The Jolly Barnyard Activity Guide: Baby Farm Animals
A companion activity guide for the storybook 'The Jolly Barnyard' by Annie North Bedford, focused on teaching the names of baby farm animals.
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A companion activity guide for the storybook 'The Jolly Barnyard' by Annie North Bedford, focused on teaching the names of baby farm animals.
Part 5 (Unit 5: Sounding Out Words) of the 12-part 'Road to Reading' foundational reading-intervention program, teaching students to blend individual letter sounds into recognizable CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
Introduce early learners to human body vocabulary, including external body parts, skeleton bones, and internal organs, plus basic dental hygiene.
Review CVC words and letter sounds built from s, a, t, p, i, n using pig-themed mats, counters, and calling cards.
Hands-on, play-based addition practice activity using BBQ-themed mats and food counters so young students can build and solve addition equations from 0 to 20.
A single-sound phonics workbook (part of the 'Reading Made Simple' / 'Sound It Out Phonics' series) focused on the /ch/ digraph, with reading, writing, tracking, and drawing activities.
Number and number-word recognition practice (0-20) using a sports theme.
A short, single-sound phonics booklet teaching the 'sh' sound as part of the Reading Made Simple program, meant to be printed as a small take-home A5 booklet.
Alphabet letter recognition practice using a sports theme.
A set of number cards for practicing number and number-word recognition from 0-20, spring themed.
A vocabulary-development resource using realia (miniature real-life objects) and language-rich play activities to help young/early-elementary students, including English language learners, connect vocabulary words to real objects.
Number cards (numerals 1-20 paired with number words) themed for back to school, for counting and number-word matching practice.
A complete 36-week, scripted Social-Emotional Learning curriculum for Grades K-2, organized into 4 units of 9 weekly lessons each, covering feelings, friendship, sharing, kindness, respect, listening, self-control, asking for help, problem solving, gratitude, growth mindset, and safety.
A set of alphabet flashcards for early letter recognition practice, spring-themed.
A social skills story and companion activities teaching children to recognize and use friendly verbal and nonverbal communication (voice volume, facial expression, word choice, tone) versus unfriendly alternatives, to build stronger peer relationships.
A social-emotional learning packet for children with ADHD, combining an illustrated read-aloud story ('My Busy Brain') with matching worksheets on identifying emotions, executive functioning, and healthy coping skills, plus optional hands-on sensory/coping game instructions.
Extend classroom reading instruction into the home through 10 themed take-home 'book buddy bags,' each pairing a picture book with a hands-on family literacy activity.
Review CVC words and letter sounds built from s, a, t, p, i, n using nest-themed clothespin clipping cards.
A set of 5 short, differentiated back-to-school word search puzzles with small word banks, intended for early finishers or morning work.
Rebus-sentence flashcards that teach Dolch preposition and adjective sight words in the context of illustrated (emoji-substituted) sentences.
A phonics resource teaching students to recognize, decode, and spell single-syllable and multisyllabic words containing the /oy/ phoneme, across its spelling patterns (oi, oy).
A phonics resource teaching students to recognize, decode, and spell single-syllable and multisyllabic words containing the /er/ phoneme, across its spelling patterns (er, ir, or, ur, ear).
A flashcard and worksheet set teaching seasons and weather vocabulary (nouns, adjectives, and related verbs), including basic weather conditions, weather phenomena, and weather-tool vocabulary, with follow-up printable worksheets.
Printable sight word flashcards for young readers to practice recognizing common Dolch words at Level 2 (primer level).