Woo Hoo! I'm so excited and thankful for all of you for your support! Language Arts and Math FREEBIE – Here’s a FREEBIE for you to help celebrate reaching my 2nd TPT MILESTONE. This milestone was made possible by the support from all of my followers through your purchases and feedback. Thanks to everyone for helping me achieve this milestone. In celebration of this achievement, I have created this new eight page freebie to share with everyone as my way of saying “THANK YOU” for supporting my store. This eight page freebie sampler includes language arts and math skills from the following resources available in my store. These resources include writing (tell a story), reading comprehension (Who? What? Where?), fix it up sentences, scrambled sentences, morning work, addition word problems, subtraction problems with manipulatives, and ten frames 11-20. ***This sampler also includes links throughout the pack to similar resources that you may find useful for your classroom. When printing, to save on ink, make sure to only print every other page (even pages). Click on any of the photos below to view this FREEBIE! FREEBIE for 2nd TPT Milestone Celebration! I hope you find all of these resources to be useful for your students in your classroom. Please leave me some feedback on this freebie. I love reading your comments. Thanks again to everyone who has supported my store. Also thanks to TPT for the opportunity that you provide for me and other teachers to create and share our teaching resources with others as we provide for our families. Finally, I would like to thank the many talented creators of clip art on TPT. Without you, these creations would not be possible. You may also enjoy my 29 other FREE resources. You can find them HERE!
Free, no-prep, editable spelling activities perfect for any word work center! #wordwork #sightwordactivities #daily5 #teachingreading #mrswintersbliss
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in THIS post how I would be taking a giant step forward in “stepping up” my sight word instruction this upcoming year. Not that I need to “teach” sight words any differently, but offer continuous and hands on ways for my kiddos to practice them. Another area I will be offering […]
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
Last year, I used my spelling worksheets for part of my students' homework packet. This year, I was able to incorporate them into our school day, so my students complete them during the independent part of our morning group. My school uses Words Their Way and the associated Word Sorts for spelling instruction. I have photo copied the different word sorts onto different colors (depending on the spelling pattern…i.e. short vowels, initial sounds, etc.). Then, I laminated them, cut them out, and stored them in baggies. All of the baggies from the first book fit into this bin from the Target dollar spot. In each baggie, is the word sort as well as a written list of the words included in the sort to aid the kids in being independent in the sort. Some of the pictures like "shed" are hard for my kids to understand without having the words available. They only use these lists when they need to check on a word they are unsure of. So, each day, my kids do their word sort, then complete a spelling worksheet. These worksheets consist of sorting words, writing words 3 times, using spelling words in a sentence, drawing pictures of spelling words, ABC order, and rolling a dice worksheet. I also added some new spelling worksheets. This one involves stamping spelling words. This one is for looking up the spelling words in the dictionary. All of these spelling worksheets are available in my TPT store here. At the end of every 1-2 weeks, we take a spelling test based on the spelling pattern they were working on. I use 5 words from their spelling list and 5 additional words that include the same spelling pattern to see if they are generalizing the spelling patterns to other words. Kids get 100% based on mastering the spelling pattern even if the actual word is spelled wrong. For instance, if a kid working on blends spelled the word "fruit" as FRUT, they would still get it "correct" because they used the "fr" blend. I still correct it on the test for them, but if they are able to master the spelling pattern, they are ready to move on to the next list. I keep track of these weekly spelling tests in my data binder. I write down the spelling pattern score as well as the actual number of words spelled correctly. In the past, I have also used this data sheet for students to track their pre and post tests. Both of these data sheets are now also available in my spelling packet on TPT. We also take the Bear Spelling Assessment about 3 times a year to keep tabs on which spelling patterns they are mastering and which ones they may need additional practice in. I have updated my spelling packet on Teachers Pay Teachers to include the dictionary worksheet as well as the stamping worksheet. I have also added in teacher and student data tracking sheets! Check it out on TPT here. Check out some of my other posts on Spelling: -Here is a post that goes more in depth on the Bear Spelling Assessment. -Here is a post that goes more in depth on the spelling worksheets.
