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2nd grade social studies centers for early intervention
Patriotic Coloring Pages w/ Designs for Memorial Day (and Other Occasions!)
American Symbols Patriotic Coloring Pages: This set of my interactive coloring sheets (with writing prompts) includes American patriotic symbols appropriate for:September 11thPatriot DayConstitution Day Memorial DayPresidents' DayVeterans' DayFlag Day4th of July...and any American history unit. Students add bold patterns to different Patriotic American symbols and then color their designs to produce a Pop Art-styled artwork. These coloring pages are fun, easy, and unique. It's a sure winner with
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K - 8th
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Summer Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Packet 2nd 3rd 4th Grade
Introducing our leveled reading passages with comprehension questions for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade! This resource includes 10 practice passages, answer keys, posters, graphic organizers, and more! Empower your students with a deeper understanding of nonfiction texts. Grab your summer reading comprehension packet now and witness the transformative impact on your classroom! This is designed for 3rd and 4th grade, but my own 2nd grader is advanced, and it would work well for him. I've also taught ti
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2nd - 5th
CVC Word Bingo Game Blending and Reading CVC Words plus Boom Cards
Play CVC Bingo a fun game for up to 30 players! Practice CVC words with 60 calling cards! Students will love this literacy center. Play like Tic-Tac-Toe, 3 in a row is a winner, or play until someone has a full card. Also includes Boom Cards! Word Reading is one of the Kindergarten skills tested on the TPRI, Texas Primary Reading Inventory, at the End of Year assessment.The visuals can also be used as a resource in a writing center to support students writing simple sentences.Includes: ✅ 30 CVC
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Bingo Game BUNDLE Alphabet CVC Words Sight Words and CVCe
Community Helpers Activity Craft
Community Helpers Build a community for your social studies community helpers unit with these cute and easy to cut templates. Students will have fun with this 3D building activity and creating a class book on community helpers. Students will enjoy adding their own details to these templates.Included16 Different community buildings craft28 Community HelpersWeb worksheet about community helpersWriting PromptsClass book coverReview printables See Preview!!!Great for Art Center & Writing Cen
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K - 2nd
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Unscramble The Mystery Masterpiece | Fun Art History Activity & Great Sub Plan
Unscramble The Mystery Masterpieces. This is a great art history activity! In these unscramble grid activities, students are presented with a scrambled image of a famous masterpiece. Then each student works to unscramble the grid pieces to produce the final “unscrambled” masterpiece. These one-page mystery masterpieces can be…ColoredIncluded in interactive notebooksPaired with a research reportDisplayed on a bulletin board… or used in any other way imaginable! They are great for… Morning workEar
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2nd - 8th
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File Folder Games and Activities for Special Education & Autism | Basic Concepts
These basic concepts file folder activities cover 10 different basic skills your special education students should be practicing every day! Each concept has 2 levels for a total of 20 file folder activities. Level 1 has a word and visual cue while level 2 only has the word.File folder activities are ideal for students with autism or others in your special education classroom. The predictable nature and left to right pattern of the work appeals to their strengths! These include a mix of matchi
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PreK - 2nd
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Errorless Learning File Folder Games and Activities BUNDLE for Special Education
This bundle of errorless file folder games is perfect for getting your students started with independent work stations in your special education classroom. Practice matching, beginning sounds, letters, colors, shapes and 1:1 correspondence. The beauty of errorless learning is there is no wrong answer! Students learn how to complete left to right tasks and you can guarantee success without staff assistance.Some of the targeted skills include:Left to right task routineTask independenceOne to one
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K - 3rd
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American Symbols Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages K-2
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to integrate social studies into your reading curriculum?This pack of reading comprehension passages is the perfect choice! These reading comprehension passages cover 11 American Symbols. Each passage includes 2-3 questions to go along with the reading!Your students will read a nonfiction passage about an American symbol. Then, they will answer 2-3 questions based on the passage.The text is intended for K-2nd graders and can be read together as a class, in
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle K-2
READING COMPREHENSION with WH Questions and DATA for Special Education Bundle
Do your students need visual support for reading comprehension? If so, this bundle of reading passages and stories is the perfect solution to encourage reading and comprehension! These reading comprehension skills with “wh” questions and three sentence response choices booklets contain visual supports in print, trim, and staple booklets for students with autism, visual learners, and Special Education. TO VIEW THE "Wh" QUESTIONS WRITING JOURNAL, please follow this link: WRITING JOURNAL “Wh” Promp
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: AUTISM EDUCATORS Custom Bundle for HANNA D.
Black History Month Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages K-2
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to integrate social studies into your reading curriculum?This pack of reading comprehension passages is a perfect choice! These reading comprehension passages cover 12 people in Black History. Each passage includes 2-3 questions to go along with the reading!Your students will read a nonfiction passage about an important person in Black History. Then, they will answer 2-3 questions based on the passage.The text is intended for K-2nd graders and can be read
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle K-2
Community Helpers Reading Comprehension Passages
Inside you will find 16 reading pages focused on community helpers. Each page includes a short job description and 3 simple questions. This packet is great for first graders!Community Helpers Included:TeacherMail CarrierPolice OfficerCrossing GuardDetectiveDentistDoctorChefPlumberJanitorLibrarianGardenerVeterinarianFirefighterTrash CollectorFarmerThank you!!
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1st - 2nd
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Sink That Ship - A Science of Reading Phonics Game
Sink That Ship: 120 Phonics Games! 120 phonics reading game boards to engage your students in reading fluency and word recognition! Includes reading phonics games for almost ALL PHONICS skills! Real and nonsense word game boards included to reinforce specific phonics skills for reading fluency. Players read words in hopes of sinking their opponent's ships. Endless fun with partners and your students won't even know they are practicing their reading!! Sink That Ship is the PERFECT game for your
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Orton Gillingham + Science of Reading Games Bundle- 60 Phonics Games
Native American Homes STEM ~ STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Set of 9!
Why not bring STEM to your Native American Unit in social studies?
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable about themes, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific themes, like Native Americans, specifically relating to their homes!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them
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2nd - 5th
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Phonics Intervention Kit Games & Activities for Kindergarten, Digital Resources
This Phonics Intervention Kit and Activities is a standards-aligned way to help your struggling students with all areas of phonological awareness in an engaging way.Are you looking for an engaging way to help your struggling learners with foundational reading skills including phonological awareness, decoding, and encoding? Do you need an easy-prep way to ensure you're meeting the standards your students are struggling with? Do you want materials that you can use for classroom interventions indi
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K - 2nd
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How a fossil is formed foldable sequencing activity fossilization process
Teach or review the stages of how fossils form with this folding ammonite cut-and-paste activity. This foldable sequencing activity will help students recall 6 stages of fossilization in a fun and engaging way, that's more hands-on than a standard fossils worksheet.Ammonites were pre-historic sea creatures with tentacles and a spiral shell. Their fossils can be found all over the world in many different types of sedimentary rock. The templatesThere are 4 similar PDF templates to choose from for
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1st - 4th
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3-LS4-1
Also included in: Rocks and fossils display, presentation and activity bundle
Holidays Around the World Book and Activity BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World
BUNDLE of Adapted Books and Activities for Holidays Around the World • Christmas Around the World • Take your students on a trip around the world. Travel to 21 different countries and celebrate a different holiday tradition at each stop with this set of leveled, adapted readers. Please download the preview file to see an in-depth look at what's inside of this bundle, or read this blog post.This adapted book bundle is included in Adapted Book Club. Get access to 600+ adapted books by joining Adap
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PreK - 4th
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Touch + Count Math: Single Digit Addition + Subtraction PRINTABLE + DIGITAL
These are two full curricular resources that are packed with everything you need to get your students adding and subtracting numbers from 0-9! Some of our learners require an extra step when adding and subtracting. These resources give your learners extra support by adding dots to numbers and then quickly fading them to reduce dependence. The scope and sequence of these resources are structured to build on each previously mastered skill, ensure discrimination, and gradually increase in complexit
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2nd - 12th
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Three Step Sequencing Picture Cards and Matching Boom Cards
This three-step sequencing picture card resource contains 20 real-life scenes to help your students learn how to sequence events and write about them. Using three-step everyday sequences to teach your students will keep them engaged and having fun! *Now containing a zip file for the printable version and the Boom card set. If students have poor language skills, referencing the background knowledge of what happens first, next, and last is very difficult for them. I have included many different w
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K - 3rd
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States and Capitals Bingo, I Have Who Has Game (50 States & Capitals Activities)
This resource is intended to help students learn the states, capitals and abbreviations and to help spark student interest United States Social Studies. Download Preview FilePlease view the preview file prior to purchasing. Please ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.This social studies resource includes:1. Social Studies State Study Cards2. Social Studies State Study Sheets3. States and Capitals I Have, Who has? Game4. States and Abbreviations I Have, Who
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Around the World Passages - Winter Holidays Around the World Research
Want to teach about Christmas and Holidays Around the World, but you're short on time? These reading comprehension passages are a quick way to teach your students about different ways winter holidays are celebrated while practicing their reading skills.These Holiday Around the World reading passages introduce students to how holidays are celebrated in different countries. Ten different countries that celebrate Christmas plus Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Diwali are included. There is one passage page,
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1st - 3rd
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Story Retelling and Sequencing Puzzles Reading Comprehension Activities
Story Retelling and Sequencing Puzzles are fun reading comprehension activities for practicing the skills of retelling and sequencing! Students in reading intervention and small groups read a short story and then place the puzzle pieces in the correct order to practice the skill of sequencing. On the recording sheets, students practice retelling the stories in written form using their own words. These reading comprehension activities make great activities for literacy centers, small group readi
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1st - 3rd
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MORE or LESS (Greater/Less Than) Task Cards “TASK BOX FILLER" for Autism
Are your students learning more or less early math with visuals for counting pictures to find which group has more or less in order to compare sets of numbers?MORE or LESS (Greater/Less Than) Task Cards “TASK BOX FILLER” for Autism Do your students need visual support to learn the concept of more or less with up to 20 objects? If so, this Task Box Filler set provides one-on-one instruction or independent work for practicing “Which is more?” or “Which is less?”Perfect for visual learners! Real li
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K - 3rd
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Financial Literacy: Goods and Services, Making Choices 1st Grade
Math 1.9(B) Identify income as a means of obtaining goods and service, often times making choices between wants and needs
Social Studies 1.8(A) Identify examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community
1.9(C) Identify examples of choices families make when buying goods and services
Pocket Chart sorting activity which can also be used to be class anchor charts to display. Comes with many anchor chart and sorting display options.
**ALL pieces come with color and black and wh
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K - 2nd
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Reading Fluency First Grade Phonics Centers Sentence Fluency Activities
Reading Fluency First Grade Phonics Centers are fun and differentiated sentence fluency activities (over 100!) to last you the entire year and make differentiation a breeze! This pack has 120 literacy stations which includes 40 different sounds.Each sound comes in 3 different levels:- Below Level (A)- On Level (B)- Above Level (C)These labels can be found in the top left corner of each sheet.Grab this and all of my best selling Roll and Read packs in theFluency Roll and Read Bundle!!You can use
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K - 2nd
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Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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