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Free balanced literacy lessons
Me on the Map mini book
This book will help students understand the importance of map skills and give them a basic understanding of where they're located in relation to the world. Students will be introduced to the following words:
Country
State
Town/City
Street
House/Address
It's very simple and fun to do with students and is a great accompaniment for the Me on the Map book by Joan Sweeny.
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PreK - 2nd
Kindergarten Lesson Plans for Back to School - Free Curriculum Map - August
This curriculum map is FREE and follows the Kindergarten Common Core Standards for math, reading, language and writing. It is also closely aligned with other state standards. It has now been updated with two new monthly programs to help with distance learning, learning at home and homeschooling.You'll love this freebie as it will make it so much easier to create your daily, weekly and monthly lesson plans! Whether you're planning for back to school or for the entire school year, this tool wil
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PreK - 1st
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Small Group Lesson Plan Template {FREEBIE}
Keep yourself accountable during small group instruction with this lesson plan template. I have included a template for 2 rotations, 3 rotations and 4 rotations. There is also a version named Guided Reading to use during reading instruction plus another version titled Small Group. I really wanted to make this product digital so I have saved each template as a picture to use for a PowerPoint or Google Slide background image. I hope you enjoy this freebie!
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K - 5th
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Curriculum Organization Guide and FREE sample
Get Organized and save TONS of time for the school year! We've done all the work for you! Read Aloud lists, Mentor Text suggestions & more! All our resource tools and free samples in one place.Engaging ReadersBuilding Skills CalendarMath WorkshopReading WorkshopWriters WorkshopGuided ReadingLily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes is featured in this download. SAVE TIME and TEACH for DEEP COMPREHENSION! Use real literature that students love! Create lifetime readers and resist teachi
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K - 2nd
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K-2 Differentiated Reading Fluency Passages with Comprehension and Questions
*Great for Remote Learning and At Home Learning Packets!Try a sample of our fluency passages to see how they fit in your classroom! The passages are DIFFERENTIATED to meet the needs of all of your students. There is an ON grade level, ABOVE grade level, and BELOW grade level passage (all about the same topic). We created these passages and questions to help kiddos practice reading and answering questions in a testing format. The questions are aligned toward Common Core expectations. Addition
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K - 3rd
FREE WEEK of 5th Grade Greek & Latin Roots Vocabulary Activities & Words
This is a one week sample lesson from my 5th Grade Vocabulary Roots year-long vocabulary curriculum. Each of the full units covers 9 weeks of vocabulary study, and includes roots, prefixes, & suffixes, word lists, word wall cards, flash cards, word sorts, and assessments. Current research shows that upper elementary students need to learn meanings of root words, prefixes, and suffixes, and practice using these roots to decode unfamiliar words.Bundle & Save! Get the full year, bundled wit
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5th
Guided Reading Lesson Plan (includes before, during, after strategies)
This is a great way to keep your guided reading lesson plans organized. A five day lesson plan in a very organized two page document. Included is strategies for your ESL students. I hope you enjoy using this lesson plan as I do! Thanks for downloading!Click the green star above to become a fan follower. As a fan follower, you will be the first to be notified of new products, sales, and discounts.Copyright © Simple Teach & Design.All rights reserved by author.Permission to copy for single cla
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PreK - 6th
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FREE Kindergarten Emergency Sub Plans - This Little Piggy Nursery Rhyme Unit
We love to learn key kindergarten math, reading and writing standards through nursery rhymes! These FREE activities make it so easy for a substitute to teach your class for an entire day!Gone are the days spending hours preparing for a sub! Teach this adorable unit so your students know how to complete the activities, and then prep the other Nursery Rhymes units for sub tubs.CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW I MAKE MY SUB TUBS WITH NURSERY RHYMES⭐ I have 11 more nursery rhyme units available!⭐SAVE WITH MY
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PreK - 1st
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KinderMath® Getting Started Unit
KinderMath® Getting Started Unit* * *Snag it free through Back to School 2017 * * *This unit is part of my larger KinderMath bundle! Click HERE to view the bundle!What is in THIS unit?This is a freebie introductory unit! This unit is designed to use those first 5 days of schools! You know when the kiddos are still learning...learning how to sit at the carpet, learning how to interact with their peers and more! In this unit there you'll find 5 days of explicit teacher lesson plans and 3 mani
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PreK - K
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Novel Brochure Google Classroom Freebie Editable Google Slides Template Activity
Novel Brochure - Pamphlet for Google Classroom Freebie!This resource allows students to create a pamphlet that can be edited for ANY novel! The file contains a Google Drive link that can be used for Google Classroom. **Be sure to MAKE A COPY of the link and save to your own Google DriveEnjoy! Ratings on freebies are greatly appreciated! :) YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:5th Grade Novel Studies Bundle (5 Novels)Wonder Novel StudyHoles Novel StudyNumber the Stars Novel StudyEsperanza Rising Novel StudyBridg
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3rd - 8th
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mini Unit
This **UPDATED** 13 pg. mini unit includes fun activities to engage your students in history. Paired up with non fiction readers on Dr. King, you're sure to have your students thinking! Included are:
anchor chart headers
I have a dream writing page
I can make the world peaceful writing page
Poem
January calendar
was/had/wanted writing page
MLK, Jr. fact fill in
Art ideas
and more!
If you download this unit, please consider becoming a follower of my TpT store AND my kindergarten blog. You can fin
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PreK - 1st
Sight Word Mini Books - Free
Sight Word Mini Books Freebie
Students will love creating their own mini sight word books! This is a sample freebie from my collection of sight word mini books. Each book focuses on one sight word from the Fry First 100 list. Students can practice reading, tracing, and writing each specific word. These books make great additions to a guided reading table or home reading program.
