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Kindergarten critical thinking short stories resources under $5
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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Grades:
K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
Nursery Rhymes Printables - Story Retelling Worksheets - NO PREP
These 12 NO PREP nursery rhymes printables will make your story retelling and sequencing review fun! These worksheets are fantastic for preschool and kindergarten because your students will build fine motor skills when they color, cut and paste events from the story to recreate the nursery rhyme in the correct order.Each worksheet features one nursery rhyme and 4 events to cut and paste in sequence. The worksheet also includes a copy of the nursery rhyme for reference.Featured Nursery Rhymes:♥
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PreK - 1st
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CVC Stories Reading passages with comprehension questions CVC Words Sight Words
These adorable stories will have your kindergarten and/or first grade students practicing so many reading skills. Each story targets CVC and sight words to build their fluency and comprehension. I read the story first, then we read it together chorally and finally I have students read it on their own. Then we read the comprehension questions and fill in the answers. 30 different stories are included, and they each come in both color and black/white. This download is for CVC stories set #1.-
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K - 2nd
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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Design a Bed
Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM: Design a New Bed for Goldilocks! What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.⚙️ The STEM Activity ⚙️Your students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Sequence of Events- Activities
⭐️✅Looking for a way to engage your students with retell and sequencing? This is perfect for students to show what they know! Answer keys included!✔️Cut and paste, worksheets, and activities✔️Susie works at the Zoo and loves her job. Mr. Farmer has a busy day! Molly is having a birthday party! Read the stories and order the events.✔️Maria is baking a cake, help her make her cake in the correct order✔️Sequence task cards for whole group or small group reteach if you like. Use as an intro to your
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Grades:
K - 4th
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Snowmen at Night Book Companion Writing Craft for Winter Months
Snowmen at Night book companion. What do Snowmen do at Night? I know your students have all sorts of imaginative ideas. This creative winter book companion is a fun way to extend the book Snowmen at Night after reading it with your students. It makes for an adorable winter bulletin board too.⭐Includes writing templates, anchor prediction chart headings, and scarf and hat templates. An easy to cut one piece snowman is also included for younger students.⭐ Do you need more Winter themed resource
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Winter Math and Literacy Kindergarten Resources and Centers MEGA BUNDLE
Thinking Thursday
Are you looking for a fun way to get your children thinking outside the box? Try a Thinking Thursday. You can do these whole group, independent practice, or even as morning work. This is a great way to get your kids using their imagination!*Capital and lower-case letters*Numbers 1-20 in 2 different fonts*20 shapes*a blank set with no Thinking Thursday at the top so you can use any day of the week *a set with just lines so students can write their own sentences *1 page to use to create your ownPl
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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Reading Comprehension and Fluency Pack
This BEST SELLING 114 page reading comprehension and fluency pack has three differentiated comprehensions for each phonics sound. Each passage has a shape next to it which shows the different level. To help improve fluency and aid comprehension, each passage has the numbers 1-3 at the top. Students are encouraged to read the passage three times. Each time they read the passage, they color in a number.Each sound has an original comprehension story with comprehension questions that cover who, what
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K - 3rd
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The Napping House Retelling Pack
The Napping House Retelling Pack is intended to be used after reading the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood. This is a favorite student book. Use this pack to make the story come to life! Here is what is included in the pack.Vocabulary Cards: Print on cardstock, laminate, and cut apart words or leave as a poster. Preview vocabulary from the story prior to reading and/or review vocabulary after reading the story. Place in writing center, pocket chart, or back with magnetic tape and use
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PreK - K
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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
CVC Fluency: Sound it Out
****This is part of a BUNDLE available HERE***
***The BUNDLE includes:***
The 12 packets include:
*Sound it Out
*Dot A Word Family
*Spin and Write
*Roll and Color
*Color by Word Family
*CVC Scoops ABC Order !
