Polar Express activities for centers, daily 5 word work, writing, homework, morning work, class activities, and exploration. A kindergarten -1st grade printable thematic unit for The Polar Express. Reading, writing, and math lessons include: YOU WILL GET: * 8 BUILD A WORD worksheets. A no-prep word work center. Students read, build, write, and illustrate vocabulary from the story. (train, conductor, ticket, Santa, bell, elves, reindeer, and hot cocoa) * 1 Patterning Worksheets - cut and paste to extend patterns * 2 Story Response Sheets - students respond, write, and draw * 1 Measuring Train: Students use train to measure objects around the room. * 1 Recording Sheet for Longer/Shorter measurement activity * 1 Counting Sets up to 10 worksheet * 9 full-color illustrated word cards * Directions

Report card comments are sometimes the only part parents bother reading. For that sake, they need to be well-written and specific! For your sake, this is the resource you need to make that happen. Building relationships, participating in class discussions, difficulties/ strengths with expressing thoughts and ideas, tardies and absences, homework, basic skills, writing habits, great helper, organization habits, letter recognition, counting skills, staying on task, disruptive habits to the learning environment, fine-motor skills, problem-solving skills, great effort but struggles to meet standards, encouraging home support, ....you name it; it's there. Now updated with easy-to-find comments, you can choose from 3 categories (Positive, Needs Improvement, and Suggestions for Home), or complete paragraph comments. You will have more than 25 paragraph-length kindergarten - 1st grade comments to choose from, or mix and match the bulleted comments to best fit your students. Simply copy, paste, and insert a name. Save HOURS of time doing report cards!

An interactive pocket chart center to build the poem, Funny Bird is a catchy, repetitive Thanksgiving poem for kids. This is the type of center kids WANT to go back to over and over. After you display the poem, and recite it a couple times, they become eager to build the poem using the word cards. Poem A turkey is a funny bird. His head goes wobble, wobble. All it knows is just one word, "gobble, gobble, gobble." Every word is printed on a separate card, with a gold glittered border, and a turkey clip art icon ~ great for organizing, sorting, and to keep students from misplacing them with other pocket chart activities. INCLUDED: * Directions * Funny Bird Poem Poster (Full Color) * Word cards (measurements: 2.5" x 5") * Title card

CVC Words "Clip It" game includes 27 picture clip cards! Students clip the CVC word that matches the picture. Word choices on each card are spelled with different middle sounds; forcing them to focus on vowel sounds and accuracy. Great for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st grade. Use in centers, guided reading groups, as morning work, an activity for early finishers, in a home-school activity bags, for tutor activities, and/or assessments. ***** If you would rather have the students WRITE the answer on a recording sheet, rather than CLIP it, then check out my CVC Middle Sound TASK CARDS resource. CONTENTS Directions 27 Beginning Sounds Clip Cards. (Full color) 4 on a page. 1 Title Card for labeling when storing Directions

No Prep Language Arts Center, based on The Mitten, by Jan Brett. Just print and go. Printable worksheets for building sentences: reinforces emergent reading and writing skills, such as concepts of print, sight word recognition, punctuation, and illustrating to represent sentences. Great practice for retelling, running records, and leveled readers. Use as a supplemental to your science informational text unit. Students use word tiles to build sentences about the story events: one character on each page. When done, they draw an illustration to match the sentence. At Level worksheets include the sentence at the top of the page. Above Level worksheets do not have the sentences printed. The students identify the word tiles, and put the words in order to make a sentence on their own. Create a class book when all pages are complete. Packet includes: Cover Page Directions A full-color Mitten Character Reference Poster 10 building sentence worksheet pages - At level 10 building sentence worksheet pages- Above level Great for whole class, small groups, language arts centers, word work, daily 5, guided reading, poetry notebooks, or homework.

CVC _at Word Family Packet focuses on early reading strategies, such as decoding word patterns, onsets and rimes, phonemic awareness, fluency, blending and segmenting sounds, and writing sounds to build words. These printable worksheets, center activities, anchor chart, and assessments, are for kindergarten or 1st grade - to be used in whole group instruction, centers, small group/guided reading, morning work, and/or homework. CONTENTS: 1.) Directions for each activity. 2.) Colored Illustrated Word Card Poster: hang on a focus wall as you introduce the word family. 3.) My Family Word Book - a B/W 7pg. emergent reader. 4.) Picture Card and Word Match Activity - Colored cards for center: match picture cards to word cards. Color coded for self-checking. 5.) My _at Family Word House - B/W worksheet for students to record list of words, take home for weekly review, or keep in a CVC growing folder at school for reference. 6.) Build a Word - B/W worksheet. Cut and paste letter tiles to build 3 word family words. Draw a picture of one word family words, and a peer/teacher guesses the word. 7.) Sound Boxes - B/W worksheet to say the picture word, tap the sounds, and write/stamp the letters. 8.) Sound Boxes Intervention - B/W worksheet to say and tap out the sounds. Students TRACE the letters to make word. 9.) Write the Word - B/W worksheet: students write words to match the pictures given. 10.) Write and Illustrate - B/W worksheet for those who may need an extra challenge. Writing a word, use it in a sentence, and illustrate to match the sentence. 11.) Writing Assessment - B/W assessment for students to write the words independently to match the words. Score at bottom, and space for notes. 12.) Reading Assessment - B/W assessment for students to read the word in the box independently. Score at bottom, and space for notes. 13.) Word Family Match-Up - B/W worksheet - students read the _at word, then draw a line to match it with the same word on the right.

These 20 colorful Consonant Digraph task cards can be used in many ways, such as Scoot, Write the Room, Intervention, Phonics Center, Early Finisher Activity, Whole Class, and as an Assessment. The students become actively engaged in the activity while building phonics skills, such as initial phoneme segmentation. Students look at the picture, and partial word, on the task card. Then, write the word or digraph on the recording sheet. Ch, Sh, Th, and Wh are printed at the top of the recording sheet for reference. CONTENTS Directions 20 Digraph Task Cards 1 Title Card 1 Student Recording Sheet 1 Teacher Answer Sheet