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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

Sight Words Sight Words: Did you ever wonder whether your chosen sight words were considered under the category Dolch, Fry or Fountas and Pinnell? Well here is a comparison table just for you. The first 400 words of Dolch’s list are compared to Fry’s Instant words and F&P’s high frequency words. This is handy for all teachers as an easy tool to organize your sight words especially if you need to tweak your existing pool of sight words to reflect the spectrum.

Bossy e Here's an original poem and accompanying visual aid to help your students with the CVCe pattern (split digraphs). *************************************************************************** You might also be interested in: Silent e - Illustrated Word Cards Long Vowels_ e-Harmony Silent e Poem Sneaky e Poem Magic e Poem Ninja e Poster ************************************************************************* ***************************************************************************

FANBOYS Join words phrases and clauses using the coordinators (mnemonic FANBOYS). Students can use these posters to help memorize coordinating conjunctions so that they will not forget them! They are: F = for A = and N = nor B = but O = or Y = yet S = so Each poster bears the coordinating conjunction with an illustration of a boy (named) and an example for easy reference. These are great for bulletin boards or literacy centers all through the year. This set includes posters ONLY! Check my store for other conjunction resources.

Fairytales This is a set of elements of fairytales posters, story cards and graphic organizers to add to your fairytale unit. The story cards are great for discussions and are listed below: Little Red Riding Hood The Three Little Pigs Jack and the Beanstalk Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Three Billy Goats Gruff I created this set to complement activities for kindergarten to grade three. The posters are kid-friendly and very informative especially if you want to teach your kiddos about fairytales. *************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************

Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions: I created this beautiful poster to illustrate an easy acronym for the most common subordinating conjunctions "ON A WHITE BUS'. Along with this colored poster you also get a black and white version plus a bookmark that can also be used as a printable notebook page. It coordinates well with the poster and is a great visual tool in getting across the list of common subordinating conjunctions. *************************************************************************** You might also be interested in: The Function of a Conjunction. FANBOYS {Coordinating Conjunctions}. 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!

Active and Passive Voice: These anchor charts, student interactive notebook sheets and center activity focus on active and passive voice for your students. Included in this learning pack are: 7 anchor charts (along with a mini-version for student notebooks colored only) 1 centre activity (48 cards and a re-writeable sheet) for group or individual practice. student interactive notebook sheets 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!

This is a great way to start your kiddos with making their own sentences. These are four sentence makers (bakers) who offer simple reminders of basic sentence writing for beginners. These anchor charts are both in color and black and white. I have included writing sheets with editable word banks and a list of the high frequency words suggested by Fountas and Pinnell for kindergarten to grade three teachers. You can use the sheets to create your own word list. The high frequency words are on the left and CVC words on the right of each sheet; both editable according to your needs. I also included sentence making awards for boys and girls.This resource is versatile and can be used all year long and at any class level that you may teach in the future. Additionally, your seasonal words or subject specific words can be added to the banks and printed to engage your students in meaningful writing. Remember, you can also choose to print the slides as is, it is up to you. The CVC word list included are: Short a Short e Short i Short o Short u 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!

Early Finishers Here is a set of drawing sheets in which your kiddos will have to use the squares to complete the other half of the picture then color. This free resource contains picture sheets that are differentiated as 4 x 5 grids and also 7 x 9 grids for a little more challenge. ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ 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!

Accelerated Reader Does your school use Accelerated Reader? Are you looking for a way to display and track individual student progress? Well do I have the perfect display set for you - The Accelerated Reader Clip Chart! The Accelerated Reader Clip Chart is a visual display chart that is hung on your classroom wall to show students their reading progress. Using clothes pegs bearing the name of each student these levels are arranged vertically with 100 points as the ultimate goal for all. In increments of five these brightly colored points with kid-friendly graphics serve to motivate and to build confidence levels in a fun way. Simply print on cardstock and laminate. You can hang them vertically on your class walls using black and white polka dot ribbons (this will look super!).

