This is a fun literacy center for students to practice identifying initial sounds and spelling sight words. Students will identify the initial sound for each picture on the word card in order to bust the code of the mystery sight word. This set includes: - an alphabet chart - 40 pre-primer sight word mystery cards - 2 blank mystery cards - student recording sheet - answer key

This is a fun literacy center for students to practice identifying initial sounds and spelling sight words. Students will identify the initial sound for each picture on the word card in order to bust the code of the mystery sight word. This set includes: - an alphabet chart - 46 2nd grade sight word mystery cards - 2 blank mystery cards - student recording sheet - answer key

This is a fun literacy center for students to practice identifying initial sounds and spelling sight words. Students will identify the initial sound for each picture on the word card in order to bust the code of the mystery sight word. This set includes: - an alphabet chart - 41 first grade sight word mystery cards - 1 blank mystery card - student recording sheet - answer key

Let’s make repeated reading and fluency practice fun by allowing students to read with a variety of emotions! This set includes color and low ink versions of 35 different voices for students to use while reading. There is also a blank template included for students to come up with additional voices! You can print these cards to be put in a box, cup, or on a ring. Students can use these cards during independent reading, buddy reading, or even during your small group reading instruction.

These fluency tasks cards help students practice reading fluently with expression. Each task card has a scenario to allow the students to think about how the character is feeling. Students then read the quote with the appropriate emotion to practice fluent reading. Level 1 gives students 3 emotion words from which to choose. Level 2 requires students to think of the correct emotion word on their own. This set includes: * 20 task cards (two different levels & B/W copies of each) * Student recording sheets * Answer Keys

Sticker stories are a fun way for students to practice writing during literacy centers. By providing scenes and stickers for students to manipulate, it is easier for them to generate ideas. It also prevents you from hearing them say, “I don’t know what to write about!” While you are definitely encouraged to allow students to use any stickers you have, this set provides printable “stickers” for you. You can print these on regular copy paper to put at your writing center. Students can color and glue these paper “stickers” to their stories. School scenes included in this set are: * Classroom * Gym * Library * Cafeteria * Playground * School Exterior

Let’s make sight word spelling practice fun! This is a kinesthetic approach that allows students to use their imaginations. This set includes color and low ink versions of 35 different cheers for students to practice spelling sight words. There is also a blank template included for students to come up with additional motions to do! You can print these cards to be put in a box, cup, or on a ring. You may want to keep them near your Word Wall. Students can use these cards with a partner during centers. You may also choose to use them for whole group practice or during your small group instruction. Each card gives two sets of motions. The first motions are to be done when spelling the word (e.g. “c – a – n”). Students do the second motions as they state the word they just spelled (e.g. “can”).

These retelling boards are a simple yet engaging way for students to answer comprehension questions about passages they’ve read. You may choose to use them with a small group or allow students to practice with a buddy. The comprehension questions are organized by skills to help you reinforce your instructional focus. These skills include: * Characters * Setting * Retelling * Making Connections * Main Idea The set also includes a blank board for you to customize to best fit your instructional needs.

Reading Inventories are a great way to collect data on students' reading attitudes and interests. These surveys are differentiated and include a variety of recording sheets based on what works best for you. Classroom teachers can use the different levels of surveys based on student ability levels within the class. Resource teachers can use the different levels with the multiple grade levels they work with. Several different results recording sheets are provided for teachers as a way to condense student responses into one place to use while planning instructional activities based on students' interests and attitudes. The surveys can be administered multiple times during the school year to monitor changes in students' interests in and attitudes about reading. Set includes: * Picture Primary Interest Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Interest Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Attitude Survey with 2 results recording sheets * Primary Picture Attitude Survey with results recording sheet * 2 paged Intermediate Interest Survey with 5 results recording sheets * Intermediate Attitude Survey with results recording sheet * Parent Reading Survey

This set includes reading buddy bookmarks and reader response sheets to enhance your buddy reading in the classroom and support your students' as the Read to Someone during the Daily 5. Set Includes: * Color and Black&White Copies of the following bookmarks: - Buddy Reading Steps - Decoding Prompts - Retelling (Primary) - Retelling (Intermediate) - Making Connections - The 5 W Questions * Student Recording Sheets - Primary recording sheet - Buddy Reading together sheet (fiction) - Buddy Reading together sheet (nonfiction) * Teacher Recording Sheet

Graphic organizers are a crucial part of the prewriting step of the writing process. Students have the opportunity to plan out and organize their thoughts before writing a rough draft. This set includes 11 different graphic organizers for a range of students. The primary graphic organizers allow students the space to write or draw in the boxes depending on their ability levels. Planning sheets for personal narratives, persuasive/opinion, and informational writing are all included within the set.

Making words is an easy literacy center! Students can manipulate the letters in these various holidays words to see how many words they can create. This file includes student recording sheets for 11 different holiday words. There are 11 colored recording sheets and 11 blackline masters. It also includes letters that can be cut apart for students to manipulate while making their words. Words for students to manipulate: ~ Columbus Day ~ Trick-or-treat ~ Thanksgiving ~ Gingerbread man ~ Christmas tree ~ New Year's Day ~ Valentine's Day ~ President's Day ~ St. Patrick's Day ~ Spring Break ~ Memorial Day

This bundle includes reading comprehension quick reference guides, study guides, and progress monitoring forms. The reference guides and study guides include graphic organizers and prompts/sentence stems for multiple reading comprehension strategies. You may choose to use these for your own reference during small group instruction. Students can use add them to their Reader’s Notebooks to help them apply the strategies while reading and review the previously taught strategies. You may also choose to send these to parents to provide them with a resource to help their child with reading at home. The prompts and graphic organizers are good way to help students prepare for questions they may see on assessments and standardized tests. The progress monitoring forms are a great way for you to track students’ mastery of the comprehension skills throughout the year. Bundle Includes: Metacognitive Strategies: - Asking Questions - Determining Importance - Monitoring Comprehension - Making Connections - Making Inferences - Summarizing & Synthesizing - Visualizing Comprehension Skills: - Character Analysis - Story Elements - Compare & Contrast - Fact & Opinion - Author's Purpose - Cause & Effect - Main Idea - Sequencing - Making Predictions - Plot - Making Judgments

This set is a great way to work on students' fluency by using Superheroes to remind them of what good readers do! Kids love superheroes and visual cues to remind them of the strategies good readers implement. This set provides superhero visual reminders to help students remember what fluent readers do while reading. Fluency is the ability to read words with speed, accuracy, and prosody (expression). Students need to be able to group words into meaningful phrases and pay attention to punctuation while reading. Reading should sound similar to how we talk with appropriate changes in volume, pace, and intonation. Most importantly students must think about what they’re reading to make sure it makes sense. This set has superheroes and bad guys to represent each of these strategies of fluent reading. Included in this set: - Instructions for use - Posters of the Fluency Superheroes and Bad Guys - Student bookmarks - Hasbrouck & Tindal fluency norms chart - 2 fluency graphs - Fluency battle cards - First 300 Fry instant phrases - Chart to document student progress on Fry phrases