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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.
Landforms Word Search - Hard for Grades 5 to Adult
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Landforms Word Search - Hard for Grades 5 to Adult

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**This Landforms and Bodies of Water Word Search is Hard. ** The 41 related words are hidden across, down, backwards, and diagonally. Includes: Color version Print-friendly B&W version Answer Key The TpT Digital Activity Overlay Version is ready to go on this product. Extra pages have been removed and highlighter directions have been added. It comes ready for you to assign to your students digitally. Great for Grades 5 to Adult!
St. Patrick's Day Word Search | HARD
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St. Patrick's Day Word Search | HARD

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This a Ready to Go St. Patrick’s Day Hard Word Search. Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle. Words include: March, rainbow, coins, flag, gold, green, jig, lucky, clover, feast, music, harp, Irish, Ireland, culture, island, festival, dances, holiday, parade, shamrock, tradition, heritage, limerick, and horseshoe. Includes: ☑ Color version ☑ Print-friendly B&W version ☑ Answer Key
Easter Word Search BUNDLE
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Easter Word Search BUNDLE

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**Here are 2 LEVELS of an Easter Word Search for Elementary students. **These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!! They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students! Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle. Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle. Words include: April, Easter, spring, holiday, decorate, dye, Sunday, brunch, children, tradition, eggs, family, church, bonnet, chocolate, grass, dinner, basket, dresses, jelly beans, hunt, candy, rabbit, flowers and celebration. Each one comes in Color, B&W reproducible. Answer Key included.
St. Patrick’s Day Word Work Center
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St. Patrick’s Day Word Work Center

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St. Patrick’s Day “St. Patrick’s Day” Activity Sheet for your word work center. Great Literacy Center or sponge activity! Also, makes a great addition to your substitute file! Three different activity sheets – pick the version you want your students to use! In this Spy-A-Word activity, students make words out of the letters in “St. Patrick’s Day”. They cut out the letters to form words. Then, they write the words in the blanks and color the page. Includes: 3 Different Activity Sheets to choose from “I Can” Sign for Center Cut out letters in upper and lowercase Answer Key showing possible words that can be made with these letters. Making their own words is a great center activity!
Leprechaun Word Activity | Word Work Center
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Leprechaun Word Activity | Word Work Center

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St. Patrick’s Day “leprechaun” Activity Sheet for your word work center. Great Literacy Center or sponge activity! Also, makes a great addition to your substitute file! Three different activity sheets – pick the version you want your students to use! In this Spy-A-Word activity, students make words out of the letters in “leprechaun”. They cut out the letters to form words. Then, they write the words in the blanks and color the page. Includes: 3 Different Activity Sheets to choose from “I Can” Sign for Center Cut out letters in upper and lowercase Answer Key showing possible words that can be made with these letters. Making their own words is a great center activity!
St. Patrick’s Day BINGO
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St. Patrick’s Day BINGO

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This St. Patrick’s Day BINGO game has 36 unique cards that you can print and play. See the Preview. This set includes: 36 Unique and numbered BINGO cards Directions Calling Board Calling Cards to cut out You will need to cut some squares out of construction paper to use as Bingo chips ahead of time, if you don’t have something like that already. Permission for Clip Art Usage per Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
Rainbow Word Activity | Word Work Center
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Rainbow Word Activity | Word Work Center

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St. Patrick’s Day “rainbow” Activity Sheet for your word work center. Great Literacy Center or sponge activity! Also, makes a great addition to your substitute file! Three different activity sheets – pick the version you want your students to use! In this Spy-A-Word activity, students make words out of the letters in “rainbow”. They cut out the letters to form words. Then, they write the words in the blanks and color the page. Includes: 3 Different Activity Sheets to choose from “I Can” Sign for Center Cut out letters in upper and lowercase Answer Key showing possible words that can be made with these letters. Making their own words is a great center activity!
Honey Bee Word Search | Easy
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Honey Bee Word Search | Easy

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**This is an Easy Honey Bee Word Search which includes life cycle, anatomy and other honey bee related words. ** Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle. Words include: egg, larva, pupa, adult, wax, hive, colony, insect, buzz, hover, flowers, honey, nectar, sweet, queen, worker, drone, wings, yellow, black, stinger, six legs, antennae, honey bee and beekeeper. Includes: ☑ Color version ☑ Print-friendly B&W version ☑ Answer Key
Butterflies Word Search | Easy
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Butterflies Word Search | Easy

