Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have taught a variety of positions including bilingual 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, Title I Reading and Math K-5 and ELD. Take a moment and browse around, there is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have taught a variety of positions including bilingual 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, Title I Reading and Math K-5 and ELD. Take a moment and browse around, there is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
St Patrick’s Day is right around the corner! I love using this holiday to teach about idioms!
What is an idiom?
Idioms are words that don’t mean what they say! They are usually a group of words, well known and used by native speakers of a language, that can’t be understood by the individual meaning of the words.
Why teach idioms?
Students develop a clear understanding of idioms with direct instruction, read-alouds, teacher modeling and student-centered activities.
Here is one way to teach idioms:
• When presenting idioms to students, introduce a group of 4 to 5 idioms together. It is best to group the idioms into a category, for example; before St. Patrick’s Day teach idioms that use green in them!
• Always use stories or relate personal conversations to introduce each idiom in context.
Great for Kinder through 5th grade!
Prepositions Kindergarten-1st grade
Words that describe location- (ex: outside, inside, in, under, next to, far, etc.)
This 62-page kindergarten package set of 19 essential prepositions that describe location will be a great addition to your ELA center activities. (They can also be used to teach position in Kindergarten math.)
Each preposition is illustrated, and has an illustrated word wall card and kindergarten activities. The 19 prepositions are for locations. Students make books, manipulatives and activities. This preposition kindergarten kit will work well for centers or stations, scoot, or individual work. The illustrations should assist ESL students, as well as emergent readers and those with special needs.
Prepositions included in this unit:
★outside, inside, in, under, next to, far, near, to, over, between, on, at, below, above, by, up, down, off, with.
Irregular Past Tense Verb Game
Irregular Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using irregular past tense verbs. Irregular Past Tense Verbs will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play. This 33-page irregular past tense verb and English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these irregular past tense verb and grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class!
This past tense verb package includes 6 Irregular Past Tense Games:
Fishing For the Past!
Concentration!
Slap It!
Weighty Words!
They Don't End in 'ed'!
Make it in the Past!
This past tense verb grammar/vocabulary game package includes 6 irregular past tense games and the printable black line masters to play them:
Game Board
Game Cards
Word Cards
Just copy, cut and play!
Lori Wolfe
The end of the year and summertime are right around the corner! Get ready with these colorful End of the Year and Summer Word Wall Cards. This 47-page vocabulary word wall package includes 50 End of the Year and Summer Word Wall cards, alphabet headers and activities. These word cards are great for a theme wall, flashcards to send home or use as a matching game. Spice up your end of the year with this great packet.
Words included in this packet are:
summer, graduation, graduate, fun, certificate, field trip, memories, reading, favorite diploma, pool, finished, friend, beach, amusement, swim, swimming, sunny, park, sun, teacher, June, July, May, August, camp, hot, water, flower, lazy, vacation, warm, tent, swimsuit, towel, smore, camping, ice, bike, bathing suit, heat, holiday, July 4th, fireworks, sightseeing, diving, popsicle, coast, carefree, school, school’s out.
Vocabulary games and activities included in this set:
Word Wall
Bean Bag Toss
Slap It!
Chant the Wall
This is a great vocabulary graphic organizer to use with your students. Just copy onto colored paper and cut and you have your word wall ready to go!
A vocabulary word wall is an organized group of large print words posted on a bulletin board or wall in your classroom. Word walls draw attention to the words you are teaching and are used in whole class or small group activities.
Word walls provide a systematic visual vocabulary organizer that aides children in seeing and remembering connections between words and the characteristics that help them form categories and schemas to remember how to use them.
Lori Wolfe
Kinder & 1st Grade Sentence Starters - a 64-page Sentence Starters packet packed with 42 great sentence starters that will get your student writing. Students love to write about their lives and these sentence starters help them begin. We provide everything your students need to practice writing with Kinder & 1st Grade Sentence Starters!
Our sentence starters are open-ended requiring your students to use higher order thinking skills while practicing their writing. All writing prompts are in the present tense making it easier for students to express their thoughts. This sentence starters packet is perfect for writing in Kindergarten, 1st grade and for second language learners at the beginning and early intermediate language levels.
We have included black lines for the following:
♥Kinder & 1st grade sentence starter word wall cards
♥Individual lined papers for each sentence starter
♥Student assessment rubric
This unit includes the black line masters that you will need to develop effective lessons. Use sentence starters to start each day, in writer’s workshops, centers, journaling and more.
We have included sentence starters such as:
I see…
I like to go to the…
This is my…
Look at me in the…
Each sentence starter is printed on individual cards and lined paper with space to illustrate the writing. Simply copy, cut, and let your students pick the sentence starter that will get them engaged in writing.
Lori Wolfe
Academic Formal and Informal Language
This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal academic language and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language, academic and informal. Next, students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the academic formal language required by writing.
•academic formal and informal WORD WALL CARDS
•LESSON PLANS
•GAME BOARDS
•PICTURE CARDS
and more
Simply copy, cut, and use.
