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!

Long and Short Vowel Sound Games and Centers has students distinguishing long and short vowel sounds when reading words. Each Vowel (a, e, i, o, u) includes: A set of 36 task cards. (18 short vowel words and 18 long vowel words) A T-Chart to separate the words. Use the task cards to separate words, for playing games, and for the centers that are included in this pack. There are 2 different games to play with each vowel set of task cards. The centers and games also include recording sheets. Each vowel set also includes 3 worksheets. Use these worksheets for extra practice or as assessments. This entire pack comes in a black and white copy too! This pack is set up to practice distinguishing long from short vowel sounds.

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 Unscramble Sentences Worksheets has a total of 20 worksheets (4 worksheets for each of the five vowel sounds). Each worksheet includes 3 sentences for students to unscramble and form into a complete sentence. Students read the 5 or 6 words in the word bank and write a complete sentence that could match the picture. These are simple sentences that are designed for beginning readers learning to read, make, and write complete sentences. The words in the word bank use CVC words and only 11 sight words. The sight words used for each page are located on the top right hand corner of each worksheet. The 11 sight words used in this entire packet include: a, and, at, has, I, in, is, my, on, see, the These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and/or forming sentences. Place a worksheet at a reading center or use as part of your lesson for students to practice unscrambling sentences.

This CVC Worksheets pack has a total of 35 worksheets that will have your students identifying, reading and writing CVC words all year long! This pack includes 35 Worksheets (7 pages for each vowel sound.) The 7 pages for each vowel sound includes: • 2 worksheets that students choose which of the 3 words match the picture. • 2 worksheets that has a word bank and students use the words in the word bank to match the pictures. • 1 worksheet that students read a row of 4 words and choose 2 words that are real words. • 1 worksheet that students put a list of words into 4 categories. • 1 worksheet for students to cut-out words and paste them on the picture that matches the word. These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and/or sounding out words. Place a worksheet at a reading center or use as part of your lesson for students to practice.

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.

CVC Words Rhyming Worksheets will have your students reading and rhyming all year long! This pack includes 36 Rhyming Worksheets (5 pages for each vowel sound and 11 pages of mixed vowels for assessments). These are great to use at your small group time for a quick assessment of who’s reading and rhyming. Place a worksheet at a reading center or use as part of your lesson for students to practice rhyming.

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.

These Personal Narrative Worksheets are a great way to practice writing a short paragraph or narrative. These worksheets include a graphic organizer to help students organize their personal narrative into a quick paragraph. Students respond to the prompt on each page. They write a topic about their paragraph along with a topic sentence. They write 3 supporting details about the topic and close it with an end statement. Students can edit themselves or have someone edit them. Students can rewrite their rough draft in their writing journal or on another writing sheet. This pack includes 30 writing prompts for personal narratives.

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.

Opinion Writing Worksheets will have your students expressing their opinions all year long. This little pack includes 34 opinion prompts or questions. 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 opinion starters, transition words, and closings.

Book Talk is loaded with Activities, Book Reports, Graphic Organizers, and Reading Logs to motivate students to start talking about books. It includes ninety pages of ideas and activities to use with any book. This pack is for 2nd - 3rd Grade Classrooms. It includes: Book Talk Questions -Use to generate questions about their reading. Use for small group or partner reading. Send these questions home to help parents and students talk about the book they are reading at home. Reading Activity Sheets-Ideas and extension activities to use for partner reading or early finishers. Book Reports- 7 Book Reports to send home for a homework project or to use in class. Each book report comes with its own grading rubric. Graphic Organizers- There are over forty organizers to get students talking and analyzing books. Reading Logs- A few reading logs to help students keep track and record of their reading minutes. Students will have plenty to do during reading time all year long. These activities will go with any story you are reading in class. This pack is perfect for homework projects, classwork, reading centers, partner activities, and so much more. Just print and you are ready to go! Be amazed how much better your students start talking about books!

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