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**This is an Easy Butterfly Word Search which includes life cycle, anatomy and other butterfly related words. ** Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle. Words include: egg, larva, pupa, insect, nectar, hatch, molt, chew, emerge, migrate, thorax, feeler, head, wings, flutter, abdomen, antenna, six legs, proboscis, butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis, wing veins, compound eye and metamorphosis. Includes: ☑ Color version ☑ Print-friendly B&W version ☑ Answer Key
St. Patrick’s Day Word Activity BUNDLE
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St. Patrick’s Day Word Activity BUNDLE

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St. Patrick’s Day Activity Sheets for your word work center. Great Literacy Center or sponge activity! Also, makes a great addition to your substitute file! Includes: “St. Patrick’s Day” “rainbow” and “leprechaun”. 23 pages total. Three different activity sheets for each – pick the version you want your students to use! In these Spy-A-Word activities, students make words out of the letters in “St. Patrick’s Day”, “rainbow”, and “leprechaun”. They cut out the letters to form words. Then, they write the words in the blanks and color the page. Each Includes: 3 Different Activity Sheets to choose from “I Can” Sign for Center Cut out letters in upper and lowercase Answer Key showing possible words that can be made with these letters. Making their own words is a great center activity!
Butterflies Word Search | Hard
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Butterflies Word Search | Hard

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**This is a Hard Butterfly Word Search which includes life cycle, anatomy and other butterfly related words. ** Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle. Words include: egg, larva, pupa, adult, wax, hive, colony, insect, buzz, hover, flowers, honey, nectar, sweet, queen, worker, drone, wings, yellow, black, stinger, six legs, antennae, honey bee and beekeeper. Includes: ☑ Color version ☑ Print-friendly B&W version ☑ Answer Key
How to Catch a Leprechaun Activity and Writing
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How to Catch a Leprechaun Activity and Writing

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Here are two “How to Catch a Leprechaun” themed “How To” writing activities for your St. Patrick’s Day unit. “How to Catch a Leprechaun” is 2 pages long and walks your students through the process of procedural writing. Page 1 asks them to simply sketch their trap. Page 2 asks them to write or draw the materials needed and explain how to build it with first, next, then and finally prompts. The 2nd option, “How to Catch a Leprechaun”, is one page and encourages students to sketch a trap design and write how to build it in a paragraph below the illustration. Bonus Writing Pages included! 1 lined full page. a half page design with a box for an illustration and 3 different writing line options.
April Fools’ Day – Hard Word Search Grades 5 and Up
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April Fools’ Day – Hard Word Search Grades 5 and Up

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This April Fools’ Day Word Search is Difficult. (This is a REAL word search, not a fake one). Build vocabulary and have fun with these 40 April Fools’ Day related words which are hidden across, down, backwards, and diagonally…in all directions. Includes: ☑ Color version ☑ Print-friendly B&W version ☑ Answer Key Great for Grades 5 to Adult!
Paul Bunyan Character Poem Activity
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Paul Bunyan Character Poem Activity

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**Use these Tall Tale Character Poem Activity Sheets during your class study of Paul Bunyan or Tall Tales Unit. **Great poetry activity for literacy/poetry center or your substitute file. I’ve included pages to walk your students through the writing process, sample pages, graphics to color and more! Pick and choose what you want to use from this 15 page resource! Teacher Notes Page Format of poem Handout as well as Samples of the graphic organizer and final poem provided. Paul Bunyan poem is used on the example pages. Graphic Organizer guides students to brainstorm words and ideas they will need for the poem as they read and study about the character. Draft page. This page guides students to fill in each line. Then, they do a spell check with each other and you. Final Draft Writing Pages. Students write the final draft of their entire poem. There is a portrait page option with Color graphics as well as one with B&W graphics. Two landscape options available with different line choices with no clip art. Preposition List for students to refer to in creating their prepositional phrases. Comes in Color as well as B&W. Graphics for students to color, cut and glue along with their final poem. All get mounted on a 12″ x 18″ piece of construction paper.
John Henry Character Poem Activity
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John Henry Character Poem Activity

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Use these Tall Tale Character Poem Activity Sheets during your class study of John Henry or Tall Tales Unit. Great poetry activity for literacy/poetry center or your substitute file. I’ve included pages to walk your students through the writing process, sample pages, graphics to color and more! Pick and choose what you want to use from this 15 page resource! Teacher Notes Page Format of poem Handout as well as Samples of the graphic organizer and final poem provided. *Paul Bunyan poem is used on the example pages. Graphic Organizer guides students to brainstorm words and ideas they will need for the poem as they read and study about the character. Draft page. This page guides students to fill in each line. Then, they do a spell check with each other and you. **Final Draft Writing Pages. **Students write the final draft of their entire poem. There is a portrait page option with Color graphics as well as one with B&W graphics. Two landscape options available with different line choices with no clip art. Preposition List for students to refer to in creating their prepositional phrases. Comes in Color as well as B&W. Graphics for students to color, cut and glue along with their final poem. All get mounted on a 12″ x 18″ piece of construction paper.
Davy Crockett Character Poem Activity
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Davy Crockett Character Poem Activity