Use this great academic language package for 1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners!
Lori Wolfe
Past Participle Verb Games
Past Participle Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using past tense participle verbs. Past Participle Verb Games will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play. This English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class! Great for grammar based lessons or ESL classrooms.
This Past Tense Verb package includes 6 Games:
Fishing For the Past!
Concentration!
Slap It!
Weighty Words!
Do You Know IT?
Make It a Past Participle!
Reproducible past tense verb black lines included in this package:
-A variety of past tense verb games
-Complete game boards and game cards
-Easy to use teacher's guides
-Easy game assembly
Just copy, cut and play!
Lori Wolfe
Place Value with 3 Digit Numbers - Games and Lesson Plans
This 24-page game packet contains 4 great place value games and activities. Partner games and individual activities are included in this place value packet. Printable games included in this set:
♥Three in a row
♥Go Fish For Even Numbers
♥Show Me The Number
♥Place Value Board and Blocks
We have also included Homework and Assessment activities.
Reproducible black lines included in this package:
-A variety of place value games
-Complete game boards and game cards
-Activity black line masters
-Assessment
-Activities to send home
-Easy to use teacher's guides
-Easy game assembly
Lori Wolfe
ESL & ELD Songs and Chants Volume I
SING IT LOUD! SING IT CLEAR!
This 51-page collection of ELD and ESL songs and black lines are perfect for every classroom with second language learners. Open every lesson with a song or chant from this rich collection of ELD based lyrics and watch your students' fluency grow. Volume I includes 22 songs/ chants, lesson ideas and activities that will raise the oral academic language of your students to new heights. The songs and chants are sung to familiar popular songs or the lyrics are used in call backs or chant style tunes. These lyrics provide a compelling way to begin your ELD lesson while targeting complex English Structures. You and your students will enjoy these engaging and memorable lyrics.
Songs and Chants for:
Possessive Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
Present Tense Questions
Regular Past Tense Verbs
Past Tense Questions
Present Perfect
Prepositions
Language levels included:
Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced
-Songs and Chants
-Grammatical Forms
-Pictures
-Activities
Happy Teaching,
Lori Wolfe
Sentence Starters Packet
This 11-page packet contains 24 great sentence starters that will get your student writing. Students love to write about their lives and these sentence starters help them begin. We have included sentence starters such as:
I am proud of myself today because
I am most afraid of
I believe friendship is
and more!
Each sentence starter is printed on an individual cards. Simply copy, cut, and let your students pick the sentence starter that will get them engaged in writing.
Happy Teaching!
Lori Wolfe
Spanish Reflexive Preterite Past Tense Verbs - includes great grammar based games and lesson plans to practice the reflexive preterite past tense verbs in Spanish.
These Spanish grammar games and activities give students the Spanish oral language practice they need to master vocabulary and the reflexive past verb tenses in Spanish.
This 21-page game packet contains 6 great Spanish games/activities. Games included in this set:
Fishing For The Past!
Concentration
Slap It!
Pero Ayer
Weighty Words
Make it in the Past
Reproducible black lines included in this package:
-A variety of games
-Complete game boards and game cards
-Easy to use teacher's guides
-Easy game assembly
Happy Teaching!
Lori Wolfe
Measurement Sort - inches and centimeters
Looking for some fun and engaging ways to enhance measurement vocabulary around centimeters and inches?
This unit has everything you need to enhance measurement vocabulary in your student. We have included black lines for a variety of measurement sorts that build math vocabulary and increase measurement understanding. In addition, our measurement activities and ideas provide fun and interest so your students learn through hands-on experiences. This unit is ready to work for you!
This 13-page measurement sort contains reproducible black lines!
Happy Teaching!
Reflexive Pronoun Chant - I Can Do It Myself - Song and Lesson Plan
This great song teaches first and second language learners how to use reflexive pronouns in a snap. This fun grammar chant teaches the connection between I, you, he, she, it, we, they and their corresponding reflexive pronouns.
♥Perfect for ESL/ELD classes and great to use with native speakers of English or ELL second language learners.
Have fun and watch your students sing themselves to better English grammar!
Happy Teaching!
Lori Wolfe
Spanish Preterite Past Tense Verbs- Games and Lesson Plans
Spanish Preterite Past Tense Verbs includes great grammar based games and lesson plans to practice the preterite past tense in Spanish. These Spanish grammar games and activities give students the Spanish oral language practice they need to master vocabulary and the past verb tenses in Spanish.
This 28-page game packet contains 6 great Spanish games/activities. Games included in this set:
Fishing For The Past!
Concentration
Slap It!
Pero Ayer
Weighty Words
Make it in the Past
Reproducible black lines included in this package:
-A variety of games
-Complete game boards and game cards
-Easy to use teacher's guides
-Easy game assembly
Happy Teaching!
Lori Wolfe
Father’s Day Word Wall –
This 48-page vocabulary word wall package includes 51 Father’s Day Word Wall cards, alphabet headers and activities. These word cards are great for a theme wall, flashcards to send home or use as a matching game. Spice up your end of the year with this great packet.
