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I Can Read! An Environmental Print Book

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a book of environmental print pictures - including familiar stores, characters, movie logos, toys and restaurants! Use this to give your pre-readers success and confidence. It will also help them make the connection between speech and print.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Flash Cards, Printables

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Back To School Raccoon Rhyming Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Back To School Raccoon Rhymes: a fun matching activity for phonological awareness! Students match the rhyming pictures and then complete a cut & paste worksheet! These cards can be used in small group or as an independent center. These cards are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.2, RF.K.2a

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Digital Download PDF (3.29 MB)

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Spring Insects CCVC Word Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a fun game to play with your students to reinforce reading those CCVC words! Playing this whole group game gives your students fun extra practice with reading words with beginning consonant blends. There are 32 cards in the game so there are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spring

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RF.K.3, RF.K.3a, RF.K.4, RF.1.3, RF.1.4

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Digraphs Read & Write the Room Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a Fox themed literacy game to encourage fluency with initial digraphs! This Read the Room activity will have your students practicing reading and writing digraphs words in a fun way! This goes great with the "What Does The Fox Say"

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3a

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Digital Download PDF (3.11 MB)

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Read and Write the Room with ou/ow Dipthongs

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun freebie for your students to practice reading and writing ou/ow words. Corresponds to the spelling words for "Tippy-toe Chick, Go!" and "Mole and the Baby Bird" from Scott Foresman's 1st grade Reading Street series. Related Products•

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Spring

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3g

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.24 MB)

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Back To School Game with School Supplies

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Great for Back to School, this school supply version of I Have Who Has? is a great way to teach the game format! This is a big help for ELL students or kindergartners, to help build school vocabulary! It is a short, fun game perfect for an ice

Subjects:

Reading, Oral Communication, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RF.K.1a, RF.K.1b, RF.K.1c, RF.K.3c

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Digital Download PDF (1.54 MB)

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Thanksgiving CVC Word Match Up

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun Thanksgiving Word Family Game to help your students practice reading CVC words! Each Mayflower has a word family on it, your students must read the Pilgrim and turkey cards and place them with the correct Mayflower. There are 8 word

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Thanksgiving

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Flash Cards, Games, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.78 MB)

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Veterans Day Songs & Reader

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This free Veterans Day pack is a fun way to incorporate reading into your observance of Veterans Day! It includes 3 fun piggy back songs, an emergent reader and a thank you card for students to color and give to a veteran.Check out these related

Subjects:

Reading, U.S. History, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

Kindergarten

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.20 MB)

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Alphabet Letter Sorting Sheets

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a quick freebie to help your students differentiate between letters/numbers, upper/lower case letters and different fonts!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Activities, Homework, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.41 MB)

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Apple Activities CVC Words Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Apple Activities: I Have Who Has CVC Word Game. This is a fun game to play with your students to reinforce cvc words! Sometimes getting your students to apply phonics rules consistently can be difficult. Playing this whole group game gives your

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Games, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.61 MB)

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FREE Pigeon & Duckling Craftivity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun craftivity based on the Pigeon books by Mo Willems! Included are the templates to make the Pigeon as well as the Duckling, along with some writing prompts. Mo Willems is one of my favorite authors and I created this craftivity to

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Reading, Visual Arts

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.62 MB)

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Apple Digraphs Pocket Chart Sort

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a quick pocket chart activity for sorting words by their initial consonant digraph! If you enjoy this freebie, please rate it and then visit my blog, Herding Kats In Kindergarten, for more tips, ideas and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Autumn

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.54 MB)

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FREE Book Dividers

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a very simple book organization system that I shared on my blog (http://herdingkats.blogspot.com/2011/10/week-in-review-plus-addition-freebie.html). It's been getting a lot of Pinterest love lately, and someone wondered whether I would share

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.20 MB)

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FREE Buckets of Love Alphabet Letter Match

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Alphabet Match-Up for Upper and Lower Case Letters: This fun center activity has students match the capital letter cards to the lower case letter cards! The fun buckets and hearts can tie into a Bucket Filler theme as well!You Might Also Like:• Hand

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.1, RF.K.1d

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.63 MB)

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FREE -ING Word Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

To celebrate the birth of our little ducklings, Ping, Ming and Ling, I created a fun game for my students to practice reading words with -ing. I hope your students enjoy it - if you'd like to read more about our ducklings and see pictures, please

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.31 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've taught Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade in a Title I school for several years. I create my materials to suit the needs of my students - to challenge my high achievers and support those that need more practice in a skill. I also create for my early childhood colleagues - to fill needs in their classrooms!

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Hands on learning and exploration through play!

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won 1st place in the Playmobil Teachers Grant Program for 2011. (go to this site to see my winning lesson: http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Link-Page?cid=GEWINNER_TEACHERS_GRANT_2011)

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Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education Master's in Literacy

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Check out my blog at http://herdingkats.blogspot.com

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Biology, Social Studies, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Other (Art), Music, Vocal Music, Health, Other (Specialty), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Character Education, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, End of Year, Engineering, Phonics, Classroom Community