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Fun With CVC Words | Literacy Center Activities teaching resource preview
Phonics & word families

Fun With CVC Words | Literacy Center Activities

Match CVC word cards to pictures; play memory/concentration with the cards; read or write CVC words in a 'read/write the room' format; read rebus sentences and write or illustrate the complete sentence; build CVC words by assembling letter cards; identify correct medial vowel sounds on cards; play a cover-up (bingo-style) game matching…

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Pre-K, 1–2
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ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION - Counting Caterpillar teaching resource preview
Counting & ten framesAddition & subtraction

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION - Counting Caterpillar

After the teacher prints, laminates, and assembles the folder game, students insert leaves onto the caterpillar body matching the correct addition or subtraction result shown.

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Pre-K–2
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Shape Sorting Math Center teaching resource preview
Shapes & fractions

Shape Sorting Math Center

Students sort or hunt through real-life photo shape cards (square, triangle, rectangle, circle, diamond, oval) to match small cards to large shape category cards, or search for a specific shape.

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Pre-K–3
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Essay Writing Focus | Interactive Centers for Middle School teaching resource preview
Essay & paragraph centers

Essay Writing Focus | Interactive Centers for Middle School

Read/recall a summary story about Dhruva (the North Star) as an analogy for staying "focused"; complete an interactive notebook foldable defining purpose, audience, and task; at each of three centers, compare a focused vs. unfocused sample text on that concept and explain which stays on-topic and why; at a fourth center, apply all three…

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6–8
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Essay Writing Conventions | Interactive Centers for Middle School teaching resource preview
Essay & paragraph centers

Essay Writing Conventions | Interactive Centers for Middle School

At Center 1, match subject and predicate cards to build complete sentences, then rewrite them with correct capitalization/punctuation; at Center 2, sort common vs. proper nouns and write a paragraph using them; at Center 3, place punctuation marks correctly into an unpunctuated story and rewrite it correctly. Each center also has a…

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6–8
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Fairy Tale Math Centers teaching resource preview
Math center collections

Fairy Tale Math Centers

Match cards, sort number cards into order, play a spinner-and-die covering game, use a self-checking poke-or-clip mechanism to verify addition/subtraction answers, and assemble ordering-number puzzles.

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Pre-K, 1
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Literacy Center Printables teaching resource preview
Word building & sentences

Literacy Center Printables

A no/low-prep literacy center packet ('Paint a Sentence') where students paint over a printed sentence with watercolors, draw a picture depicting it, and write their own original sentence about the same topic.

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Pre-K, 1
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Math Word Wall teaching resource preview
Counting & number senseAddition & subtraction

Math Word Wall

A 57-page math word wall packet providing vocabulary support (with pictures/illustrations and definitions) for classroom display, aimed at visual learners and English language learners.

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57 pages
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3–6
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Beginning Sound Sort teaching resource preview
Letters & beginning sounds

Beginning Sound Sort

Look at a picture card, determine its beginning sound, and place the card on the sorting mat labeled with the matching letter ('Begins with: Aa', 'Begins with: Bb', etc.) for all 26 letters.

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Pre-K–K
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Writing Center | 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades KIT | Common Core Aligned | Neon or B+W teaching resource preview
Essay & paragraph centers

Writing Center | 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades KIT | Common Core Aligned | Neon or B+W

Use sentence-starter cards (e.g., 'I think...', 'In my opinion...', 'Let me tell you about...') and leveled task cards to practice opinion, informative, and narrative writing; reference posters and 'I Can' statement cards tied to specific CCSS writing standards (e.g., W.3.1a-b, W.4.2a-e, W.5.1c-d).

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3–5
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Free Math Symbols Interactive Center Activity teaching resource preview Free download
Math center collections

Free Math Symbols Interactive Center Activity

Choose and look at a symbol card, observe the symbol and say what it means, then draw it and write what it means and when to use it, using the reference chart if needed.

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1–3
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Letter F Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs teaching resource preview
Letters & beginning sounds

Letter F Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs

Use full-page posters/cards to learn F vocabulary (fall, family, fan, feather, fed, feet, fence, fig, film, fire, fish, five, fog, football, forest, fork, fountain, four, fox); trace letters and words at a writing center; sort beginning-sound clip cards; match/sort small picture cards; sort pictures into 'starts with…

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Pre-K–K
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Cause and Effect Concentration Game teaching resource preview
Comprehension & listening

Cause and Effect Concentration Game

Flip over cards and match causes (e.g., 'The sun shines on the earth') to their correct effects; alternatively, use a recording sheet to write matched cause/effect pairs in a center setting.

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2–5
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5th Grade Common Core Math Stations Bundle teaching resource preview
Addition & subtractionMultiplication & division

5th Grade Common Core Math Stations Bundle

A bundle of reusable 5th grade Common Core math station/task-card activities covering skills across the school year, usable at centers, as a Scoot game, or in partner-review formats.

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5
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Preschool Writing Center: All About Me teaching resource preview
Early writing & vocabulary

Preschool Writing Center: All About Me

Use word wall cards to spell self-related vocabulary; write or draw on open-ended writing papers about a chosen topic; fold/staple and write a personal book with a cover and pages; complete 'How To' template pages by filling in one tip/step per section (topics: How to Have Fun, What You Should Know About Me); fill in a writing card…

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Pre-K–K
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BC Grade 5 Math: Full-Year 5th Grade Real World Math Worksheets teaching resource preview
Addition & subtractionMultiplication & division

BC Grade 5 Math: Full-Year 5th Grade Real World Math Worksheets

Full-year supplemental Grade 5 math resource, aligned to British Columbia (Canada) curriculum learning standards, providing real-life application activities, math stations, games, journals, projects, and assessments for each learning standard.

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3–6
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Pre-Primer Dolch Words Activity Packet teaching resource preview
Phonics & word families

Pre-Primer Dolch Words Activity Packet

For the confirmed 'Sight Word Fish' activity: assemble double-sided fish cutouts with a magnetic fishing pole, take turns 'fishing' for word cards, and read aloud the word caught (keeping the fish if read correctly, tossing it back if not). Catalog additionally describes a spatula-flip variant and a flyswatter-swat variant using the…

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Pre-K, 1
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Garbage Can Homework Kit teaching resource preview
Science sortingSensory & play centers

Garbage Can Homework Kit

With a parent, the student reads the included books, sets up a pretend recycling center with the provided recyclable containers, records/graphs items on the "Garbage Can Trash Graph," and uses the included coins and redemption-value sheet for counting/money activities; results are logged in a "Garbage Journal."

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Pre-K
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