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Thanksgiving Play or Readers Theater and Songs with Literacy Activities
Make your November and Thanksgiving literacy activities memorable this year with integrated Reading, Writing and Drama and Music activities. These are the most excellent ways to include all students and offer diverse learning activities, while developing reading, writing, speaking and creativity skills. Use the Readers Theater or Play about the Native Americans and the Pilgrims to help children learn how to become friends and celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Integrate READING, WRITING, MUSIC and DRAM
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K - 3rd
Jumbo Poster Size Graphic Organizer Collaboration and Group Discussion Mats
Need some help getting your group to record their discussions or stay on topic? More important, do you need a way to do that conveniently without a lot of effort? Yes, graphic organizers can be found anywhere. These poster size printouts save you the time of formatting and enlarging them for whole or small group use. As a teacher, my time is valuable, which is why I made these. These printable collaboration mats print across 6, 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper each. Once taped together, they make the p
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
Mistakes - A Growth Mindset lesson using Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg
This growth mindset lesson is all about making mistakes as a part of the learning process. This lesson requires you to buy or have the book "Beautiful Oops" by Barney Saltzberg. This is a wonderful little board book where an artist turns many common "mistakes" into fun little drawings.
This is a growth mindset lesson I use with my once weekly growth mindset classes from Kindergarten all the way through 5th grade. The students really love the pictures in this book and the message that mistakes a
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K - 4th
Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
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K - 5th
26 A - Z Songs and Finger plays aligned with ZooPhonics
26 fun and cute songs and finger plays from A - Z. As your students learn letter sounds, add these songs to your favorite letter themes! Perfect for your Zoo Phonics or ANY phonics program! From alligators to zebras, these songs will delight your students at morning meeting! Don't be alarmed when you find your students singing the tunes while they work independently.Create a songbook center. Students can record themselves singing a song! It will become a class favorite! Add student record
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PreK - 1st
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The Fabulous Friend Machine Book Study- Literacy & Online Safety Activities
The Fabulous Friend Machine English Language Arts Activities (ELA) and Digital Safety ActivitiesThis packet includes ready to go story companion activities for a variety of levels from Pre-K to early elementary so you can use one wonderful storybook across many classes! Use this book companion after reading the wonderful The Fabulous Friend Machine by Nick Bland. I am not affiliated with the author, and the book is not included. Not only will your students LOVE this thought-provoking story, the
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K - 3rd
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Solve the mystery case files | Problem solving | Group activity for preschool
This Secret Spy Detective mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This
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PreK - K
Philosophy Questions Kit Printable - 78 Question Cards with Discussion Guide
Philosophy Questions Printable Kit : Suitable for Kindergarten to Fifth Grade
These printable Philosophy Question Cards will provide teachers with ideas to facilitate whole class or small group philosophy discussion sessions.
The kit includes:
-A full list of the seventy-eight philosophical questions
-A poster titled ‘A Guide For Philosophical Discussion’
-Seventy Eight Philosophical Question Cards (Two large cards per Landscape Letter/A4 size page)
Philosophical inquiry offers students the o
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K - 5th
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Listening and Following Directions - Math
This product is filled with worksheets that promote building listening skills and following directions. These worksheets are for whole group, small group, or independent. Depending on the students level of independence, it can be for independent or teacher prompted instruction. These are great self-explanatory sheets that are good to leave for substitutes.
This is the MATH Edition.This product is also available as part of a discounted bundle in my store: Listening and Following Directions BUNDL
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K - 12th
Also included in: Listening and Following Directions - BUNDLE
Kwanzaa Songs, Poems, Readers Theater Literacy Activities ELA Activities
Celebrate Kwanzaa in your preschool and primary Kinder, First, Second and Third Grade Classrooms through singing, reading and writing activities. Literacy activities include Songs sung to familiar tunes with Hand Actions, Reader's Theater Script and Poems in addition to writing activities to complete your literacy lessons.Circle time, carpet time and literacy time activities. Perfect for Preschool- 3rd grade.RESOURCE INCLUDES:All songs set to familiar tunes!26 speaking parts-adaptable and in 3
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PreK - 3rd
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
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K - 4th
Reading Comprehension Cards Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Comp. Quest Cards 2 are based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking. They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, a resource room teacher and as a reading specialist.⭐ These are based on more recent changes from Anderson & Krathwohl (2001).➀ Light red: Remembering➁ Light orange: Understanding➂ Light yellow:
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K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Blanks Questions and Book Companion - Who Sank the Boat
Practical resources for Speech and Language Therapy I love using books in therapy sessions with my clients and I’m sure you do too. Using books provides an endless array of content on which to build your therapy. Having a structure on which to build this therapy makes your life easier. That is why we have developed our Blanks Questions and Book Companion series. Marion Blank devised a four-level system of questioning for oral language development aimed at children in the early years. She acknow
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Blanks Questions and Book Companion BUNDLE 1
Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
I created this packet of reading response comprehension questions to use with my “independent” readers who are ready to dig deeper into what they are reading. This Magic Tree House The Knight at Dawn is a 2.9 reading level.