Classroom Jobs 48 JOBS (EDITABLE)★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ There's a job here for every child in your class! In this EDITABLE set the following 48 jobs are depicted with kid-friendly illustrations on a black and white chevron background: It contains two different sizes of headers. JOB TITLES (Editable) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 1. Attendance Monitor 2. Banker 3. Bathroom Monitor (Male) 4. Bathroom Monitor (Female) 5. Board Cleaner 6. Book Collector 7. Caboose 8. Calendar Monitor 9. Center Inspector 10. Chair Stacker 11. Class Reader 12. Clean Sweeper 13. Computer Technician 14. Computer Helper 15. Dismissal Helper 16. Door Monitor 17. First Aid Helper 18. Hand Sanitizer Monitor 19. Homework Monitor 20. Journal Helper 21. Letter Vest Helper 22. Library Helper 23. Light Technician 24. Line Leader 25. Litter Monitor 26. Lunch Monitor 27. Material Manager 28. Mat Helper 29. Message Board Helper 30. Messenger 31. Nurse’s Aide 32. Paper Supply Manager 33. Pencil Patrol 34. Pet Helper 35. Plant Monitor 36. Pledge Leader 37. Recycling Monitor 38. Scrap Monitor 39. Sink Monitor 40. Snack Helper 41. Substitute Helper 42. Table Captain 43. Table Wiper 44. Teacher Assistant 45. Timekeeper 46. Water Fountain Monitor 47. Weather Reporter 48. Zoo Keeper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can edit the job titles using the embedded font. Simply click in the text box and rename the classroom jobs. I also included two extra card templates without images that you can customize at will. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TIPS: To ensure that every child has an opportunity and responsibility assign two students per job. This also encourages job-sharing or working together as a partnership. You can either designate the jobs to students, have them choose or apply for a position A good idea is to rotate the jobs either daily, weekly, or quarterly, it’s your choice. You can make the transitions easier by having a “training” session by the previous student to help the next student to do the job efficiently. If you want your students to become responsible while building a community spirit, give them responsibilities. Classroom Jobs are a great way for students to take responsibility for their classroom.

Writer’s Craft Beginning readers must be able to think and behave like established, skilled writers. This is why we need to bring them into the world of the writer to observe their skills and technique. The Common Core state standards targets children’s literacy skills especially through the close reading of mentor texts as exemplars of good writing technique. With close reading our kids get to, not only read like writers, but they also get a chance to write like readers. In that way they get to write with a clear view in mind of what they want their readers to get from their piece. This close reading resource pack contains 30 posters which display some key terms and definitions together with kid-friendly illustrations and examples for the exploration of writer's craft.. Created for kindergarten classrooms, this set can be used in the higher grades as the need may arise. You can display these for targeted focus on paticuluar craft skills as a reminder of what each looks like. These posters are great for your literacy centers, reading corners and writer’s workshop areas. The following is an alphabetical list of the posters enclosed: Alliteration Astounding Adjectives Attribute Adjectives Comparison Details Expanding Sentences Figurative Language Imagery Onomatopoeia Paragraphs- Expository/Persuasive/Narrative/Descriptive Parallel Structure Repetition Sensory Words Snapshots Specificity Strong Verbs Thoughtshots Text Structure – Descriptive Problem/Solution Cause/Effect Compare/Contrast Sequence/Chronological Order Transitions Word Choice Writer’s Craft Writing Sentences 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!

Alphabet Sequence The Alphabet Mats work on the letter sequence of the alphabet. Also included are: letter tiles (both cases with animal pictures) Capital letter tiles Lowercase letter tiles This animal themed resource aids in the recognition of the sequences in parts; this way you can work on one group sequence at a time to ensure mastery. The groups are: a to e f to j k to o p to t u to z. Each letter is represented by an animal that begins with that letter. Your students will use this as a guide to remembering the letter to complete the sequence. This set of 5 alphabet sequence mats are a wonderful way to get students to practice their alphabet sequencing skills and writing. Simply print and laminate mats and have your students complete the different sequences. As an alternative you may use these as worksheets to review each sequence.This bright and colorful animal themed set is a valuable addition to your literacy centers. A Teacher's Idea 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!

Fiction vs Nonfiction This resource contains four colored posters that make a fantastic visual for fiction and nonfiction for very young learners. These posters can be displayed in your literacy centers, writing workshop area or your classroom library. These posters are simple definitions for fiction and nonfiction and I suggest that it can be a great way to start your literary genre units. Simply print them poster size and laminate or cover with plastic so that you would be able to have them all year through and from year to year. **********The cover page shows a sample of two pages**********

Penguins: This is the perfect little book of facts for your little ones for Penguin Awareness Day. It contains all that your kiddos need to know about penguins. (C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ 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!