Author, Nicole Hernandez is a primary school teacher with 30 years teaching experience. Nicole completed a B. Ed (Bachelor of Education) majoring in Language Arts and graduated with a Masters degree in Literacy Instruction. Her passion for visual learning is woven into her style through the use of colour and kid-friendly graphics. She always looks for creative ways to make learning both fun and engaging.
Author, Nicole Hernandez is a primary school teacher with 30 years teaching experience. Nicole completed a B. Ed (Bachelor of Education) majoring in Language Arts and graduated with a Masters degree in Literacy Instruction. Her passion for visual learning is woven into her style through the use of colour and kid-friendly graphics. She always looks for creative ways to make learning both fun and engaging.
Sight Words
Sight Words: Did you ever wonder whether your chosen sight words were considered under the category Dolch, Fry or Fountas and Pinnell? Well here is a comparison table just for you. The first 400 words of Dolch’s list are compared to Fry’s Instant words and F&P’s high frequency words. This is handy for all teachers as an easy tool to organize your sight words especially if you need to tweak your existing pool of sight words to reflect the spectrum.
This simple mini book allows young students to write simple sentences that capture the true meaning of Christmas. Each page contains engaging graphics that makes writing both fun and engaging as they color and write about different Christmas elements that can be quite familiar to them. This makes a great activity for students ages 5 to 7.
Help your students remember the Long vowel sounds for Y (long I and long E) with these posters. These bright and colourful posters are clear and simple reminders making them the perfect resource to have on your classroom wall for students to refer to during their writing sessions. Included also are a black and white version plus a mini-version of each poster for students to keep in their notebooks or writing folders.
These letter confusion/reversal posters will help your students to distinguish the difference between confusing letters m and n. Included are matching cards to help them to establish a visual memory and note the difference between similar letters in the alphabet. There are letters with an without serifs.
These letter confusion/reversal posters will help your students to distinguish the difference between confusing letters m and w. Included are matching cards to help them to establish a visual memory and note the difference between similar letters in the alphabet. There are letters with an without serifs.
Christmas Around the World. This is a mini writing unit for students to focus on Christmas around the world.
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It includes a research question guide sheet plus BLANK writing sheets for 14 countries including my own country of Trinidad and Tobago. This product does not contain facts.
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I included 3 sets of sheets for your drawing and writing needs. Your kids will have fun completing this unit and most of all they will learn a lot more about Christmas in different parts of the world.
Christmas: These Write-the-story Sheets will allow your students to think and write the story on their own. Guided by key pictures, these sheets are also lined in two types to also encourage students to write neatly and maintain uniformity. The sheets can be used for drafts and or for final publication.
(C) Nicole Hernandez
www.nicadez.blogspot.com
These vibrant Multiplication Strategy Posters help students use various methods to solve multiplication problems. Each poster features a definition and visual aids to enhance understanding. Great for enhancing your classroom, for general display, or as discussion prompts, this pack supports teaching the basics of the multiplication strategies for young learners.
Included Strategies:
Skip Counting
Repeated Addition
Number Line
Array
Equal Groups
Fact Families
Commutative Property
Associative Property
Distributive Property
Also included are black and white versions of each poster and **student copies **for their notebooks.
These A-Z Do-A-Dot alphabet worksheets are great for strengthening hand muscles and develop fine motor skills while learning the letters of the alphabet. These worksheets help your students work on uppercase and lowercase letter formation while simultaneously learning letter names and letter sounds. These are great for students to fill using dot markers, dab paint, stickers, bingo daubers or markers. Included on each page are an image and word label for students to connect with letter learning. This resource is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age students learning letters a to z.
Use these 8 ½ x 11 flash cards to introduce or review the letters of the alphabet with your students. This set includes both UPPERcase and lowercase letters together on one page . The vowels are in red and the consonants blue. The cards are clean and clear so that your students can pay closer attention to the formation of the letters within the handwriting lines, just like in their books. These cards are perfect for teaching whole groups or for displaying within your classroom, referring to them periodically during your phonics or handwriting teaching sessions.
The vowel digraphs depicted are only those that can be explained using the rhyme “When two vowels go walking, sometimes, the first one does the talking.” These are:-
ai
ay
ea
ee
ie
oa
ue
These are ready for you to print out, place on your word wall as an easy reference for your students. Also included are blackline versions and a notebook version in black and white.
This set of colorful display posters or visual aids were designed around the holiday song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which was first published in 1780. They depict each of the Twelve Days of Christmas in cute and kid-friendly graphics. This is a lovely resource that can be used in a sequencing activity or to simply share this song with your children.
Included in this download are both the COLORED version and a BLACK AND WHITE version for ink economy.
Fiction vs Nonfiction
This resource contains four colored posters that make a fantastic visual for fiction and nonfiction for very young learners. These posters can be displayed in your literacy centers, writing workshop area or your classroom library. These posters are simple definitions for fiction and nonfiction and I suggest that it can be a great way to start your literary genre units. Simply print them poster size and laminate or cover with plastic so that you would be able to have them all year through and from year to year.
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Reading Logs
This is a set of simple reading logs and reading goals plus reading reflection sheets for your students and parents.
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Please check the preview file for a look at the contents of this resource before purchase.
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Morning: Morning and Afternoon Routine Posters For Your Little Ones-These are some morning and afternoon routine posters that I have made for my class. I put in a few other possible routine that other teachers may need. They can be printed and mounted using decorative ribbons to suspend them along the wall or you can stick them separately.
Nicole Hernandez
Health: This resource is great for work on the topic of personal hygiene and healthy habits. These posters and cards can be used to spark discussions and can be used as writing prompts also. This set includes:
4 Posters:
Don't just sit! Get fit!
Eat lots of Fruits and Vegetables
Cover your mouth
Properly wash your hands
17 Healthy Practices cards:
Eat lots of fruits
Eat lots of vegetables
Exercise
Use a tissue
Take baths regularly
Cover your mouth...
Floss your teeth
Brush your teeth
Wash your hands
Visit the dentist
Get plenty of rest
Cover your cough
Don't sit! Get fit!
(c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
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