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Showing posts with label balanced literacy. Show all posts

Thursday, February 13, 2020

GET READY!! St. Patrick's Activities and Crafts

Are you feeling lucky??!!
Pick this packet and you will have a months worth of exciting reading, writing and word work activities!!
Look at this cute leprechaun and WANTED poster.

But my favorite is this little letter to the leprechaun.
There is informational text.

Graphic organizers for collecting facts and a T?F for assessment.
Pre Writes are available for preparing final writes.

Pages for final writes are differentiated.
I love the Reader's Theater.
Your class will love reading it and then preparing wishes and their spin on How To Catch a Leprechaun!

Look at these wonderful selections for read aloud literature and then comprehension activities to accompany them.


Word work is plentiful with colorful vocabulary cards and then word work activities.

And... GREEN things and a GREEN story!!


Sunday, January 27, 2019

St. Patrick's Day Activities

Do you feel LUCKY?
You will if you share these activities with your class.
So much fun with balanced literacy!

Word Work
Making words, syllables, parts of speech.
All vocabulary is related to St. Patrick's Day.
(not shown are the other 6 vocabulary cards as well as word search, ABC Order and another making words with St. Patricks Day.

Informational text includes a mini book filled with facts about St. Patrick's Day.
There is a T/F page which is perfect for assessment or have your class use the text while completing the activity.  There is also a graphic organizer for students to write down key facts from the text.
Not shown are 3 differentiated final write pages for informational writing.

And there are MORE opportunities for writing.
Creative, IS/HAS/CAN, Sensory, and paragraph.

MY FAVORITE!  Reader's Theater on Catching a Leprechaun.
There are 6 parts to the reading so your class can be divided into groups.
Following the reading your class can write about catching a leprechaun AND creating a WANTED poster.


Then more writing with the leprechaun.  Wishes and a letter.

There are so many wonderful stories about St. Patrick's Day.
Here are four of my favorites with comprehension activities to follow each one.




Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Balanced Literacy with a Back to School Theme!


This packet is perfect to start your school year off!
There are crafts, school tours, how we go, connection to self experiences, name tags, posters for centers and MORE!!
You will find word work, writing, comprehension activities, and math.
Six stories...plenty for that first week of school and more.
Two NEW favorites are Dad's First Day! and Daddy's Shopping Adventure!
They are delightful and will have you and your class smiling.
 Imagine asking your class how their mom or dad felt on the first day of school.
We always ask how THEY felt but now they can predict about someone else.
And the shopping adventure...needless to say we can all relate.

For each of the stories I have added a few of my favorite activities in the packet.
There certainly are many more.
I like how this story gives me an opportunity to expand on emotions.  It also has a cute poster about the student for posting on the first day AND a cute poem.

 This I like to use later in the week and allow the students to use their imagination.
It has lots of writing, word work, and recall.

Most all of the students will have been back to school shopping.
Lets share about it.  Also there is an opportunity for some back to school shopping with addition.

 MY FAVORITE!!!
How do you think your parents felt on the first day of school.

This story is perfect for who works around the school.  There are riddles, name tags, a welcome back note for you to personalize.
 And everyone loves Froggy!! There is a mini book for recording classroom information, a poster for recording classroom information, an opportunity to talk about rules (Froggy had a hard time remembering to raise his hand.)
I just know this bundle will delight you and make heading back to school that much easier!!


Sunday, February 14, 2016

Leo Lionni and a Giveaway!!

I am so excited about this new packet.  It was so much fun to create.  Leo Lionni's stories are some of my favorites.








It contains activities for:
Little Blue and Little Yellow
Swimmy
Cornelius
The Extraordinary Egg
Frederick
A Color of His Own
It's Mine
Inch by Inch

Each book contains comprehension activities, a word work page, a math game, and a craft and activity.
Here is a sample from Swimmy.
This part contains Cause and Effect, Reflection, Predictions, Antonyms, Inferences, and a Math Game on Subtraction from 10.

There is also a counting and sorting activity for you kiddos. 
Patterns for creating a massive Swimmy are also included.
Each student makes a Swimmy in red.
You form a fish with these and add the black eye. 

If you like this selection I know you will LOVE the others as well.

Now to get you even more excited I am having a GIVEAWAY.
It includes:
5 Stories
4 Animal Characters
1 Bag
Plus my packet.
It is a $60 value.





Wednesday, January 13, 2016

St Patrick's Day Literacy Pack

This is filled with Literacy Activities and perfect for your Literacy Centers.
Let's take a peek.
It begins with two delightful crafts for decorating your room and displaying student writing.
The one is a letter to the Leprechaun and it has a pre write to help your kiddos get started.


 Next we move to Word Work.  The vocabulary cards are perfect for posting in your writing center or in you word work center.  I laminate them and then they can be used for ABC order.  Colorful and easy to see.  These are just two samples of the word work in the packet there is also syllables, and a word search.



Yes, there are activities for Writing.  Here are just a few of the samples.   Notice your choice of a printing line or not.  






I love that informational text   Perfect for reading and rereading for details.  Each student has their own booklet followed by a T/F.  I always have the students highlight the text that proves their answer.


Then following reading they can write about details in the text they just read.

And it includes a Reader's Theater.

 

Using favorite texts from familiar authors comprehension activities are provided.








And check out this wonderful treat for your students.