I have taught at both the elementary and high school levels. I also homeschooled my own children for seven years. I have taught high school English and SAT/ACT prep courses. I have also taught English as a Second Language for several years at schools in France, Hungary, and Slovakia.
I have taught at both the elementary and high school levels. I also homeschooled my own children for seven years. I have taught high school English and SAT/ACT prep courses. I have also taught English as a Second Language for several years at schools in France, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Winter Stories Common Core Literacy Activities is a packet of 23 pages concentrating on reading and comprehension aligned with the Common Core standards for third grade. In this packet you will find three original one-page stories and one original two-page story with accompanying questions and activity pages. Each story also comes with a Quick Common Core page that focuses on literacy Common Core standards. The activity pages are full of questions, pictures to draw about the stories, as well as picture sequencing. There are also two mini-story pages with questions for your students to answer.
These stories are written at the third grade reading level (Flesch-Kincaid) and can either be read by the teacher to test listening comprehension or read by the students to test reading comprehension.
Included:
Hot Chocolate (reading level - 3.7)
The Big Race (reading level - 3.8)
Building a Snow Fort (reading level 3.7)
A Walk in the Snow(reading level 3.4)
Mini Stories (3.5)
Common Core Standards covered:
3.RL.1
3.RL.4
3.RF.4
3.L
These will also be great for review for fourth grade or for advanced second graders.
All artwork is original and created by myself.
Check out The Winter Endless Bundle for 3rd grade which includes this booklet and 7 others and comes with a huge discount.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Winter Stories Common Core Literacy Activities is a packet of 23 pages concentrating on reading and comprehension aligned with the Common Core standards for second grade. In this packet you will find three original one-page stories and one original two-page story with accompanying questions and activity pages. Each story also comes with a Quick Common Core page that focuses on literacy Common Core standards. The activity pages are full of questions, pictures to draw about the stories, as well as picture sequencing. There are also two mini-story pages with questions for your students to answer.
These stories are written at the second grade reading level (Flesch-Kincaid) and can either be read by the teacher to test listening comprehension or read by the students to test reading comprehension.
Included:
Hot Chocolate (reading level - 2.7)
The Big Race (reading level - 2.9)
Building a Snow Fort (reading level 2.8)
A Walk in the Snow(reading level 2.8)
Mini Stories (2.9)
Common Core Standards covered:
2.RL.1
2.RF.4
2.L
These will also be great for review for third grade or for advanced first graders.
All artwork is original and created by myself.
Check out Winter Endless Bundle for 2nd grade which includes this booklet and 8 others and comes with a huge discount.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Winter Stories Common Core Literacy Activities is a packet of 23 pages concentrating on reading and comprehension aligned with the Common Core standards for fourth grade. In this packet you will find three original one-page stories with accompanying questions and activity pages. There is also one two-page original story with questions and activity pages. Each story also comes with a Quick Common Core page that focuses on literacy Common Core standards. The activity pages are full of questions, pictures to draw about the stories, as well as picture sequencing. There are also two mini-story pages with questions for your students to answer.
These stories are written at the fourth grade reading level (Flesch-Kincaid) and can either be read by the teacher to test listening comprehension or read by the students to test reading comprehension.
Included:
Hot Chocolate (reading level - 4.4)
The Big Race (reading level - 4.9)
Building a Snow Fort (reading level 4.8)
A Walk in the Snow(reading level 4.7)
Mini Stories (4.1)
Common Core Standards covered:
4.RL.1
4.RL.4
4.RF.4
4.L
These will also be great for review for fifth grade or for advanced third graders.
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Check out Winter Endless Bundle for 4th grade which includes this booklet and 7 others and comes with a huge discount.
All artwork is original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day Writing Centers is a fun way to introduce Valentine's Day vocabulary to your students while helping them increase their language skills. This booklet can be used at writing centers or workstations in a classroom. You can laminate the cards, then place them at different stations to help your students remember the words. Each writing center might feature one of the four different writing activities.
Another option is to hang the cards on your word wall or bulletin board and use the writing activities as daily activities that students can complete during the class period.
Included:
16 Valentine's Day word cards
4 different writing activities:
Synonyms
Valentine's Day Cinquain Poem
A Letter To Your Valentine
The Colors of Valentine's Day
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Valentine's Day Reading Passages - Close Reading contains four stories for your students to read, contemplate, and discuss for the the month of February and the celebration of Valentine's Day, love, and friendship. In this product you will find:
A Discussion Guide to help you lead a discussion about the stories with your students.
A Close Reading Short Stories handout to help your students read and comprehend each text.
