CVCE Sentences for Reading Comprehension includes 75 Task Cards. (20 task cards for each vowel sound, a, i, o and 15 task cards for vowel sound u.) This pack will have your students excited to practice reading, recognizing CVCE Words, and comprehending what they are reading. Each task card displays 2 sentences. Students choose the sentence that makes the most sense with the picture. These task cards will help students read with fluency and practice comprehension. Different Recording Sheets have been included to fit your needs in the classroom. Only a few sight words are used for each set of card. Use the sight word list to see if the set of task cards are right for your students. If students know the sight words listed and know how to sound out CVCE words, this pack is perfect for your beginning readers! An answer key is included to help distinguish pictures.

Blank Calendars and Calendar Questions are a perfect combo to learn the calendar. This pack includes 6 Task Cards that include 10 calendar questions to ask information about any month. 12 blank calendars for each month. Plus, a blank calendar to write your own month. 1 recording sheet to record answers from the task cards. 7 Blank Calendar worksheets with questions. The 12 blank calendars will help students to be able to fill out a calendar, spell the days of the week, and understand the mechanic of how calendars work. Students write the days of the week at the top and label the squares with the dates for the month. Students can also fill in and identify any holidays for the month. These calendars are universal and will be a great addition to your homework calendars or as a classroom center or lesson. The 6 Task Cards display 10 questions to ask about any month. Use any task card with any month. Each task card is different and will provide different answers for every month and every year. The questions on the task cards will help students understand the components of a calendar and how to use and read one. The 7 Blank Calendar Worksheets have a small calendar to fill in dates and days. Since it is smaller, students might want to use abbreviations when adding the days of the week. Each worksheet has 6 generic questions to ask for any month.

Opinion Writing Center will have your students expressing their opinions all year long. This little pack includes 32 task cards that have a question on it. These questions are meant to spark some interest in students to write some of their opinions on the subject matter. Also included is an anchor chart to help with transition words, 1 graphic organizer to write thoughts down, and 1 writing page for final draft and presentation.

CVC Picture Cards for a writing center includes 20 Task Cards. This pack will have your students excited to practice sounding out and writing CVC Words from a picture prompt. Each task card displays 9 pictures. There are 20 Task Cards and a few different Recording Sheets included in this pack. Task Cards are separated by vowel sounds. Some task cards concentrate on single sound vowels and other task cards are mixed with other vowels.

4 Kinds of Sentences Task Cards use the sentences: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory. 40 Task Cards,Recording Sheets and an Answer Key are included. Students read the sentence on the task card and decide what kind of sentence it is. Students choose from a multiple choice answer. Use as part of your lesson, at a literacy center, during small group time, for homework, as a warm-up activity, or use with partners or teams.

Sequence Cut and Paste Worksheets include a total of 20 reading passages. Students read a small passage and then cut the 5 sentence strips below the passage and paste in the correct order. These are also great for going back to the passage to check answers and reinforcing the order of a story. Use the worksheets at a reading center, classwork, homework, or for your sequencing lesson. Passages are suited for 1st-2nd grade readers.

Story Writing Centers include 3 centers to help generate or spark some creativity in writing for students. The three centers include: Center 1: List Writing- Use all the words on the notebook to write a story. There are 16 Lists included. Center 2:Story Element Cards- Each card includes two characters, a setting, and the plot. There are 18 Lists included. Center 3: Mix and Match Stories- Pick 1 character, 1 setting, and 1 plot. Use the three story elements to write a story. This pack also includes graphic organizers to help students get started. Use these centers and ideas for your writing centers or for early finishers.

CVC Rhyming Strips will have your students reading and rhyming all year long! This pack includes 70 Rhyming Strips (14 for each vowel sounds) using CVC Short Vowel Words. These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and rhyming. Place a set at a reading center for students to practice rhyming. A recording sheet is added for students to record their answers.

4 Kinds of Sentences Task Cards use the sentences: Statement, Question, Command, and Exclamation. 40 Task Cards, Recording Sheets, and an Answer Key are included. Students read the sentence on the task card and decide what kind of sentence it is. Students choose from a multiple choice answer. Use as part of your lesson, at a literacy center, during small group time, for homework, as a warm-up activity, or use with partners or teams.

Halloween Theme Centers and Activities are perfect for 2nd and 3rd Grade Classrooms. It has over 50 pages of reading, math, writing, and science activities and centers to use for the month of October. The ideas in this pack are intended to reinforce the skills you are already learning in the classroom. Here is what’s included in this pack: Math: Coordinate Grid and Ordered Pair Left, Right, Center with addition or multiplication Pumpkin Sticks -addition or multiplication Catch A Snack - addition or multiplication Odd/Even Game Combination Pumpkins M&M Activity using addition/multiplication Pumpkin Math-use a real pumpkin to estimate, weigh, and measure Freaky Frank Math Reading/Writing: Syllable Game or Center-Use Halloween words to find how many syllables are in the words ABC Order Race It used to be a pumpkin seed… Boggle Board Noun/Verb/Adjective Game Science: How many Candy Corns can you stack before it falls? Will the candy sink or float? What happens when you put a piece of candy in water? Other: Game Board for any subject. Use the game boards for other games using spelling words, math facts, and/or reading comprehension questions. A recipe for Roasting Pumpkin Seeds. Many activities to keep students busy all month long!

Bone Chilling Stories has your students writing creative stories this season. It includes 3 Writing Centers. Bones- Use all the Halloween words on the bone to make a story. Candy Corn- 1 candy corn to write a character, setting, and plot. Make A Story- Pick from a can 1 character, 1 setting, and 1 plot.

