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.
Beginning Middle End: Sound Center Cards: This is an editable powerpoint for your customization. Simply edit or remove the text boxes as desired and print selected page. After editing I suggest that you save the file under another name to avoid permanently altering the original file. You can delete beginning, middle or end phonemes for students to insert. Another alternative is to delete all the letters so that they write them in. I included small picture cards to aid mastery. The pages or sections that cannot be edited are specifically marked.
Enjoy!
Nicole
Bossy e
Here's an original poem and accompanying visual aid to help your students with the CVCe pattern (split digraphs).
***************************************************************************
You might also be interested in:
Silent e - Illustrated Word Cards
Long Vowels_ e-Harmony
Silent e Poem
Sneaky e Poem
Magic e Poem
Ninja e Poster
*************************************************************************
***************************************************************************
Needs and Wants: What does Santa need to survive in the North Pole? What does he want but can do without there? This is a two-poster set that explains needs and wants to your little ones. I include varying versions of a needs and wants graphic organizer that your students can list or draw Santa's needs and wants.
This product does NOT contain any picture sorting activities.
Enjoy!
Nicole
Main Idea and Details: Main Idea and Details- Hanger Graphic Organizer printable: Here's a graphic organizer that your kids can use to organize their writing. You can print the colored version and laminate for your writing area. The black and white version can be used for individual students' writing folders or notebooks.
Enjoy!
Nicole
*************************************************************************
You might also be interested in;
Main Idea and Details - Ladder Graphic Organizer.
Main Idea and Details - Pony Graphic Organizers.
*************************************************************************
*************************************************************************
Synonyms: SayNoName Synonym Task Cards: Here are 60 individual synonym task cards that are great for literacy centers and work stations for those students who are early finishers. Your students can choose to work together in cooperative groups to complete tasks. These cards can also be used for individual work.
(C)Nicole Hernandez 2012 at http://nicadez.blogspot.com
This set of noun cards are great for reviewing the formation of nouns using verbs. The clear use of graphics can help your students to make connections between the verbs and the nouns. The noun endings are in red type to allow for easy visibility. This is a wonderful addition to any literacy center.
(C) A Teacher's Idea 2012 http://nicadez.blogspot.com
Comprehension Strategy Posters: This is a set of Comprehension posters that explain the strategies:
Determining Importance
Prior Knowledge
Questioning
Making Connections
Visualizing
Inferring
Summarizing
Evaluating
Synthesizing
(C) Nicole Hernandez 2012 A Teacher's Idea at www.nicadez.blogspot.com
Contractions: Under Contraction! A Contraction Matching Activity- Kindergarten to Grade 6: This is a great activity to add to your literacy centers. Students will contract the pairs of words and find the corresponding contraction card.
This set contains 24 pairs of words to contract and a recording sheet. The cards are color coded for visual learners.
Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher’s Idea
www.nicadez.blogspot.com
Writing Prompts: Picture Prompts For Writing Stomps!- Kindergarten to Grade 1: This is a fantastic addition to your literacy and writing centers. There are lots of pictures included to get your students writing and writing, and writing some more! The more they write the better they become. The themes included are:
Christmas
Valentines
4th of July
Beach Fun
School Days
Each page ensures neat and uniformed writing with perforated lines for printing with ease. Your students will have fun writing.
(C) Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
www.nicadez.blogspot.com
It's A New Year Mini Book For Serious Kids **Revised for New Year 2018** This mini book helps kids to understand the meaning of resolutions and how important it is to make one. Your kids will enjoy coloring activities as they explore different aspects of resolution making. Although the poem may be difficult for some kids to read, its flow and rhyme makes it a great piece for guided reading activities.
Nicole
A Teacher's Idea
Community Helpers: People in Our Community Chit Chat Cards-For Social Studies 'n Writing Activities: This resources contains picture cards with vocabulary that can be used for both Social Studies and Writing activities. They are great for stimulating ideas and focusing students on community-based themes.
The set contains 12 pages each containing 6 cards. That is a total of 72 cards. There is also 1 blank page for any additional pictures you may want to include.
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Martin Luther King Day: Dove Facts About Dr Martin Luther King Jr. With 5 PostersThis is a set of fact cards that paints a picture of the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. There are also a writing and a coloring activity for your students. Included in this resource is also a set of 5 posters entitled ' We Are Living A Dream'. These posters are student friendly and of course eye catching!
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Spring Writing: A Springboard of Writing Ideas for Young Writers:
This is a set of 7 Spring-themed writing activities for your budding writers .
There are 4 graphic organizers and some suggested words and phrases for each writing theme.: The set contains the following:-
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
The 5 Ws + H
Story Plan- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution
Story Plan- Beginning, Middle, End
Story Writing Sheet-First Draft
Story Writing Sheet-Publishing- Lined Sheets
8 Story picture prompts with suggested words and phrases to use
Prompt 1 - Sally Catches Butterflies
Prompt 2 - Sue and The Little Bird
Prompt 3 - Brad and The Caterpillar
Prompt 4 - Liam in The Butterfly Patch
Prompt 5 - Lillian Flies The Kite
Prompt 6 – Isabella and Her Umbrella
Prompt 7- Jacob and Isabella
Prompt 8 - Cameron Loves Spring
*************************************************************************
(c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
**************************************************************************
Loop Games: Collective Nouns: Collective Perspective! I Have...Who Has...? {Animal Collective Nouns}: Get yourself in order with this fabulous Back To School activity for teaching collective nouns.This is a fun activity for kids to practice collective nouns. In the traditional "I Have..? Who Has..?" style, this game spells hours and hours of fun! It can be played with a select number of students or the entire class can participate. Just print on cardstock, laminate and cut cards.
This game activity contains:
76 collective noun ANIMAL cards
1 blank template for your customization
Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
This is an excellent resource that is useful for covering the topic family tree with your students. There are apple cards depicting multicultural families that your students can have fun with while learning the basic and modern structure of a family. The apple tree mat can be used to build the family unit on and can be placed in a folder in plastic sleeves or laminated for longevity.
The multicultural apple family cards include - African-American, Caucasian (Brunette, Blonde, Red), Latino and Asian. Simply print the cards, laminate and cut the cards apart. Your students will build families with any combination of cards as they wish. The parent and big teen cards can be used to represent other members of the modern family.
Also included are vocabulary cards with a header depicting family words that are bordered in blue, red and black to sort according to gender: male, female and gender neutral words. A colored and black ‘n white “My Family Tree” worksheet is included for students to complete about their own family as well. The multicultural family unit is available as a blank version, for your children to colour in and the apple tree mat is included as a low ink alternative.
How can your students get meaning from nonfiction texts? This can be done by checking for THIEVES. THIEVES is an active prereading strategy that allows students to skim and scan then summarise the information from informational texts before they actually begin reading the text. The acronym is explained as: “T” for title, “H” for headings, “I” for introduction, “E” for every first sentence, “V” for visuals and vocabulary, “E” for end of chapter questions, and “S” for summary. Your students can use this strategy to preview textbooks and other informational texts when they do not have an opportunity to read the entire selection. Although this is very useful remind your students that making time for the full reading of a text is the better way to go!
