Print awareness This resource can be used as posters, anchor charts or flash cards to help students to recall the varying concepts of print. The following concepts are illustrated in this set: Front Cover Title Page Book Spine Back Cover Picture/Illustration/Drawings Letters -Capital Letters (Upper case) -Common Letters (Lower case) Numbers Words Sentences Punctuation Mark-Full Stops ONLY I also included a simple ALL ABOUT ME book for students to assemble with your guidance. ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ 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!

Feeling Words Here is a two-in-one mini-book that your students will have for a long time! For this activity your kiddos will build a list of words to describe their feelings. The feelings are: Angry Confused Proud Shy Sad Excited Content Embarrassed Happy Scared Shocked Worried Simply print the pages of the feeling words that you wish to include in this mini-book. The pages are not numbered so you can place them in any order. Staple the pages together. Have your students brainstorm or look for words that they can use to describe these feelings. Have your students keep this mini-book as a handy reference tool especially for writing assignments. This resource is formatted as two pages per print. You might also be interested in: Feelings Mini Book. Feelings - {We Let Our Feelings Show!}. 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!

Letter Writing: Are you looking for alphabet writing sheets, tracing mats and playdough learning mats? Well you have found just that! These writing sheets were created with versatility in mind. You can print and laminate sheets to work in any of the three ways outlined above. Another option is to print and tie sheets together using punched holes then place in your early writing centers. All your kids will need to do is use the dots as a guide to begin writing each letter, getting as close as possible to the lines for uniformity. ***************************************************************************** You might also be interested in: Number Writing Starter Sheets (1 to 10). Letters - Formation Visual Aids. These are a handy set of printables that serve as visual cues and reminds of the formation of letters for your beginning writers using the giraffe, chicken and monkey method. Alphabet Writing - {Visual Clue Posters and Cards}. These were created and inspired by my 5 year olds who showed some difficulty with the formation of letters. These are an enhancement to the sketches and visual images that I drew on the whiteboard to help them remember the directions and start points.

Compound Words: This literacy center activity is a fantastic way to engage students in reviewing compound words. The set includes sorting cards, worksheets and a mini book to spark compound words creativity. The center includes: 36 sorting cards 1 sorting mat 4 worksheets 1 Silly Cone Mini Book writing template ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more Compound Words activity sets click below: Compound Words...I Have Who Has With Picture Cards Set Compound Wordpecker Fun! A Matching Activity for Elementary Grades ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enjoy!

Synonyms and Antonyms Here is a bundle of my two vocabulary sets. If you are interested in the individual sets click on the links to go directly to them. This bundle offers word cards only. Here are single versions: Candy Themed Illustrated Antonym Word Cards Candy Themed Illustrated Synonym Word Cards *************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************

Verbs: Time To Play!- Helpful Color Coded Cards for Practicing Simple Verb Tenses: Time To Play is a helpful set of color coded cards for reviewing simple verb tenses. It gives students the opportunity to review and practice inflectional verb endings, forming present tense, past tense and future tense using colorful illustrations in a way that your kids will have fun. Past tense pictures are grayscaled Present tense pictures are full colored Future tense pictures are blue scaled. This set is perfect for your literacy centers or for individual students. Simply print, laminate and cut cards either as formatted or you can cut them for sorting by tense. I also included a blank card for your students to make their own. A sentence worksheet is included for extended writing using their cards. The fifteen (15) words included in this set are: ask bathe cook dance drink exercise fix push run save sit swim walk won wrote Enjoy! Nicole

Illustrated Synonym Word Cards: This is a kid-appealing candy themed set of synonym cards for introducing synonyms to your kiddos. There are pairs of synonyms depicted by the same picture so that they will get familiar with the concept. They can match cards or use as a visual to brainstorm other words that mean the same as the picture given.The cards can also be used to spark their writing. **************************************************************************** For a bright candy colored theme version of this set check Candy Themed Illustrated Synonym Word Cards **************************************************************************** There are a total of 64 illustrated synonym word cards which depict the following: middle – center laugh – giggle idea – thought end – finish drop – fall like – enjoy happy – joyful large – big make – create bad – naughty good – perfect jump – leap kid – child hard – difficult choose – select neat – tidy nice – kind loud – noisy gift – present pretty – beautiful push – shove quiet – silent tired – sleepy sniff – smell sad – unhappy smelly – stinky talk – say trash – garbage look – watch tiny – small write – record slim – thin

Syllable Clip Cards Meet the Syllabication Team, the kids who know all about finding how many beats in words- Sill, Abbi, Kay and Shawn. This set is a colorful set of handy cards that your kids will have lots of fun clipping and clapping to the rhythm or beat. This syllabication activity is made simple by the expert beat matchers- Sill, Abbi, Kay and Shawn. These four darlings would help your kiddos remember the meaning of the word syllabication plus they also help them find the number of beats in words. The cards are versatile in as they can be used with students later on when they are ready to break (syllabicate) written text. This set of clip and clap cards contain 108 bright and colorful illustrations (18 full pages) that makes it easy for those students who may have difficulties with reading the words. *************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************

The Real Easter Story is a two-in-one mini book (you get two copies per page) created with images that should appeal to young children. The sentences are simple, however, the vocabulary may pose a challenge to some. Therefore I would recommend that some assistance be given to students. This product comes in black and white only to facilitate easy printing and of course to allow students to color the pages themselves. The pages are set for double sided printing. I also included both a colored and a black and white version of the mini-book cover page for you. Enjoy! Nicole

Vowels: Consonants: Vowels and Consonants Posters: These posters are great for your literacy centers, word walls, focus walls or anywhere that you want your kids to remember the vowels and consonant sounds. The explanation for each term is catchy and helps kids to pay attention to their breath which is what vowels and consonants are all about. The letters are graphical representations of those speech sounds so this set will help them tie the sounds with the letters too. Hope that this is helpful to you!

