1st Grade Literature Centers

This is a printable retelling of the classic "Gingerbread Man" story, that can be used on felt boards or flannel boards. Simply cut out the illustrations and glue flannel or velcro to the back. (You may want to laminate your illustrations so that they are more durable).

A written story is included so that you can read along as you put the illustrations on your flannel board.

TeachShare A14-About fruits

What you would get:

1. 2 pdf files - (fruits with 1 seed) & (fruits with more than 1 seed)

2 cards /page (refer to thumbnails)

2. Items to be discuss among children (refer to thumbnails)

Discuss about the characteristic of the fruits

- Texture (fuzzy, smooth, rough etc)

- Taste (sweet, sour etc)

- Size/shape (Big, small, round)

- Smell

- Color

2. Categorized them ( by 1 seed or more than 1 seed)

How to play:

1. Show children the name of fruits - let them talk about it (Texture, taste, smell, size/shape & color)

2. Matching - Match picture with the name

3. Grouping - group fruits with same characteristic

Fruits covered:

1 seed fruit: mango, apricot, lychee, peach plum, avocado nectarine, longan, rambutan, coconut, cherry, olive.

More than 1 seed fruit: papaya, orange, apple, watermelon, guava, grapes, strawberries, dragon fruit, passion fruit, pear, honeydew, pomegranate, soursop, kiwi, custard apple, star fruit, mangosteen, durian, lemon, jackfruit, rock melon

This is a set of companion activities for Strictly No Elephants, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

• Title and Author Identification
• Illustrator Recognition
• Setting Exploration
• Favorite Part Reflection
• Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
• Book Rating
• Illustration Activity
• Problem and Solution Identification
• ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "Strictly No Elephants".

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Play-doh mats are fun and educational for young learners. Many students love the hands on aspect of play-doh and when you add the learning aspect of different play-doh mats its a win for everyone!

Included in this bundle is Fall Leaf Themed Uppercase and lowercase Letter play-doh mats as well as numbers 1-10 with 10 frames.

I would print and laminate these play-doh mats for better durability.

Pretend Play Recording Sheets || Realistic Writing Prompts

These pretend play recording sheets were created to add literacy supports to your dramatic play center, writing center, or other areas you see fit!

This set includes 10 colored and 10 black & white prompts:

1. Restaurant Check
2. Bakery Order Form
3. Ice Cream Order Form
4. Student Report Card
5. Daycare Daily Activity Log
6. Library Card
7. Doctor's Appointment
8. Dental Exam
9. Veterinarian Appointment
10. Traffic Ticket

Created to look realistic to help support student's imaginative play while making connections to everyday life.

How should these be used?

There are so many ways for these writing prompts to be used!

• Place in dramatic play to correspond and support current units of study

• Place in the writing center to act as a writing and literacy support for students to use

• Laminate for long term use! Simply print, cut, laminate, use dry erase markers to write, erase, and reuse!

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This resource contains 8 fun, colorful and engaging two piece puzzles which explores cause & effect.

There are a total of 8 puzzles in colour and 8 puzzles in black and white. This is a great resource for early learners which includes Pre-k, Kindergarten (Prep) and special education.

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This packet is a literature response to Good Work, Amelia Bedelia. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue. These are graphic organizers with reading comprehension questions to promote a deeper understanding.

This book is at a Level K.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Character Analysis

- Quotes

- Grammar

- Opinion

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It is a fun engaging writing task your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to Go!

Task:

1. Students are going to write in the name of each crayon eight letters to the owner to express the opinions of crayons using the Air Mail Craft Book pages.

2. Each student will follow informational writing format (topic sentence and detail sentences) for each letter.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt as a model.

You could use this Air Mail papers to write anything letters.

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Frog and Toad Are Friends poke cards are a great independent, partner or guided reading group comprehension activity. Frog and Toad Are Friends is a just right beginning chapter book for my second grade students. Students in my small groups quickly make connections to the characters and their unique friendship. The poke cards are self checking. After reading each chapter, students will answer each question by selecting one of three choices. Using a pencil, straw, or pipe cleaner, students will poke through the hole to choose their answer. The correct answer will have a mark above or around the hole. The poking process quickly engages the students and provides immediate feedback to them. Cards have chapter titles on them for ease of organization. Teacher Preparation: -Print on card stock for durability. -Using a hole punch, at each * punch a hole. -Identify the correct answer and draw a circle around the hole or mark an X above the hole. -Laminate for durability.

Last Day Blues Activities: End of Year Read Aloud w/ Digital Option

Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg is an end-of-the-year picture book that is most appropriate for the last week of school. This literature activity unit was created for 1st-3rd grade and contains end-of-year activities relevant to the book but are also appropriate as reflection activities as the year winds down.

The following activities are included in this Last Day Blues Literature Activity Unit:

• Discussion Questions in list form as well as task card form (and reflection answer sheets)
• Who, What, When, Where, Why, How for Last Day Blues
• My Feelings graphic organizer
• A Wish for My Teacher
• My Favorite Memories Craftivity Sphere (as pictured on the cover)
• Teacher Appreciation Ideas
• Friendly Letter
• Newspaper Template- What Will I Miss?

