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.
These 20 Buddy Dot Dude Reading Center Activity Story Element Task Cards cover the basic parts of a story that your students should know as well as some interesting discussion starters for them. Great for your students to use the turn and talk strategy after reading together.
This file now includes 2 Versions! Click on the Preview to see BOTH!
**Version 1: **Dot Dudes come to Buddy Reading with a colorful dot border and adorable dot dude clip art on every task card.
Version 2: Original question set with colorful border and no extra clip art on the task cards.
Each Set includes:
20 Task Cards
Task Check Off Cards
Cover Cards
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.
Dot Dudes Clip Art and the term “Dot Dudes” are licensed and used with permission from Sarah Pecorino of Sarah Pecorino Illustration.
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.
This Fruit and Vegetable BINGO game covers 30 fruits and 30 veggies! Includes 60 unique BINGO cards and BONUS flashcards for your students to practice with.
Includes 30 fruits: apples, apricot, banana, blackberry, blueberries, cantaloupe, cherries, coconut, cranberries, fig, grapes, grapefruit, guava, kiwi, lemon, mango, orange, papaya, passion fruit, peach, pear, persimmon, pineapple, plum, pomegranate, raspberries, star fruit, strawberry, tangerine and watermelon.
Includes 30 veggies: artichoke, asparagus, beans, beet, bell peppers, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, chard, chile peppers, corn, cucumber, eggplant, garlic, ginger, lettuce, mushrooms, olives, onion, peas, potato, radish, spinach, squash, sweet potato, tomato, turnip and zucchini.
See the Preview. This BINGO set includes:
60 Unique and numbered BINGO cards
Directions
Calling Boards (1 page for fruits and 1 for vegetables)
Calling Cards to cut out
Bonus Flashcards – 1/4 page flashcard size with dotted line for cutting apart. You can print 2 sets of these on cardstock and play the popular matching game where players turn the cards over and choose two to try to make a match.
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.
**Here are ready-to-go poster or graphic organizers for your students to research Insects and Bugs. Includes posters for the following: ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, caterpillars, centipedes, cockroaches, dragonflies, earthworms, fleas, flies, grasshoppers, ladybugs, mantises, mosquitoes, moths, scorpions, snails, spiders, stick insects, tarantulas, termites and wasps. It also includes 3 additional Generic Sheets to use with any additional animals.
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Animal Research Poster Activity Sheets 8.5" x 11"
Includes 4 Versions (26 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.
These Christmas and Winter Dabber Activity worksheets are a great way to help your students with their fine motor, counting, one-to-one recognition, vocabulary and letter recognition. Students use the BINGO Dauber, or dot markers, to press down on each circle just like BINGO players do.
Alternatively, if you do not have BINGO daubers, you can use manipulatives to cover the dots like pom poms and stickers (garage sale circle stickers are fun). Or even let those little fingers dip into paint!!
Pictures currently in the Christmas Set include:
tree
ornaments
gingerbread man
gingerbread house
candy canes
Santa hat
stocking
presents or gifts (same picture on both pages)
bells
wreath
Santa waving “Merry Christmas!”
Pictures currently in this Winter Set include:
mittens
hat
boots
ice skates
hot chocolate
snowman
skiing
snowflakes
snowmen
snowballs
These alphabet beginning sounds and letters Dabber Activity worksheets are a great way to help your students with their fine motor, counting, one-to-one recognition, vocabulary and letter recognition. Students use the BINGO Dauber, or dot markers, to press down on each circle just like BINGO players do.
Alternatively, if you do not have BINGO daubers, you can use manipulatives to cover the dots like pom poms and stickers (garage sale circle stickers are fun). Or even let those little fingers dip into paint!!
This includes from A-Z. Students trace the upper and lowercase letter, the word that matches the clip art, and use the dauber to mark the dots.
Words for the letters are apple, box, crown, dog, elephant, ferret, gorilla, hat, insects, jar, kite, lemon, mittens, net, octopus, pig, quilt, rainbow (bonus!), rug, sun, tub, umbrella, vet, watermelon, xylophone, yo-yos and zoo.
Use these Happy New Year! 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.
Here are 5 FUN Book Review Posters for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
Currently included in this Bundle are:
Dive Into a Good Book
Spring Into a New (and Good) Book
Soar Into a Good Book!
