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Critical thinking short stories printables
Project Based Learning: Geometrocity! A Math PBL
Project Based Learning: GEOMETROCITY! Build a City Made of Math with Geometry.Imagine, Design, and Build a City with this 2D and 3D Adventure!-Project Based Learning-Real World Application-Geometry, Maps, & More -Extension Activities -Differentiated Levels***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL!***There is a link to a Google Slides Version. Details below. *This resource can be used for distance learning and e-learning.*Geometrocity is a project based learning activity where students will take their
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
Growth Mindset ESCAPE ROOM Activity - Reading Comprehension - Back to School
The Growth Mindset Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, George Lucas, and Walt Disney.Perfect Back to School or first day activity to promote a positive mindset, talk about failures, determination and success, and start the year off on a good note.The Growth Mindset Escape Room is a great reading comprehension ac
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5th - 8th
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KinderWriting® Kindergarten Writing Curriculum BUNDLED
KinderWriting® Curriculum Units BUNDLED is an engaging, standards-based kindergarten, genre-based writing curriculum. This bundle is designed for the kindergarten classroom and easily adapted to fit a guardian-led homeschool setting! If inquiring about this bundle for a homeschool setting, feel free to email me directly with any questions at tara@littlemindsatwork.org!Do you have a few extra moments? Watch THIS video!What is KinderWriting?KinderWriting® Curriculum is an engaging, kindergarten,
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PreK - 1st
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Math Logic Puzzles | Early Finishers Activities Enrichment Digital Resources
In the hustle and bustle of a new school year, enrichment activities are just one more thing on your plate. These Back to School Math Logic Puzzles are ready-to-go brain teasers just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed to give students the opportunity to solve real-world, first-week teacher problems, these logic games push students to practice both their reasoning and key math skills. Students will be so engaged as they solve missing bus
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3rd - 6th
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Read and Sequence for Beginners Decodable Stories (Science of Reading Aligned)
Read and Sequence for Beginners! Thank you so much for viewing my Read and Sequence for Beginners! This resource is filled with 50 simple stories that is Science of Reading Aligned! Each simple story has only 3 lines of text. The text includes CVC decodable words and sight words/heart words. What resources are included?Word Mapping Page for Decodable Text50 3 Lined Stories Listed BelowList of Heart Words Included for each storyBlack and White VersionColor VersionFile Folder Print and Prep Versi
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PreK - 1st
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Read and Sequence NO PREP Packet (Set 1) Google™ Slide Ready
This Read and Sequence packet is an engaging way for kids to work on comprehension, fluency and building confidence!This packet has 30 simple stories that kids can read and sequence! Each story provides BEGINNING and/or STRUGGLING readers with a genuine opportunity to practice reading short stories they can decode with early phonics skills and basic sight word recognition. The short stories on these pages work with CVC words, color words and mostly pre-primer Dolch sight words. ⭐️ This set now
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Read and Sequence (The Bundle) CVC, CVCe, Blends and Digraphs
FirstieWriting: First Grade and 2nd Grade Writing Curriculum Bundle
FirstieWriting Curriculum Units BUNDLED is an engaging, standards-based first grade (and Second Grade), genre-based writing curriculum. SAVE $10 ON THE BUNDLE!6 units @ $15 each = $90The bundle will increase in price each time a new unit is added! Snag it now to save!Do you have a few extra moments? Watch a detailed video about this curriculum HERE!What is FirstieWriting?FirstieWriting Curriculum is an engaging, first grade (and Second Grade), genre-based writing curriculum. FirstieWriting encou
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1st - 2nd
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End of the Year Activities Logic Puzzles | Last Day Early Finishers Enrichment
End of year and summer break is approaching—sometimes students are a little more distracted, and sometimes you find a few spare minutes between end of the year festivities. Grab students’ attention with End of the Year Math Logic Puzzles - ready-to-go brain teasers that are just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed to give students the opportunity to solve real-life problems that might pop up at the end of the year, these logic games push
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3rd - 6th
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Worksheets Packet
These 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade reading comprehension passages and questions packet will help you check if your students understand fiction, nonfiction, and paired passage text. This worksheets packet can be used as test prep, reading intervention sheets, independent work, small groups, homework, tutoring, and homeschooling. The product contains multiple-choice questions, short answers, and writing reflection pages. The product is also printable and digital. Challenge your class with these origina
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4th - 6th
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15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Word and Logic Puzzles Escape Room Activity With Digital Lock Option
In this engaging escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles and logic puzzles using critical thinking skills to discover codes to open the lock. Students love the fun of an escape room game, and you will love that this low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues! ⭐️ How does the escape room work? (Click the PREVIEW link above and watch the VIDEO for a closer look at this activity!)In this escape room activity, students will solve 4 different
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity
Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
Decodable Readers 1st Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions
Decodable readers are a fun and systematic way to practice reading comprehension passages and answering questions in a meaningful context! This set contains 40 decodable reading passages with comprehension questions. Each reader is a one-page double-sided worksheet with text focused on a specific phonics pattern. The text is carefully controlled and contains a first-grade appropriate reading passage that students can be successful with! Reading fluency can be targeted by doing repeated readings
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1st - 2nd
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Second Grade Word Work Activities with Phonics Focused Passages - SOR Aligned
This is an all-year Science of Reading aligned Word Work for 2nd graders, now with the zero-prep EASEL by TpT Digital Option. Word Families are introduced in short stories, and reinforced daily in different activities. This resource promotes word recognition, vocabulary development and text comprehension, which makes it a great addition to literacy centers and small groups!The weekly activities included in this Word Work packet consist of reading a story and identifying Word Work words, writing
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1st - 2nd
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Growth Mindset - printable worksheets & digital growth mindset activities
Help your students develop a growth mindset with this NO PREP, printable and digital growth mindset resource. In it, you'll find a variety of growth mindset activities, growth mindset classroom posters, goal-setting activities and MUCH MORE! These activities will teach your students the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset and will help you foster a Growth Mindset culture in your classroom. ⭐ADDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES (Google slides) download again for free update ⭐Using these
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Growth Mindset Mega Bundle
One Pager Templates - 40 Print and Digital One Pager Templates
One-Pagers are the perfect way to combine higher-level thinking and creativity into your classroom, and with these 40 different templates, you will never hear "I don't know where to start!" again. Your students can show their mastery and understanding of ANY subject in new and innovative ways.You can use these Print and Digital One Pager templates with ANY subject you are teaching. Perfect for literature, math, science, social studies, vocabulary, grammar, and more!This resource includes:20 no-
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: One Pager Mega Bundle - Book Reports - Exit Tickets
KinderWriting® Curriculum Unit 1: Kindergarten Writing With Pictures
KinderWriting® Curriculum Unit 1: Writing With Pictures is an engaging, standards-based kindergarten, genre-based writing curriculum.A note about pricing! Save BIG when you purchase the KinderWriting® BUNDLED units. View the B U N D L E here!What is KinderWriting®?KinderWriting® Curriculum is an engaging, kindergarten, genre-based writing curriculum. KinderWriting® encourages young learners to look inward at their endless possibilities as a writer. KinderWriting® is based upon nine units: Wri
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: KinderWriting® Kindergarten Writing Curriculum BUNDLED
Summer Packet Reading Comprehension Checks
Avoid the Summer Slide Syndrome! NO PREP READING COMPREHENSION Passages/Stories for SUMMER includes 40 simple (a mix of fiction and non-fiction) stories/passages to help with fluency, comprehension and building reading confidence for a Summer Review! These Comprehension Checks can be used during the summer with 1st Grade students, struggling 2nd Grade students, or as a beginning of the year review for 2nd Graders!****************************************************************************There
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1st - 2nd
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STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary
This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bun
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
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
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PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
Project Based Learning: Zoo Design, Area & Perimeter (PBL) Now For Google Slides
Project Based Learning: Zoo Design with Area and Perimeter, Map Skills, and More! This also includes differentiated activities, math skills, problem solving, aligned with Common Core, and extension activities.This project is based around the idea of students creating a zoo using their knowledge of area and perimeter, along with many other math (and academic) skills to create a unique learning opportunity that apply to real-life situations.***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL for DISTANCE LEARNING***
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
BUNDLE 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions Print and Digital
Inside you will find 98 reading comprehension passages and questions to use with your 1st grade students. ALL my reading comprehension passages that can be used with first grade bundled together to help you save a bunch! I also included a 2nd grade reading comprehension pack for your higher 1st grade readers.THANK YOU!I really appreciate you purchasing my teaching resources and I hope you'll enjoy using them with your students.I value your feedback, so please don’t hesitate to contact me if you
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1st
Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
Prefix and Suffix Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions First Grade
All-in-One Prefix and Suffix Reading Passages ADD-ON Pack!Help your students practice reading words with prefixes and suffixes within controlled text with these All-in-One Reading Passages. Additionally, students will practice fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and using words (with the target skill) in context.——DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATE: April 13, 2020—— ***I have now added DIGITAL versions of every single passage! These passages have been formatted for use with Google Classroom™️. The passage
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1st - 2nd
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