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Nicole Hernandez - A Teacher's Idea

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Welcome to my online store! I'm passionate about creating downloadable, printable classroom resources and clip art images that make teaching easier and more enjoyable. As a fellow educator, I understand the challenges of planning engaging lessons and decorating your classroom on a budget. That's why I design high-quality, creative, and fun materials that you can instantly access and print at your convenience.

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Welcome to my online store! I'm passionate about creating downloadable, printable classroom resources and clip art images that make teaching easier and more enjoyable. As a fellow educator, I understand the challenges of planning engaging lessons and decorating your classroom on a budget. That's why I design high-quality, creative, and fun materials that you can instantly access and print at your convenience.
Needs and Wants - What Santa Needs and Wants {Simple Posters}
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Needs and Wants - What Santa Needs and Wants {Simple Posters}

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Needs and Wants: What does Santa need to survive in the North Pole? What does he want but can do without there? This is a two-poster set that explains needs and wants to your little ones. I include varying versions of a needs and wants graphic organizer that your students can list or draw Santa's needs and wants. This product does NOT contain any picture sorting activities. Enjoy! Nicole
Sentence Writing - Stretch a Sentence Using the 5Ws + H
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Sentence Writing - Stretch a Sentence Using the 5Ws + H

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In this resource your students will have fun stretching sentences. These sentence building worksheets can help them to write more details, thus expanding sentences in writing using the 5 W’s + 1 H. What are the 5 W’s and 1 H? They are the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of reading comprehension and writing. I. I included the following printables: 6 posters 1 planning sheet formatted in color and black n white A suggested simple sentence list 6 5 W’s +1 H word cards 50 writing cards for your students to practice. Simply print and laminate the bordered cards for students to write on with dry erase markers. The borderless cards may be given to students as worksheets for independent work. 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!
Counting - Bee Themed Number Cards
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Counting - Bee Themed Number Cards

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Counting: Busy Bees Counting- Number Cards 1 to 10: Here is a beautiful set of bee themed cards for number focus. These large circular cards contain colorful images that is attractive and kid-friendly. ************************************************************************** Add Your Related Products Heading Here Related Product 1 Title. Related Product 2 Title. Related Product 3 Title. ************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************
Phonics Flashcards - Final Consonant Blends
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Phonics Flashcards - Final Consonant Blends

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Final Consonant Blends: This resource pack contains 153 Illustrated picture word cards that depict the following final consonants: -ld, lb, lf, lk, lm, lp, lt -mp -nd, nk, nt -rd, rf, rk, rl, rm, rn, rp, rt -sk, sp, st -ct, ft, pt, xt The cards are formatted three (3) cards per print and are large enough for classroom display on your word wall.
Ordinal Numbers - Kid Friendly Car Posters {First to Tenth}
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Ordinal Numbers - Kid Friendly Car Posters {First to Tenth}

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Ordinal Numbers This is a set of 10 posters to help reinforce the concept of ordinal numbers. These bright and colorful posters are perfect for any classroom and they can be used as flashcards if you wish. Included in this file are the following: 1 set of ordinal number posters (1st to 10th only) 1 set of pocket chart cards (1st to 10th) 1 set of ordinal number word cards (1st to 10th) 1 set of wristbands (1st to 10th) Simply print and laminate the posters and cards that you wish. For the wristbands simply print, cut then give each student a wristband to color the appropriate car. You may allow them to organize themselves in the correct order using the wristbands to guide them.
Fantasy Story Elements Posters for Elementary Classrooms
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Fantasy Story Elements Posters for Elementary Classrooms

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Reality vs Fantasy: I created these posters to give a little more detail about fantasy in children's literature. I included the six motifs that can be found in fictional literature. These are: Magic Otherworlds Universal Themes Heroism Special Character Types Fantastic Objects I also included a set of bookmarks to give students a quick guide to identifying fantasy. I do hope that these may be helpful to you and your students ***************************************************************************** You might also be interested in: Reality and Fantasy Reality and Fantasy Posters for Every Classroom
Reading Logs and Reading Goals Pack
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Reading Logs and Reading Goals Pack

