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1st grade social studies centers for early intervention
Patriotic Coloring Pages w/ Designs for Memorial Day (and Other Occasions!)
American Symbols Patriotic Coloring Pages: This set of my interactive coloring sheets (with writing prompts) includes American patriotic symbols appropriate for:September 11thPatriot DayConstitution Day Memorial DayPresidents' DayVeterans' DayFlag Day4th of July...and any American history unit. Students add bold patterns to different Patriotic American symbols and then color their designs to produce a Pop Art-styled artwork. These coloring pages are fun, easy, and unique. It's a sure winner with
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K - 8th
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CVC Word Bingo Game Blending and Reading CVC Words plus Boom Cards
Play CVC Bingo a fun game for up to 30 players! Practice CVC words with 60 calling cards! Students will love this literacy center. Play like Tic-Tac-Toe, 3 in a row is a winner, or play until someone has a full card. Also includes Boom Cards! Word Reading is one of the Kindergarten skills tested on the TPRI, Texas Primary Reading Inventory, at the End of Year assessment.The visuals can also be used as a resource in a writing center to support students writing simple sentences.Includes: ✅ 30 CVC
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Bingo Game BUNDLE Alphabet CVC Words Sight Words and CVCe
Community Helpers Activity Craft
Community Helpers Build a community for your social studies community helpers unit with these cute and easy to cut templates. Students will have fun with this 3D building activity and creating a class book on community helpers. Students will enjoy adding their own details to these templates.Included16 Different community buildings craft28 Community HelpersWeb worksheet about community helpersWriting PromptsClass book coverReview printables See Preview!!!Great for Art Center & Writing Cen
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K - 2nd
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Phonemic Awareness BUNDLE Kindergarten Preschool Pre-K Phonological Awareness
This brand new curriculum teaches preschool, pre-k and kindergarten students phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the number one predictor of a student's ability to become a fluent reader. Building this foundation means explicitly teaching children how our language works, and understanding the relationship between sounds and words. Phonemic awareness is 100% auditory and does not involve printed letters or words.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I cannot tell you how amazing this set is for phonemic awareness!"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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PreK - 1st
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Themed Critter Clinic Toy Companions for Speech and Language Therapy
Use these Toy Companions for Speech Therapy to take your Critter Clinic to the next level! Use this play-based speech therapy resource with your preschool and school aged students to target articulation, wh questions, concepts, verbs, following directions, sequencing, grammar, vocabulary, and more! This hands-on themed speech therapy activity can be used as a speech therapy centre, push in activity, in a mixed group speech therapy session, or in an individual speech therapy session all year roun
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PreK - 1st
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Alphabet Bingo Game Beginning Sounds and Letter Names
A fun alphabet game for up to 30 children to learn beginning sounds and letter names. It's a literacy center kiddos will love! Friendly picture mnemonics look like the initial letter. Includes:✅ 26 Alphabet Calling Cards✅ 30 Bingo Playing Cards✅ 54 Color TilesBONUS⭐ Vowel Bookmarks⭐ Alphabet Page - All letters in uppercase and lowercase with a key picture on one page! Integrated Picture Mnemonics help children remember their letters!That's 30 Bingo cards for up to 30 students!NEW Now includes 20
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Alphabet Games and Centers Bundle
Find the Letter Worksheets – Alphabet Recognition Practice – Fine Motor Activity
Help your students master alphabet recognition with these Find the Letter Worksheets! This print-and-go activity is a fun, hands-on way for your kids to practice identifying capital and lowercase letters. These letter recognition printables will also help your children work on visual discrimination, fine motor skills, and much more. What's Included:26 Find the Letter: Capital Letter Worksheets 26 Find the Letter: Lowercase Letter Worksheets These no-prep worksheets can be used as a quick and eas
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PreK - 1st
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File Folder Games and Activities for Special Education & Autism | Basic Concepts
These basic concepts file folder activities cover 10 different basic skills your special education students should be practicing every day! Each concept has 2 levels for a total of 20 file folder activities. Level 1 has a word and visual cue while level 2 only has the word.File folder activities are ideal for students with autism or others in your special education classroom. The predictable nature and left to right pattern of the work appeals to their strengths! These include a mix of matchi
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PreK - 2nd
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Errorless Learning File Folder Games and Activities BUNDLE for Special Education
This bundle of errorless file folder games is perfect for getting your students started with independent work stations in your special education classroom. Practice matching, beginning sounds, letters, colors, shapes and 1:1 correspondence. The beauty of errorless learning is there is no wrong answer! Students learn how to complete left to right tasks and you can guarantee success without staff assistance.Some of the targeted skills include:Left to right task routineTask independenceOne to one
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K - 3rd
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READING COMPREHENSION with WH Questions and DATA for Special Education Bundle
Do your students need visual support for reading comprehension? If so, this bundle of reading passages and stories is the perfect solution to encourage reading and comprehension! These reading comprehension skills with “wh” questions and three sentence response choices booklets contain visual supports in print, trim, and staple booklets for students with autism, visual learners, and Special Education. TO VIEW THE "Wh" QUESTIONS WRITING JOURNAL, please follow this link: WRITING JOURNAL “Wh” Promp
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: AUTISM EDUCATORS Custom Bundle for HANNA D.