Use this word list of words ending in "ck" to help your child work on spelling and phonics!
A basic crash course in phonics for teachers
Teaching children to read is one of the greatest things in the world. Ever. I have a lot of literacy resources that I LOVE. Some of my p...
This product will help your students learn all about the controlled r sound -ar. This product contains a variety of fun and engaging activities that will help students master ar! The activities require no prep and the directions are easy for students to follow without assistance. I have included black and white and colored pages. I love using the colored pages to hang up on my classroom walls. This product includes: mini book, sorting, tracing, spelling, coloring, cutting and pasting, spelling, segmenting, word search, classroom charts and cards!
Dictations are amazing for teaching phonics. But what is a dictation? How can it be used with K-2 students?
Hello Everyone!! In January we will dive into reading, writing, and spelling long vowel words. We will begin with "Open Vowel Words" That unit is included in my Happy New Year unit. After that we will work on using the infamous Silent E. Last year we used the fun "Sneaky E" puppets and the kids looooved them. This year I will introduce the Silent E Gang : Sneaky E, Sparkly E, and Magic E. All are guaranteed to help kids stay engaged and have fun while learning about that important silent e on the ends of words. I put together a little packet to keep me organized, and I can't wait to do all this with my kiddos! I hope you will find them useful. The packet includes, chants, paper bag puppet patterns, stick puppet patterns for each of the gang members, and about 28 pages of short vowel words, some conventional and some nonsense for kids to practice and write. Here are a few pics of the unit. Cut out and make stick puppets for "Add an E game included in unit. For your own little silent e gang unit, click here! Unit is 32 pages- some color, most black and white. Hope you're having a great week!! I'm off to work on report cards! And something for our Teacher Inservice day on Monday (Thanks for the reminder, Tracy!!) Talk to you all soon!! Joyfully! Nancy
Use the correct positional word to describe the position of the bee in this preschool positional word worksheet.
Kindergarten reading and writing worksheets on the topic of insects. Designed for young learners in preschool and kindergarten. Students will read a short passage on the insect and answer basic que…
I get so excited about teaching digraphs! Why you ask? I feel as though it is a right of passage for our little ones…they have moved past single sounds and are now able to think about more complex spelling! This is the soonest we’ve started digraphs, but they were so ready and eager to learn […]
Contractions are great for writing words shorter to save some time. But there is some confusion when students shorten the words. Contract means to make smaller. Students contract two words into one small word. This is what students need to remember about contractions: The first words always stays the same (except for the word; will not, won't). The apostrophe goes where the letters come out. I have a Free Contractions Bingo game to practice reading and writing contractions. This 2-Player game has students matching the two words that make a contraction to the contraction word on their bingo board. The first player to make a bingo is the winner! All you need to play are the Bingo Boards and Contraction Cards. Click the picture for your free download! Place the Contractions Bingo Game in you center rotations or use during small group time. Play after teaching or reviewing contractions. Feel free to send home for homework to play with a family member. Place the Contraction Cards and some writing paper at a Writing Center. Students use the cards to write sentences using the contraction word. Check students for understanding. It helps to remember the first word stays the same and the apostrophe replaces the letters that come out. The only time this rule doesn't apply is for the contraction word, will not - won't. Try this pack of Contraction Task Cards. It includes 3 centers. The first center has 40 task cards that students choose from multiple choice answers to find the correct contraction. The second center has 36 task cards. Each task card has a contraction. The students write the two words that make up the contraction. The third center has 36 task cards. Each task card the two words that make up the contraction. Students write the contraction that make up the the two words. This pack will keep your students sharp on reading and writing contractions all year long. Here are some resources you may need when teaching contractions. I linked them to Amazon to make it easy for you: Contraction Puzzles Contraction Chart If You Were a Contraction - book Thanks for stopping by today! See you soon, Check out more GRAMMAR activities by Teacher's Take-Out:
Do your young learners have poetry journals?! Mine do and we love them. The main question I have been asked in the past is what I put inside my journals and I created a resource to help answer that question. Most of the poems in our poetry journals are phonics poems, but I also […]
You use English punctuation marks to structure and organize your writing.
