CVC Short 'u' Phonics Support
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'u' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
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Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'u' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Practice the letter 'd' and handwriting, use core/fringe vocabulary strips (days of the week) to retell the story, move a cutout cat along a weekday strip to retell events, draw lines matching cause-and-effect pairs from the story, answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, complete a predictable sentence-writing…
Rotate through themed learning centers (language, math manipulatives, social studies, science, art, dramatic play, construction) doing pet-store-related activities; also participate in a field trip, complete a field trip log, and take part in a culminating activity, all assessed with an included rubric.
Provide printable elementary math practice worksheets and puzzles across several topics for grades 1-5.
Draw missing pictures to complete analogies; cut out and match analogy cards in a memory game; cut and paste pictures to complete analogies; draw lines to connect matching analogy sets; complete open-ended weather and pet analogies with own words/pictures; fill in missing words to complete word analogies (e.g. SLEEP…
A supplementary 'bonus' teacher resource book of alternative techniques, lesson plans, and worksheets for teaching and drilling addition and subtraction facts (number pairs through 18, regrouping, subtraction with various minuends).
Identify letters and sounds, practice writing letters, use vocabulary flip strips and a story prop to retell the story, answer WH comprehension questions, complete letter identification worksheets (including within text), complete rhyme exclusion and rhyme generation worksheets, complete a concept check worksheet, use CAR/CROWD…
Play sight-word games (bingo, word search, 'Ducks in a Row', 'Goal!'), make a color book, read contractions and question words, identify opposites, build/read/change words, complete sentence frames, and complete a mastery test and progress-monitoring form.
Play short games and complete activities (memory games, bingo, tongue twisters, mazes, sudoku, dot-to-dot, spot-the-difference) in pairs, small groups, or as a class to get to know classmates.
A large no-prep telling-time unit packet combining informational text on the history and mechanics of timekeeping with hands-on clock-building activities and practice worksheets.
Reference a labeled body chart and word wall cards to learn body-part vocabulary; draw and label themselves on a 'Parts of Me' sheet (using a mirror); assemble body puzzles; draw a face using a dry-erase marker, crayons, or play dough on provided templates; play a 'Draw and Find' game by drawing a body-part card and…
Complete a variety of worksheets and activities: fill in contractions, write synonyms/antonyms, identify nouns/verbs/adjectives, add quotation marks to dialogue, match compound words, plan and write a narrative story, solve math word problems, compare numbers (greater/lesser than), create bar/tally graphs from a class survey, and play a…
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'i' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
End-of-year Grade 1 science review workbook covering light, sound, plants, animals, sky, and seasons, aligned to NGSS (standards cited, e.g. 1-PS4-1 through 1-PS4-4).
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'o' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Match, sort, draw, and spell long-E words (e.g. she, pea, tree, key, baby); play a sound bingo game, a 4-in-a-row game, and a 'Beehive' reading/spelling board game using the word set.
Play alphabet games and complete hands-on activities across 10 lessons (e.g., 'What's in a Name?', sorting letters, matching look-alike letters, Letter Lotto, Letter Match-Ups, Go Fish, the Alphabet Song, Wacky Letters); read an alliterative 'Tongue Twisters A-Z' book in full-page and mini-booklet formats; use labels, lotto boards, and…
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'e' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Match, sort, draw, and spell long-A words (e.g. table, rain, hay, cake, break); play a sound bingo game, a 4-in-a-row game, and a reading/spelling board game using the word set.
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'a' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Sort, match, draw, read, write, and play word-recognition games with long-vowel words drawn from a shared word list; use posters and word wall cards as reference.
A vocabulary, writing, and simple-money activity about a shopping trip in town, covering map labeling, in-store behavior, pet-store vocabulary, product design, and a shopping-list addition exercise.
Sort, match, draw, read, write, and play word-recognition games with long-vowel words drawn from a shared word list; use posters and word wall cards as reference.
Sort, match, draw, read, write, and play word-recognition games with long-vowel words drawn from a shared word list; use posters and word wall cards as reference.