Black History Month Craft: African American Inventors - Set of 6
Do you need cute and easy crafts for Black History Month? You got them! This set has SIX crafts or craftivities of African American inventors and their inventions: George Carver, George Crum, Lewis Latimer, Garrett Morgan, Philip Downing, and Alfred Cralle. These crafts will make a fantastic bulletin board for Black History Month or can be used for your school hallway decoration! Next time your students crunch on a potato chip, get a scoop of ice cream, eat a peanut butter sandwich, look at a tr
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PreK - 1st
Black History Month Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages K-2
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to integrate social studies into your reading curriculum?This pack of reading comprehension passages is a perfect choice! These reading comprehension passages cover 12 people in Black History. Each passage includes 2-3 questions to go along with the reading!Your students will read a nonfiction passage about an important person in Black History. Then, they will answer 2-3 questions based on the passage.The text is intended for K-2nd graders and can be read
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle K-2
Sink That Ship - A Science of Reading Phonics Game
Sink That Ship: 120 Phonics Games! 120 phonics reading game boards to engage your students in reading fluency and word recognition! Includes reading phonics games for almost ALL PHONICS skills! Real and nonsense word game boards included to reinforce specific phonics skills for reading fluency. Players read words in hopes of sinking their opponent's ships. Endless fun with partners and your students won't even know they are practicing their reading!! Sink That Ship is the PERFECT game for your
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Orton Gillingham + Science of Reading Games Bundle- 60 Phonics Games
American Symbols Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages K-2
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to integrate social studies into your reading curriculum?This pack of reading comprehension passages is the perfect choice! These reading comprehension passages cover 11 American Symbols. Each passage includes 2-3 questions to go along with the reading!Your students will read a nonfiction passage about an American symbol. Then, they will answer 2-3 questions based on the passage.The text is intended for K-2nd graders and can be read together as a class, in
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle K-2
Fine Motor Skills Bundle Activities Pre-K Preschool Kindergarten Centers
Children absolutely love these hands-on activities and centers to practice cutting, gluing, tracing, hole punching, pincer grasp, dabbing, painting, using stickers, making crafts and so much more for every season throughout the year! In addition to our fine motor skills, students are also practicing matching, following directions, patterns, alphabet recognition, letter names and sounds, counting, numerals 1-20, 1:1 correspondence, handwriting, addition, subtraction, shapes and other primary sk
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PreK - 1st
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Community Helpers Reading Comprehension Passages
Inside you will find 16 reading pages focused on community helpers. Each page includes a short job description and 3 simple questions. This packet is great for first graders!Community Helpers Included:TeacherMail CarrierPolice OfficerCrossing GuardDetectiveDentistDoctorChefPlumberJanitorLibrarianGardenerVeterinarianFirefighterTrash CollectorFarmerThank you!!