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

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"The Second-best Friend" by Sally Rippen is part of the Billie B. Brown series. This file contains comprehension questions for each chapter of the book and vocabulary questions. It has an Accelerated Reading level of 2.4. About the story Billie loves being best friends with Jack. Billie also loves the sparkly pens that Jack bought her for her birthday. So when her new friend, Rebecca, suggests that Billie swaps her beautiful sparkly pens for a purple pony, Billie is a little muddled. She really wants to be friends with Rebecca but she doesn’t want to hurt or disappoint Jack. Having a new friend suddenly means that Billie has to make a lot of tricky decisions. Other Billie B. Brown Book Studies Billie B. Brown: The Extra-Special Helper By Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Secret Message by Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Birthday Mix-up by Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Soccer Star by Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Big Sister by Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Beautiful Haircut by Sally Rippin Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Little Lie by Sally Rippen Book Study Billie B. Brown: The Copycat Kid by Sally Rippen Book Study *** How to get TeachShare credits to use on future purchases *** Go to your My Purchases page. Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button, click it and you will be taken to a page where you can leave a quick rating and a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you provide feedback, you’ll earn TeachShare credits that can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Plus, the feedback you provide helps me make my products better suit your needs! *** How To Follow My Store *** Click the green star beside my name at the top of this page OR at the top of my store page. Following me notifies you when I post a new item and you will receive customized email updates about my store.

Get your students practicing the alphabet with these letter worksheets. These are perfect for morning work, literacy centers, homework, intervention programs and more.

This hands-on coloring beehive fun to connect capital letter with it's small letter for your preschool, pre-k, early childhood, special education, and kindergarten classrooms. Use this this alphabet activity to teach letters, letter identification and uppercase and lowercase letter matching.

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This is a set of companion activities for Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no-prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

• Title and Author Identification
• Illustrator Recognition
• Setting Exploration
• Favorite Part Reflection
• Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
• Book Rating
• Illustration Activity
• Problem and Solution Identification
• ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "Fletcher and the Falling Leaves".

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Fall Themed Alphabet & Number Tracing flashcards - Fall Themed Learning Activity

What’s Included In This Package:

• Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards A-Z
• lowercase letter tracing cards a-z
• Uppercase & lowercase letter tracing cards Aa-Zz
• Number Tracing Cards 1-10

This is a great activity to help your students practice holding a pencil and writing their numbers and letters.

Short E Word CVC Cards

This set includes 20 short A word CVC cards including -eb, -eg, -em, -en, -es, -et PLUS two blank CVC cards.

Each card includes:

• REAL pictures
• CVC word with each letter boxed off

This set is the perfect addition to any literacy or writing center and can be used for teacher and student led activities in many different ways!

• Spelling and writing practice
• Letter sound correspondence
• Emergent reading support

Why real pictures?

Help students make connections to the world around them. When we provide materials and resources with real pictures versus drawing and clip-art, there leaves little to no room for error.

While clip-art and illustrations can be fun and useful, they have a place. Allow your students to view real life pictures to reference and to help make connections!

There is no mistaking what these images depict making it easier for our young learners to decode the CVC words!

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This packet is a literature response to Tikki Tikki Tembo. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

This book is at a Level N.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Character Analysis

- Grammar

- Opinion

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Owl At Home poke cards are a great independent, partner or guided reading group comprehension activity. The poke cards are self checking. Students will answer the question by selecting one of three choices. Using a pencil, straw, or pipe cleaner, students will poke through the hole to choose their answer. The correct answer will have a mark above or around the hole. The poking process quickly engages the students and provides immediate feedback to them. Cards have chapter titles on them for ease of organization. Teacher Preparation: -Print on card stock for durability. -Using a hole punch, at each * punch a hole. -Identify the correct answer and draw a circle around the hole or mark an X above the hole. -Laminate for durability.

Stick and Stone Activities: Sequencing, Retelling, Discussion Activities, and MORE!

Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry is the focus of this no-prep printable literature unit for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd grade. There are opportunities for discussions about bullying, as well as perseverance and friendship. I tried to include activities that will reach Kindergarten students up to 2nd grade (most appropriate for the first half of 2nd grade).

In the packet, you will find the following activities:

• Discussion Questions in a list (2 pages)
• Discussion Questions on 13 task cards (4 task cards per page)
• St blends (one page + one page answer key)
• Rhyming words (real or nonsense words)
• Sequencing (one page + one page answer key)
• First, next, then, last writing activity
• Characters, Setting page
• Two different writing prompts (two pages per prompt)
• Retelling Sticks Activity (cut, paste on popsicle sticks/tongue depressors - students retell story with pictures glued on sticks)
• Letter writing
• Who, What, When, Where, Why writing activity
• Bullying- What can students do to help others who are being bullied?
• Vocabulary
• Proper nouns and common nouns

Please check the preview prior to purchasing so that you can assess the appropriateness of the activities in your class.

NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

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This Reader's Theater is a companion activity to the book “Thankful” by Eileen Spinelli. It will enable the children to enjoy the story even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills.

About the Book

Thankful, by bestselling and award-winning children’s author Eileen Spinelli, combines charming rhymes and whimsical illustrations to convey the importance of being thankful for everyday blessings.

There are two versions included. One version has roles for three students. The other version has roles for four students. Both versions are three pages long.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 182076 Grade Level 2.1

Thanksgiving Reader’s Theater:

Run, Turkey, Run! - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater

Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes - A Thanksgiving Reader's Theater

Give Thanks for Each Day by Steve Metzger - Reader's Theater Companion

Five Flying Turkeys by Barbara B. McGrath - Reader's Theater Companion

All Reader's Theater Script

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This is a set of companion activities for Peanut Butter and Cupcake, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no-prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

• Title and Author Identification
• Illustrator Recognition
• Setting Exploration
• Favorite Part Reflection
• Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
• Book Rating
• Illustration Activity
• Problem and Solution Identification
• ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "Peanut Butter and Cupcake".

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