Students will: write responses to text dependent questions about key details in the text, apply their knowledge to new situations, make inferences and draw conclusions, participate in collaborative co
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K - 3rd
Listening and Following Directions - BUNDLE
Listening and following directions activities: Grades K-6 Special Education / General Education. OVER 150 worksheets!!! Worksheets that promote building listening skills and following directions. These worksheets are for whole group, small group, or independent. Depending on the students level of independence, it can be for independent or teacher prompted instruction. These are great self-explanatory sheets that are good to leave for substitutes.This is the BUNDLE Edition. If you purchased any
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PreK - 12th
Accountable Talk Posters
Here are 9 different accountable talk posters to encourage rich partner discussions and reflections.
The prompts include:
"I agree with.... because...."
"I disagree with.... because...."
"I can conclude..."
"This makes me think about..."
"Now I am wondering..."
"I like what you said... I can add..."
"What do you think about..."
"I can connect this to..."
"The clues from the text tell me..."
All 9 include pictures that provide a visual clue to remind students of the prompts.
If you have
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PreK - 1st
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Differentiated Reading-Level-Based Question Tasks
This 101 page document contains question tasks for reading levels A-Z (correlated with Fountas and Pinnell). The questions are adapted from Fountas & Pinnell (F&P) and aligned with the language and rigor of Teacher's College (TC). Question tasks can be used for guided reading, independent or peer reading, activities for when students finish reading, homework activities, for your teacher tool kit, for general reading responses, and so much more!All of the questions are differentiated, m
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K - 8th
Down By the Bay Song Book & Craft
Down By the Bay song book, craft and puppet for preschool and kindergarten. Students will love singing along to the classic rhymes with printable songbook and Down by the Bay puppets. Make our watermelon craft with Down by the Bay sequencing making learning interactive and independent. A fun summer art to add to your end of the year activities!Included resource:Down by the Bay song book (color/ BW)Down by the Bay puppets (color/BW)Down by the Bay Watermelon craft (color/BW)****This license is fo
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PreK - 1st
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Mistakes - A Growth Mindset lesson using Nobody's Perfect by David Elliott
This growth mindset lesson is all about making mistakes as a part of the learning process. This lesson requires you to buy or have the book Nobody's Perfect by David Elliott. This book follows a boy through his day as he realizes the imperfections in people in his life, but then learns to celebrate those things about them.
This is a growth mindset lesson I use with my once weekly growth mindset classes from Kindergarten all the way through 5th grade. The students really love the pictures in th
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K - 5th
School Family Chants and Cheers
Help create a positive mindset, feeling of safety and community and school family as you teach children to cheer each other on and teach them that they each have value and they should help keep the classroom safe. These cards were inspired by principles learned from the Growth Mindset and Conscious Discipline.These cards are included in myCircle Time Song Card Bundle, so if you already own it, this has been added to your product for free! If you have not yet purchased it, these cards and many m
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Circle Time Songs - BIG BUNDLE 175+ Song Cards
Comprehension Questions for LLI Blue Kit, Stories 1-10
Thank you for purchasing this set of comprehension questions that correlate to stories # 1 – 10 in the blue Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) kit. The stories in this pack are:
1. The Little Red Hen retold by Amy Helfer;
2. Things that Fly by April Maguire;
3. The Sea by Maryann Dobeck;
4. The Tide Pool by Charles Roberts;
5. Down the River by Laurie McKenna;
6. Down the Path by Becky Mann;
7. All About Penguins by Kay Winnit;
8. Police Car by David Ea
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K - 5th
Froggy Goes to School: Stories with Music
Description: This delightful story includes everything a teacher would want to include in a music lesson: movement, singing with a pitch-matching activity, orchestral music, instrument playing, and improvisation.Source: Story by Jonathan London. Illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. Lesson and Song by Lynn Kleiner. Optional Kangaroo from Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move book and CD.Page Count: 5Age Group: Ages 3 - 8Number of Lessons: Shown as one lesson, this can be presented over 2-3 lessons.Tip from
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PreK - 5th
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Learning Letter Sounds and Vowel Samba
If your students are learning letter names and sounds then this resource is perfect for them! This song card goes with Jack Hartmann's, "Learning Letter Sounds" song from his ,Shake, Rattle and Read CD. Print one out for each student and have them follow along with the song! This is a great way to warm-up your day and is also a great resource for students to keep in their desk or even their writing binders/folders!Also included is a song card for Jack Hartmann's "Vowel Sound Samba".I also typ
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PreK - 2nd
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