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Reading Logs This is a set of simple reading logs and reading goals plus reading reflection sheets for your students and parents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please check the preview file for a look at the contents of this resource before purchase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************************************************************************
Number Properties - Distributive, Associative, Commutative BUNDLE
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Number Properties - Distributive, Associative, Commutative BUNDLE

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Number Properties - Distributive, Associative, Commutative This is an excellent way of introducing the concepts as a way for student to get the meaning of these number properties. Distributive, Associative, Commutative printables are bundled together for convenience as a special request so I am making it available to you. These can be used as posters or they can be used as notebook pages when you want your students to get the gist of the idea about the number properties. You can get them individually in the links below: 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!
Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizers {Hanger}
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Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizers {Hanger}

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Main Idea and Details: Main Idea and Details- Hanger Graphic Organizer printable: Here's a graphic organizer that your kids can use to organize their writing. You can print the colored version and laminate for your writing area. The black and white version can be used for individual students' writing folders or notebooks. Enjoy! Nicole ************************************************************************* You might also be interested in; Main Idea and Details - Ladder Graphic Organizer. Main Idea and Details - Pony Graphic Organizers. ************************************************************************* *************************************************************************
Punctuation Posters - {Reading Stop Signs and Voice Visual Display}
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Punctuation Posters - {Reading Stop Signs and Voice Visual Display}

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Punctuation Punctuation Marks act like traffic signs and stop lights in reading. They tell us when to stop, pause and how to use our voice to signal to our listeners when we are telling, asking or really excited when we read aloud. I created these posters that can be used to help students to connect punctuation marks with voice and to build reading fluency. They highlight the Reading Stop Signs: the period, exclamation mark and the question mark only. 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!
Phonics Sound Posters - The 42 Main Sounds of English
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Phonics Sound Posters - The 42 Main Sounds of English

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Phonics Posters These are the 42 primary phonemes in English represented by a letter or sequence of letters and organized into the following 7 groups, to make it easier to teach and learn the letter sounds. SOUND SETS #1 = s, a, t, i, p, n SOUND SETS #2 = c, k, e, h, r, m, d SOUND SETS #3 = g, o, u, l, f, b SOUND SETS #4 = ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or SOUND SETS #5 = z, w, ng, v, oo (short) , oo (long) SOUND SETS #6 = y, x, ch, sh, th (voiced), th unvoiced) SOUND SETS #7 = qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar These large posters begin with the easiest single letter-sound grapheme/phoneme) correspondences and end with the more difficult letter combinations. I also included a black and white version for coloring activities or for printing on colored sheets for inserting in student work folders. 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!
Identifying Verb Tenses {Color Coded Cards for Practicing Simple Verb Tenses}
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Identifying Verb Tenses {Color Coded Cards for Practicing Simple Verb Tenses}

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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
Something to Write About {92 Writing Prompts}
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Something to Write About {92 Writing Prompts}

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Writing Prompts Very often our kids need as much guidance as they can get to take away the negative attitude they may have towards writing tasks. As a fun activity I created 'Spin, Select and Write' to bring possitivity to the writing experience. This resource contains color coded writing prompts and writing sheets along with a spin board for general topic selection. Simply print the pages, mount the spin board and print as many colored writing sheets for your paper pool. The prompt cards can be laminated, cut and placed in recycled aluminum tins or other containers. All your kiddos need to do is spin the arrow and choose prompt card of the same color that the arrow shows. They can choose the same color writing sheet to begin free writing. **SUGGESTION** These writing sheets can be used also as your students first draft pieces. You can make each student rewrite the entire story that they began, correcting all grammar and punctuation mistakes. After they go through the other stages of the writing process they finally get to re-write them on new sheets and keep in a separate folder for publication. I included blank slides so that you can create your own prompt cards.
Number Concepts - Addition and Subtraction Posters BUNDLE
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Number Concepts - Addition and Subtraction Posters BUNDLE

