Thematic units and classroom materials with reading support for beginning and intermediate readers. I hope you’ll find these materials helpful!
My Adventures in Space: Student 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.
Blast Off!: A “Go Fish” Game about Space
Students will have a fun time learning about the solar system with this version of “Go Fish.” There are many other ways to use these cards–for research, reading practice, playing Concentration, and letting students make up their own games!
Space Bingo
Children can learn a lot from pictures and labels. This Bingo game allows them to practice new vocabulary and gain understanding from new words and images associated with Space. There are 8 different Bingo boards, 40 caller cards, and you can print off as many markers as you wish.
Savanna Safari
Build a savanna—right in your own classroom—using butcher paper, construction paper, cutouts (included) and silk plants. Then stock your “savanna” with reading materials, games, and manipulatives that your students can use to explore this amazing biome. Individual items are also available separately.
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.
Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas Stockings: Read and Make Craft
The colorful, beautiful, and symbolic motifs used in the artwork of the Pennsylvania Dutch make lovely cards and Christmas stockings. Two sets of materials include “Read and Follow Directions” worksheets that walk students through making a cut-and-paste Christmas stocking in the Pennsylvania Dutch genre.
May Day Flower Basket: Read and Make Craft
This “Read and Make” craft activity will give your students practice for standardized test items about following directions, as well as a lovely flower basket to give a friend, teacher, or mom. You can use this product with the whole class, in small groups, or at a center. It’s made from standard school supplies and comes with two reading levels.
Natural Resources of Colonial America: Classroom Center
Students play games to learn information about the natural resources commonly used by the early settlers of North America. Lesson plans are included which tie the 5 games together. Materials can also be used to teach CCSS ELA/History.
Rainforest: Classroom Museum
Build a rainforest–right in your own classroom–using butcher paper, construction paper, cutouts (included), and silk plants. The mural directions include information for creating a stage backdrop. Individual items are also available separately.
Rainforest: Classroom Set-up Materials
These materials will help you set up your classroom on a rainforest (jungle) theme. The materials include Word files, which can be personalized, and PDF files. Included are calendar pieces, helpers chart, goal-setting bulletin board, hall passes, reward tickets, desk plates, and a door sign. Individual items are also available separately.
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