Are you looking for ways to incorporate environmental print in your preschool classroom? This post has five different ideas to easily incorporate...

Teaching financial literacy and personal finance to primary students can be a bit tricky. This resource is a great way to introduce students to real world concepts! Personal Finance Packet made fun for students with real world examples. ✅Help Monica with her chore list to save money for a new bike!

K-1 LABELING UNIT How do I teach my kindergarten and first grade students to write? I think every teacher has wondered this at some point. It can seem overwhelming... especially when getting started. I am so excited to share with you how I tackle writing and writer’s workshop! I will sh

Preschoolers can learn counting, subitizing, one-to-one correspondence and addition with this oversized domino math printable worksheet.

These fine motor activities use various materials for hands-on and engaging learning for your kindergarten students.

Most people would agree that money is an important topic to learn about. But who should be teaching teens financial literacy? Parents? Schools? What should be taught? And realistically, HOW does financial literacy fit in with the traditional high school curriculum? Who is equipped to teach financial literacy? In an ideal world, parents would teachRead more

Have you ever heard the term phonemic awareness and wondered what it is? I get a lot of emails from parents who are ready to teach their child how to

Paths to Literacy Tracking Activities for Pre-Braille Learners. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

K-1 LABELING UNIT How do I teach my kindergarten and first grade students to write? I think every teacher has wondered this at some point. It can seem overwhelming... especially when getting started. I am so excited to share with you how I tackle writing and writer’s workshop! I will sh

Outdoor play can be the greatest vessel for exploration. Let's dive-in together to discover how we can use outdoor play as tool for child-led learning.In the first of our In the Outdoors series we will explore how to playfully integrate literacy materials and activities into your outdoor time. Whether you are an early childhood educator, a stay at home parent, or a homeschool family, you will find new ways to get inspired and incorporate many new literacy skills into your time outdoors. As an ea

This free printable Fall Find It Writing Center for Kindergarten is a fun way to get your students moving, reading, and coloring all at the same time!

This post explains how teachers can use an academic version of the highly engaging Spoons game to review concepts. Free games included!

Item description This Back to School Math and Literacy Packet is perfect for the beginning months of August and September. The worksheets are themed with apples and back-to-school graphics while providing an introduction to basic skills covered in the first two months of school. The worksheets in this packet come in two forms: full page or 2 per page. The option to print 2 per page saves ink and paper! Included in this packet: ✻ Counting worksheets- dab or color, matching, cut and paste, and tracing the answers. ✻ Number sense ✻ Number sequence ✻ Color by number ✻ Patterns ✻ Roll and Trace A-F: uppercase and lowercase ✻ Trace A-Z: uppercase and lowercase. (Use sheet protectors and let students trace with dry erase markers for extended use!) ✻ Color by letter ✻ Concepts of Print Cards- Used in teaching- Laminate or print on cardstock for durability. ✻ Sort letter/number (concepts of print review) ✻ Rhyme ✻ Letter match: uppercase and lowercase ✻ Letter Sounds A-Z ✻ Name writing practice worksheets ✻ Daily sign-in strips: Cut out strips to let students sign their name daily and place in attendance box or board. ✻ All About Me worksheet ✻ My phone number practice ✻ First Day Self Portrait ✻ All About Me mini-book

Shorter and Longer Measurement, Cutting and Sorting activity helps pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students understand concepts of measurement and sorting

