**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Great for Test-Prep Practice! Help sharpen your students' skills in following both written and oral directions -- important skills for preparing for standardized tests. Students will solve riddles, color pages, find hidden objects, and draw step-by-step pictures while following written directions. Students will listen to directions that are read aloud or taped while following oral...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of...

This February picture frame is a great activity to do with students! Take a picture and have them write down what what they love about their family. Then they can go back and see what they looked like at the time. This activity is from Making Memories Month by Month eBook.Prints on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, or fit to...

** THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT ** Knowledge of letter-sound relationships is the basic building block of literacy learning. With this set of Sound-spelling Cards you will be equipped to effectively teach sound-spellings (phonics), word structure, and conventional spelling. Sound-spelling instruction, or phonics, attaches previously learned sounds to specific letters and letter combinations and spelling patterns. With an understanding of...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!**One Hundred Minutes to Better Basic SkillsNow there's a way for students to practice their grammar skills, enhance their overall grammar proficiency, and have fun at the same time! Grammar Minutes, Gr. 1 provides students with practice in the following key areas of first-grade grammar: sentence structure capital letters punctuation common nouns proper nouns pronouns verbs...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Poems, Art Projects, & Activity Ideas for Creating Student Scrapbooks This book includes reproducibles, monthly writing templates, decorative writing paper, monthly photo or writing frames, holiday/seasonal poems and songs, activity ideas for each month, monthly handprint ideas, literature links, and scrapbook layout page ideas.

Discuss with children the things Abe Lincoln carried in his hat, and then have students complete the sentence frame with what they would carry in their hat. Have them cut out the hat and then display all the completed hats on a bulletin board. This activity is from Making Memories Month by Month eBook.Prints on 8 1/2 x 11 paper,...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** This Open eBook allows you to copy and paste text and certain images into a word processing program. You can also enable the Typewriter function and type directly onto the page. Learn more! Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension   The national standards require that students beginning at fourth grade use their knowledge of common...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Building Skills by Exploring Maps Maps hold the promise of an adventure. And children really want to know how to read them. At the same time, they still need a lot of practice with the basic map skills of using latitude and longitude, locating places on a grid, estimating distances using scale, using indexes, and...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School! The Advantage Grammar series helps prepare students to communicate effectively as writers. Students learn how to craft sentences and paragraphs for various purposes and even edit their own work! Great for ESL/ELL! With added instructions, these are also great for home use! They receive instruction and practice in...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Open eBooks allow you to copy and paste text and certain images into a word processing program. You can also enable the Typewriter function and type directly onto the page. Learn more! This eBook will keep you organized and always ready for action. You can then print as few or as many pages as you...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!  Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:  A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn middle school students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The...