**Bring some Christmas cheer into your classroom with these short, easy-to-learn poems you can use for shared reading or guided reading lessons, as Christmas songs, or as part of a holiday display or performance. ** There are 11 original poems, each with only 4 lines, so your young learners can easily read, understand, and remember them. The rich Christmas vocabulary is combined with sight words so your students can learn to decode more difficult words in context. Included: Full colour version for classroom display or front of class teaching. Black and white version to print and give to students to read and color. Cover pages to create a Christmas Poem Book for each student Use these poems for: Shared reading Centres Early finishers (students can colour in the pages or prepare a recital for the class) Whole class reading activities Guided reading in small groups Class or school performances Chants or songs Fluency practice Poetry study A fun build-up to the Winter break Read Aloud or Circle Time Adding to a poetry journal These rhyming poems focus on the fun aspects of the holiday season, rather than the religious meaning, so they can be used by all. They feature: Food: candy canes, gingerbread, cookies, and cake Family Santa Rudolph, reindeer, and sleighs Gifts Christmas trees and decorations Winter/Snow Christmas stockings These poems are sure to be a hit this December with your Early Years, Reception, Year One and Year Two students, increasing their confidence and fluency as readers while still celebrating the Christmas season. Merry Christmas, everyone! All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, former PYP Co-ordinator and School Visit Team Member, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! Click my shop name to see my other resources: Board Games for traditional folktales Home Reading - Parent Support letters and bookmarks Full-Sentence Classroom Labels

Children learn to read better when they have support at home, but sometimes parents just don’t know how best to help their kids. Home reading can often be a battle, with parents unsure of how to help their child with reading at home (parents do not have teaching degrees, after all). I created these bookmarks to help my families avoid common parental mistakes that were often counter-productive or caused my students to stop enjoying reading at home. Help families support students in learning to read - Educate your parents about how they should be listening to reading. This is a great handout for Back to School Night, Open House, Meet the Teacher, Parent Teacher Conferences, or for when you send home reading books. These are also helpful for parent volunteers so they know how to listen to children read. Includes: 2 versions of my Pause, Prompt, Praise bookmarks Parent letter with detailed explanation of how they can support reading at home. These bookmarks help create a love of reading by making home-reading a joyful, positive, worthwhile experience for students and families. I’ve been using them for the last 5 years and parents are always grateful for the advice. The focus of these bookmarks is the Pause-Prompt-Praise process, which encourages listeners to help children independently use reading skills and strategies when trying to decode text. How to Use: Give out these “Pause-Prompt-Praise” bookmarks on Back-to-School night, or send them home early in the year, along with the included Parent Letter. I also often use them during Parent Teacher Conferences, because parents always ask how they can help their child with reading at home. The bookmarks will help parents know exactly what they can say to their child when listening to their reading. You can even use these as a basis for a Parent Education night or a demonstration video about how to support reading at home. They’re great for parent volunteers, buddy readers, or Teaching Assistants too. Your parents (and students) will appreciate the clear instructions and caring, positive tone of these “Help Me Learn to Read” bookmarks. There are 2 versions of the bookmark. Just print on card-stock and send home with the included parent letter. Thank you for supporting your students and their families as we grow great readers! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! ©HOTLIB, 2022 All rights reserved by author. For Single Classroom/Single Teacher Use Only.

Do you want to naturally immerse your students in language and create authentic reading opportunities? Reinforce sight words, English grammar, and punctuation using these 60 Complete Sentence Classroom Labels. These classroom labels are more than just classroom decor, they are a teaching tool! I created these full-sentence labels for my beginning readers and my dual-language ESL/EAL students, so that they were immersed in written language and in English sentence structure wherever they looked. Most classroom labels only contain single-word vocabulary (e.g. “table”) - I wanted my labels to do more: to teach sight words, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation too (e.g. “This is a table.”). Just print the PDF, cut the labels, and stick onto items around your room. These complete-sentence classroom labels can be used in different ways, including: As a back-to-school activity - have students find the items and attach the labels, using sticky-tack (you can use tape to put the labels on more permanently later). As standard classroom labels, to create a print-rich environment. As simple, professional-looking classroom decor. To teach the correct usage of this is/these are; here is/here are; this is a/this is the. To reinforce sight words: this, these, a, the, here, is, are. To reinforce beginning and end punctuation (capital/uppercase letters, and periods/full stops). As a paired game - one child holds up a label, the other child must read it and find where it belongs. As a group game - give each group a label, and see which group finds their item first. As models for students to create their own labels (“Here are my pencils.”, “This is my water bottle.” etc) - a great beginning of year authentic writing activity. As part of a ‘read the room’ reading centre or activity. I have focused mainly on larger items such as furniture, because the labels are 11 inches long (the width of a landscape page) . I wanted the students to really ‘see’ the sentences wherever they looked, so they could read them easily (I found it is better to use single words for smaller items like pencils and crayons). I hope you find these labels useful! All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! ©HOTLIB, 2022 All rights reserved by author. For Single Classroom/Single Teacher Use Only. As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!

Do you need an easy, no-prep, yet FUN reading comprehension activity for your young students or EAL / ESL / ELL learners? This Three Little Pigs Board Game just requires printing and handing out - no dice are needed due to the built-in spinner. Students will be answering questions about the text, acting out some of the lines, learning to take turns, and having fun! Use the game as a centre, a reading comprehension activity, a fun extension for early finishers, as a way to get kids talking and working together, or as an activity to send home for families. Playing games is a fun way to help your students develop their understanding of the text, but it’s also a great Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activity, helping students learn to take turns, co-operate, be good winners and good losers (good sports). The questions on the game board encourage students to practice their English reading and speaking skills as well. There’s a reason why fairy-tales and folktales are perennial favorites - they are good stories with morals that help children learn important concepts for life. The Three Little Pigs teaches that effort pays off in the end (it was harder to build the brick house, but it kept the pig safe from the wolf, whereas the easier and quicker options, the straw and sticks, did not). Instructions: Have your students read The Three Little Pigs, or you can read the book to them. Print the gameboard in your chosen size and version. I have included: full colour, low-ink colour black & white. How to use the spinner: You will need: A pencil A paper clip Put the point of the pencil inside the paper clip, on the centre of the spinner. Hold the pencil with one hand and flick the paperclip with a finger of the other hand. The paperclip will spin then point to a number. This is the number of spaces you move. All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, former PYP Co-ordinator and School Visit Team Member, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!