This low-prep Groundhog Day Mini Unit has ELA and math connections that will engage all of your students in a fun time of year! Appropriate for primary grades K-2. This resource includes: 2 Easy to Read Reading Passages - What is Groundhog Day? and All About Groundhogs 2 Comprehension Pages Color By Sight Word Color By Addition and Subtraction Facts Several Writing Prompts Line Plot Classroom Predictions All About Groundhogs Flip Book What Happens on Groundhog Day? Flip Book - Black and white and color printing options Simple Word Search Groundhog Day Hat/Crown – 3 choices - Black and white and color printing options Perfect for Groundhog Day Week!

This low-prep Presidents' Day Mini Unit with cross-curricular connections to reading, writing, word recognition, and fine motor skills. Appropriate for primary grades K-2. There are 5 easy to read reading passages, 4 comprehension pages, and a flip book with spaces for student answers that closely follow the reading passages. Here’s what is included: 5 Reading Passages 4 Comprehension Pages 3 Color By Sight Word Pages 2 Writing Prompts Simple Word Search Presidents’ Day Flip Book with black and white or color printing option Presidents’ Day Crown with black and white or color printing option

This simple interactive notebook will reinforce handwriting skills, fine motor skills (cutting and pasting), and beginning sounds. It includes a handwriting and beginning sound practice page for each letter as well. Students will love making this interactive notebook! Pages of download: 1- Cover 2- For the teacher 3-4 - Interactive notebook directions 5-6 - completed example of interactive notebook 7-109 - Interactive notebook foldables/pages for all upper and lower case letters 110-162 - a practice handwriting page and beginning sound page for all letters 163-165 - Credits and Terms of use

This complete African American/Black History unit is perfect to take the pain out of your planning for the whole month of February. This over 200 page download includes: Classroom Posters 25 Reading Passages for Famous African Americans Why do we Celebrate Black History Reading Passage Comprehension for each reading passage/famous figure An activity for each reading passage/famous figure Famous African Americans Student Book Interactive Notebook Pages Word Search Social Medial Profile Venn Diagram KWL

Celebrate the Chinese New Year in your classroom with this rich assortment of activities covering reading passage, fluency passage and chart, comprehension, vocabulary, writing,social studies (culture), and more. Students will love the interactive resources and lucky money activity! This resource includes the following: A teacher PowerPoint Reading Passage Fluency Passage and Chart Comprehension Word Search Venn Diagram and Writing Prompts All About Chinese New Year Book Chinese New Year Dictionary Lucky Money Classroom Activity Lantern Templates with graphics Coloring Pages

Mini Unit about sharks. Includes 13 reading passages about sharks and 12 different types of sharks and the shark life cycle. Passages are half a page and have reading comprehension questions below. Interactive notebook foldables are to create an interactive notebook about the shark life cycle and to add facts about the 12 types of sharks. Pictures of a completed notebook are attached. There are several worksheets, KWL, anticipatory set, and a shark mask craft. Assessment at the end. Table of contents: Page 1 - Cover Page 2 - For the teacher Page 3 - KWL Page 4-5 - Anticipatory set and answer key Page 6 - What is a shark? Reading passage Page 7 - Life Cycle of a shark Page 8 - Great white shark reading passage and comprehension Page 9 - Bull shark reading passage and comprehension Page 10 - Hammerhead shark reading passage and comprehension Page 11 - Whale shark reading passage and comprehension Page 12 - Tiger shark reading passage and comprehension Page 13 - Basking shark reading passage and comprehension Page 14 - Black tip reef shark reading passage and comprehension Page 15 - White tip reef shark reading passage and comprehension Page 16 - Lemon shark reading passage and comprehension Page 17 - Nurse shark reading passage and comprehension Page 18 - Blue shark reading passage and comprehension Page 19 - Mako shark reading passage and comprehension Page 20 - Life cycle interactive notebook foldable Page 21 -23 - Shark types interactive notebook foldable Page 24-25 - Completed notebook Page 26 - Shark color by number Page 27 - Shark food worksheet Page 28 - Shark mask craft Page 29-32 - Show what you know assessment and answer key Page 33 - Resources for further learning Page 34-36 - Credits and Terms of Use

Complete Biology Unit and Interactive Notebook with Formal and Informal Assessment. Includes each of the following for all 6 animal groups (Invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and fish): KWL, reading passages (colorful with actual pictures of animals), reading comprehension (fill in the blanks) with answer key, interactive notebook foldable (correlates with reading passage), diary of an animal writing assignment, place the animal in its habitat. An informal assessment is a cut and sort the animal pictures into their groups. Formal assessment is also included with answer key. Pictures of a completed interactive biology notebook are included. Also two additional unit vocabulary words. Pages of download: 1- Cover 2- Teacher Information 3-9- Completed interactive journal pictures 10-13 - Interactive journal vocabulary pages 14-15 - Vocabulary definitions 16 - KWL Invertebrates 17-19 - Reading passage Invertebrates 20-21 - Reading Comprehension Invertebrates and answer key 23 - Invertebrates interactive journal foldables 24 - Invertebrates diary writing assignment 25 - Invertebrates habitat cut and glue 26 - Reptile KWL 27-28 - Reptile reading passage 29-30 - Reptile reading comprehension and answer key 31 - Reptile interactive journal foldable 32 - Reptile Diary 33 - Reptile habitat cut and glue 34 - Amphibian KWL 35-36 - Amphibian reading passage 37-38 - Amphibian comprehension and answer key 39 - Amphibian interactive journal foldable 40 - Amphibian diary writing assignment 41 - Amphibian habitat cut and glue 42 - Venn Diagram - Compare and contrast reptiles and amphibians 43 - Mammal KWL 44-45 - Mammal reading passage 46-47 - Mammal reading comprehension and answer key 48 - Mammal interactive journal foldable 49 - Mammal diary writing assignment 50 - Mammal habitat cut and glue 51 - Fish KWL 52-53 - Fish reading passage 54-55 Fish reading comprehension and answer key 56 - Fish interactive journal foldable 57 - Fish diary writing assignment 58 - Fish habitat cut and glue 59 - Bird KWL 60-61 - Bird reading passage 62-63 - Bird reading comprehension and answer key 64 - Bird interactive journal foldable 65 - Bird diary writing assignment 66 - Bird habitat cut and clue 67-68 - cut and sort the animal pictures into 6 groups (informal assessment) 69-72 - End of unit assessment and answer key 73-75 - credits and copyright, terms of use

This resource is a handwriting notebook to focus on letter formation. There is a page of handwriting practice for all upper and lower case letters. After each set of practice pages for the letter, there is a page with two sentences to practice that letter and a page for students to write their own words. The notebook can be stapled or bound for each student, or given as individual practice pages. Forming letters correctly is so important to reading and writing skills, so all pages begin with the “arrow” font to remind students which pencil strokes come first. 105 pages

This resource is a cursive writing notebook that gradually increases knowledge of cursive letters. There is a page for practice for each upper and lower case letter. After each set of 3 letters a student learns, there is an opportunity to connect the letters and then form words using only the letters they have learned so far. There are 10 trace and write cursive sentence pages and several blank practice pages at the end. The notebook can be stapled or bound for each student, or given as individual practice pages. All pages begin with the “arrow” font to remind students which pencil strokes come first. 90 pages

41 task cards for third grade level 3 sight words. Students have to choose the correctly spelled sight word from a set of 4 words that are visually similar. They practice reading, writing and spelling of sight words all in one! Great for special education students, centers, and fast finishers. Download includes 41 third grade level 3 sight word task cards (black and white and color printing options) with recording sheets and answer keys.

46 task cards for second grade level 2 sight words. Students have to choose the correctly spelled sight word from a set of 4 words that are visually similar. They practice reading, writing and spelling of sight words all in one! Great for special education students, centers, and fast finishers. Download includes 46 second grade level sight word task cards (black and white and color printing options) with recording sheets and answer keys.