Words included in this packet are:
mother, adore, admire. holiday, hug, child, dedicated, thank, help, family, stepfather, dependable, husband, strong, funny, lucky, brave, best children, proud, loved, beloved, caring, appreciated, parent, love, card, daughter, son, hug, kiss, present, Father’s day, June, family, grandpa, he, him, his, papa, man, always, father, dad, daddy, husband
Vocabulary games and activities included in this set:
Word Wall
Bean Bag Toss
Slap It!
Chant the Wall
This is a great Father’s Day vocabulary graphic organizer to use with your students. Just copy onto colored paper and cut and you have your word wall ready to go!
A vocabulary word wall is an organized group of large print words posted on a bulletin board or wall in your classroom. Word walls draw attention to the words you are teaching and are used in whole class or small group activities.
Word walls provide a systematic visual vocabulary organizer that aides children in seeing and remembering connections between words and the characteristics that help them form categories and schemas to remember how to use them.
Lori Wolfe
Prepositions
Describing Location
Up, down, and all around: prepositions are everywhere. This preposition grammar unit is perfect for ESL ELD and has everything you need to teach your students to use prepositions to describe location at every language level.
This 62-page vocabulary and Grammar unit includes:
32 preposition picture cards
game boards
game cards
Say it Quick sheets
a word wall card for each preposition
song/chant
...and more.
In addition, our activities and ideas provide fun and interest so your all your students (including English Language Learners) learn through hands-on experiences. No more searching for picture cards, prompts or responses.
These plans are ready to work for you.
Happy Teaching!
Lori Wolfe
Sentence starters provide a low-stress way for young writers to practice writing complete sentences. Our sentence starters are open-ended requiring your students to use higher order thinking skills while practicing their writing.Provide your students the opportunities to write creatively with 50 back to school sentence starters.
This great ELA unit has 50 great back to school sentence starters to get your students writing. You can learn about your students as they complete these open ended writing pieces. Let your students pick the sentence starter that will get them engaged in writing or choose one for the whole class.
Each sentence starter is printed on an individual card and on lined paper.
Simply copy, cut, and write!
2 Square Venn Diagram - Graphic Organizer
Students use this 2 squared graphic organizer to respond to literature. Compare and contrast 2 characters in a story, 2 different settings, or 2 events. Use this great Venn Diagram before, during and after reading to solidify student comprehension
Graphic organizers are great group or individual work activities as a response to literature during independent reading, interactive
reading, or shared reading.
Graphic Organizers help students develop higher level thinking skills and promote creativity. They are handy tools for classroom use that guide students through the process of organizing information. Graphic organizers make logic out of language and help students summarize and interpret text. Graphic Organizers are excellent tools that promote high-level active thinking in the classroom.
Critical Thinking and Active Learning materials for:
-Reading Comprehension
-Math
-Social Studies
-Science
-Art
-Conflict Resolution
SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS:
Graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to second language learners. The Venn Diagram can change complex language into language that is comprehensible. This is a perfect visual tool that helps ELLs and all students understand and organize information.
Lori Wolfe
Multiplicando Por 0/1 - Free Spanish Multiplication Math Games and Lesson Plans
Individual Spanish multiplication packages focus on MULTIPLICATION, one factor at a time. Teaching elementary students to multiply in Spanish is quick and effective when students practice their multiplication facts with these fun and engaging reproducible Spanish multiplication games, lesson plans and activities. These Spanish multiplication games are effective ways to reach and teach your English language learners and at risk students. Differentiate your elementary Spanish math instruction with this great 26-page Spanish multiplication game and activities.
Each Spanish multiplication game includes game boards, cards, practice sheets, a 5 minute-timed test and graph in Spanish for efficient assessment. Each Spanish multiplication game package has 5 different activities that students can play to practice and reinforce multiplication. Also included are 5 black lines, which can be used to differentiate your instruction, as seat work or sent home as homework. Flash cards also come in this packet. This game is available in English and Spanish to use with your ELD and ESL students. Use our bilingual multiplication math games to reach and teach all your students.
Math Games offer this multiplication practice through play!
Reproducible black lines included in this package:
-A variety of Spanish multiplication games
-Complete Spanish multiplication game boards and game cards
-Activity black line masters
-Assessment
-Activities to send home
-Easy to use teacher's guides in English
-Easy game assembly
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Multiplication 5-Minute Timed Test - Multiplying by 11
This package for Multiplication 5-minute Timed Tests for the factor 11 is everything you need to assess your students' basic skills in multiplying by 11.
There is a one-page test with 100 problems multiplying by 11. We also have included a one-page graph with a range covering 0-145. There is a space to include the date and what type of test you are recording. This is a visual way for students to see their progress over time. Students can color as a bar graph or connect the dots for a line graph. Students can see how many they have mastered and how many more to go! A one-page pictograph is included that you or your students can use. You can use the pictograph to record one item at a time or employ the key and have the happy face equal 10 items at a time. This is a great introduction to pictographs for students and a visual way for students to see their progress over time.