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Use these Tall Tale Character Poetry Activity Sheets during your class study of Mike Fink or Tall Tales Unit. Great poetry activity for literacy/poetry center or your substitute file. I’ve included pages to walk your students through the writing process, sample pages, graphics to color and more! Pick and choose what you want to use from this 16 page resource! Teacher Notes Page Format of poem Handout as well as Samples of the graphic organizer and final poem provided. *Paul Bunyan poem is used on the example pages. Graphic Organizer guides students to brainstorm words and ideas they will need for the poem as they read and study about the character. Draft page. This page guides students to fill in each line. Then, they do a spell check with each other and you. Final Draft Writing Pages. Students write the final draft of their entire poem. There is a portrait page option with Color graphics as well as one with B&W graphics. Two landscape options available with different line choices with no clip art. Preposition List for students to refer to in creating their prepositional phrases. Comes in Color as well as B&W. Graphics for students to color, cut and glue along with their final poem. All get mounted on a 12″ x 18″ piece of construction paper.
Annie Oakley  Character Poem Activity
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Annie Oakley Character Poem Activity

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Use these Tall Tale Character Poetry Activity Sheets during your class study of Annie Oakley or Tall Tales Unit. Great poetry activity for literacy/poetry center or your substitute file. I’ve included pages to walk your students through the writing process, sample pages, graphics to color and more! Pick and choose what you want to use from this 15 page resource! Teacher Notes Page Format of poem Handout as well as Samples of the graphic organizer and final poem provided. *Paul Bunyan poem is used on the example pages. Graphic Organizer guides students to brainstorm words and ideas they will need for the poem as they read and study about the character. Draft page. This page guides students to fill in each line. Then, they do a spell check with each other and you. Final Draft Writing Pages. Students write the final draft of their entire poem. There is a portrait page option with Color graphics as well as one with B&W graphics. Two landscape options available with different line choices with no clip art. Preposition List for students to refer to in creating their prepositional phrases. Comes in Color as well as B&W. Graphics for students to color, cut and glue along with their final poem. All get mounted on a 12″ x 18″ piece of construction paper.
Paul Bunyan Writing Paper and Coloring Pages
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Paul Bunyan Writing Paper and Coloring Pages

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Here are some Paul Bunyan Writing Papers and Coloring sheets for your students during your Tall Tale Unit! Let them choose what to write at your Literacy Center OR have them write to your prompt! Includes: Design 1 Paul Bunyan with Ox – Half Coloring Page/Half Writing Page in 2 writing line styles. Design 2 Paul Clearing a Forest with Axe – Half Coloring Page/Half Writing Page in 2 writing line styles. Design 3 Tall Paul Clearing Trees – Half Page for Student Illustration/Half Writing Page in 3 line styles. Designs 4 Paul with Ox – Half Page for Student Illustration/Half Writing Page in 3 line styles. 4 full sized Coloring Pages
John Henry Writing Paper and Coloring Pages
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John Henry Writing Paper and Coloring Pages

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Here are some John Henry Writing Papers and Coloring sheets for your students during your Tall Tale Unit! Let them choose what to write at your Literacy Center OR have them write to your prompt! Includes: Design 1 John Henry working on Railroad – Half Coloring Page/Half Writing Page in 2 writing line styles. Design 2 John Henry hitting spike into rock – Half Coloring Page/Half Writing Page in 2 writing line styles. Design 3 John Henry working on Railroad – Half Page for Student Illustration/Half Writing Page in 3 line styles. Design 4 John Henry hitting spike into rock – Half Page for Student Illustration/Half Writing Page in 3 line styles. 4 full sized Coloring Pages
Johnny Appleseed Activity Sheets | Print and Go!
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Johnny Appleseed Activity Sheets | Print and Go!

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Here are 4 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read the Johnny Appleseed tall tale with your students: Comprehension, Graphic Organizer, Exaggeration and Compare and Contrast activities. Comprehension Sheet – This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, write 4 words to describe Johnny, write an example of an exaggeration from the tall tale, and summarize the tale in their own words. Tall Tale Graphic Organizer – This sheet asks students to write the characters, setting. It has boxes for students to write or draw 2 Exaggerations from the story, 1 Realistic Event from the story, the Problem and the Solution. Tall Tale Exaggeration – Students illustrate their favorite exaggeration from the story and write about what they drew. Compare & Contrast – Students choose another person or character to compare to Johnny Appleseed. They could choose themselves, another tall tale character, anyone!