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Apps & Social Media Vocabulary - Flash Cards, Word List + Quiz, Games and MORE!
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Apps & Social Media Vocabulary - Flash Cards, Word List + Quiz, Games and MORE!
, Not Grade Specific,

Practice recognizing and spelling app and social-media names with presentations, flashcards and a vocabulary quiz. A letter-scramble activity adds another way to review the words.

Author Tom's Talk

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Tags Social Media, Vocabulary, Flash Cards, Digital Activities, Esl

ar/or Phonic Game Colour and B/W

ar/or Phonic Game Colour and B/W
, Not Grade Specific,

Picture cards such as shark, star, fork and storm drive a two-player phonics game in which children draw ar or or letter cards and claim pictures with the matching sound to fill their baseboard.

Author Lilibette's Resources

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Tags Ar, Or, Phonic Digraphs, Ar/or Game, Ar/or Phonic Game, RWI Speed Set 2 Phonic Game, R Controlled Blends, Phonics, Games, Home School

Asking Questions Activity

Asking Questions Activity
, Not Grade Specific,

Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, Which and How Many cards for peer discussion, prompting students to ask questions that get information or clear up what they understand about a topic.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Speaking And Listening, Independent And Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Response, Story Elements, Asking Questions Activities For Adults

AT Words Fluency Practice

AT Words Fluency Practice
, Not Grade Specific,

AT word family fluency pack: students reread word-list strips, circle -at words in sentences and illustrate one, read a short decodable passage three times, and build sentences one word at a time.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Reading Fluency, Phonics Practice, Comprehension Skills, Literacy Centers, CVC Words, AT Words

AT Words Matching Mats

AT Words Matching Mats
, Not Grade Specific,

Matching mats for the AT word family: students match cards to a mat of -at words and to a mat of simple -at sentences, reading each word on its own and in context.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Literacy Center, Phonics Activity, Kindergarten Literacy, Matching Mats, Simple Sentences, Reading Comprehension, CVC Words, AT Words, AT Word Family

Authors Purpose Matching Activity

Authors Purpose Matching Activity
, Not Grade Specific,

Students decide why an author wrote a text and match it to one of eight purpose cards, including persuade, inform, entertain, explain and share a mood.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Statistics, Author’s Purpose

Author's Purpose Sorting Activity

Author's Purpose Sorting Activity
, Not Grade Specific,

After reading a book, students pick the author's purpose card that explains why the text was written, then discuss why the author wrote it that way.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Statistics, Author’s Purpose

Autumn Descriptive Writing Activities

Autumn Descriptive Writing Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

Fall descriptive writing sequence: students brainstorm adjectives for seven autumn nouns such as pumpkin, scarecrow and apple pie, write descriptive sentences, then draft and finish a cinquain poem.

Author Quail Trail Products

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Tags Autumn, Descriptive, Writing, ELA, Fall, Autumn Writing, Fall Descriptive Words, Autumn Descriptive Words

Back to School Alphabet Cards

Back to School Alphabet Cards
, Not Grade Specific,

Back-to-school alphabet cards, one capital and one lowercase card per letter, that students can match, catch in a magnetic fishing game or trace in a sand or salt tray.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Back To School, Alphabet Activities, Letter Recognition

Back to School Alphabet Puzzles

Back to School Alphabet Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Two-piece alphabet puzzles for back to school: students join each capital letter piece with its lowercase match, A through Z.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Puzzles, Back To School, Letter Recognition

Back to School Blues – Reading Comprehension Sheet

Back to School Blues – Reading Comprehension Sheet
, Not Grade Specific,

Students read a back-to-school dialogue and answer questions about a character’s change from reluctance to optimism.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Reading Comprehension, Reading Passage, Comprehension Questions, Back To School, School Activities, Blues Worksheet, Back To School Blues, Back To School Reading Comprehension

Back to School Letter Recognition Seek and Find Mats

Back to School Letter Recognition Seek and Find Mats
, Not Grade Specific,

Young learners hunt for target letters on school bus seek-and-find mats, practicing uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z identification at the start of the year, with letter cards to match.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Back To School, Letter Recognition, Seek And Find Mats, Hands-on Literacy Center, Handwriting Practice

Back to School Reading Comprehension Passages

Back to School Reading Comprehension Passages
, Not Grade Specific,

Back-to-school short stories such as 'The Case of the Missing Schedule' and 'My New School, My New Start' each come with five comprehension questions and answers.