Alphabet Letter Writing: Alphabet Letter writing Visual Cues Posters and Cards: My students had a little difficulty with the formation of some letters so I did some sketches on the whiteboard to help them remember the directions and start points. I decided to transfer those sketches in the form of visual cue cards and posters to help other teachers who may face similar problems. Alphabet Letter Writing Visual Cues Poster and Cards is what I came up with for that purpose. This resource contains cards for the letters that pose a challenge to our young and budding writers; These are w, m, u, n, h, t, f and z only . I hope it proved helpful to you as it is for me and my kiddos. A Teacher's Idea *************************************************************************** Alphabet - Letter Writing Starter Sheets (From A to Z). -This is a set of alphabet writing sheets, tracing mats and playdough learning mats for your young learners. Letters - Formation Visual Aids. These are a handy set of printables that serve as visual cues and reminds of the formation of letters for your beginning writers using the giraffe, chicken and monkey method. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************

Fry Words: Dare you students to read like these daring dinosaurs. Daring Dinosaurs is the first in a set of printables created for sight word focus.This set includes sight word resources for work with the first 100 words: My Daring Dinosaurs Sight Words Booklet (The First 100 Fry words) with three (3) cover options 100 Word Cards (with four blank cards) 81 Instant Phrase Cards (with seven blank cards) Two Certificates (for Sight Word and Phrase reading achievement) Two sets of Reward Badges (for Sight Word and Phrase reading achievement) The words and phrase cards can be used in literacy or word work centers. The sight word booklet can be given to students for either independent work at school or for home practice either in word recognition or spelling activities. Stay tuned for more of Daring Dinosaurs!

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.

** Fishing for Multiple Meanings** is the perfect addition to your literacy centers for both word work and writing focus. This handy set of 135 dual picture cards can be used to spark sentence writing and for your Homonyms | Homographs | Multiple Meaning Words unit. These words represent some of the many common words that can be used in different context. With multiple meaning words the spelling is the same and pronunciation are the same. However, some pronunciations may vary slightly. I included two graphic organizers for extended writing purposes.

Homophone Memory Sheets are a fantastic way to get your students to remember the spelling of confusing homophones. Research has shown that when students use drawings and illustrations with words they make meaningful associations thus facilitating easy recall. Let your kiddos draw their own pictures to remember the homophones. In the case of low imagery words that cannot be depicted students can either find their own unique way to remember the word or simple leave it blank. The trick is that the other word in the pair would help them to make that distinction in spelling. Students can compile the sheets and form their own homophone dictionary for future reference. Included in this set is a blank template for adding more pairs to the set.

Comprehension Strategies: Reinforcing Reading Comprehension and Word Attack Strategies Posters: Reinforcing Reading is a set of kid-friendly Comprehension and Word Attack Strategies posters to adorn your literacy centers all year round. This bright and colorful set was created with eye-catching images and simple “I” statements and stems to give your kids the added assistance they need to work independently. The set contains the following:- 12 Word Attack Strategies Posters- When I get stuck on a word… 10 Comprehension Posters- To help me understand what I read I… 1. Activate Prior Knowledge 2. Make Predictions 3. Determine the Importance 4. Ask Questions 5. Make Connections 6. Visualize 7. Synthesize 8. Summarize /Summarise 9. Infer 10. Use Fix-Up Strategies

Homophones This fantastic homophone pack is over 100 pages full of ideas. It contains 154 cards, 17 posters and 2 writing activities total. This pack features a range of 14 different homophone pairs for your kiddos. The pairs are: won/one nose/knows bear/bare blue/blew ball/bawl toe/tow see/sea flour/flower hair/hare mail/male pair/pear sale/sail night/knight ate/eight This resource contains the following: 28 picture cards (4 per print) 28 picture cards with labels (4 per print) 14 paired cards (4 per print) 28 Cards-Words only (8 cards per print) 3 Homophone Posters (with definition and Word lists up to Grade 6) 14 Homophone Pair Posters- Each poster features a different word with a colorful illustration and a helpful example to put the word into context 1 Concentration Game 1 My Pear of Pairs Student Book- Writing words activity 1 Homophone Fun Mini Book-Writing sentences activity 28 Popsicle Picture Cards 28 Popsicle Word Cards 2 Bonus Worksheets

Alphabet Matching: Here's a sea themed alphabet matching cards set for your literacy centers. Match lowercase and uppercase letters using the wonderful sea life graphics for clues. This would be a very good resource for teachers of students who need more practice with the identification of upper- and lowercase letters. Simply print, cut and have your kiddos matching. It's as easy as A, B, C! © 2014 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea

Writing Process Posters- The 5 Steps to Writing Success: Here are the 5 steps to writing success. These posters will be great for your writing centers or your literacy centers. These kid-friendly posters would give your students key reminders of the steps toward their writing success. © 2014 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea

Word Families: 21 Word Family Trifold Mini Book Bits with Posters and Picture Cards: These Word Family Trifold Mini Book Bits are super fantastic reading and writing bits for your kiddos. Each little book has a little bit of everything; a little bit of reading, a little bit of writing and little bit of coloring. These Trifold Mini Book Bits can be used to promote and encourage your young readers as they begin to put sounds together. Simply print and cut out the selected trifold mini book (there are two per print). They go away reading the list as a way to review the particular family. Also included in this set are: 21 Word Family Posters 78 Picture Cards (with labels) 78 Picture Cards (without labels) ***If you are unclear about this product, please take time to read over the description and use the Question/Answer tab and I will reply as soon as I can.*** © 2014 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea