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Phonics focus ‘Y’ sentences for early readers, literacy centers and morning work
This set of printable sentences focusing on the initial phoneme / sound ‘Y’ has so many uses in your Kindergarten, Pre Primary, or Elementary classroom. They are also great for homeschooling settings. We have combined graphics starting with ‘Y’ and high frequency sight words, to help you meet two learning goals at once!
Each sentence uses the repetitive sentence, ‘HERE IS THE’ to promote reading fluency and mastery of sight words. The images have been carefully selected to ensure your students can easily recognize what the image is, and hear the phoneme ‘Y’ in the initial position in each ’Y’ word. We have even identified the learning focus areas which you can use in your planning.
These sentences can be used individually by laminating each sentence and using them in your guided reading or literacy centers. They could be made into sentence books for each student to use as a home reader, or an in class independent reading activity. The tracing pages can be used as both reading and writing independent or group activities, and will reinforce phoneme / grapheme recognition, reading fluency and writing and handwriting skills.
We know you will appreciate how easy these are to use in your classroom and you will be delighted at your students’ progress and engagement.
The no color copy can be used as a reader too, and the student can personalize it to promote ownership and develop personal confidence in their reading. The copy with no images enables your students to draw their own pictures to reflect the text.
These three copies of emergent reader can be used in your literacy centers, your literacy lessons, as reading homework and in your guided reading and writing work. They are also very suitable for group and independent work.
These printable and easy to use readers will have your kindergarten, preprimary and elementary students reading in no time! Early success in reading experiences is vital and these magical little readers will help your students achieve just that. Reading success!
INCLUDED IN THIS PACK
● PDF file including three different formats of the phonic high frequency word book
● 11 printable pages to use in many ways in your classroom
● Clear and beautiful illustrations
● Sentence overview sheet
● A choice of color or black and white booklets, depending on your personal preference.
Gradual release of responsibility instructional posters and cards
This pack of signs and cards can be used in all classrooms from early elementary, primary, middle school and high school with all teachers who use the gradual release of responsibility within their classroom instruction.
The goal of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework is to provide appropriate instruction, moving students towards independence.
These posters can be displayed and referred to or the cards could be used to highlight which stage the instruction was on or moving to. A valuable addition to all classrooms.
Included are 3 x signs and 3 x cards :
I DO—you watch
WE DO—together
YOU DO—I watch
All signs and cards are in both color and black and white.
Africa research and fact file early finisher project
Are you looking for fun, no-prep, Geography activities your kids can do when they have some free time? Wondering how to keep your early finishers occupied and entertained without them needing your help and attention? Then this Africa Fact file might be what you are looking for!
This easy, no prep early finisher is 7 pages of interesting and relevant information for students to learn about Africa. Elementary, primary, homeschool and high school students will be engaged and interested learning about a new country with facts to research, places and biomes. A wordsearch is included to keep this project fun and engaging.
A full teacher answer booklet is also included meaning no prep for the teacher. A fantastic go to resource for early finishers or end of projects.
Use these interesting and useful research activities to provide enrichment for those early finishers in your classroom! You can choose to use them as individual sheets or combine them and use the booklet cover.
Included in this pack:
7 page booklet with cover in black and white
7 page answer booklet with cover in full color
Emotion’s charades cards to help with emotional regulation
Teaching children emotions is an important business. These no prep, printable cards are perfect for teaching and reinforcing self-regulation in your classes, especially to your special educational needs students. Understanding our emotions is critical to self awareness and self-regulation.
This no preparation game can be used to teach emotions to your whole class, small groups or pairs. It is perfect for your kindergarten, pre-primary, early childhood or elementary class.
There are 48 coloured emotions cards, each with a clear emotion graphic and the corresponding word. We have also included a set of black and white cards with the same emotions.
There are clear instructions on how to use these cards with your whole class, in groups or in pairs. They are also suitable to use 1:1 to support students who require additional support in recognising and understanding emotions.
If you love using these, you will also find our other products which support teaching self-regulation useful in developing essential emotional understanding skills.
Included in this pack:
48 x individual emotions cards in full colour
48 x individual emotions cards in black and white
Thinking about empathy journal to support social and emotional learning
If you want an easy way to encourage and teach empathy to your students, this is exactly what you need!
Empathy is such an important skill to develop in our students. Having empathy enables students to make positive decisions to support people who are experiencing difficulties.
If you are passionate about emotional well-being, emotional literacy, exploring moral dilemmas and enabling your students to deal positively with challenging, yet common situations, then this resource is for you.
It will also compliment Physical, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) and Religious Education Curriculums
This no prep Thinking about Empathy Journal is an engaging way to get your primary and elementary students thinking about how they would respond empathetically to others in challenging circumstances.
This Empathy Journal is flexible in use. Use it as an independent stand-alone activity or as a follow up activity to support a whole class or group discussion exploring how we respond empathetically.
This pack will encourage your students to:
Ask questions to clarify understanding
Listen without judgment
Share a response or action to demonstrate understanding
Step into another’s shoes
This high-quality resource is ready to print and use. There are 24 moral dilemmas over seven pages. This resource, if used daily is five weeks’ worth of resources for each student in your class.
Included in this pack:
7 x page empathy student workbook
These resources have been used very successfully in our classrooms and we can’t wait to hear how they go in your lessons.
Promoting empathy discussion cards and posters for social and emotional learning
Do you want to promote empathy in your primary, elementary or middle school students? If so this resource is for you!
Empathy is such an important skill to develop in our students. Having empathy enables students to make positive decisions to support people who are experiencing difficulties.
If you are passionate about emotional well-being, emotional literacy, exploring moral dilemmas and enabling your students to deal positively with challenging, yet common situations, then this set of discussion cards is the resource is for you.
It will also complement Physical, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) and Religious Education Curriculums.
These no prep empathy discussion cards are an engaging way to get your primary and elementary students thinking about how they would respond empathetically to others in challenging circumstances.
These empathy cards are flexible in use. Use them as an independent stand-alone activity or as a follow up activity to support a whole class or group discussion exploring how we respond empathetically.
This pack will encourage your students to:
• Ask questions to clarify understanding
• Listen without judgment
• Share a response or action to demonstrate understanding
• Step into another’s shoes
This high-quality resource is ready to print and use. There are 16 moral dilemmas to discuss.
Included in this pack are:
16 x individual empathy discussion cards with back design in full color
16 x individual empathy discussion cards with back design in black and white
16 x empathy discussion posters
These resources have been used very successfully in our classrooms and we can’t wait to hear how they go in your lessons.
Graphic outlines scaffolds for dyslexic and special needs students
These graphic outlines have been developed to enable you to provide support to your students. They are especially designed to support students who require scaffolding to access and organize information, such as students with Specific Learning Disability, Dyslexia, but we have found them useful for all students. We have included the ones that we had most success within our classrooms, because we know they work.
Included in the pack of 18 graphic outlines includes layout examples of how they can be used in subjects such as English, Math’s, History, Geography, Science, Health, Politics, Economics. The subject uses are endless. We have included a range of graphic outlines to cater for secondary and high school students as well as students in elementary or primary school settings.
HOW TO USE A GRAPHIC OUTLINE
Chose a graphic outline that appeals to you
Either use the ones with headings on or a blank one and insert your own headings.
Model to the class (or individual) exactly how to use it, and leave your example up as a reference point. (We suggest you enlarge it so it is easy for everyone to see).
As a class, complete a worked example together and provide feedback to students to ensure they understand how to use the graphic outline.
Make the graphic outline available whenever it is appropriate in any of your lessons.
OUR SUGGESTIONS
Although these have been designed to support you in making adjustments in your classroom, experience tells us that this type of scaffolding is useful for all students.
Graphic outlines are also useful for students who like to ‘doodle’ or draw their notes as it provides them with a framework.
By making them available for all students you are promoting inclusivity and no individual student feels embarrassed because they have something ‘different’.
Model, complete worked examples and have available several different graphic outlines in your classroom. Students, like us, will develop preferences for a particular layout.
If you have found these useful, be sure to check out our other resources to support you in your classroom.
Empathy maps resource for PSHE and religion teaching
Empathy is such an important skill to develop in our students. Having empathy enables students to make positive decisions to support people who are experiencing difficulties.
An Empathy Map is like a mind map that has guided questions to challenge your students’ thinking. The dilemmas we have selected are social justice issues that we know students are very passionate about. These Empathy Maps are especially designed for students in secondary and high school classes.
If you are passionate about emotional well-being, emotional literacy, exploring moral dilemmas and enabling your students to deal positively with challenging, yet common situations, then this resource is for you. It will also complement your Physical, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) and Religious Education Curriculums.
These no prep Empathy Maps are an engaging way to get your secondary and high school students thinking about how they would respond empathetically to others in challenging circumstances. We have developed each map based on real world challenges.
This Empathy Map is flexible in use. Use it as an independent stand-alone activity or as a follow up activity to support a whole class or group discussion exploring how we respond empathetically.
This high-quality resource is ready to print and use. There are 7 different Empathy Maps to allow you to select the one that works the best with your students and twenty social justice issues. Each map guides the students in their exploration of the issue.
Use these Empathy Maps as a whole class activity or in group or paired work. They complement our Empathy Discussion Cards, which explore common dilemmas for adolescents. These resources are perfect for every teacher who teaches PSHE, Religion or Well Being classes.
Persuasive speaking complete work package – selling a car topic
This COMPLETE persuasive speech package has been developed so that all the work is done for you. Print it out and use it in your elementary, primary or high school English Language classes. Along with all of our high quality worksheets, we have also included learning objectives for your planning, task sheets, cover pages, marking rubrics and goals for students on Individual Education Plans and MUCH more. This easy-to-use teaching resources means all you have to do is get students excited about the project and work and guide them through the task! With 30 pages of resources, this package is a must have for your ELA classroom.
As a scaffolded resource it can be used with many different grades, it really is a must have, no-prep, printable resource every English teacher needs!
The package of work has been prepared so that you can support students and meet their individual needs. You have students that require each scaffolded support sheet to enable them to complete the task, or you may have students who just need to be reminded of the persuasive devices and techniques and can independently prepare their own speech. We have also used formatting to ensure your students with Specific Learning Disability Dyslexia and Dysgraphia have their needs met.
When you purchase this resource, you will get:
• A highly attractive cover sheet reflecting the theme ‘Selling a Car’
• A background sheet outlining to the students why persuasion is an important aspect of selling a vehicle
• Detailed explanations of the persuasive devices PATHOS, LOGOS and ETHOS, with opportunities for students to practice using them
• Scaffolded research sheets to enable them to find the exact information they need to complete the task
• Clear explanation of ‘target audience’ and why it is important to address their needs
• Vocabulary sheet of persuasive techniques
• Hook explanation and practice sheet
• Opportunities to practice writing persuasive techniques
• Graphic outline to assist in planning persuasive speech
• A writing frame example
• A worked example of a persuasive speech
• A clear scaffold with plenty of room
• A student checklist
• Task sheet
• Marking rubric (including a blank one)
• Teacher comment page
• Learning objectives for your planning
• WALT and WILF statements for easy planning
Farmers: A thematic unit for kindergarten and 1st grade
This 24 page thematic unit focuses on farmers and provides an easy, no prep independent workbook resource to use in your kindergarten classroom, home-school or early years setting tomorrow.
If your students love farmers, this resource will support their early literacy and number skills while covering this fun and engaging unit of work.
The activities included cover:
• reading aloud
• writing
• tracing
• observation
• early maths
• counting
• STEM
• Crafts
• Research
• Labelling
• Comprehension
• Creative writing
• Art
Included in this pack is:
1 x workbook front cover
22 x printable worksheets
1 x printable make a farmers hat craft activity.
Firefighters: A thematic unit for kindergarten and KS1
This 24 page thematic unit focuses on firefighters and provides an easy no prep resource to use in your kindergarten classroom, home-school or early years setting tomorrow.
If your students love firefighters, this resource will support their early literacy and number skills while covering this fun and engaging unit of work.
The activities included cover:
• reading aloud
• writing
• tracing
• observation
• early maths
• counting
• STEM
• Crafts
• Research
• Labelling
• Comprehension
• Creative writing
• Art
Included in this pack is:
1 x workbook front cover
22 x printable worksheets
1 x printable make a firefighter hat and badge craft activity.
Kindergarten literacy centers and morning work blending worksheets – say, sound, write MGKDOC
This easy, no prep phonics blending pack focusing on teaching letter sounds has so many uses in Early Childhood, Kindergarten, Elementary and home schooling. Teaching how to blend vowel, consonant and consonant, vowel consonant words, using the phonemes / sounds MGKDOC.
This pack will give your students the skills and practice to blend 28v,c and c,v,c words.
We have taken frequently used initial phonemes (MGKDOC) and developed twenty eight worksheets that will enable your early readers to identify initial sounds / phonemes in pictures, and use this to blend vowel, consonant and consonant, vowel, consonant words.
Our images are carefully selected to ensure you students will be able to identify the correct phoneme / sound in the initial position.
The ability to blend is an essential early reading skill and the structured and repetitious nature of these worksheets will be an essential part of your early reading and writing program.
These sheets can be used in your Literacy Centres, as part of your daily phonics program, as a revision activity for homework or during your guided writing and reading programs. We have included a workbook cover if you choose to make each child in your class a whole pack.
If you love this pack, be sure to check out our other resources to support your early learners in developing and refining their early reading and writing skills.
INCLUDED IN THIS PACK:
● ● 28 x photocopiable worksheets
● ● 1 x Vocabulary list
● ● 1 x Workbook cover sheet
● ● 28 individual sight word cards
● Clear images that represent the initial sound / phoneme
● Easy to use activities that develop confidence and independence in blending
All about Nurses: A thematic unit for kindergarten and 1st grade
This 23 page thematic unit focuses on nurses and provides an easy, no prep independent workbook resource to use in your kindergarten classroom, home-school or early years setting tomorrow.
If your students love nurses, this resource will support their early literacy and number skills while covering this fun and engaging unit of work.
The activities included cover:
• reading aloud
• writing
• tracing
• observation
• early maths
• counting
• STEM
• Crafts
• Research
• Labelling
• Comprehension
• Creative writing
• Art
Included in this pack is:
1 x workbook front cover
22 x printable worksheets
1 x printable make a nurses hat craft activity.
If you love this resource please see our other community workers resources:
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme free bundle
• Kindergarten literacy and morning work community workers bundle
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - who has lost?
• Kindergarten morning work community workers themes - about my job
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme reading comprehension
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - early reading
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - my job
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - I am a …
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - information report
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - poster pack
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - matching card
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - cut ‘n’ stick
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - my tools
All about Doctors: A thematic unit for reception, pre primary and KS1
This 24 page thematic unit focuses on doctors and provides an easy, no prep independent workbook resource to use in your kindergarten classroom, home-school or early years setting tomorrow.
If your students love farmers, this resource will support their early literacy and number skills while covering this fun and engaging unit of work.
The activities included cover:
• reading aloud
• writing
• tracing
• observation
• early maths
• counting
• STEM
• Crafts
• Research
• Labelling
• Comprehension
• Creative writing
• Art
Included in this pack is:
1 x workbook front cover
22 x printable worksheets
2 x printable make a doctor’s bag craft activity.
If you love this resource please see our other community workers resources:
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme free bundle
• Kindergarten literacy and morning work community workers bundle
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - who has lost?
• Kindergarten morning work community workers themes - about my job
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme reading comprehension
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - early reading
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - my job
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - I am a …
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - information report
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - poster pack
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - matching card
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - cut ‘n’ stick
• Kindergarten morning work community workers theme - my tools
MINIBEAST SENTENCE BUILDER WORKSHEETS – PACK ONE
This engaging easy to use, no prep, sentence building pack reinforces ‘THIS’, ‘IS’, ‘A’, for Kindergarten, Pre-Primary, Homeschool, Elementary and First Grade students and is sure to be a hit with your students. This pack is a fabulous complement to our range of MINI BEASTS resources.
These 18 printable worksheets are perfect for your Kinder and Elementary literacy lessons, Literacy Centers, guided reading and writing, spelling and independent word work. Handwriting and practicing phonological knowledge are also embedded in these easy-to-use worksheets.
Reading and writing mastery of the target sight words THIS’, ‘IS’, ‘A’, will be achieved through repetition and guided practice as well as building oral, reading and written vocabulary of the minibeast theme.
If you love this resource, make sure you look at our other see Sight Word Sentence Builders to ensure your little learners make progress in a meaningful and engaging way.
THIS PACK INCLUDES:
● 2 x beautiful cover pages to ensure your student’s work is presented clearly
● 16 x Printable worksheets for your students to practice reading and writing their sight words and using question marks in context.
● Clear illustrations to match the text.
● Predictable and repetitive text to reinforce reading skills
● Tracing and writing practice
MINIBEAST SENTENCE BUILDER WORKSHEETS – PACK TWO
This engaging easy to use, no prep, sentence building pack reinforces ‘THIS’, ‘IS’, ‘A’, for Kindergarten, Pre Primary, Elementary and First Grade students and is sure to be a hit with your students. This pack is a fabulous complement to our range of MINI BEASTS resources and Pack One in Sight Word Sentence Builder, Mini Beast range.
These 19 printable worksheets are perfect for your Kinder and Elementary literacy lessons, Literacy Centers, guided reading and writing, spelling and independent word work. Handwriting and practicing phonological knowledge are also embedded in these easy to use worksheets.
Reading and writing mastery of the target sight words THIS’, ‘IS’, ‘A’, will be achieved through repetition and guided practice as well as building oral, reading and written vocabulary of minibeast
If you love this resource, make sure you look at our other see Sight Word Sentence Builders to ensure your little learners make progress in a meaningful and engaging way.
THIS PACK INCLUDES:
● 2 x Beautiful cover pages to ensure your student’s work is presented clearly
● 16 x Printable worksheets for your students to practice reading and writing their sight words and using question marks in context.
● Clear illustrations to match the text.
● Predictable and repetitive text to reinforce reading skills
● Tracing and writing practice
PHONICS FOCUS 'A' SOUNDS
This set of printable sentences focusing on the initial phoneme / sound ’a’ has so many uses in your Kindergarten, Homeschool, Pre Primary, or Elementary classroom. We have combined graphics starting with ‘a’ and high frequency sight words, to help you meet two learning goals at once!
Each sentence uses the repetitive question, ‘I can hear an ’a’ ……, to promote reading fluency and mastery of sight words. The images have been carefully selected to ensure your students can easily recognize what the image is, and hear the phoneme ‘a’ in the initial position in each ’a’ word.
These sentences can be used individually by laminating each sentence, or using them in your guided reading or literacy centers. They could be made into sentence books for each student to use as a home reader, or an ‘in class’ independent reading activity. The Tracing pages can be used as both reading and writing independent or group activities ,and will reinforce phoneme / grapheme recognition, reading fluency and writing and handwriting skills.
We know you will appreciate how easy these are to use in your classroom and you will be delighted at your students’ progress and engagement.
INCLUDED IN THIS PACK IS
● 16 photocopiable sheets focusing on the ‘a’ phoneme in the initial position.
● 12 sentences in THREE different formats, using targeted high frequency sight words and words beginning with the ‘t’ phoneme
● Three different formats allow you to use these in so many different ways in your whole class, group work, centers and individual work.
● Beautiful and clear images to support the students ability to recognize the image and the initial phoneme.
● Opportunities to reinforce identifying phonemes, developing reading mastery and fluency and developing writing mastery and fluency
PHONICS MATCHING GAME
PHONICS MATCHING GAME
This sound / symbol, or phoneme / grapheme matching game focuses on the sounds/ phonemes ‘t’, ‘a’ and ‘p’. It has so many uses in your Early Childhood, Kindergarten and Pre-Primary classroom. This is also a useful homeschooling resource, because of the multiple ways it can be used.
This easy no prep resource can be used in multiple ways and should be a staple in your phonics toolbox for frequent use in your literacy centers. These cards can be used individually by laminating each card, or using them in your guided reading or literacy centers.
Make it once and use it for:
• Memory games to reinforce individual sounds symbol mastery; (t, a, p)
• Memory game to reinforce sound symbol mastery of the group of sounds
• Matching sound to symbol in individual work
• Matching sound to symbol practice in group work
• Perfect for Literacy Centers to reinforce whole class teaching
• Develops working memory - an ESSENTIAL skill for learning
Each image has been carefully selected so that it makes the sound very clearly in the initial position of the word. A vocabulary list has been included to ensure everybody is on the same page in naming the images.
WHAT YOU GET
● 36 sound / phoneme cards with CLEAR illustrations that represent the initial sound in a word.
● 36 symbol / grapheme cards (12 of each letter t, a, p)
● Multiple ways to use this resource
● Easy to prepare
We know you will appreciate how easy these are to use in your classroom and you will be delighted at your students’ progress and engagement.
PHONICS FOCUS 'S' SOUNDS
This ready and easy to use, 21 page set of printable sentences focusing on the initial phoneme / sound ’s’ has so many uses in your Kindergarten, Pre Primary, or Elementary classroom. We have combined graphics starting with ‘s’ and high frequency sight words, to help you meet two learning goals at once!
Each sentence uses the repetitive phrase, ‘It is s , to promote reading fluency and mastery of sight words. The images have been carefully selected to ensure your students can easily recognise what the image is, and hear the phoneme ‘s’ in the initial position in each ’s’ word.
These sentences can be used individually by laminating each sentence, and using them in your guided reading or literacy centers. They could be made into sentence books for each student to use as a home reader, or an in class independent reading activity. The Tracing pages can be used as both reading and writing independent or group activities ,and will reinforce phoneme / grapheme recognition, reading fluency and writing and handwriting skills.
We know you will appreciate how easy these are to use in your classroom and you will be delighted at your students’ progress and engagement.
INCLUDED IN THIS PACK IS
● 22 photocopiable sheets focusing on the ‘s’ phoneme in the initial position.
● 14 sentences in THREE different formats, using targeted high frequency sight words and words beginning with the ‘t’ phoneme
● Three different formats allow you to use these is so many different ways in your whole class, group work, centers and individual work.
● Beautiful and clear images to support the students ability to recognise the image and the initial phoneme.
● Opportunities to reinforce identifying phonemes, developing reading mastery and fluency and developing writing mastery and fluency
LOOK AT MY - SENTENCE SCRAMBLE WORKSHEETS - BOOK 2
This engaging easy to use, no prep, sentence building pack reinforces ‘look at my’ sight words for Kindergarten, Pre-Primary, Elementary and First Grade students. This pack is a fabulous complement to the other packs in the look at my range of sentence scramble activities.
This pack of 22 printable worksheets are perfect for your Kinder and Elementary literacy lessons, Literacy Centers, guided reading and writing, spelling and independent word work. Handwriting and practicing phonological knowledge are also embedded in these easy-to-use worksheets.
Reading and writing mastery of the target sight words ‘Look at my’, will be achieved through repetition and guided practice as well as building oral, reading and written vocabulary of popular everyday objects.
If you love this resource, make sure you look at our other Sight Word Sentence Builders to ensure your little learners make progress in a meaningful and engaging way.
Included in this pack:
1 x color from cover for workbook
1 x black and white color in front cover for workbook
20 x sentence builder / sentence scramble no prep, printable worksheets