Are you back to school yet? The schools in my area returned last week. As you get settled into your routine and start shifting into the academics, prepare for the painful reminder that most of your kids have no idea how to read -- like no clue at all where to even begin! Remember those kids you waved off in May or June -- those BIG kid READERS AND WRITERS? Well, you gotta start somewhere. So today I'm going to share a couple ideas for going back to the basics with Print Concepts! When your sweet little kinders happily prance into the classroom on Day 1, half of them won't know how to handle a book, let alone read one. It is my suggestion that, after some assessment to see where they are in the process, you do majority of your Print Concepts teaching and learning in small groups so you can truly focus in on individuals and you're teaching what THEY need to know -- not more, not less. I like to use posters and lots of modeling to teach the concepts. Posters are a great way to introduce an idea because of the visual component. Then, they are always accessible and visible for kids to refer back to as needed. Concepts of Print is a pretty big undertaking -- so I like to break it down into three main focuses *Parts of a Book/Book Handling *Reading Behaviors (Tracking Print, Return Sweep, Pictures Vs. Print) and *Conventions of Text (Capital letters, Punctuation, Word/Sentence Study) Teaching the Parts of a book obviously requires a lot of modeling and a lot of repetition. I suggest getting their hands on real books as well as taking this time to introduce small paper books, like the ones you might have them reading each day in Guided Reading. Confession: I LOVE take-home emergent readers. LOVE LOVE PUFFY HEART LOVE. I don't have a picture of what I actually use, so you will have to settle for the digital version. I use a pre-labeled teacher modeling book and an emergent reader as well as some cute little prompt cards. The card might say "Show me the front cover of your book" and students would point to the front cover. The next prompt card might say "Highlight the page numbers in your book" and they can DO THAT in these little paper readers -- because they are THEIRS! Then they can take them HOME and tell their grandma all about it! ;) When teaching Reading Behaviors you really learn where your kiddos are as readers. Some of them will know where to start reading, and some of them won't even know that we read words! Here are a few activities I love for teaching students to track print one-to-one and to practice that good old return sweep. I also like to give students a variety of maniuplatives to use when tracking print. Fingers are great (hey, they always have them!) but sometimes you have to up the ante to up the engagement and motivation! Love these little Magic Wands (10 for $3 at Target in the Party Favors Section!) When it comes to teaching Conventions of Print, I really like to hone in on the difference between letters, words, and sentences. Students need to know that letters are the building blocks of words and that words are the building blocks of sentences! We do a lot of highlighting, underlining, and counting in our Emergent Readers (again, they're paper, and they belong to the kids so they are free to mark them up!) One tool I LOVE to use to teach Reading Behaviors AND Conventions of Print is the Morning Message. Reasons: 1. You can model Concepts of Print while you read it aloud. 2. You can manipulate it as you go. 3. Students can share the pen to show their understanding. We mark ours all up! I start out by reading the message aloud, using a pointer or my finger to point to each word as I read it. I read it aloud by myself once, I invite the kids to read it with me (still tracking print) the second time, then we dive into it! We circle capital letters in one color and punctuation end marks in another. We use a dot under each word to count them. We underline each sentence to count them. We pull out a focus word and count the letters and recognize the first and last letters. It's the PERFECT tool for pulling everything together! I like to do Morning Message whole group as it is something that we can truly complete TOGETHER. And of course, after teaching a lesson, modeling the skill, and working together with the kids on it, I like to release them to work on it independently. Sometimes this just means sending them off to "read" in their book baskets, sometimes it means completing a printable and sometimes it means working on the same activities we did together during their station time. I absolutely LOVE teaching Kindergarten students to read. If you're like me, then your favorite part of Kindergarten is looking at those sweet babes at the end of the year knowing EXACTLY where they started. They make such a huge transformation over the course of the year. They leave as readers and they start RIGHT HERE! All the activities and printables you saw in this post are available in my TPT store. Just click them image below to check it out! Happy Reading!

The I See Apples printable book is perfect for your next preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten apple theme. Practice literacy and math skills.

If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.