41 task cards for first grade level 1 sight words. Students have to choose from a set of 4 words that are visually similar. They practice reading, writing and spelling of sight words all in one! Great for special education students, centers, and fast finishers. Download includes 41 first grade level sight word task cards with recording sheets and answer keys.

52 task cards for Kindergarten level (primer) sight words. Students have to choose from a set of 4 words that are visually similar. They practice reading, writing and spelling of sight words all in one! Great for special education students, centers, and fast finishers. Download includes 52 kindergarten level (primer) sight word task cards with recording sheets and answer keys.

40 task cards for pre-primer sight words. Students have to choose the correctly spelled sigh word from a set of 4 words that are visually similar. They practice reading, writing and spelling of sight words all in one! Great for special education students, centers, and fast finishers. Download includes 40 pre-primer sight word task cards with recording sheets and answer keys.

This inference writing activity comes with a teacher powerpoint to display. Teach inference in steps with real life pictures. Students write what they know from a picture and then infer what happened before, during, and after the picture was taken using a graphic organizer. Students then use this to sequence a story based on the picture. Venn Diagram for students to compare and contrast inferences they made about the same photo. Pages of download: 1- Cover 2- For the teacher 3-What is inference? Poster 4-7- Introduction to activity and class example 8- instructions to turn inferences into a written story 9- writing sheet 10 - Venn Diagram to compare and contrast with other student inferences 11 - Instructions for individualized writing 12-21 - 10 different real life pictures with graphic organizers following the same inferencing and writing steps 22- student writing sheet 23 - Venn Diagram 24-26 - Credits and Terms of Use

This writing folder is the perfect way for students to keep track of where they are in the writing process. By combining two folders, students who work at different paces, can place their work in the section of the folder that correlates where they are in the writing process. This also reinforces the process overall. This download includes directions for assembling the folder using two 2-pocket folders, student brainstorming sheet and several writing sheets, and classroom posters.

This interactive calendar engages young students in a "morning meeting" session. It can be used from year to year!! It is in a PowerPoint format, that will work with most smart boards. Students drag the date to the calendar and make a pattern for each month, fill in the days of the week to finish the sentences, "today is, tomorrow will be, and yesterday was", fill in a daily weather chart, determine the mystery number in a hundreds chart, number of the day (tally, ten frame, fact family, and number bond) and review shape attributes with 2D and 3D shapes. This is appropriate for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Also included is a student calendar for students to draw in the patterns on the board and keep track of their own dates, as well as a number of the day printable for individual students to complete as morning work. Pages of Download: Interactive Calendar PowerPoint 1- Cover 2-3 - For the Teacher 4-6 - Tally the day of the school year 7-9 - Ten Frame the day of the school year 10-39 - Monthly Calendar for August to December, each month includes the slides: Monthly calendar with shapes to make monthly or weekly patterns and record the date Days of the week - Today is, tomorrow will be, yesterday was Weather chart Mystery Number Hundreds chart Number of the day - Tally, Ten frame, Number Bond, and fact family 2D Shape Sort 40-81 - Monthly Calendar for January to July including all of the previously stated slides, except a 3D shape sort, instead of 2D Student Calendar PDF - A monthly student calendar to be used with the interactive calendar. Students record the day and pattern. This engages students who are not actively engaged at the smart board Number of the Day PDF and Terms of Use - Includes the number of the day printable that is the same as the interactive calendar slides. This also engages students who are at their seat and not actively engaged at the smart board. Directions and notes describe how to interact with the powerpoint.

This writing folder is the perfect way for students to keep track of where they are in the writing process. By combining two folders, students who work at different paces, can place their work in the section of the folder that correlates where they are in the writing process. This also reinforces the process overall. This download includes directions for assembling the folder using two 2-pocket folders, graphic organizers and writing sheets, and classroom posters.