ONLY. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. No part of this resource maybe posted on a blog (personal or commercial), webpage/site, server, or other location that is accessible by multiple people. Violations of this notice are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. Thank you for respecting my work!

These Conjunction Posters and handy reference sheet introduces students to the seven FANBOYS conjunctions—For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So—as superheroes! Each conjunction is explained with a simple description, example sentences, and a fun superhero character to help students understand how they connect ideas in sentences. Perfect for classroom reference, these posters help young learners easily grasp and remember how to use conjunctions in their writing.

Back to School Activities “My Book of Compound Words” is a fantastic tool designed specifically for kindergarten to grade one students, combining fun activities with effective learning strategies. Each page includes simple activities that make learning compound words both fun and memorable. The book is beautifully illustrated with kid-friendly images that help young learners visualize and understand the meaning of compound words.

Do your students struggle to identify character traits? These character traits stories are the perfect resource for helping your students recognize common character traits found in literature. This set includes 20 realistic fictional stories designed to help grade 3-5 readers infer and understand various character traits. Each page comes as a full page print with one story and two questions: The first question asks students to identify a character trait from four choices, and the second question requires them to prove their answer with evidence from the text. These pages can be printed and placed in plastic sleeves for durability. Another option is to print and laminate pages.

These A-Z Do-A-Dot alphabet worksheets are great for strengthening hand muscles and develop fine motor skills while learning the letters of the alphabet. These worksheets help your students work on uppercase and lowercase letter formation while simultaneously learning letter names and letter sounds. These are great for students to fill using dot markers, dab paint, stickers, bingo daubers or markers. Included on each page are an image and word label for students to connect with letter learning. This resource is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age students learning letters a to z.

The vowel digraphs depicted are only those that can be explained using the rhyme “When two vowels go walking, sometimes, the first one does the talking.” These are:- ai ay ea ee ie oa ue These are ready for you to print out, place on your word wall as an easy reference for your students. Also included are blackline versions and a notebook version in black and white.

This set of colorful display posters or visual aids were designed around the holiday song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which was first published in 1780. They depict each of the Twelve Days of Christmas in cute and kid-friendly graphics. This is a lovely resource that can be used in a sequencing activity or to simply share this song with your children. Included in this download are both the COLORED version and a BLACK AND WHITE version for ink economy.

Fiction vs Nonfiction This resource contains four colored posters that make a fantastic visual for fiction and nonfiction for very young learners. These posters can be displayed in your literacy centers, writing workshop area or your classroom library. These posters are simple definitions for fiction and nonfiction and I suggest that it can be a great way to start your literary genre units. Simply print them poster size and laminate or cover with plastic so that you would be able to have them all year through and from year to year. **********The cover page shows a sample of two pages**********

Number Properties - Distributive, Associative, Commutative This is an excellent way of introducing the concepts as a way for student to get the meaning of these number properties. Distributive, Associative, Commutative printables are bundled together for convenience as a special request so I am making it available to you. These can be used as posters or they can be used as notebook pages when you want your students to get the gist of the idea about the number properties. You can get them individually in the links below: I pride myself on creating quality resources for teachers and students alike. Every effort has been made to make this resource error free. Should you find a mistake please let me know in the “Ask a Question” section or email me prior to feedback and I will quickly fix it. You can then redownload the corrected version for free! Your feedback is greatly appreciated. ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ All Rights Reserved by © Nicole Hernandez . This product is to be used by the original downloader ONLY. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. No part of this resource maybe posted on a blog (personal or commercial), webpage/site, server, or other location that is accessible by multiple people. Violations of this notice are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. Thank you for respecting my work!

Reading Logs This is a set of simple reading logs and reading goals plus reading reflection sheets for your students and parents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please check the preview file for a look at the contents of this resource before purchase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************************************************************************

Punctuation Punctuation Marks act like traffic signs and stop lights in reading. They tell us when to stop, pause and how to use our voice to signal to our listeners when we are telling, asking or really excited when we read aloud. I created these posters that can be used to help students to connect punctuation marks with voice and to build reading fluency. They highlight the Reading Stop Signs: the period, exclamation mark and the question mark only. I pride myself on creating quality resources for teachers and students alike. Every effort has been made to make this resource error free. Should you find a mistake please let me know in the "Ask a Question" section or email me prior to feedback and I will quickly fix it. You can then redownload the corrected version for free! Your feedback is greatly appreciated. ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ All Rights Reserved by © Nicole Hernandez . This product is to be used by the original downloader ONLY. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. No part of this resource maybe posted on a blog (personal or commercial), webpage/site, server, or other location that is accessible by multiple people. Violations of this notice are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. Thank you for respecting my work!

Use these 8 ½ x 11 flash cards to introduce or review the letters of the alphabet with your students. This set includes both UPPERcase and lowercase letters together on one page . The vowels are in red and the consonants blue. The cards are clean and clear so that your students can pay closer attention to the formation of the letters within the handwriting lines, just like in their books. These cards are perfect for teaching whole groups or for displaying within your classroom, referring to them periodically during your phonics or handwriting teaching sessions.

Health: This resource is great for work on the topic of personal hygiene and healthy habits. These posters and cards can be used to spark discussions and can be used as writing prompts also. This set includes: 4 Posters: Don't just sit! Get fit! Eat lots of Fruits and Vegetables Cover your mouth Properly wash your hands 17 Healthy Practices cards: Eat lots of fruits Eat lots of vegetables Exercise Use a tissue Take baths regularly Cover your mouth... Floss your teeth Brush your teeth Wash your hands Visit the dentist Get plenty of rest Cover your cough Don't sit! Get fit! (c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea