I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
Here are 4 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon, to your students.
Comprehension Sheet – This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story. Answer Key is included
Venn Diagram – a page where the students Compare and Contrast bats to birds.
Story Map #1 – Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem and solution of the story.
Story Map #2 – Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, and moral of the story.
Here is a comprehension activity sheet to print and use with your students after they have read The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins.
It asks them to locate Antarctica on a World Map, describe Antarctica, write an Interesting Fact, and answer Comprehension Questions about the book.
Includes an Answer Key.
*Please Note: It is on Legal Sized Paper 8.5" x 14" size.
Here is a Ready to Go Guided Research project for Black History Month. Answer questions about the month and research any person on this 8.5" x 11" activity sheet for Black History Month.
There are 3 variations. One for US, one for UK, and one for Canada.
**It asks the students to: **
Sketch a person of their choice.
Identify what month they celebrate in their country.
Math question: Figure out how many years it has been celebrated in their country.
List their 3 Important Facts.
Fast Facts Box.
Identify an important achievement.
Describe their person.
Find and write a Famous Quote.
Write their Sources.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a literacy center!
Here is an 8.5" x 11" Printable activity sheet to use with any Scientist.
It asks the students to:
Sketch a person of their choice.
Write the scientist’s major achievements.
List 3 Important Facts.
How the achievement is used in the Present World.
Fast Facts Box.
Describe their person.
Find and write a Famous Quote.
Write their Sources.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a literacy center!
Here are 21 ready-to-go poster/graphic organizers for your students to research characters from Greek Mythology.
Includes posters for the following:
Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Cronus, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Heracles, Hermes, Hestia, Odysseus, Pandora, Persephone, Poseidon, Rhea and Zeus.
Also includes is a Plain, Generic Activity Sheet if you have another character of interest.
Greek Mythology Research Poster Activity Sheets 8.5" x 11"
Information asked for:
God/Goddess of…
Famous for…
Family
Interesting Tidbits
Character Traits
Lessons Learned
Physical Characteristics
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Here are 7 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read The Velveteen Rabbit to your students.
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
2. Writing - This page asks students to illustrate and write about their favorite toy.
3. Compare & Contrast the Velveteen Rabbit with real rabbits.
4. Compare & Contrast Old Fashioned Toys with Modern Toys.
5. 3 Story Maps to choose from.
18 Easter related words hidden in this puzzle. Words are horizontal and vertical only in an all CAPS puzzle.
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Also comes in a harder version in my Teacher Store for those who wish to differentiate.
Easy version: 12 words related to handheld devices are hidden in this Easy Word Search. Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Harder version: Portable Electronics words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words can be found vertically, horizontally, diagonally and backwards.
In full color for those that like to laminate and reuse as a center activity.
EASY version: 12 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle - horizontally and vertically only. No backwards words.
HARDER version: 18 zoo animals are hidden in this puzzle. Any direction, even backwards!
Comes in full color for those that like to laminate and reuse in a center.
Also comes in B&W for easy printing.
**Here are some activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution, by Pat Miller, to your students.
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Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, list five characters, two settings, and write their own New Year’s Resolution.
Story Map - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem, and solution of the story.
Five writing pages. Students can choose the one they wish to write their New Year’s Resolution on. There is room to draw a picture of them following through on their resolution.
My New Year activity page allows students to brainstorm things they want to do, read, and learn in the New Year. After they brainstorm, there is a place for them to formulate their New Year’s Resolution.
Word-Making Activity standalone reproducible using the word “resolution.”
Word-Making Center “I Can” sign, a second reproducible, and letters to print on cardstock and cut out for the word “resolution.”
These Task Cards come four to a page with 52 numbered cards and 2 blank templates.
Set #1 has a black and white border with a bright yellow star.
Set #2 has a black and white border with a black and white star.
They come in PowerPoint files ready to edit with your own text!
May be used for personal or commercial use.
**Here are ready-to-go poster or graphic organizers for your students to research Insects and Bugs. Includes posters for the following: ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, caterpillars, centipedes, cockroaches, dragonflies, earthworms, fleas, flies, grasshoppers, ladybugs, mantises, mosquitoes, moths, scorpions, snails, spiders, stick insects, tarantulas, termites and wasps. It also includes 3 additional Generic Sheets to use with any additional animals.
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Animal Research Poster Activity Sheets 8.5" x 11"
Includes 4 Versions (26 pages each):
Version 1: U.S. Spelling with Sources box.
Version 2: U.S. Spelling without Sources box.
Version 3: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling with Sources box.
Version 4: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling without Sources box.
Information asked for:
What the animal looks like.
Habitat
Diet
Interesting Facts
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Here are 6 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read The Elves and the Shoemaker to your students. (The story is not included, but the questions should work for any Brothers Grimm retelling. I used the version that was retold from the Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Jim LaMarche in my classroom.)
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
2. Writing - This page asks students why they think the elves helped the shoemaker. It also asks them what they think might have happened to the elves after they left the shoemaker.
3. Design a Shoe - Students are asked to invent a shoe and describe it.
**4. Story Maps **- 3 Story Maps to choose from.
a. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end
b. characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, moral of the story
c. characters, setting, problem, solution
Here are 4 activity sheets to print and use after you've read Rechenka's Eggs, by Patricia Polacco, with your students.
1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story.
2. Beginning/Middle/End page
3. Design Your Own Egg
4. Color and Write - Students color the illustration and write to your prompt.
Here are ready-to-go poster/graphic organizers for your students to research Dinosaurs.
Includes 4 Versions:
Letter size 8.5" x 11" with and without Source box.
Legal size 8.5" x 14" with and without Source box.
Please note: Minor variations in content occur between the versions do to space constraints. The legal size allows for more research due to its larger size.
Please see the Preview for all four page versions.
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Here is a fun Fall or Autumn Themed Book Review poster (with a pumpkin, leaves, squirrel and owl) is for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
This 8.5" x 11" Fall Into a Good Book! poster comes with space for the student’s rating (using the sun’s rays), profile pic, title and author of book, recommendation, and space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book. Students then color in the poster to finish it off!
Just Print PDF and Go! Makes a great time filler, bulletin board, center or substitute plan.
Here is a fun poster for students to share a good book they’ve read recently.
This 8.5" x 11" Soar Into a Good Book! poster comes with space for the student’s rating (using the sun’s rays), profile pic, title and author of book, recommendation, and space for an illustration and sentence detailing their favorite scene in the book.
Just Print and Go! Makes a great time filler, bulletin board, center or substitute plan.
This product includes 2 Easy Word Searches: Basic Shapes and 3D Shapes.
These puzzles are EASY. The words are found across or down.
Both puzzles come in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible for coloring. Includes Answer Key.
This Football Word Search is Hard. The 40 Football related words are hidden across, down, backwards, and diagonally.
Great for Grades 5 to Adult!
Color version, print-friendly B&W version and Answer Key included.
Word Search #1: Easy - 18 Winter related words hidden in this puzzle. Words are horizontal and vertical only in an all CAPS puzzle.
Word Search #2: Hard - 18 Winter related words hidden in this Hard Word Search. Words horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and even backwards in this all CAPS puzzle.
Both come in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Great for differentiating within your classroom!