Pop Into a Good Book
Fall Into a Good Book
These 8.5" x 11" Book Review Posters come with space for the student’s rating, 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.
This Bundle Includes:
School Bus Incentive Charts
Book Themed Incentive Charts
Back to School Incentive Charts
Use these 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.
Here are 3 Picture Book Activity Sheet products. These come in PDF form and are Ready to Print and Go!
Each item includes a Comprehension Sheet that asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
They each have one or more additional Activity pages. Please see each product for what is included.
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.
This bundle includes my Christmas Colors, Reindeer and Christmas Tree 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.
This is a Bundle of resources that you can use with the following picture books for Thanksgiving: Turkey Trouble, 'Twas the Night before THANKSGIVING, A Turkey for Thanksgiving, and Turk and Runt.
**Product 1: **Here are some Activity Sheets to use after reading Turkey Trouble by Wendy Silvano.
Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story. Answer Key is included. It asks students to: ✸ draw their favorite part ✸ write some onomatopoeia words ✸ define the word “disguise” ✸ and answer some questions.
Venn Diagram - a page where the students Compare and Contrast turkeys to whatever they want.
Story Map #1 - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem and solution of the story.
Story Map #2 - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, and moral of the story.
Product 2: Here are 2 Activity Sheets to use after reading 'Twas the Night Before THANKSGIVING.
✹ Activity Sheet #1 asks them to draw their favorite part, identify words that rhyme with hay, define the word feasted, and answer some questions.
✹ Activity Sheet #2 is a Missing Poster. Students fill in the blanks and draw the missing turkey.
✹ Activity Sheet #3 is a Story Map. Students fill in the characters, setting, problem and solution.
Product 3: Here are some Activity Sheets to use after reading A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting.
✹ Activity Sheet #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.
✹ Activity Sheet #2 Compare and Contrast- This page asks students to compare and contrast a real moose to a make believe moose.
✹ Activity Sheet #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
✹ Activity Sheet #4 Bonus Research a Moose Page - Students are asked to research about moose.
Product 4: Here are some Activity Sheets to use after reading the book, Turk and Runt, by Lisa Wheeler.
✹ Activity Sheet #1 asks them to draw their favorite part, write six action verbs, define the word audition, answer some questions and write a letter to Runt’s parents on the back explaining why they should listen to him.
✹ Activity Sheet #2 is a Compare & Contrast activity. Students compare Turk and Runt.
✹ Activity Sheets #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
✹ Activity Sheets #4 Bonus Turkey Research Activity Sheets. One uses a Farm turkey theme and the other uses a Wild turkey theme.
Spy-A-Word Winter Bundle
Students cut out the letters and form words.
They write the words on the blanks and color the page.
Includes:
Snowman
Gingerbread Man
Santa’s Elves
Reindeer
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Happy New Year
Great Center Activity!
Use these Thanksgiving 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.
Please see the Preview. This includes four Thanksgiving themed Products: Classic Thanksgiving, Cornucopia, Thanksgiving Turkey, Silly Turkey.
This Bundle includes Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer Word Searches (each with Easy and Hard Versions) at 40% off!
Each Season has 2 LEVELS of Word Searches for Elementary students. These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
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.
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Each word search comes in:
Full Color
B&W reproducible
Answer Key
Use these Fall 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.
Please see the Preview. This includes 4 Fall themed Products: Apple, Fall, Sunflower and Pumpkin.
This is a Bundle of a Ready to Go “Holidays Around the World” Word Searches at 50% off! It includes Hanukkah, Diwali, Las Posadas, Chinese New Year, St. Lucia’s Day and Kwanzaa.
Each Holiday has 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Word Searches for Elementary students which makes this activity easy to differentiate! These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
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.
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Includes:
Hanukkah
Diwali
Kwanzaa
Chinese New Year
Las Posadas
St. Lucia’s Day
All come with:
Full Color Word Search
B&W Word Search
Answer Key
This Bundle includes Christmas Character Sticker Charts: Gingerbread Man, Reindeer, Santa, Santa & Reindeer, and Christmas Elf. 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.
This ★MEGA BUNDLE★ includes 11 Animal Research Poster Activity sets at a Great Discount! A total of 134 animal specific pages are included as well as Generic pages in each set! All Ready to Print and Go!
Each set includes 4 Versions:
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.