Four three-page stories, including vocabulary to look up and learn, questions for contemplation and discussion, and a space for taking notes.
A New Word Log for students to use to keep track of the new words they have learned through these stories.
Stories included:
The Valentine's Day Card
My Valentine
Cupid's Favorite Day
Rex to the Rescue
Close Reading is a central focus of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Students learn to immerse themselves in the text, think about what the author is saying, and pick out important details in the text in a methodical way.
I really appreciate your purchase, and I hope your students enjoy the stories! Have a terrific Valentine's Day and a wonderful winter and spring!
Check my other close reading packets:
Back to School Reading Passages - Close Reading
Halloween Reading Passages - Close Reading
Thanksgiving Reading Passages - Close Reading
Christmas Reading Passages - Close Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr. Reading Passages - Close Reading
Valentine's Day Reading Passages - Close Reading
St. Patrick's Day Reading Passages - Close Reading
Easter Reading Passages - Close Reading
Earth Day Reading Passages - Close Reading
End of the Year Reading Passages - Close Reading
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - Sixth Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the fifth graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Multiplying Fractions
Addition and Subtraction of decimals
Ratios
Writing Numbers
Grids
Equivalent Fractions
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - Fifth Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the fifth graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Multiplication
Writing Numbers
Expanded Numbers
Fractions
Prime Numbers
Fractions to Decimals
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - Fourth Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the fourth graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Capitalization
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting
Equations
Multiplication
Writing Numbers
Expanded Numbers
Length
Time
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - Third Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the third graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Capitalization
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting
Equations
Multiplication
Writing Numbers
Expanded Numbers
Length
Time
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - Second Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the second graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Capitalization
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Add and Subtract within 20
Odd and Even Numbers
Counting
Writing Numbers
Adding and Subtracting within 100
Add 10 to a number
Length
Telling Time
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day NO PREP Printables - First Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the 1st graders and feature a fun Valentine's Day theme for the month of February, including Cupid, hearts, flowers, candy, gifts, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Words
Capital and Lowercase Letters
Word and Letter Recognation
Plural Words
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Add and Subtract within 10
Counting
Writing Numbers
Adding and Subtracting within 20
Add 10 to a number
Length
Telling Time
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day Stories Common Core Literacy Activities is a packet of 46 worksheets concentrating on reading and comprehension. In this packet you will find eight original one-page stories with accompanying questions and activity pages. Each story also comes with a Quick Common Core page that focuses on literacy Common Core standards. The activity pages are full of questions, pictures to draw about the stories. There are also four mini-story pages with questions for your students to answer.
These stories are written at the second grade reading level (Flesch-Kincaid) and can either be read by the teacher to test listening comprehension or read by the students to test reading comprehension.
Included:
Valentine's Day Cards (reading level - 2.9)
Baking Cookies (reading level - 2.9)
The Diary (reading level 2.0)
Mom's Special Gift (reading level 2.6)
A Trip to the Chocolate Factory (reading level 2.8)
A Walk in the Park (reading level 2.0)
Cupid's Job (reading level 2.7)
Emily's Card (reading level 2.9)
Mini Stories (varied)
Common Core Standards covered:
2.RL.1
2.RF.4
2.L
All artwork is original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Valentine's Day Bundle features 6 different packets of math and literacy worksheets and activities specifically for kindergarten. Any time I add Valentine's Day products for kindergarten it will be added to this bundle and you will get access to it without having to pay any more money for it with this endless bundle!
In this bundle you will find a variety of different fun math, reading, and writing activities:
Valentine's Day Writing Centers
Valentine's Day No Prep Common Core Math (Kindergarten)
Valentine's Day No Prep Common Core Literacy (Kindergarten)
Valentine's Day Math Journal Prompts
Valentine's Day Around the World
Valentine's Day Color by Number (Kindergarten)
This bundle comes with a 25% discount to save you money! If bought individually the products in this packet would cost $18.50.
Have a great Valentine's Day!
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Thanksgiving NO PREP Printables - Fifth Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy. Problems are targeted for the beginning of 5th grade and feature a fun Thanksgiving theme for the month of November, including Pilgrims, Native Americans, corn, pumpkin pie, turkeys and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating, and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different activity levels to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher (sub)
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Multiplication
Writing Numbers
Expanded Numbers
Fractions
Prime Numbers
Fractions to Decimals
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
St. Patrick's Day Math and Literacy Activities is a packet of 40 pages with a focus on math and literacy skills. All pages follow the theme of the St. Patrick's Day. Activities are aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the 2nd grade. These worksheets work great for use on and around Saint Patrick's Day or when studying about Ireland and the Irish.