*Find and Record coming
*Simple Sentences coming
*Word Search and Sentences
*Read and Make Simple Sentences
*Fluency: Roll and Read
*Reading Comprehension
CVC Fluency: Sound it Out
Each Sound it Out page works with a specific word family. Students bingo dab the beginning, m
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: CVC Fluency THE BUNDLE
Mo Willems Author Study--A Reading Response Journal for Grades K-2
Kids LOVE Mo Willems books! The characters are funny and easy for kids to make connections with. In this unit, I have included response pages for many of Mo Willem’s popular books. Typical response pages included making text to self connections or character webs. Also included is a printable journal cover.To use:Print out a recording sheet for the books you wish to use.Staple the cover sheet and pages together and you are ready to go.I hope you enjoy this packet and studying this fun author
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Intro to Unplugged Coding: Directional Coding
Unplugged Coding made easy!Everything you need to get started with unplugged coding. No robots needed! Students learn the basics of directional coding and write their own code!Unplugged Coding Process:Students learn the logic and thinking that goes into writing codes using Directional Coding. They learn 5 vocabulary words: Programmer, Code, Command, Bug, and Debug.Students practice debugging codes before writing their own codes with a partner. After they have completed their activities, there is
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K - 5th
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Digraphs Decodable Reading Passages for Kindergarten Digital Resource
Build digraphs fluency with these decodable digraphs reading comprehension passages and questions! They are perfect for students who are newly learning digraphs. Use them with emergent readers, kindergarteners, for intervention, tutoring, and more!For every passage, you will find:• The skill listed in the left hand corner so it's easy for you and your students to reference.• 3-6 short vowel words with digraphs for the targeted skill listed with tracking dots underneath so that your students can
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Grades:
K - 1st
CVC Fluency: Roll and Read
****This is part of a BUNDLE available HERE***
***The BUNDLE includes:***
The 12 packets include:
*Sound it Out
*Dot A Word Family
*Spin and Write
*Roll and Color
*Color by Word Family
*CVC Scoops ABC Order !
*Find and Record coming
*Simple Sentences coming
*Word Search and Sentences
*Read and Make Simple Sentences
*Fluency: Roll and Read
*Reading Comprehension
CVC Fluency: Roll and Read
Each Roll and Read page focuses on one specific word family. Students roll a die and read th
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Also included in: CVC Fluency THE BUNDLE
Sequencing Stories With Pictures Kindergarten Literacy Center Sequence of Events
This print-and-go sequencing activity is the secret to teaching sequencing to your kindergarten and first-grade students! With engaging retelling stories that help students practice the critical thinking skill of order of events, this activity is the perfect hands-on learning activity.Your young learners will love practicing their fine motor skills as they cut, paste, and put the events in order. The short stories are engaging and perfect for teaching sequential order, and the no-prep format mak
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K - 1st
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Transportation Pattern Blocks Activity Mats & Task Cards
These transportation pattern blocks activity mats and task cards are perfect for enhancing your transportation unit or lesson. Students can create a picture with the pattern blocks, count and write how many of each block was used, then trace the name of the transportation. This set includes land, water and air transportation. Two versions are included to allow for differentiation. Just provide your kids with pattern blocks and let them complete the challenges/activities. The images on the mats
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: TRANSPORTATION BUNDLE
Short Stories WH Questions for Auditory and Reading Comprehension
❤️ This WH Question Short Stories Set includes 60 WH Questions ❤️Each story asks Who, What, Where, When, Why and How! ❤️ Perfect for Auditory and Reading Comprehension and LEVEL 1 includes picture supports!This set of 10 short stories is designed to develop auditory and/or reading comprehension skills. Developing auditory comprehension skills will improve students abilities in the area of attention, discriminating important information, and later developing skills such as note taking! The stori
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K - 3rd
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Kindergarten Guided Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions: Level C
Inside you'll find 40 level C reading comprehension passages with questions that target both COMPREHENSION and FLUENCY. These passages are simple, engaging, and visually supported by a picture.Each reading passage is presented twice in 2 versions for easy DIFFERENTIATION: * version 1 is standard (for your lower students): the students will just answer the questions * version 2 (for your higher students): the students will answer the questions and color / highlight the evidence in the text that
Grades:
K - 1st
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