Thematic units and classroom materials with reading support for emerging and beginning readers. I hope you’ll find these materials helpful!
Savanna Safari: Flannel/Magnetic Board Images
Turn a corner of your classroom into a mini museum where students can explore life on the African Savanna. This set of flannel board/magnetic board images is just the thing to get little adventurers exciting about the weird animals of the grasslands!
Adventures in Space: Writing Journal
Give your little astronauts a place to draw and write about what their space adventures. Primary and elementary lines are included. You could have your youngest astronauts dictate their space adventures, then trace over your writing if appropriate.
The Mayflower: Display Cards
Sixteen Display cards, modeled after museum plaques describe the Mayflower for beginning readers. (Four reading levels are included in the set: K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8. Each card shows an image and describes an item found on the Mayflower ship.
Bird Nest Exploration: An Integrated Thematic Unit
This Literacy Through Science unit provides materials along with lesson plans that will get little ones into their hunting hats and off on a discovery adventure!
Natural Resources of Colonial America: Classroom Center
Explore the natural resources used by the early American colonists on the East Coast of the United States with these fun games and activities. Students will start to feel like colonists themselves.
Plant Press: Science Tool
Science Centers are a wonderful way to foster students interest and curiosity. Collect materials and solicit help from your students’ parents to create a classroom plant press, or two. Made of pine shelving, bolts, washers, wingnuts, and carboard pieces, they will last a lifetime. This is a project that many dads may like to do, who can’t normally help in the classroom. And little ones can help, too, if you like!
Rainforest: Classroom Museum
Build a rainforest right in your own classroom, and let your students explore the plants and animals found in this amazing wonder of nature. Games and activities appropriate for grades PS-6 are included, and three reading levels are provided for differentiated instruction.
Rainforest: Classroom Set-up Materials
Rainforests are the richest areas of life on our planet. Use these colorful, realistic materials to bring a little rainforest right into your own classroom.
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