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Laura Spezzano

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Healthy Habits Book to make

By Laura Spezzano

This is a six page book that your students can make that covers healthy habits. You can arrange the 6 pages in any order you would like. After discussing all of the things that help keep us healthy, your class can make the book and read it

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Reading, Health

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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Story Retelling Pictures and Lesson Ideas

By Laura Spezzano

This item contains retelling pictures for seven popular children's stories including; Brown Bear, The Mitten, Five Little Monkeys, Old MacDonald, Cookies Week,Five Little Ducks, Little Red Hen and I Went Walking. There are pictures to retell and

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Reading, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Activities, Lesson

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Mrs. McNosh's Rhymes

By Laura Spezzano

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks and Nadine Bernard Westcott is a fun story that helps children with rhyming. This activity is a great reinforcement and assessment to follow up the reading of the story. Your students will have fun

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Phonics

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

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Activities

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Seasonal Poems

By Laura Spezzano

This is a collection of 10 seasonal poems including Goodbye Hello, March, Snow, The March Winds, Yellow Daffodils, Let's Go Fly A Kite, May Time Six Frosty Snowmen, Snowball and Wonderful Weather. Enjoy them to introduce the characteristics of a

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Holidays/Seasonal, Poetry

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Printables

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Brown Bear Brown Bear in Sign Language

By Laura Spezzano

A children's favorite story, Brown Bear Brown Bear, can be expanded with these simple ASL instructions for retelling the story. A great way to teach about tolerance and differences. Also makes a great presentation for families once the children

Subjects:

Reading, American Sign Language

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Activities, For Parents

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Letter sorting by shape and placement

By Laura Spezzano

Help your students focus on the shapes of letters by having them sort by straight lines, curves or a combination of both. They can cut out and use the letters provided or use magnetic letters or write the letters with crayons or pencils. Also have

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Reading, Writing

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PreK, Kindergarten, Homeschool

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Activities

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Pictures to use as Writing Prompts

By Laura Spezzano

When your students say they don't know what to write about pull these pictures out. These 10 pictures make great writing prompts for primary grades. They can also be used at the preschool or kindergarten level as discussion starters.

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Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, Writing

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Activities, Lesson, Centers

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Eric Carle

By Laura Spezzano

Eric Carle is a great author study to do with primary students. His books are fun and appealing to young readers and teach great lessons. I've outlined how to put on a class play of The Hungry Caterpillar in this product. All the parts are here.

Subjects:

Reading, Drama

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Projects, Activities, Scripts

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Beginning Reading Strategies

By Laura Spezzano

These 6 items give reading stategies to use with your students for instruction and as a reference. There are also materials directed to parents to explain how they can help their child learn to read. The Reading Strategies chart with it's picture

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Reading, Reading Strategies

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Printables, For Parents, Lesson

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Pumpkins

By Laura Spezzano

This item includes a book to make with your students illustrating the life cycle of a pumpkin. It also includes photos of the different stages of the life cycle as well as book and lesson suggestions.

Subjects:

Reading, Earth Sciences, Autumn

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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Poems for the beginning of the year

By Laura Spezzano

These six poems are great for the beginning of the year. They cover friends, manners, numbers, letters and self. The poems can be used as a large group activity to encourage discussions and can also be used for shared reading activities.

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Balanced Literacy, Reading, Poetry

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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Report Card Phrases

By Laura Spezzano

We all know how hard it is to come up with just the right words for those report card comments. Here is a list of phrases that have worked well for me over the years.

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For All Subject Areas

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Assessment, Professional Documents, Scripts

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Apple Unit

By Laura Spezzano

Apples are a wonderful subject for young children to study and they offer a bushelful of lesson ideas. Late September, early October is the perfect time for this unit. October is Apple month so apples are everywhere. Also, September 26th is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Measurement, Autumn

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Activities, Clip Art, Lesson

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Reading Readiness Poetry Homework

By Laura Spezzano

These are three homework pages that help children get ready to read. The fun poems are used to help the children notice print, recognize letters and learn some vocabulary. Having the parents do the activities at home with their child, also helps

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Homework, For Parents

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December Holiday and Five Senses book

By Laura Spezzano

This is a great book to make during December. It's a 7 page book, including the cover. It covers the 5 senses as well as different things that we have to celebrate the December holidays.

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Reading, Biology, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Printables

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Color Lessons and Activities

By Laura Spezzano

Here are lots of lessons and activities to help your class learn about colors. There are circle map activities including kid-friendly pictures for 7 colors. Word building cards help your students learn to recognize and spell color words. Poems

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Spelling, Vocabulary, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

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Activities, Lesson, Centers

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Ways To Show a Number

By Laura Spezzano

There many ways to represent a number; writing the number or the word, using tally marks or a drawing, using a ten frame, writing a number sentence or using a number line. Have your students practice representing numbers in a variety of ways. This

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Numbers

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

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Worksheets, Activities, Posters

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How to Draw a Star

By Laura Spezzano

This worksheet will show your students step by step how to draw a star. It's a great activity to go along with stories like Eric Carle's Draw Me A Star Dr.Seuss' The Sneetches or even Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

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Visual Arts

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Activities, Handouts

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Books to Make with Color Themes

By Laura Spezzano

This item contains pages for three books that your students can make, all dealing with colors. The first is an adaptation of Crews' Freight Train. The second is a rhyming book showing things that are each color. There are templates you can use to

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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Snow Themed Lessons

By Laura Spezzano

These activities are fun when the snowy weather arrives. There are writing prompts, a glyph, a dice game and a project idea related to Lois Ehlert's Snowballs. A snowman poem and illustration is also included and can also be used to teach the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Basic Operations, Winter

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Games

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching for 14 years in the primary grades, Pre K through 1st. I've been a classroom teacher, reading teacher and literacy coordinator. I started teaching in New York and now teach in North Carolina.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I want my students to love learning and become lifelong learners.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in elementary education.

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GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Sciences, Social Studies, Civics, World Languages, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Music, Drama, Health, Math Test Prep, Life Skills, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Winter, Place Value, American Sign Language, Handwriting, Phonics