➤Buy the Bundle and SAVE!
Save 20% on sight word book sets when purchasing in the bundle! This works out so that you
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K - 1st
FREE Art History Guided Lesson and Art Project - Whimsy Workshop
This free sample pack from the bundle of easy step-by-step guided art lessons:Art History For Elementary 1 - With Teacher ScriptsThis lesson explores the artist Ted Harrison's use of warm and cool colors as he paints in the arctic of Canada. The simple art project will create a stunning bulletin board display! As in my other art history lessons, there is a teacher script included, with questions embedded, to lead a discussion about art techniques, geography and famous artists! There is also a wr
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K - 7th
Art History Van Gogh Free lesson
This is a BONUS lesson add-on to my top-selling 140-page
*Art History For Little Ones* Unit.
*If you've already purchased that unit, consider this to be Lesson 11!
If you purchased it a while ago, check for notifications of recent updates - I've added two bonus lessons and updated with more pictures of student work!
This bonus free lesson has:
-10 pages
-script for teachers to read aloud to the class with no prep needed
-questions embedded in the script to guide the conversation
-child-frie
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K - 12th
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Reading Intervention for Upper Grades Freebie- A Phonics Intervention
A free sample and the first of twenty lessons in my 3 part top selling UPPER GRADE READING INTERVENTION Looking for a no prep, age appropriate, reading intervention for your Upper Elementary Students (3rd, 4th, and 5th grades)? These phonics worksheets and decoding activities are designed to close READING AND SPELLING gaps quickly. Filled with engaging, interactive activities, this phonics intervention will build your students' enthusiasm for reading in no time at all. Science of Reading ali
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2nd - 6th
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Phonological Awareness Syllable Worksheets Cut and Sort Free Back to School
Syllable Worksheets. No prep syllable worksheets segmenting to practice phonological awareness and fine motor skills especially for Back to School time in kindergarten. Sorting syllable worksheets focus on bending and segmenting syllables of multi-syllabic words. Clap syllables then sort.These are part of my Phonological Awareness Worksheets | Syllable Segmenting and Blending resource so check it out if you love these as much as I do!Students with a strong phonemic awareness are much more likely
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K - 2nd
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Visualize a Story
Visualizing is a powerful tool to help engage learners and improve comprehension and the creation of ideas. This versatile writing activity will help students learn this important skill and can be used with ANY children's picture book. Students love this lesson!You will need to choose a favorite unseen book and 6 artifacts from the book that they will show the students one at a time. (You can also do this without a book and with random items of your choosing.)Example:Artifacts can range from stu
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1st - 4th
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Nonfiction Text Features Poster Freebie
This is one poster that includes 2 text features for nonfiction texts.
(Title, Table of Contents, Diagrams, Photographs, Captions, Bold Words, Bullets, Headings & Subtitles, Charts & Graphs, Index, Glossary, Maps)
You can post this in your classroom. I like to send one home with each student to keep with them while they read nonfiction books at home.
If you are interested in my 74-page Nonfiction Unit, click below:
NonFiction Writing Unit
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K - 5th
FREE WEEK PrimaryBlendsandDigraphs Curriculum
This is a free preview of my Primary Blends and Digraphs Curriculum!
Snag the entire curriculum* * * HERE * * * This is ZIPPED FILE and most likely will not download onto a phone. This file contains interactive books and games and will need to be downloaded onto a computer or similar device! You can "wishlist" it so you don't forget it before returning home!
What is PrimaryBlendsandDigraphs Curriculum?
PrimaryBlendsandDigraphs was created by a teacher for teachers! This supplemental ph
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K - 1st
Pre-K (and Kindergarten) Literacy Curriculum FREE PREVIEW: GRUMPY GROUNDHOG
Pre-K (and Kindergarten) Literacy Curriculum FREE PREVIEW (A free week to view my Pre-K (and Kindergarten) literacy program! The students will have a week of studies paired with the amazing, Grumpy Groundhog text!)A note about pricing!Snag the bundle now to save BIG! View the bundle HERE! SPECIAL SAVINGS! What is Pre-K Literacy ?Pre-K Literacy Curriculum units are based upon the close read model. Each week you will focus on one text and each day look closely at that text. Pre-K Literacy is a 4
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PreK - K
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Olive the Other Reindeer Two Day Literacy Plan {FREEBIE}
This 19 page document includes a brief two day literacy plan for the holiday themed story, Olive the Other Reindeer.
DAY ONE: Students will watch/listen to the story on TumbleBooks-. (link is provided). Students will discuss story elements using header cards that include the definitions of the elements (characters, setting, problem, solution)
DAY TWO: Review of story elements. Introduction to story sequencing with mini-cards for relevant details from the story. Use a pocket chart to sort t
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1st
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Reading Intervention Program: FREE SAMPLE
This resource is a free sample of the Reading Intervention Program for Big Kids available. To see all the resources click on the link below:Reading Intervention ProgramI hope you can use this reading intervention program in your classroom! Copyright © 2015 Jen Bengel All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only. Not for public display.
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Intervention Program - Complete Bundle - Digital & Print
Close Reading Reindeer
Close reading is a key component of the Common Core Standards. It is the active and analytic reading and re-reading of text to gather meaning. This reading and re-reading of text leads to higher level thinking skills and a deeper level of reading comprehension. These are crucial concepts for growing readers. This close reading, non-fiction resource focuses on reindeer.
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This freebie is a sampling of a close reading resource simil
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Year Long Close Reading MEGA Bundle
Interactive Friendly Letter Freebie
Interactive Friendly Letter Freebie- - teach your kiddos the parts of a letter with this fun and interactive writing activity!
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PreK - 1st
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