The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs: February 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

LANGUAGE ARTS - "15 Games Teaching Syllable [Vowel] Types" Amanda Trump

by Reading on Strawberry Lane (Amanda Trump)

Grades K-4

This is a packet of games that students can play and have fun learning about the 6 syllable types. It includes 65 pages of syllable type word cards and a variety of 15 games. Students will become better readers as they learn to differentiate the 6 syllable types. They will see words in a whole new way. Their decoding skills will become sharper as they begin to break the mystery to the reading code. These following learn and play games can be placed in language stations or be played during small groups:
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Concentration
• Find & Search
• Reach for the Stars
• Follow the Rainbow
• Syllable Sorting Work Mats
• Syllable Sorting Graphic Organizers
• Climb the Ladder
• Bingo
• Blockbuster
• Battleship I
• Battleship II
• Football Frenzy
• Build a Tower
• Be a Superhero Syllable Star

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Think Time Response Sheet”

by Real Life in First Grade
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Encourage positive decision making and accountability in your classroom by using these "Think Time" Response Sheets!

Children use this sheet to reflect upon why they needed "Think Time" and what they should do differently next time. The sheet is then sent home to be signed by a parent or guardian.

Two versions are included- one on which students can write their responses, the other on which students can draw their responses (great for kindergarten or very early first grade).

These sheets provide students with a focused way to think about the choices they've made and create a plan for how to cope in a similar situation next time.

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Scooping Words With One Closed Syllable and One Vowel-Consonant-e Syllable

by Reading on Strawberry Lane (Amanda Trump)

Grades 1-4

Scooping a word is the same as dividing the word into syllables.

the word ‘dis/like.’

So rather that placing a slash, there is another way to show the number of syllables in a word, and that is to scoop the syllables. This is how that would look: d i s I I k e. Not dividing the word with a slash avoids the look of an extra letter in the word, and it also avoids the idea of students thinking the word has only one syllable since there is just one slash. With the idea of scooping with the finger or with a pencil, students

can feel and see the scoops which in turn matches the number of syllables.

This packet contains 64 task cards that allow students to practice scooping words with one closed syllable and one vowel-consonant-e syllable.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Earth Day Mini Pack”

by Chelsey West Andrews
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Grab this Earth Day Freebie Pack for your kiddos!

Inside you'll get Earth Day themed Printables Worksheets for:
Making Words
Word Search
Acrostic Poem
ABC Order
Writing Prompt (2 versions)

If you download this freebie, be sure to swing back by and leave feedback!

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Saturday, February 27, 2016

LANGUAGE ARTS - "PHONEME SUBTRACTION"

Grades K-2

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

This fun print and play activity will help students master the skills of phonemic deletion/subtraction and reinforce phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear the smallest unit of sound. Students will read a word and then subtract a sound thus creating a new word.

Also, this activity targets initial consonant blends and consonant digraphs such as bl, ch, cr, sm, th, sh, and more. There are two game boards (colored/black and white versions) and 92 task cards designed to engage learners. You may use this game board or any game board you have. Or just use the task cards alone, and the student with the most cards at the end wins.

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON - “Making Healthy Choices: A Concept Attainment Lesson”

by Teaching With a Touch of Honey
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Looking for a way to introduce your healthy choices unit to your students? Begin your unit with this concept attainment lesson!

This resource can be used to begin a unit that focuses on creating healthy habits.Concept attainment is a teaching strategy that helps students understand targeted concepts. Through a series of examples and non-examples, students construct knowledge about a given topic. In this lesson, students are focused on learning about the concepts of “healthy” and “unhealthy.

Lesson includes:
steps for concept attainment lesson
yes/no category cards
12 healthy habits pictures
12 unhealthy habits pictures

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Friday, February 26, 2016

LANGUAGE ARTS - "Scooping Words with Two Closed Syllables"

K-2

Amanda Trump

Scooping a word is the same as dividing the word into syllables.

