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.
EASY version: 12 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle - horizontally and vertically only. No backwards words.
HARDER version: 18 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle. Any direction, even backwards!
Comes in full color for those that like to laminate and reuse in a center.
Also comes in B&W for easy printing.
Make a class book with this cover and writing pages. Great activity to use in a center, for a substitute, or homework.
Includes:
1. Color cover to print "Needs vs. Wants"
2. 2 writing pages with prompt "I want.....but I don't need it."
3. 2 blank writing pages with primary and regular lines for your own prompt.
This Monster Writing pack comes with:
1. 6 half sheets with monster B&W clip art. 2 versions with three choices of line spacing each.
2. 1 MONSTER Acrostic poem page.
3. 2 Monster Characters pages - Color and B&W. Students can name the monsters, color them in, cut out and create a story with them.
4. 2 Monster Character pages - larger B&W monsters to color and cut out.
5. 2 Character Traits printables - Color and B&W
6. 1 Story Planning Sheet - monster themed with beginning, middle and end prompts.
7. 2 Book Covers "What Are Monsters Scared Of?" in Color and B&W
8. 2 Book Covers - generic - You write your own title in Color and B&W
9. 1 Book Activity Page - "My monster's name is___. He is scared of ________ ."
10. 9 generic writing sheets - no clip art
11. Editable Physical Traits page (PPT file)
This Bundle includes all of my Just Right Book Activity Sheets, Writing Papers and Bookmarks. Use for your Just Right Unit or after you read Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians, by Jackie Mims Hopkins. Great items for your Literacy Center, too!
Product #1: Activity Sheets for after reading Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians.
1. Comprehension Activity Page: It asks them to draw their favorite part, identify antonyms, define the word “browse”, and answer some questions. Answer Key included.
2. Beginning, Middle, End Activity Page: Students write what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
3. Draw & Write Page: Students draw and write to your Teacher Prompt. Or, place this in your Literacy Center for their choice writing topic.
4. Design a Book Cover: Goldie Socks loved books! Let students design a cover of a book they would love!
5. Retell the Story Activity: Choose the puppets that work best for your kiddos.
* Finger Puppets in Color & B&W
* Popsicle Puppets in Color & B&W
* House Setting on 8.5″ x 11″ paper in Color and B&W
Product #2: Just Right Book Word Search. Comes in Color as well as B&W format. Easy – Words are only across or down. (Based on Goldie Socks and the 3 Libearians book.)
Product #3: Activity Sheets and Writing Papers
Activity #1: Identify an easy, hard, and Just Right book.
Activity #2: A writing assignment that asks them to justify WHY a book is Just Right for them.
Writing Activity: How to Choose a Just Right Book with First, Next, Then and Finally prompts.
Writing Paper: The three Bears and Goldie Socks 1/2 coloring and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students.
Writing Paper: Goldie Socks 1/2 draw your own illustration and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students. Great for your Teacher Writing Prompt in a Literacy Center!
Product #4: Just Right Bookmarks:
5 Finger Rule with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W only
Just Right Book with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W and Color
Also included is a 2nd printable version where each of the above B&W versions comes with 4 bookmarks to a page that can print back to back and save paper!e looking for in a Just Right book.
These 20 Buddy Reading Task Cards cover the basic parts of a story that you would want your students to know as well as some interesting discussion starters for them.
This file includes:
1. 20 Task Cards
2. Task Check Off Cards
3. Cover Cards
4. Blank Task Cards for you to add additional questions
I made the Task Check Off cards real simple since the tasks require talking, not writing. You can photocopy them for one time use with pencil or print & laminate them to reuse with Vis-a-Vis markers.
This Listening Center file comes with:
1. Book Report form - students fill out basic information and outline the beginning, middle and end of the story.
2. I Can statements
3. Response sheet with room for picture: "My favorite part was when..."
4. Response sheet with room for picture: "My favorite character is...because..."
5. 2 generic response sheets with different choice of lines
6. an EDITABLE response sheet that you type your own prompt and print. It has a different border due to copyright restrictions. (PowerPoint file)
Easy center idea for upper elementary students. I have used this successfully with 3rd graders in my Media Center. They LOVE being able to research a topic of THEIR choice!
This reproducible gives students a structured research process for them to follow using an ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA entry.
They are guided to pick a topic, ask questions about it, locate the online encyclopedia your school uses, write notes on the back, and write the bibliographic information for their article.
Includes I Can statements to post at your center.
This St. Patrick's Day Pack includes 68 pages. There are loads of Writing Papers with St. Patrick's Day themed clip art with 3 types of writing line choices to meet your students' needs!
Also:
2 Beginning, Middle, End Planning sheets with box for illustration and lines for writing each.
1 Create a Leprechaun Activity
Pot of Gold writing pages in 3 line choices
2 Peek Overs - a boy and girl with several types of lined writing paper to choose from
Rebus Word Searches for K/1
Bookmark Word Search for elementary.
Preview PNGs give you a sample of what's in this file.
This reproducible is a print and go activity. Students choose a book about inventions to read from. They cite their source by finding the information prompted, write about some interesting facts and draw and label an invention on the back.
Great for an independent activity, center, or for a substitute, too!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Presidents' Day!
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Groundhog Day.
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
This activity has students create a movie to go with one of two provided character snowmen or a snowman of their own design.
They fill in the movie title and write a short review that includes the characters and the plot - without giving away the ending! They must also convince the audience whether they should go see it or not by giving a specific example to support their opinion.
Includes:
1 instruction Sheet
2 reproducible sheets with different snowmen characters
1 blank reproducible for the students to make their own themed movie review
Here are 16 snowman themed papers to add to your Writing Center. This Writing Paper Pack for elementary students includes:
1 Acrostic Poem page with Snowman in the background.
3 different How To Build a Snowman activity page choices.
6 half sheets with B&W clip art with snowman - 2 styles in 3 choices of lines each.
6 half and full lined pages with snowman and snowflake borders.
Lots of Snowman Bookmarks in Color and B&W reproducible! Spread the love of reading!!
These feature a Poem called “I’m a Little Snowman” Poem:
“I’m a little snowman,
round and fat.
Here are my mittens,
here is my hat.
When the sun comes out
I melt away.
See you next year
on a snowy day.”
~Author Unknown~
Here are 3 pages of Groundhog Day Bookmarks.
The first two pages feature the basic facts of Groundhog Day - one with color clip art and one with B&W reproducible friendly clip art the kids can color!
The third page has 4 different designs in a reproducible friendly format for kids to choose and color.
Here is an 8.5" x 11" activity sheet for the researching a Planet.
AND a 8.5" x 14" legal sized Poster Activity as well!
They vary slightly since there was more room for items on the larger version.
There are 2 options for letter size and 4 options for the legal size.
Some of the topics include:
1. Planet Description
2. Sketch their planet
3. Sketch the planet's symbol
4. Temperature
5. Interesting Facts
6. Time
7. Solar System: Moon & Sun
8. Cite their sources.
9. The legal size has an extra box that asks students whether or not we could survive on that planet and to support their answer with details.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out! Great for a bulletin board.
April Fools' Day Word Searches. (These are REAL word searches...not a joke ones).
Word Search #1 Words are horizontal and vertical only.
Word Search #2 Words are horizontal, vertical, diagonal and backwards in this hard puzzle!
Both versions come in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse. I like to put them in one of those reusable dry erase pockets with a vis a vis marker. Easy center in my Media Center.
Also in B&W reproducible! Kids LOVE to decorate and color the word search when they are done.
Both levels help you to differentiate for your students. They look the same, but the directions at the top help you know which version you gave them!