Teacher-Made Resources
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And if you have something to share, please email Dr. Elder at selder@pcboe.net.
Kindergarten
Letter Recognition Speed Drill
Practice
(Thanks to Kelly Howard, Phenix City Elementary, for
sharing her work and ideas!)
Kindergarten Homework Packs
(Thank you to Cathy Williams at Tallapoosa County Schools
for sharing!)
Kindergarten Sight Word Review
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Pancakes
& Butter Sight Word Center
Here's
a Pancake Center Recording Sheet
This file includes center directions and pancake
word cards for all sight words introduced in kindergarten.
Use targeted sight words and add to the pancake words as sight
words are introduced in each theme. You may also print out
doubles so you can make it a concentration game or print several
and students will have multiple opportunities to read the
word.
(Print on cardstock, cut apart, add a Dollar
Store spatula and you've got a fun center! You may also want
to try adding a back piece of brown butcher paper and adding
a little newspaper stuffing to each pancake to get a 3-D effect.)
You will also find a capital/lowercase letter match version
of this game on the Letter Recognition page.
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Roll a Word!
Print on cardstock (you could use different colors
for different themes to help organize). Cut out and assemble
cube. The student will roll the cube and read the word to a
partner. If he reads it correctly, he either writes the word
or colors in the space in the correct column on his recording
sheet. Alternate turns. The first player to fill a column is
the winner. Play could also continue until all spaces are filled.
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Kindergarten Building/Blending
Words Practice
Print the onset cube (beginning letter) on one color
cardstock and the ending (word family) on another color cardstock
(I like to use green for onset and red for ending). You will also
find vowel and consonant cubes below. You may print the vowel cube
on one color cardstock and consonant cubes on another color. Students
can roll VC words by using two cubes or CVC words by rolling three
cubes. The consonant cubes are printed in order of introduction in
the Harcourt Storytown series.
Cut out and assemble cubes. Students toss each cube and read the resulting
word to a partner. They then decide if the word is a real word or
a nonsense word.
A
recording sheet for these activites can be found here.
Or you may want to keep printing to a minimum by having students simply
fold a piece of paper hotdog style and draw their own happy face and
sad face headers.
Kindergarten: Keeping Vocabulary
Words in Circulation
"Royal Words"
Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 1
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 2
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 3
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 4
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 5
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Vocabulary
Word Crowns
Theme 6
(Print out on yellow or other color cardstock.
Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise. Glue crown to center
of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student to wear the
"Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
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Incredible
collection of Internet links for each Storytown kindergarten theme.
1st Grade
Francine Swickheimer has created these
file
folder labels for each week. Print on Avery Standard 8160 labels.
Speed Drills (print card and place
in center)
You
can print a recording sheet for your fluency center here! (4
to a page--cut apart)
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Speed
Drill for Kindergarten Review Lessons 1 - 14
(short vowel word blending using: m, s, r, t, n, p, c, d, g,
f, b, l, k, o)
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Speed
Drill for Kindergarten Review Lessons 1 - 14 (2)
(short vowel word blending using: m, s, r, t, n, p, c, d, g,
f, b, l, k, o)
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1st
Grade Spelling Words Bookmarks (Thanks to Kelly
Howard for sharing this website!)
1st
Grade Spelling Words Practice at SpellingCity
(Click the link above. Click "Find a list" at the top of
the page. Select "Search by teacher name" and enter lakewood.
Click "search." Click on the lesson and grade of your
choice. Click on any of the options available for each test.)
(Thanks to Sharon Windsor, a 5th grade teacher, at
Citrus Grove Elementary for sharing this website)
Color-Coded Reader's Theater Scripts
Letter Cards
(Print on cardstock, cut apart, and place the letters
in a snack-sized ziploc bag for each student. Have students take letter
cards out of their bag and place in a line at the top of their desk
for whole group word-building activities. Put all the small bags in
one larger ziploc bag and label the bag with the lesson/day for use
next year.)
Word
Builder/Blending Cards
(Print off on cardstock, laminate, and cut into three word builder
cards OR make your own with sentence strips. Thanks to Mrs. Riepe,
LES 1st Grade teacher, for sharing)
Small Group Lesson Plans
(These small group lesson plans will address high-frequency
sight word recognition, phonics, and reading in connected text--both
familiar text for fluency and decodable text for phonics application
practice.)
I Have Who Has Cards for High
Frequency (Sight) Words
Word Wall Cards for High Frequency
(Sight) Words
Pancakes With Butter Sight Word Center
(Print on
cardstock, cut apart, add a Dollar Store spatula and you've got a
fun center! You may also want to try adding a back piece of brown
butcher paper and adding a little newspaper stuffing to each pancake
to get a 3-D effect.)