Syllables can be divided by saying them orally or by using a pencil and paper. If we orally divide a word into syllables, we usually clap the word out. For example, if we orally divided the syllables of polish, we would clap out ‘pol’ and ‘ish,’ and that would be two claps. If we divided the syllables on paper, we would place a slash between the ‘l’ and ‘i’ in the word ‘pol/ish.’

So rather that placing a slash, there is another way to show the number of syllables in a word, and that is to scoop the syllables. This is how that would look: p o l i s h. This way not dividing the word with a slash avoids the look of a misplaced letter in the word, and it also avoids the idea of students thinking the word has only one syllable since there is just one slash. With the idea of scooping with the finger or with a pencil, students can feel and see the scoops which in turn matches the number of syllables.

This packet contains 64 task cards that allow students to practice scooping words with two closed syllables.

Simply print and cut along the guidelines. One idea is to print on card stock or on colored paper. Laminate and use them again and again and keep them in a baggie. Another option is to hole-punch a corner of each card and put them all on a ring.

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LANGUAGE ARTS - "Bingo with Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Words"

by Reading on Strawberry Lane (Amanda Trump)

Grades 1-3

This fun game of BINGO gives students practice differentiating between vowel digraphs and vowel diphthong syllables. A vowel digraph is a syllable that has two vowels glued together whose sound will say one of the vowel sounds. A vowel diphthong is two vowels glued together or one vowel glued to the left of the letter -w whose sound will be unique to the combination of the two letters. After playing a few times, the students will catch on to these two different syllable types and will begin to quickly identify them and their sounds. There are two different bingo cards for the students, and there are 96 word cards--48 vowel digraph words and 48 vowel diphthong words.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Spring Alphabet and Counting: Spring Soccer ABC & 123 Match! FREE FREEBIE!”

by Linda Post - The Teacher's Post
Pre-Kindergarten - 1st Grade

Spring Literacy Center Activities

★ Spring Soccer ABC & 123

★ Sequencing and Matching Upper & Lower Case Letters

★ Counting to 20

★ 20 Page Download - 4 Ways to Play

★ Spring Soccer balls with the lower case letters of the alphabet match up to soccer nets with the upper case letters.

★ COLOR CODED to keep separate.

★ Numbers 1-20 to arrange in order as well. 1-10 are on soccer balls, and 11-20 are on soccer nets.

★ Optional Spring soccer recording sheets for students to write the alphabet and the numbers.

★ Play as simple sequencing games, or pick a Spring soccer ball and match it to a soccer net

Page 1 – these directions
Page 2 – seller’s info
Pages 3-4-5 - Spring Soccer balls with lower case letters and
numbers 1-10
Pages 6-7-8 – Spring Soccer nets with upper case letters and numbers 11-20
Pages 9-20 Optional Spring soccer recording sheets and spring soccer Awards in color and black and white versions.

Cut the sheets on the paper cutter into 12 square cards each.

Ways to Use

Match the upper case letters to the lower case letters.
Arrange the lower case letters in alphabetical order.
Arrange the upper case letters in alphabetical order.
Arrange the cards in order for numbers 1-10 or 1-20.

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Spring Addition Fact Activities
3 Ways to Play - 24 page download - Addition Facts to 18 (Subtraction Facts available in my other product listings.)

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Spring Subtraction Facts Activities -
3 Ways to Play – 190 Facts -
42 page download – 190 Subtraction Facts to 18 (Addition Facts available in my other product listings .)

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Spring Emergent Reader - Mini-Book - 8 pages per book (cover and 7 pages)
4 Versions - 10 Page Download
1 version in full color to put in your class library or make colored copies for a guided reading group.
1 version in black and white ready for your students to read, color and take home to share.
1 version without illustrations ready for your students to show their comprehension by illustrating it themselves.
1 version with fill in the blanks for your students to create their own Spring little book.

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Spring Emergent Readers | Signs of Spring Emergent Reader Mini Books - 37 Page Download - 3 Different Reading Levels – Emergent Reader & 2 Harder - 4 versions of each book.

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Spring Songs and Poems - Shared Reading and Fluency
+ 12 Finger Puppets - Signs of Spring -
28 page file – All Illustrated with Spring themed Graphics-Full Color and Black and White for students to color.
8 Spring Songs/Poems to sing to popular children’s songs.
Sing about spring birds, spring bees, spring ladybugs, spring flowers, spring frogs, and spring ducks.
12 Spring Finger Puppets – 12 color and 12 black and white.
Just choose those you like, and print just those pages.
Sing to familiar tunes, or chant.
Use some or all year after year during the Spring season.

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Spring Antonyms Literacy Centers, Recording Sheets & Award
4 Ways to Play
39 page download – 120 Words (60 pairs of antonyms) – Answer Keys- 5 complete sets with different Spring backings and print color to keep them separate.

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Spring or Easter Basket Project Poems and M&M Math Literacy Center
23 Page Download – Literacy and Math Center - 4 poems - 2 sizes of poems - Two patterns for baskets, one that prints out in color and one in black and white. You may also print out the color one in black and white, and students can color that one as well. Just cut out, fold in the tabs, and glue or use clear tape. The long rectangular shape is the handle. There are versions of the poems with and without references to Easter in case your school does not celebrate Easter.

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Spring or Easter Basket Project and Poem-
7 Page Download - Can be used in conjunction with my jelly bean math or M&M math if you want to add candy to the baskets. Two patterns for baskets, one that prints out in color and one in black and white. You may also print out the color one in black and white, and students can color that one as well. Just cut out, fold in the tabs, and glue or use clear tape. The long rectangular shape is the handle.

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Spring or Easter Basket Project & Poems with Jelly Bean Math-
25 Page Download - Two patterns for baskets, one that prints out in color and one in black and white. You may also print out the color one in black and white, and students can color that one as well. Just cut out, fold in the tabs, and glue or use clear tape. The long rectangular shape is the handle.

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Spring Jelly Beans Math and Literacy Center -
11 Page Download - Math Activities and Shared Reading
Give each student a baggie or paper cup with regular colored jelly beans. If you have a large class, you can ask students to work with a partner.

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Spring Build A Word Wheels – Set 1 – Different Ways To Use and Record – 63 Different Combinations of Wheels, so you can make 63 Word Builder Wheels with this set! - Includes 4 Word Builder Awards and 8 Recording Sheets – Great for Differentiating Word Building Practice with your students -
7 inner wheels and 9 outer wheels

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Spring Contractions Soccer
20 Page Download-48 Pairs of Contractions and Contractions Soccer – 4 Separate Sets –48 Pairs of Contractions and Their Components- 25 Page Download – Text is color coded to keep sets separated.
2 Ways to Play - Soccer balls with 2 words that can be made into a contraction match up to soccer nets with the matching contractions. Optional recording sheets for students to write the contractions and the two words from which each is made. Answer keys for each set are included. Play as a simple independent activity or as a game.

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Spring Contractions – 4 Separate Sets – Matching Memory/Concentration-
48 Pairs of Contractions and Their Components- 29 Page Download –
Text is color coded to keep sets separated.
2 Ways to Play - Frogs, Insects, Butterflies and Spring Children with 2 words that can be made into a contraction match up to Lily Pads, Leaves, Flowers, and Meadows with the matching contractions.
Optional recording sheets for students to write the contractions and the two words from which each is made.
Answer keys for each set are included.
Play as a simple independent matching activity or as a partner game.

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Spring Counting and Skip Counting Activities
38 Page Download - Spring Themes: Spring Children, Spring Butterflies, Spring Flowers, Birds, Spring Frogs, and Spring Insects -
Spring introduction to or review of counting and skip counting by ones, twos, fives and tens to 100.

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Spring Literacy Center Activities – Birds and Nests – Onset Rime DIBELS -
27 Page Download - 3 Ways to Play - 24 onsets and 30 rimes. Colorful birds with onsets (beginning sounds and digraphs) match up to bird’s nests with simple rimes (i.e. –at, -ip, -et). Optional recording sheets for students to write the cvc onset rime words they form. Play as a simple pick a bird game and match it to a nest with a rime that forms a word. OR play Real or Nonsense? This set integrates nicely with Level 2 to make the activity gradually more difficult and allow you to differentiate.

