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Kindergarten critical thinking literature resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade Reading Fluency Passages Bundle Timed Comprehension
This is a bundle of my fiction timed practice Reading Fluency Passages with comprehension questions, Set 1, for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade, reading levels A-M. This bundle includes 48 reading fluency passages with comprehension questions, for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade or 2nd Grade reading at Levels A-M. These reading fluency passages are great for quick timed fluency assessments and to work on improving students' fluency.Fluency is such an important skill to work on, and as
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K - 2nd
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Room on the Broom Unit, Crafts, Sequencing, Puppets, Character Sorts, & Writing
This Room on the Broom inspired unit is packed with essential ELA skills! Practice retell, sequencing, writing, rhyming, number words, cause & effect, Science of Reading aligned word mapping skills, and so much more! Your students will love creating the unique paper towel retell craft and the showstopper extra large broom craft. You will love that students are working on key writing and sequencing skills!These activities pair perfectly with the book written by Julia Donaldson.You will find
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PreK - 1st
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Alphabet Letter Crafts BUNDLE | A to Z Uppercase & Lowercase | with Cut Files
This complete set of alphabet craft activities for preschool or kindergarten is a fun and engaging way to get your students excited about letters. Featuring one craftivity for each uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet, this resource is perfect for practicing fine motor skills such as cutting, manipulation of shapes and pasting. Each letter craft activity spans one page and both color and black and white copies are provided. This preschool and kindergarten craft set also includes alphab
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PreK - K
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Book Clubs for 1st and 2nd Grade
Book club activities for first and second grade classrooms!★Can you run successful book clubs in the primary grades?★It may seem like a stretch, but the spring is such a great time to get your students ready and used to reading, thinking about, and discussing books with their peers instead of me, the teacher!I created this unit as a guide to running book clubs in your primary classroom and provided some tools that your kids can successfully use! In this unit:IntroductionWhat book clubs look like
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K - 2nd
3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
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PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
100th Day of School Activities STEM Activities
Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These Smitten with First 100th Day STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. See preview! Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (student
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade Year Long STEM Activities Bundle
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Describing & Inferring Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely"
***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an
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K - 6th
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Nursery Rhymes Printables - Story Retelling Worksheets - NO PREP
These 12 NO PREP nursery rhymes printables will make your story retelling and sequencing review fun! These worksheets are fantastic for preschool and kindergarten because your students will build fine motor skills when they color, cut and paste events from the story to recreate the nursery rhyme in the correct order.Each worksheet features one nursery rhyme and 4 events to cut and paste in sequence. The worksheet also includes a copy of the nursery rhyme for reference.Featured Nursery Rhymes:♥
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PreK - 1st
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Story Elements | Characters, Setting, and Plot
Teach story elements to your kindergarten and first grade students with this unit focused on the story elements Characters, Setting, and Plot. Use classic the classic folktales and nursery rhymes in this set, as well as books of your choosing with these anchor charts, whole group activities, small group activities, stations, and no-prep printables! Listed are ALL the activities included in this set!Characters:• Poster• Poem• Main Character/Other Character chart for The Little Red Hen• Character
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K - 1st
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Story Map Graphic Organizers + FREE Spanish
Support your beginner writers with these visual graphic organizers. They can be used to help students remember what to include and how to organize their story. The first organizer helps students brainstorm the key elements, while the second one helps them further plan the sequence of events. You can print them back to back to use together, or single sided to be used as needed. This resource was created by Nikki and Nacho - previously known as Nicole and Eliceo.TEACHER-FRlENDLY FEATURESThis resou
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K - 3rd
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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction | Fiction vs Nonfiction
Teach your students fiction vs nonfiction using this Comparing Fiction and Non-Fiction Resource! This resource includes fiction and nonfiction teaching posters and whole group sorting activities you can use to build an anchor chart that students can refer to as they learn the differences between fiction and nonfiction. You'll also get a variety of fiction vs. non-fiction student printables that can be used in literacy centers, for homework, or as an assessment. After you build a fiction vs.
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Activities Bundle
Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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Kindergarten 1st 2nd 3rd Grade Reading Fluency Passages Bundle Level A-P Timed
This is a bundle of my timed practice Reading Fluency Passages with comprehension questions, Set 1, for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, and 3rd Grade students reading at levels A-P. This bundle includes 63 reading fluency passages, for students reading at Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, or 3rd Grade reading levels. These timed practice reading passages are great for quick fluency assessments and to work on improving students' fluency and comprehension.Fluency is such an important skill t
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K - 3rd
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Halloween Witch Room on the Broom Craft
Room on the Broom for all!This adorable Little Witch is a great follow up craft to the book: "Room on the Broom" by: Julia DonaldsonShe will look great on a bulletin board or in a school hallway, and she is a great addition to all of your Halloween and Fall crafting and Classroom decor! Included:All pattern pieces with and without detailed edges.Instructions & Materials Needed pageTwo options: broom and cauldron to pair with the witch.Writing activity includedSequencing activity includedLab
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PreK - 2nd
Social-Emotional Learning Book Companion Lessons & Read Aloud Activities Bundle
This SEL Children's Book Companion Bundle includes 40 read-aloud lessons on popular picture books, fun SEL activities, reading comprehension discussion questions, writing prompts, and more that teach social-emotional learning and build reading skills. It's great for school counseling lessons, morning meetings, sub plans, and more!⭐Get ready to revolutionize your read aloud time with the mind+heart Social Emotional Learning Book Companion Bundle! Book companions provide lessons that dig deep into
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PreK - 3rd
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Spookley the Square Pumpkin Book Companion
This is a great little pack to extend your pumpkin unit using the book, Spookley, the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano. The book is an adorable story with a meaningful lesson about being different. The pack includes the Square Pumpkin Craft pattern and 13 writing printables. Check my blog: First Grade Blue Skies for a full description and preview…or click on PREVIEW below the pictures. *The pack is supplemental material and does not replace the book!
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Growing Book Companion Craft Bundle Mega-Pack
Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Challenges
What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM Tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.The STEM ActivityYour students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a bit of a twist that will tap into SEL topics like empathy.What You'll Get:T
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Interactive Read Alouds Notebook - Reading Response, Comprehension Strategies
Looking for an interactive read alouds notebook to teach reading comprehension strategies? Use ANY BOOK with these reading response activities. Perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade classrooms! The activities in this packet will enable your students to create reading response artifacts that they can refer to over and over. This resource includes journaling activities for EVERY Reading Literature Standard for Grades K-2.This interactive read aloud notebook will still be a wonderful a
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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