Included in this packet are:
An original 2 page story with worksheets about a leprechaun
A Mini story and questions about St. Patrick
Five Quick Common Core Math worksheets
Five Quick Common Core Literacy worksheet
Five themed Mathbooking journal prompts
Four writing activities focusing on St. Patrick's Day
One colorful poster for your classroom
Common Core Standards covered:
2.RI.1
2.RF.4
2.W.2
2.L.1
2.L.2
2.L.3
2.L.4
2.L.5
2.OA.1
2.OA.2
2.OA.3
2.NBT.2
2.NBT.3
2.NBT.4
2.NBT.5
2.NBT.6
2.NBT.7
2.NBT.8
2.MD.5
2.MD.6
2.MD.7
2.G.2
2.G.3
These will also be great for review for third grade or for advanced first graders.
All artwork is original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
St. Patrick's Day NO PREP Printables Second Grade Common Core Math and Literacy offers a variety of different worksheets aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts for 2nd grade featuring a fun St. Patrick’s Day theme for the month of March, including St. Paddy's Day leprechauns, pots of gold from Ireland, shamrocks, Irish dancers, and more. The pages are all ready for you to print out: no prep, no laminating and low ink which equals no stress! There are also several different levels of activities to help you differentiate within your class.
You can use the worksheets included in this packet in a variety of different ways:
As morning work
As homework
As a skills review
As an assessment
For a substitute teacher
Skills covered:
Language Arts -
Writing Opinions
Writing Narratives
English Grammar
Punctuation
Capitalization
Spelling
Word Meaning
Math -
Word Problems
Add and Subtract within 20
Odd and Even Numbers
Equations
Skip Counting
Writing Numbers
Adding and Subtracting within 100
Adding up to 4 numbers
Add 10 to a number
Measuring Length
Estimating Length
Word Problems with Length
Telling Time
Word Problems with Money
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Winter Writing Centers is a fun way to introduce winter vocabulary to your students while helping them increase their language skills. This booklet can be used at writing centers or workstations in a classroom. You can laminate the cards, then place them at different stations to help your students remember the words. Each writing center might feature one of the four different writing activities.
Another option is to hang the cards on your word wall or bulletin board and use the writing activities as daily activities that students can complete during the class period.
Included:
16 winter word cards
4 different writing activities:
I like/don't like activity
Make a To-Do list
A letter to a friend
Create a winter number book
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Check out Winter Endless Bundle for kindergarten which includes this booklet and 3 others and comes with a huge discount.
Check out Winter Endless Bundle for 1st grade which includes this booklet and 7 others and comes with a huge discount.
Check out Winter Endless Bundle for 2nd grade which includes this booklet and 8 others and comes with a huge discount.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne
Winter Interactive Glyphs contains four interactive glyphs for your students to complete. Each picture will tell a story about each student’s likes and dislikes. To complete each glyph, students should read a question, then find the number of the question on the coloring page and fill in the corresponding area based on how they responded to the question. When they are finished, the students can write short essays based on their answers to the glyph questions.
In this packet you will find:
Four interactive coloring pages
Four question and answer pages with winter specific questions
Four essay pages that are winter-themed.
Have a great winter!!
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
St. Patrick's Day Interactive Glyphs contains four interactive glyphs for your students to complete. Each picture will tell a story about each student’s likes and dislikes. To complete each glyph, students should read a question, then find the number of the question on the coloring page and fill in the corresponding area based on how they responded to the question. When they are finished, the students can write short essays based on their answers to the glyph questions.
In this packet you will find:
Four interactive coloring pages
Four question and answer pages with St. Patrick's Day, month of March, and Ireland-specific questions
Four St. Patrick's Day-themed essay pages.
Have a fantastic St. Patrick's Day!
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thanks for visiting my store,
Yvonne Crawford
Memorial Day Writing Centers is a fun way to introduce Memorial Day vocabulary to your students while helping them increase their language skills. This booklet can be used at writing centers or workstations in a classroom. You can laminate the cards, then place them at different stations to help your students remember the words. Each writing center might feature one of the four different writing activities.
Another option is to hang the cards on your word wall or bulletin board and use the writing activities as daily activities that students can complete during the class period.
Included:
16 Memorial Day word cards
4 different writing activities:
Memorial Day Acrostic Poem
All About Memorial Day
A Thank You Letter to a Soldier
A Book About My American Hero
All graphics are original and created by myself.
Thank you for stopping by my store,
Yvonne Crawford