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Spring Literacy Centers: Birds and Nests! Onset Rime DIBELS –
Word Building – Level 2 –
More Complex Words
36 Page Download - 3 Ways to Play - 60 onset and 60 rimes. Birds with onsets (single consonants AND consonant blends and digraphs, 2 and 3 letter blends and digraphs) match up to birds’ nests with more complex rimes (i.e. est, ill, –aid, ore, ide, ight, etc.). You can use it in conjunction with my first set that focuses on c-v-c words to make the first set harder gradually and then progress to just this set. Optional recording sheets for students to write the words they form.

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Spring Sight Words Literacy Centers Game Board Activities –
Level 1 -
5 Different Game Boards
19 Page download - 5 different Spring themed game boards for the first 106 Dolch sight vocabulary words. I have included 6 spinners. (Game boards with the last 114 Dolch are available in my product listings.) Some of the spinners have higher numbers to make the game go faster. You could also use dice. Gameboards are themed around Spring.

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Spring Sight Words Literacy Centers Game Board Activities – Level 2 -
Last 114 Dolch Words + 10 Dolch Nouns -
5 Different Game Boards
5 different Spring themed game boards for last 114 Dolch sight vocabulary words plus 10 Dolch nouns.
19 Page Download (Gameboards with the first 106 Dolch words are available in my product listings.)
I have included 6 spinners, 8 recording sheets and 4 Sight Words Awards. Some of the spinners have higher numbers to make the game go faster. You could also use dice. Gameboards are themed around Spring.

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Spring Sight Word Activities SET TWO – 10 Sets – Memory, Roll and Read, Old Maid, Follow the Path, Spring Snowflake and more!
5 Ways to Play
55 page download – Last 120 Dolch Words. (See set 1 in my other product listings for the first 100 Dolch Words with different backings and font size to differentiate from set 2.) You can print it out as is, but it is designed to be printed out back to back with 10 different sets of Spring graphics printing on the reverse side to keep the 10 sets separate.
10 Recording Sheets with Coordinating Graphics to match each game, and 4 Spring themed Sight Word Awards.

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Spring Sight Word Activities-
SET One – 10 Sets – Memory/Concentration, “Spring Blizzard!” Card Game and more! – blank cards for theme words or students’ names, too…5 Ways to Play - Memory, Old Maid, Follow the Path, Roll and Read, Spring Blizzard - Print With or Without Backings
55 page download - First 100 Dolch Words. (See set 2 in my other product listings for the last 120 Dolch Words.)

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Spring Synonym Soccer – 60 Pairs of Synonyms –
28 Page Download – 3 Ways to Play - Soccer balls with synonyms match up to soccer nets with the matching synonyms. Optional recording sheets for students to write the pairs of synonyms. Answer keys for each set are included. Play as a simple independent activity or as a game.

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Spring Synonyms Literacy Centers, Recording Sheets & Awards-
4 Ways to Play -
35 page download – 120 Words (60 pairs of synonyms) –
5 complete sets with different Spring backings and print color of the synonyms to keep them separate. Spring themes include: Spring Children, Frogs, Birds, Butterflies and Insects.

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I received the Crystal Apple Award from N.B.C. News. The "Excellence in Teaching" Award was given to me by the Los Angeles Unified School District's Los Angeles Educational Partnership. My Math Team won the first place trophy four times in the Los Angeles Unified School District's Math Tournament. I am most proud of my after school Accelerated Reader Program in which Huntington Drive students have read thousands of books each year. In 2000, I became a National Board Certified Teacher and renewed my certification in 2009. I have been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1982. I sell Teachers Pay Teachers lessons at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Victoria-Leon/. I created the blogs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II, and The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs III. Members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative work together to create and market their TpT products - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Best-of-Teacher-Entrepreneurs-Marketing-Cooperative-1054613. Feel free to email me at vleon999@yahoo.com.