Author Ponder Palette Plazza

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Tags Reading, Reading Comprehension, Back To School, Back To School Reading, Back To School Activities, First Week Of School Activities, First Week Of School Reading

Bats Alphabet Cards

Bats Alphabet Cards
, Not Grade Specific,

Bat-themed alphabet cards give children an uppercase and a lowercase card for each letter from A to Z to name and pair up.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Activities, Letter Recognition, Bats, Nocturnal Animals

Bats Alphabet Puzzles

Bats Alphabet Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Bat puzzles in two pieces for every letter A to Z: children find the lowercase half that fits each uppercase letter.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Puzzles, Letter Recognition, Bats Puzzles, Nocturnal Animals

Bats Number Puzzles 1-10

Bats Number Puzzles 1-10
, Not Grade Specific,

Three-piece bat puzzles for 1 to 10: each numbered bat body joins one wing showing that many cubes to count and one wing with the number word.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Number Recognition, Counting Objects, Counting Puzzles, Number Puzzles, Bats Puzzles, Nocturnal Animals

Beach Alphabet Cards

Beach Alphabet Cards
, Not Grade Specific,

Summer beach alphabet cards with 26 capital-and-lowercase pairs, from A and a to Z and z, for naming letters and matching the two forms.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Activities, Letter Recognition, Beach Cards, Alphabet Games

Beach Alphabet Puzzles

Beach Alphabet Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Beach-themed alphabet puzzles for matching uppercase and lowercase letters: students join the two halves of each sandcastle card that show the same letter, from Aa to Zz.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Puzzles, Letter Recognition, Beach Puzzles

Beach Number Puzzles 1-10

Beach Number Puzzles 1-10
, Not Grade Specific,

Crab-shaped beach number puzzles for 1 to 10: students count the cubes on each crab's body, then add the two claws showing the matching numeral and number word.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Number Recognition, Counting Objects, Counting Puzzles, Number Puzzles, Beach Puzzles

Bear Themed Rhyming Words

Bear Themed Rhyming Words
, Not Grade Specific,

Students sort word cards onto two cave mats, one for words that rhyme with bear, such as chair, pear and square, and one for words that do not, such as ball, shoe and mail.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Preschool Literacy Center, Kindergarten Literacy, Rhyming Words, Rhymes With Bear, EAR Words

Bee Alphabet Puzzles

Bee Alphabet Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Alphabet puzzles in two pieces, one for each letter, where students join a capital letter to its lowercase match from A and a through Z and z.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Alphabet Puzzles, Letter Recognition, Bee Puzzles

Bee Number Puzzles 1-20

Bee Number Puzzles 1-20
, Not Grade Specific,

Bee number puzzles for 1 to 20: students join three honeycomb pieces showing the same number as a numeral, a number word and a set of cubes to count.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Number Recognition, Counting Objects, Counting Puzzles, Number Puzzles, Bee Puzzles, Insect Puzzles

Beginning Blends Puzzles

Beginning Blends Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Beginning blends puzzles where students join four letter pieces in order to build and read one-syllable words such as crab, flag, sled, drum and twig.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Beginning Blends, Literacy Puzzles, Spelling Puzzles

BL Words Beginning Blends Matching Mats

BL Words Beginning Blends Matching Mats
, Not Grade Specific,

Words such as blow, block, blizzard and blender make up the bl word mat, and a second mat has eight short sentences like He blew the bubbles; students match a picture card to every word and sentence.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Literacy Center, Phonics Activity, Kindergarten Literacy, Matching Mats, Simple Sentences, Reading Comprehension, BL Words, Beginning Blends