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<img src=First-Grade-topper.png><br> by "The Sisters" - Gail Boushey and Joan Moser Read to Self Read to Someone Listen to Reading Work on WritingWork on Words Our Daily 5 Choice Charts Daily 5 Choice Cards Students choose from the following choices each day: Read to Self Read to Someone Listen to Reading Work on Writing Work on Words Work on Computer I also place a Meet with Mrs. Read to Self Read to Someone Listen to Reading Read to Self - Each morning, students choose 3 "just-right" books from our Classroom Library and place them on their desks. Listening Station Listen to Reading - On each group's day, the students can either choose a book on tape or a personal Cd player and book to listen to and read along. Work on Writing Students choose something from the Writing Station pocket chart to work on. Work on Words AlphabetBoxes-contentslist.doc These are the little boxes with the blue latches. 3-drawer carts contain: 1. The little white 5-drawer units house my Vowel Teaching Tubs. Work on Computer Type spelling words in WORD

Fun and Free Educational Review Games by Review Game Zone Create Your Own Word Sort Use the Word Sort Maker below to create a sort for your students. Create on-the-fly in class, or create in advance and add the sort to your class website. To save your Word Sort webpage: When you click the "Webpage" button in the Sort Maker, it will open the student view of your word sort in a new window. // Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting // or for those that have scripting disabled. Magnet Maker Flash and HTML code/scripts © 2006-2009, Daryl L.

Spell with flickr Please send me comments, suggestions or questions, kastner@gmail.com. I love getting emails about Spell with Flickr - and all my programming projects. It was just a few hours ago that I posted my Goals for 2008 and I'm releasing my first project of the year. It's nothing big, but it was a fun little distraction. The hide-an-image-in-text-with-css3-creator-thing If you're one of those folks who might care about how something like this might work, here's the source. read the rest at Meta | ateM Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One Letter and One Digit groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.

ReadWriteThink Home › Parent & Afterschool Resources Looking for engaging ways to introduce your child to reading or to encourage your teen to write? Need some age-appropriate book suggestions or rainy day activities? The materials here are your answer—all of them created by experts to be fun, educational, and easy to use outside of school. Parent & Afterschool Resources by Grades Activities & Projects

Printable Worksheets & Teaching Aids - Print ready Documents in PDF format, June 2008 Thanks to the creativity and generosity of the Teachers.Net community, we offer the following printables for educators to use with their students. Just click and print! You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open and print these files. Latest contributions to Teachers.Net Printables Book Basket Labels Organize your classroom library with these incredibly engaging and attractive labels created by high energy third grade teacher Beth Newingham. Labels1.pdf Labels2.pdf Labels3.pdf Labels4.pdf Daily 5 Log On the Kindergarten Chatboard ( a teacher asked, "What is the Daily 5? Siouxsan responded with additional information and her helpful Daily 5 Log Sheet: "I made a Daily 5 log sheet (a way for kids to chart what they do during the Daily 5). Click here to print Siousxsan's Daily 5 Log Sheet.daily_5_log.pdf You can learn more about The Daily 5 at This file is printed in landscape and back-to-back.

Microsoft Word Games - Board Game Templates by Dr. Jeff Ertzberger UNC Wilmington Printable Board Games Create your own game board such as "Science Time" or "Ms. Questions Game Board". Download Blank Board Template One Download Blank Board Template Two Download Blank Board Template Three (Patterns) Download Blank Board Template Four (Colors) Question Card Template Car Race Board | Fall Game Board | View Video Tutorial | Purchase More Board Game Templates Now! Want Even More Game Boards? Want more MS Word Board Games? Scrambled Words! I got this idea from watching the programs you can buy where you type in a word or phrase and then it prints out a page that has symbols that you have to decode using a key below. Download Scrambled Words - Webdings Font Download Scrambled Words - Wingdings Font Download Scrambled Words - Symbol Font Download Scrambled Words - Wingdings2 Font | Instructions for Use | View Video Tutorial | Purchase More Word Games Now! Sign Up for Our Email Alerts Sign up for our Email Alerts

LearningApps.org - interactive and multimedia learning modules EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes Shelfari - online book club possibility PowerPoint Games Racing Games No preparation required, just have a sheet of vocabulary or review questions in your hand. Click a button on the screen and the car or horse moves one step closer to the finish line and victory. (Whole Class Participation Game) Download Car Race (Beach Rally) Download Horse Race | Instructions | Office 2007 Instructions | Video Tutorial | What is Louie Thinking (Pyramid Game Show) Similar to Pyramid Game. Download Guess Louie | Instructions | Office 2007 Instructions | Sample Game | Video Tutorial | March Mayhem - Basketball Great for the Basketball March Madness time of year. | View Video of Game | Purchase Game Now | Big Board Facts (Jeopardy Game Show) Similar to Jeopardy. Download Big Board Facts Download Big Board Facts with Answers Slide | Instructions | Office 2007 Instructions | Sample Game | Video Tutorial | Easter Bunny Road Race No preparation required, just have a sheet of vocabulary or review questions in your hand. Available from Premium Games Web Site. The Big Wheel

5 Free and Simple Timers for Teachers In the school at which I teach we have eighty minute class periods. Eighty minutes is a long time for anyone, let alone teenagers, to stay in one room and on task. Therefore, I break up the time with varied activities and "break times" during the eighty minutes. Online Stopwatch is a free website that gives you the choice of a stopwatch function or a countdown function. Online Egg Timer is a simple website offering three countdown timers on one screen. Timer Tab is a free application offered through the Chrome Web Store and as a stand-alone website at timer-tab.com. Timerrr.com offers two versions of their free countdown service. Free Spelling Resource For Kids This spelling list will now be used in every game and activity on this website. Easier Spelling Games For Younger Children & Shorter Words Harder Spelling Games For Older Children or Medium Length Words Hardest Spelling Games For Older Students Medium - Long Length Words

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This is an awesome website. There is a game specifically for Vocabulary. Under the vocabulary game a student or teacher can choose the grade level and focus on phonic words or sight words. The sight words can be very useful for emergent readers. by bonita21 Nov 2

Teachers can upload their own lists of spelling and vocabulary words. Entertaining games and activities make it fun for students to study the words. Some activities can also be printed out. by lisabishop Jul 24

I signed up for the free membership for this site and there are tons of benefits. As the other comments have stated, you can create your own word lists or use other common word lists. The lessons for students allow them to click on words to hear the pronunciation, see the word spelled out, and hear a definition. If you sign up for the premium membership, you can track your students progress, but the free benefits seem helpful enough. by vr1v3ra Jul 24

This site has many great learning options for vocabulary. Teachers or parents can pre-enter the vocabulary words the student is working on to test for knowledge. There are also fun and interactive vocabulary games. by ccasas5 Jul 18

Spellingcity is a great website for teachers and students. It allows students to independently work on vocabulary and spelling words. It has two versions, a free version and paid version. Both are very useful. by jkor Jul 13

I like how you can input spelling lists and it will make activities for this kids. by archie292 Mar 8

This site provides a place for students to input their vocabulary lists and takes them through each words meaning and spelling. by jkostelnick Nov 5

Super excited that you have added a pearl for educational websites. If you would like, I will show you how to change the pictures on your pearls during second recess. by cmiller May 31

once you have logged in to your account, look under teacher resources. Here you can import lists of Dolch sight words, compound words, or sound-alike words like to-two-too. by stevene Oct 13

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