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Spanish Student Dictionary

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A printable dictionary for beginning Spanish students - perfect for the dual immersion classroom! This file creates a double-sided, 5 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 inch dictionary containing 30 letters of the Spanish alphabet and 125 common Spanish words (see

Subjects:

Spelling, Vocabulary, Spanish

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

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Word Walls, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Fish Out of Water: Short I and Long I Sort

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Fish Out of Water is a sort designed to help students discriminate between short I and long I sounds in words. The sorting center contains a student direction sheet, two fishbowl sorting mats, 36 fish with short I and long I words on them, and a

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English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Centers

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Fast Finishers: Word Worth/ Word Value

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This file contains five mini-centers designed to keep the fast finishers in your room occupied and engaged in learning. Each center has a student direction sheet, a chart that students will need to work, and a double-sided student reproducible.

Subjects:

Spelling, Arithmetic, Classroom Management

Grades:

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

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Activities, Centers

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Name That Sound! Spelling the Final K Sound

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Name That Sound! is an independent language arts center designed to help students practice identifying and spelling words that have a final /k/ sound. The center contains a student direction sheet, six K cards, six CK cards, six KE cards, 120 candy

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English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Personal Student Dictionary: English Version with Fry Words

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This file creates a double-sided, 5 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 inch dictionary containing the 26 letters of the English alphabet and the first 200 Fry words. Each 1/2 sized page contains an upper and lower case example of the letter, a graphic representing

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English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Word Walls, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Making Words with the SmartBoard: /ap/ and /an/ word families

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This is an interactive SmartBoard lesson designed to help students practice spelling, phonics, and vocabulary skills. The lesson focuses on words in the /ap/ and /an/ word families. The words in this lesson are: cap, map, tap, rap, nap, pan, ran,

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English Language Arts, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

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Picnic Time! The Three Sounds of Suffix ed

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Picnic Time! is a sorting activity in which students practice discriminating among the three sounds that suffix 'ed' makes. The activity contains a student direction sheet, three sorting mats (/d/, /t/, and /ed/), 18 picnic foods with root words on

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English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Centers

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Short A - Long A Match-Up: Making CVC into CVCe

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Short A - Long A Match-Up is a language arts game designed to help students recognize that placing a silent e at the end of a CVC word will make the vowel long. The game contains 24 word and picture cards: 12 of them have CVC words, while the other

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Word Wall Headers: Blends, Digraphs, and Trigraphs

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File contains 29 word wall headers that are blends, digraphs, or trigraphs. Headers include: ch, sh, th, wh, sc, sl, squ, st, sn, sm, sp, spl, str, spr, scr, sch, sk, sw, tw, thr, -ng, ph, -mb, -igh, kn, wr, -tch, -ugh, gn. Each headers contains

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Word Walls, Bulletin Board Ideas

$2.00

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Personal Student Dictionary: English Version with Dolch Words

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This file creates a double-sided, 5 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 inch dictionary containing the 26 letters of the English alphabet and pre-primer, primer, and 1st grade Dolch sight words. Each 1/2 sized page contains an upper and lower case example of the

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English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Word Walls, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Apples to Acorns: Discriminating Between Long and Short A

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Apples to Acorns is a tic-tac-toe style game in which students practice discriminating between long A and short A sounds. The game includes a student direction sheet, a 5X5 game board with pictures representing long A and short A words, and 30

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar: R-Blends Game

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The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar is a language arts game designed to help students with recognition of cr, br, tr, gr, and fr blends. The game contains a student direction sheet, a game board that covers two pages, and 48 playing cards: 8 tr blends,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

$2.00

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Making Contractions Independent Center

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This is an independent center designed to help students practice making contractions with are, not, will, would, and is. The center contains a student instruction sheet, a printable worksheet, a sheet of cards that contain two words to be made in a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$2.00

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Cupcake Party! Short Vowel Sort

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Cupcake Party is a file folder activity designed to help students practice listening for, and recognizing, short vowel sounds, and writing CVC words with short vowel sounds. The file contains a student direction sheet, a two page sort mat, 30

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Centers

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Vote for the Goat! Long O - /oa/ and sneaky e

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Vote for the Goat! is an independent language arts center designed to help students practice discriminating between words with the long O sound; the two spellings in this center are vowel digraph oa and sneaky e. The center contains a student

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Read and Write the Room: Blends and Digraphs

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Reading the Room is a fun way for students to practice listening for, and producing, targeted sounds. This file contains two Read-The-Room/Scavenger Hunts: one for blends, and one for digraphs. Each hunt contains 16 cards to be hidden around the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Phonics

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3a, RF.2.3, RF.3.3

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The Cake is in the Mail: Long A Vowels - /ai/ and sneaky e

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The Cake is in the Mail is an independent language arts center designed to give students practice in discriminating between long a words that contain /ai/ and those that have a sneaky e. The center contains a student direction sheet, six /ai/

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Leap Frog! Free Short and Long Vowel Bump

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Leap Frog! is a fun game to help students practice listening for long and short vowel sounds. Game includes instructions on how to play, game board, and 30 short and long vowel picture cards.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Making Words with the SmartBoard: Short A-E-U sounds

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This is a SmartBoard lesson in which students will make CVC words that have short /a/, /e/, and /u/ sounds. The teacher calls out a word. Students make the word at their desks (there is a file attached to the lesson that contains letter strips for

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

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I have taught in public schools for over 20 years. I have experience in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, but have also worked with children in K, 4th, and 5th. I spent two years teaching a bilingual class, and four teaching ESL. I have also worked as an adjunct professor at the Utah State University; working with pre-service teachers and teachers continuing their education on how to incorporate second language strategies into their classroom instruction.

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies, World Languages, Spanish, ESL-EFL-ELL, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Word Problems, Problem Solving, Writing, Asian Studies, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Autumn, Halloween, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Phonics