Here's
a Pancake Center Recording Sheet
Roll a Word Sight Word Center
Print on cardstock. Cut out and assemble cube. The
student will roll the cube and read the word to a partner. If he reads
it correctly, he either writes the word or colors in the space in
the correct column on his recording sheet. Alternate turns. The first
player to fill a column is the winner. Play could also continue until
all spaces are filled.
Vocabulary Instruction Cards
(Print on cardstock. Glue procedure instructions to back of enlarged
print word. You will have an explicit, easily followed script on the
back of the card to refer to during instruction. No more fumbling
through your teacher's edition!)
Vocabulary Display
"CATCHY WORDS"
(Display your vocabulary words with a jar graphic or a real butterfly
net.
Each theme's words are printed on a different insect.)
Spelling Word Practice
(To use these as a center activity, place spelling
word flashcards in a center along with the spelling fans.
Option 1: Children can work with a partner by pulling a card and reading
the word to their partner. The partner will build the word by moving
the blades on the fan without looking at the flashcard. Partner 1
will check his work by comparing the spelling fan to the word card.
Option 2: Children can also work in 3's with one person calling the
words and the other two students racing each other to see who can
build the word the quickest. Again, the first partner will check for
accuracy.
Option 3: Children who are severely struggling with spelling words
can pull a card, read it, and build it by looking at the word card
as a model. This will be done independently.
Option 4: Students can complete the activity independently in a Look,
Cover, Spell, Check method. The student will pull a card and read
it. The student will look at the card while verbally spelling the
word. The student will then put the word face down. The student then
builds the word with the spelling fan. The student checks his work
by comparing his spelling fan to the flashcard.)
Spreadsheet
for 1st Grade Beginning of Year Benchmark Assessment Data
(Thanks to PCES reading coach, Allison Miller,
for sharing this form.)
Compiled
Online Resources and Supporting United Streaming Videos for 1st Grade
Storytown Themes (Thanks
to Kelly Howard for sharing this website!)
Spelling Words Flashcards
to Print and Cut Out.
(Thanks to Kristi
Miller,Lakewood Elementary,for sharing her hard work.)
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Homework letters correlated
with Storytown.
(Thanks to Kandace
Mobarakzadeh, Lakewood Elementary, for sharing her hard work.)
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Incredible
collection of Internet links for first grade Storytown themes
2nd Grade
2nd
Grade Spelling Words Practice at SpellingCity
(Click the link above. Click "Find
a list" at the top of the page. Select "Search by teacher
name" and enter lakewood. Click "search." Click
on the lesson and grade of your choice. Click on any of the options
available for each test.)
(Thanks to Sharon Windsor, a 5th grade teacher, at
Citrus Grove Elementary for sharing this website)
Spreadsheet
for 2nd Grade Beginning of Year Benchmark Assessment Data
(Thanks to PCES reading coach, Allison Miller, for
sharing this form.)
Avery
5260 Labels for each Storytown Lesson
Theme
Test Student Answer Document
(Want to cut down on copying? Have students respond
on this form instead of writing on the theme test. You will be able
to see what area each student struggled with most.)
Small Group Lesson Plans
Reader's Theater Color-Coded
Scripts
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A
Trip to the Fire Station
(Lesson 10)
(Thanks to Becky Billups, Reading Coach at
SES, for creating and sharing this color-coded script)
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Vocabulary Tic-Tac-Toe
(For this game, make a tic-tac-toe board. Or you may
print seasonal tic-tac-toe boards at the links below. Print out the
vocabulary cards for the desired lesson and cut apart. Students play
with a partner. Put the cards face down in a stack. Partner 1 takes
a card and reads the question to Partner 2. If Partner 2 answers correctly,
he marks an X on the tic-tac-toe board. If he does not answer correctly,
Partner 1 marks an O on the tic-tac-toe board. Partner 2 then takes
a card and reads the question to Partner 1. Partner 1 marks an O if
he answers correctly. Partner 2 marks an X if Partner 1 does not answer
correctly. Play continues until someone gets three in a row on the
tic-tac-toe board.)
Vocabulary Dominoes
(Print on cardstock and cut apart dominoes. Note: the
first domino piece will have "start" on one side and a vocabulary
word on the other side. Lay the "start" domino down first.
The student will match the domino with the correct definition to that
domino and continue laying down dominoes in that manner until all
dominoes are down. Note: the domino with "stop" should be
last.)
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Vocabulary Study Booklets
(Make in a literacy center and take home to practice.)
Vocabulary Word/Definition
Cards
(Print the page of words on one side. Turn it over and print the definitions
on the back)
(Thank you to Tara Sievers for sharing her hard work.)