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1st - 2nd
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Holidays Around the World Book and Activity BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World
BUNDLE of Adapted Books and Activities for Holidays Around the World • Christmas Around the World • Take your students on a trip around the world. Travel to 21 different countries and celebrate a different holiday tradition at each stop with this set of leveled, adapted readers. Please download the preview file to see an in-depth look at what's inside of this bundle, or read this blog post.This adapted book bundle is included in Adapted Book Club. Get access to 600+ adapted books by joining Adap
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PreK - 4th
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Christmas Around the World Passages - Winter Holidays Around the World Research
Want to teach about Christmas and Holidays Around the World, but you're short on time? These reading comprehension passages are a quick way to teach your students about different ways winter holidays are celebrated while practicing their reading skills.These Holiday Around the World reading passages introduce students to how holidays are celebrated in different countries. Ten different countries that celebrate Christmas plus Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Diwali are included. There is one passage page,
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1st - 3rd
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Phonics Intervention Kit Games & Activities for Kindergarten, Digital Resources
This Phonics Intervention Kit and Activities is a standards-aligned way to help your struggling students with all areas of phonological awareness in an engaging way.Are you looking for an engaging way to help your struggling learners with foundational reading skills including phonological awareness, decoding, and encoding? Do you need an easy-prep way to ensure you're meeting the standards your students are struggling with? Do you want materials that you can use for classroom interventions indi
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K - 2nd
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Letter & Beginning Sound Picture Cards | Back to School Pocket Chart Activity
Engage your students with pocket chart alphabet picture and letter cards to reinforce beginning literacy skills. This printable is perfect for phonological and phonemic awareness practice as a whole group, small group, or interventions. Enjoy! :) *Color & Black/White versions**Included:-6 pictures for each letter A-Z (Xx pictures focus on the ending sound)-Alphabet Letter Circles Aa-Zz (2 font options)-Capital Letters A-Z (2 font options)-Lowercase Letters a-z (2 font options)-Thumbs Up &
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PreK - 1st
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Three Step Sequencing Picture Cards and Matching Boom Cards
This three-step sequencing picture card resource contains 20 real-life scenes to help your students learn how to sequence events and write about them. Using three-step everyday sequences to teach your students will keep them engaged and having fun! *Now containing a zip file for the printable version and the Boom card set. If students have poor language skills, referencing the background knowledge of what happens first, next, and last is very difficult for them. I have included many different w
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K - 3rd
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Alphabet Easy Art Crafts
These crafts are the perfect companion to teaching your students the alphabet! Make a fun bulletin board or an alphabet book they can take home once you have covered all of the letters.
This pack includes the following for each letter of the alphabet:
-EASY PRINT PAGES (PRINT RIGHT ON COLORED PAPER)
-ONE PAGE COLORING PAGES
-PRINTABLE STEP BY STEP PICTURE DIRECTIONS
-ONE-PAGE PICTURE DIRECTIONS TO VIEW ON TABLET/ANY DEVICE
-PRINTABLES FOR ALPHABET BOOK
These activities are suitable for stude
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PreK - 1st
How a fossil is formed foldable sequencing activity fossilization process
Teach or review the stages of how fossils form with this folding ammonite cut-and-paste activity. This foldable sequencing activity will help students recall 6 stages of fossilization in a fun and engaging way, that's more hands-on than a standard fossils worksheet.Ammonites were pre-historic sea creatures with tentacles and a spiral shell. Their fossils can be found all over the world in many different types of sedimentary rock. The templatesThere are 4 similar PDF templates to choose from for
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1st - 4th
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3-LS4-1
Also included in: Rocks and fossils display, presentation and activity bundle
MORE or LESS (Greater/Less Than) Task Cards “TASK BOX FILLER" for Autism
Are your students learning more or less early math with visuals for counting pictures to find which group has more or less in order to compare sets of numbers?MORE or LESS (Greater/Less Than) Task Cards “TASK BOX FILLER” for Autism Do your students need visual support to learn the concept of more or less with up to 20 objects? If so, this Task Box Filler set provides one-on-one instruction or independent work for practicing “Which is more?” or “Which is less?”Perfect for visual learners! Real li
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K - 3rd
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Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
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If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
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