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Make Words! Word Work - Word Study Activity

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

"Make Words!" is a fun way to incorporate word work into your daily or weekly routine, and gives students valuable word study practice. Students cut apart a group of letters and use them to form words.The resource includes 28 activity sheets, each

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Spelling, Phonics

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2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Printables, Centers

$8.00

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"Odd Little Words" Vocabulary Rich Morning Work, Word Work {12 Weeks}

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

Odd Little Words is a meaningful morning work resource that uses intriguing 3-letter words as the basis for high-interest vocabulary work, code-breaking, and collaboration! It's a great way to warm-up students' brains and get the morning started in

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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$9.00

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The "Wacky Spelling Bee" Competition

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

The “Wacky Spelling Bee” is a fun spelling competition, designed to be a low-stress, sillier version of a traditional spelling bee. It's meant to be played with one class of students, in partner-teams. All students can actively participate for

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Spelling, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Games

$4.50

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Student Spelling Dictionary {For High Frequency & Personal Words}

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

This spelling dictionary uses the Dolch 220 high frequency word list as its framework. Each page within the booklet focuses on a letter of the alphabet (some pages have more than one letter). For example, the "A" page lists the words beginning with

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Spelling, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Printables

$4.00

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"Making Words" 4-Season BUNDLE (Digital - Google Slides) 60 Mystery Words

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

Making words is an engaging word work activity, where students arrange and rearrange a set of letters to build words. In these DIGITAL making words resources, students will drag moveable letter tiles within the Google Slides files to build words,

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English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Google Apps

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"Odd Little Words" BUNDLE: 30 Weeks of Vocabulary Rich Morning Work, Word Work

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

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"Making Words" Fall Theme (Digital - Google Slides) 15 Mystery Words

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

Making words is an engaging word work activity, where students arrange and rearrange a set of letters to build words. In this DIGITAL making words resource, students will drag moveable letter tiles within the Google Slides files to build words, and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$3.50

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"Making Words" for Spring (Digital - Google Slides) 15 Mystery Words

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Google Apps

$3.50

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"Making Words" Summer Theme (Digital - Google Slides) 15 Mystery Words

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

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English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$3.50

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"Odd Little Words" SET 2: Vocabulary Rich Morning Work, Word Work {12 Weeks}

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

Odd Little Words is a meaningful morning work resource that uses intriguing 3-letter words as the basis for high-interest vocabulary work, code-breaking, and collaboration! **This is is SET 2. To see the first set of Odd Little Words, click

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

$9.00

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"Odd Little Words" EXPANSION PACK: Vocabulary Rich Morning Work {6 Weeks}

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

For all of my "Odd Little Words" lovers out there, here is your Expansion Pack!As you know, Set One and Set Two of “Odd Little Words” uses intriguing three-letter words as the basis for high-interest vocabulary work, code-breaking, and

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English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

$6.00

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"Making Words" Winter Theme (Digital - Google Slides) 15 Mystery Words

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

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English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$3.50

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"Making Words" for Spring FREEBIE (Digital - Google Slides)

By Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

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English Language Arts, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Google Apps

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Eleven years of teaching at the elementary level, including 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Five years serving as a Lead Teacher for my school.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in helping students become bolder, deeper, better thinkers. I believe authentic, meaningful learning impacts children. I believe in risk-taking, and showing students that making mistakes can help you grow. I believe in expecting a lot from a child, but to guide them in reaching those expectations. I believe that the best way for children to become better readers is to READ, a lot, and usually with good-fit books.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I have the honor of being a teacher and a dad and a husband... does that count?

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.S. in Early Childhood Education, Miami University Reading Endorsment

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