Summer Review Packet for 1st Grade & kindergarten Students 🌞📚 Our Summer Review Packet is perfect for 1st Grade students! This packet is designed to reinforce key concepts learned throughout the summer days and log way while keeping the kids engaged and excited about learning. Here’s why you should get this packet: Engaging Activities: Hands-on and fun worksheets that make learning enjoyable. Summer Themes: Keep kids interested with summer-themed exercises. Skill Reinforcement: Perfect for reviewing important skills and preparing for the next grade level. Age-Appropriate: Tailored to fit the learning needs of 1st Grade students. Also, this packet is for kindergarten kids to prepare for 1st grade class. Get this amazing packet and let us know how you like it in the review section. You will receive a PDF file with 140 pages (letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches). wirh FREE SUMMER BUCKET List Craft & printable page Included: • Letter Tracing • Missing Letters • Beginning Sounds • CVC Words Write • Write CVC Words • SPIN & STAMP C-V-C • Sentence Building 1 • Unscramble the Sentence • Short Vowel I • Spin & Color Word Families • Sorting Nouns • Writing practice • Color by addition • Color by code 3 • Diagraph Sort • Vowel Digraphs • Color By Blends • Number Tracing • Missing Numbers • Color Words • Number tracing • Number Bonds • Popsicle Addition • Seashell Math • Addition & Subtraction fact fluency • Addition Dab & Dot • Spin and Add Game • Counting Ice Cream • Addition • Subtraction • Color By Number To download the PDF file go to www.etsy.com/your/purchases from the browser on your phone, computer or tablet. You are not able to download files from the Etsy App at this time. - HOW TO PRINT • 1. Log into your Etsy account on a web browser • 2. Click the "You" • 3. Scroll and click "Purchases and reviews" • 4. Find your purchase and click "Download Files" • 5. Click "Download" This is an instant download printable item. No physical item will be shipped to you. All items in the shop are for Personal and Classroom use only. Due to the nature of this product no refunds or exchanges will be made. Contact Methods: 5. Etsy Conversations: The quickest and easiest way to get in touch with us is through Etsy Conversations. Simply click the "Contact Shop Owner" button on our shop's homepage or product pages, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. © All ideas and designs are property of Artisticvibe11kids ★ ★ ★ BACK TO SHOP: https://artisticvibe11kids.etsy.com 🔸KINDLY NOTE🔸 Thank you for visiting!

This a two-part resource to give you everything you need to use books in therapy to address a variety of early language concepts.⁣ These kits will make shared book reading so much more fun and interactive! ⁣Each story pack comes with: Part 1: Mini Objects! 🍪 🛻 🐥⁣ -Labeled draw string bag -Adorable mini objects to match the picture cards and key moments in the story ⁣ Part 2: Companion Activities 📚 ⁣ Each story pack also comes with a HUGE, exclusive download that is packed with therapy ideas and specific activities to use with the corresponding book and mini objects. These companion activities can be used to address concepts such as: WH questions, sequencing, following directions, core vocabulary, verbs, categories, spatial concepts, pronouns, MLU, the list goes on... The file also comes with cheat sheets for expansion ideas, word lists, and take-home handouts. ⁣How it works:⁣ Purchase the story pack(s) of your choice!  Then, the mini objects will be shipped to your doorstep and the downloads will arrive in your email inbox!⁣ Please allow 1-2 weeks for shipping. We are a small business so shipping takes a little while during major sales and restocks. ⁣ *SMALL PARTS* Not intended for children under 3 years.

The Letter S Puzzle in Color is perfect for helping students practice recognizing the shape of the letter S, and it's beginning sounds, along with developing fine-motor skills.

Boost early literacy with our free 10-day print awareness lesson plan! Teach concepts of books and print, adaptable to any book. Download today!

Have you ever noticed that your child may struggle with some math related tasks yet excel at others? It can be frustrating when math concepts that seem like they should be easy just aren't. Well the truth is that there really has never been a simple way to figure out where the problem really is.

Story elements are the five components that make up a story. They are the characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution. These elements keep the story running smoothly and allow the action to develop in a logical way that the reader can follow. Retelling involves students orally reconstructing a story that they have read or has been read to them. A student's retell should include characters, settings, and events in the logical sequence of the story.

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Use these free printable Parts of a Book Poster & Worksheet to teach your pre-readers about book awareness and concepts of print.

This post explains how teachers can use an academic version of the highly engaging Spoons game to review concepts. Free games included!

Teaching text features to your primary students should be fun and engaging for your students. See many activities and suggestions!

This post shares a list of free literacy apps for elementary students that can be used for different ELA concepts + a FREE Google resource.

Basic vocabulary, like knowing prepositions, is necessary for beginning readers. Teach prepositions with this simple game.

Teach important social emotional learning skills with these book based activities for the book Do Unto Otters. Your students will love it!

Word wall bulletin boards are a great way to promote vocabulary growth in middle school classrooms. Find out 10 creative ways to use them!