CVC Words vs Nonsense Words Task Cards will have your students identifying short vowel words all year long! This pack includes 100 task cards (20 for each vowel sounds) using CVC Short Vowel Words. Students read the two CVC words on each task card and they identify the "real’ word. These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and able to identify the real word against a word that don’t make any sense, Place a set of task cards at a reading center for students to practice reading and identifying CVC words. A recording sheet is added for students to record their answers.

This pack has 10 silent e games to practice the vowel sounds of: a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e All you need to do is print and play. 1 die and some game tokens to cover words are needed too. The game boards can be played with 2-3 Players. They are perfect for small groups or reading centers. Game boards include each vowel sound (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e) and a review of them mixed. Students will have great practice reading silent e words. How to play the game: Players roll a dice two times to reveal a word. If a word can be made, the word is covered with a game token. The first player to cover 5 words is the winner.

CVC Word Strips will have your students reading short vowel words all year long! This pack includes 70 CVC Word Strips (14 for each vowel sounds) using CVC Short Vowel Words. These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and rhyming. Place a set at a reading center for students to practice rhyming. A recording sheet is added for students to record their answers.

Do your students need help generating good opening and closing statements? How many of your students leave one or both out? Well not anymore! This pack will give your students a few ideas to get them started. You’ll be amazed how much better your students’ opening and closing statements improve! This product includes: 2 posters with a list of variety of ways to open and close writing. These opening and closing statements can be used for any genre of writing. They are both kid friendly and easy to use. Students pick from a variety of ideas for their openings and closings statements. There are 2 lists of examples on opening statements and 1 list of examples on closing statements. 2 worksheets to practice opening and closing statements. A blank template for opening and closing statements to create your own ideas or take notes. Also included are black and white versions for those that do not want color.

Inference Writing Center is intended to do two things: Make Inferences and Write in Complete Sentences. The task cards will help students generate inferences by looking at a picture and then putting those thoughts down on paper. The Materials in this Pack include: • 24 Task Cards with Inference Writing prompts • 24 Recording Sheets (in thirds) Ideas on how to use the writing prompts: • Use the colored task cards along with the recording sheet at a writing center. Students write what they infer about each picture. Students can also use a writing journal or other writing paper instead of the recording sheets. • You can also copy the Recording Sheets and cut each sheet into thirds. Use the recording sheets for complete sentence writing and inference recognition. These would be great for morning work. • You can also send home for homework, use for a writing prompt for the week, as part of your inference lesson, as a warm-up activity, or for morning work.

Word Choice Posters include these 24 overused words: bad, big, cold, easy, fast, fun, get, good, happy, hard, hot, little, mad, make, mean, nice, pretty, sad, said, see, slow, ugly, very, and went This resource includes 24 posters that display “overused” or “boring” words. On the top half of the poster lists 15 better words for the “overused” word. On the bottom half of the poster includes 7 sentences using the “overused” word. Students choose a better word from the list to replace in the sentences. You can leave the posters whole or you can cut them apart and glue onto black construction paper. The top half can be hung as posters and the bottom half can be used as task cards at a writing center or for small group time. Post the posters on your word wall or chalkboard. Students have a reference or visual to replace their “overused” words. This pack also includes a recording sheet for students to choose 8 words that they “overuse” and make a list of new words to replace them. They can keep this list in their writing folder. There are also 3 worksheets to practice replacing words. The words in the worksheets are the same as the words on the posters. This pack is a great way for students to learn some new vocabulary words and strengthen their writing skills. Students will be able to notice boring words and generate better words in their writing.

Spelling Task Cards includes 40 different ways to practice weekly spelling words. Spelling Task Cards are perfect for centers, homework, or class work. These ideas work for any spelling list. Students choose a task card and follow the directions on it using all their spelling words. This may include writing them 3 times each, or writing the synonyms or antonyms or each spelling word. This pack includes 40 different ways to practice spelling!

Here are 18 posters that display what “Good Readers” do when reading or learning to read. Use the posters when focusing on a reading strategy or skill. The 18 reading posters included in this set are: Making Connections Using Prior Knowledge Predictions Reread to Understand Find a Purpose Know the Difference Between Fiction and Non-Fiction See What They read Summarize Sequence Read With Fluency Look at Word Bits Use Context Clues Use Phonics Self-Correct Reread Aloud Ask Questions Read Ahead Make Inferences

Base Words Worksheets will help teach students about base words. These worksheets will help students notice what happens when they add prefixes and suffixes (affixes) to base words. The spelling of some base words will change and so will its meaning. The prefixes used in this pack include: un, re, dis, non, mis, pre The suffixes used in this pack include: ness, less, ed, ly, ing, s, ful, able, er, and est The 30 worksheets include these 30 base words: agree, appear, believe, build, care, clean, color, comfort, connect, cover, forgive, happy, harm, help, hope, like, love, move, open, organize, pack, place, play, power, read, stop, test, turn, use, write, and view. Each worksheet displays a base word and the affixes that can be added to the base word to make new words. Students make as many new words as they can using the prefixes and suffixes listed. The worksheets extent to separating the new words they made according to the spelling rule or by segmenting the new words apart by prefix, base word, and suffix. The worksheets also have students writing the definition of the new word or they write a sentence that displays the meaning on the new word. For example: If using the base word, CARE, students can make new words like caring, careful, uncaring, and so on. They can also see how two suffixes can be added to the base word like, carelessness and carefully. Students need to be careful when adding affixes to base words. Some affixes will not make sense when added to the base word. For example; discare or carely. This is a good time to talk about nonsense words. Use these worksheets for continued practice at a reading center. As students become more proficient, they will be able to work independently. You can also send these worksheets home for homework or to check understanding as an assessment. This pack includes 30 worksheets and a poster listing the prefixes and suffixes used in this pack.