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Problem Solving This is a bundled resource. If you are interested in the singled versions please use the links below. This resource was created with the Beginning-Middle-End (BME) story elements in mind. I believe that this approach will help students to better interpret number story problems involving the addition and subtraction operations. This is a BUNDLED set of my addition and subtraction resources that can be used to introduce the concepts of addition and subtraction including word problems. Whether you are teaching start unknown, change unknown or result unknown problems, these posters are a great way to visualize the algorithmic principles that are very often misunderstand. This resource contains: 6 posters 27 Word wall cards 2 Story Mats 2 sizes of interactive trifold sheets for students These are the singled versions Addition (Joining) Concept Posters and More! Subtraction (Take Away) Concept Posters and More! 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!
Positive and Negative Behaviour Cards Sorting Activity and Poster
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Positive and Negative Behaviour Cards Sorting Activity and Poster

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Classroom Rules This is a set of both positive and negative classroom behaviour sorting cards that can double up to create a reminder poster for young students. This is a way for them to recognize acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and to keep their behaviour in check. The cards can be used over and over or they can be permanently mounted either on the teacher’s desk facing the students or on the classroom wall or door. The teacher may choose to discuss each scenario depicted while students get an opportunity to place each one where they belong. For the wall option coloured ribbons can be used (red and blue) preferably to reflect the choices. All Rights Reserved by © 2012-2018 Nicole Hernandez
Cause and Effect Worksheets and Sorting Cards
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Cause and Effect Worksheets and Sorting Cards

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Cause and Effect Worksheets Your students will identify causes and corresponding effects in this activity. There are two story cards for each story. One of the pictures is a cause and the other is an effect. These fun cards are a great literacy center warm-up for Cause and Effect units or for writing activities. The worksheets are great fillers as homework or for practice in identifying this very difficult skill. You might also be interested in: Cause and Effect BUDDIES {Activities and Posters} ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ ⚊ 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!
Food Groups Sorting Activity
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Food Groups Sorting Activity

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Food Groups This sorting and classifying activity uses real photographs of foods to teach students about food groups and healthy/unhealthy foods. The mats are actually images of kids with shopping carts and are labeled as follows: Healthy Foods Unhealthy Foods Fruits Vegetables Milk & Dairy Breads & Grains Go Foods Glow Foods Grow Foods Meat & Protein Fats Junk Foods Sweets This resource is great for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students. 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!
BEFORE and AFTER Numbers Math Center Activity
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BEFORE and AFTER Numbers Math Center Activity

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Help students develop number relationships and the concept of number order with this simple math center activity created for beginning learners. This is a great activity that engages your students and provides a visual cue using an easy interactive slider. A black and white version is included in this set. HOW TO ASSEMBLE: Simply print on cardstock then laminate the pages. Cut out the pumpkins and the holes in each pumpkin slider. The students will slide the pumpkin along the numbers to find the numbers that are before, after or between any given number. 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!
Making Nouns from Verbs
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Making Nouns from Verbs

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This set of noun cards are great for reviewing the formation of nouns using verbs. The clear use of graphics can help your students to make connections between the verbs and the nouns. The noun endings are in red type to allow for easy visibility. This is a wonderful addition to any literacy center. (C) A Teacher's Idea 2012 http://nicadez.blogspot.com
Mental Math SUBTRACTION Strategies - Counting Back and Counting Up
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Mental Math SUBTRACTION Strategies - Counting Back and Counting Up

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Counting back and counting up are mental strategies that are used to subtract numbers that are close together. These mental strategies help students find the difference between numbers by counting up (on their fingers) from the smaller number to the larger number to keep track of the numbers or counting back from the larger number to larger number. The answer is the number of counts. I created this set to help introduce the strategy to students and to provide an eye catching visual reminder for them until they are able to master this mental strategy. This set includes: Counting Back Poster (colored and black n white version) Counting Up Poster (colored and black n white version) Write n Wipe Practice Cards Number line cards Ten Frame cards You might also be interested in: Counting On Addition Strategies Addition Strategies - Doubles and Doubles Plus One Addition Strategies - Making Tens and Adding Nine Mental Math SUBTRACTION Strategy - Doubles 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!