This chart will help students practice identifying the beginning blends and digraphs in words. It can be used as a poster or added to their writing folders to use as a reference when reading or spelling. Includes both a color and a black & white copy of the chart.

These Character Emotions Charts can be used when reading to understand how a character is feeling or during writing to add emotions to stories. You may want to put a copy in students’ reading response journals and/or their writing journals. This freebie includes a color and black & white copy of two different charts. The first chart already provides a list of basic emotions and corresponding clip art. The second chart is for older students as it includes synonyms. Students may add to the lists as they find more synonyms. They may also want to use the blank faces to draw feelings and write additional emotions they find while reading.

This set includes reading buddy bookmarks and reader response sheets to enhance your buddy reading in the classroom and support your students' as the Read to Someone during the Daily 5. Set Includes: * Color and Black&White Copies of the following bookmarks: - Buddy Reading Steps - Decoding Prompts - Retelling (Primary) - Retelling (Intermediate) - Making Connections - The 5 W Questions * Student Recording Sheets - Primary recording sheet - Buddy Reading together sheet (fiction) - Buddy Reading together sheet (nonfiction) * Teacher Recording Sheet

Reading Inventories are a great way to collect data on students' reading attitudes and interests. These surveys are differentiated and include a variety of recording sheets based on what works best for you. Classroom teachers can use the different levels of surveys based on student ability levels within the class. Resource teachers can use the different levels with the multiple grade levels they work with. Several different results recording sheets are provided for teachers as a way to condense student responses into one place to use while planning instructional activities based on students' interests and attitudes. The surveys can be administered multiple times during the school year to monitor changes in students' interests in and attitudes about reading. Set includes: * Picture Primary Interest Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Interest Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Attitude Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Picture Attitude Survey with results recording sheet * 2 paged Intermediate Interest Survey with 5 results recording sheets * Intermediate Attitude Survey with results recording sheet * Parent Reading Survey

Let’s make sight word spelling practice fun! This is a kinesthetic approach that allows students to use their imaginations. This set includes color and low ink versions of 35 different cheers for students to practice spelling sight words. There is also a blank template included for students to come up with additional motions to do! You can print these cards to be put in a box, cup, or on a ring. You may want to keep them near your Word Wall. Students can use these cards with a partner during centers. You may also choose to use them for whole group practice or during your small group instruction. Each card gives two sets of motions. The first motions are to be done when spelling the word (e.g. “c – a – n”). Students do the second motions as they state the word they just spelled (e.g. “can”).

** UPDATED!! - This file has been updated to include a black & white version of the alphabet chart (10/29/15) Alphabet charts are a valuable resource to help students learn letter names, sounds, and formations. You can use this as a tool for students in their writing folders or as a poster to refer to during whole group instruction.

Your students will love this Thanksgiving sight word game featuring the Dolch sight words! Just make sure you don't get the Gobble! card or you'll lose all of your cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the fall season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white Gobble game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this Christmas sight word game featuring the Dolch sight words! Just make sure you don't get the COAL! card or you'll lose all of your cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the holidays season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white COAL! game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this winter sight word game featuring the Dolch sight words! Just make sure you don't get the SPLAT! card or you'll lose all of your cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the winter season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white SPLAT! game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this apple themed sight word game featuring the Dolch sight words! Just make sure you don't get the EWW! card or you'll lose all of your cards!Set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words at the beginning of the year than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white EWW! game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this winter sight words game featuring the Dolch sight words. Just make sure you don't get the Bee Mine! card or you'll lose all of your cards! Such a fun way to practice sight words for Valentine's Day than with these cute flash cards! ❤️ The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the winter season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white Bee Mine! game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this fall sight word game featuring the Dolch sight words! Just make sure you don't get the BOO! card or you'll lose all of your cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students' sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the fall season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: * Directions for game play * 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words * Color copies of each sight word list * Black and white copies of each sight word list * Color and black & white BOO! game cards * Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this St. Patrick’s Day sight words game featuring the Dolch sight words. Just make sure you don’t get the My Gold! card or you’ll lose all of your cards! Such a fun way to practice sight words for St. Patrick’s Day than with these cute flash cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students’ sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the winter season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: Directions for game play 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words Color copies of each sight word list Black and white copies of each sight word list Color and black & white My Gold! game cards Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Your students will love this Spring Easter Eggs sight words game featuring the Dolch sight words. Just make sure you don’t get the Cheep!Cheep! card or you’ll lose all of your cards! Such a fun way to practice sight words during the spring season than with these cute flash cards! The set includes flash cards for 220 sight words, game directions, and data graphs for progress monitoring students’ sight words mastery. What better way to practice sights words during the winter season than with a fun game?! Set Includes: Directions for game play 220 Sight Words -Pre-primer words -Primer words -1st Grade words -2nd Grade words -3rd Grade Words Color copies of each sight word list Black and white copies of each sight word list Color and black & white Cheep!Cheep! game cards Data graphs for progress monitoring (includes a sample)

Making words is an easy literacy center! Students can manipulate the letters in these various holidays words to see how many words they can create. This file includes student recording sheets for 11 different holiday words. There are 11 colored recording sheets and 11 blackline masters. It also includes letters that can be cut apart for students to manipulate while making their words. Words for students to manipulate: ~ Columbus Day ~ Trick-or-treat ~ Thanksgiving ~ Gingerbread man ~ Christmas tree ~ New Year's Day ~ Valentine's Day ~ President's Day ~ St. Patrick's Day ~ Spring Break ~ Memorial Day

Sticker stories are a fun way for students to practice writing during literacy centers. By providing scenes and stickers for students to manipulate, it is easier for them to generate ideas. It also prevents you from hearing them say, “I don’t know what to write about!” While you are definitely encouraged to allow students to use any stickers you have, this set provides printable “stickers” for you. You can print these on regular copy paper to put at your writing center. Students can color and glue these paper “stickers” to their stories. School scenes included in this set are: * Classroom * Gym * Library * Cafeteria * Playground * School Exterior

These fluency tasks cards help students practice reading fluently with expression. Each task card has a scenario to allow the students to think about how the character is feeling. Students then read the quote with the appropriate emotion to practice fluent reading. Level 1 gives students 3 emotion words from which to choose. Level 2 requires students to think of the correct emotion word on their own. This set includes: * 20 task cards (two different levels & B/W copies of each) * Student recording sheets * Answer Keys

Let’s make repeated reading and fluency practice fun by allowing students to read with a variety of emotions! This set includes color and low ink versions of 35 different voices for students to use while reading. There is also a blank template included for students to come up with additional voices! You can print these cards to be put in a box, cup, or on a ring. Students can use these cards during independent reading, buddy reading, or even during your small group reading instruction.