Friday, January 31, 2025

FREE MISC. LESSON - “Free Occupational Therapy Pizza Literacy & Math Skills Worksheets & Activities”

by CreativeCOTA LLC
Kindergarten - 1st Grade

Inject a slice of excitement into your classroom or therapy sessions with our Free Pizza Math and Literacy Center Occupational Therapy Activities. Designed to infuse fun into academic skills, these free pizza-themed activities offer a taste of the engaging resources available in our complete Pizza Theme Bundle. Perfect for literacy and math centers, small group therapy sessions, classroom activities, or as substitute lessons, these activities cater to students across various skill levels and disabilities.

Do you need a fun theme idea for your classroom or therapy sessions?

What is included in the free sample? Explore a variety of engaging activities found in all our themed resource packs, including:

Literacy Center Activities
Math Center Activities
Small Group Therapy Sessions
Classroom Activities
Substitute Lesson Plans

Key Features:

Multifaceted Activities: Suitable for both math and literacy centers.
Versatile Use: Ideal for small group therapy sessions, classroom activities, or substitutes.
Sample from Pizza Theme Bundle: A glimpse into the comprehensive resources available.
Engaging and Fun: Keep students excited while working on essential academic skills.

How to Use: These free pizza-themed activities can be utilized in various settings, including literacy and math centers, small group therapy sessions, and even as substitute lesson plans. The versatility of these resources makes them suitable for students across different grades and skill levels.

Reminders: While this free sample provides a snapshot of the engaging activities available in the complete Pizza Theme Bundle, be sure to explore the full previews of each resource to discover the diverse range of content and benefits. Elevate learning with these exciting and educational pizza-themed activities that make academic skill development a flavorful experience.

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Winter Short Story for Teaching Grammar - Past Modal Verbs Exercises & Questions”

by ESL Lifeline
5th - 8th Grade

Master past modal verbs while enjoying a captivating short story! This engaging short story with comprehension questions blends reading skills with grammar practice, making learning fun and effective. Perfect for boosting reading skills and solidifying grammar knowledge for upper-elementary and middle school students.

This English Grammar Short Story seamlessly integrates reading skills and grammar practice, offering a unique opportunity to explore past modal verbs in a natural and immersive manner.

The package is perfect for getting your ESL or ELL students to understanding past modal verbs, or for any upper-elementary and middle school student looking for something quick to practice reading.

ABOUT THE SHORT STORY

Your students will read an enthralling short story, divided into two parts, that revolves around a young boy caught in the clutches of a winter snowstorm. The thought-provoking questions in this resource are skillfully crafted to center on past modality, stimulating your students' reflections on possibilities and regrets.

This short story with comprehension questions is the perfect resource if you're trying to get your students to understand grammar in context!

Stories are one of the best tool for grammar practice because it subtly gets your students looking for specific, contextual information about the grammar.

RESOURCE DETAILS

✅ Ignite Creativity and Critical Thinking: Encourage their creativity and critical thinking with an extension activity that invites them to envision and craft their own endings to the tale. After, they can read part 2 of the story and see how close they got. Watch as their understanding of grammar flourishes while they craft captivating conclusions!

✅ Empower Your Students: Empower your students with the ability to navigate past modal verbs effortlessly, all while delving into a gripping narrative that captures their hearts and minds.

✅ Minimal Prep: This resource comes with a pre-planned lesson plan, complete with an answer key, ensuring minimal preparation time for you. Whether you choose to implement it as an in-person classroom activity or opt for distance learning with Google Slides®, this resource provides a versatile and engaging learning experience.

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The package includes a PDF file that can be opened the PDFs using your preferred PDF reader. Along with the student pages, you’ll also get a full lesson plan with resource notes and answer keys.

You'll get two ways to use this incredible reading resource:

high-resolution pages
AND digital access for distance learning Google Slides®

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The resource on Past Modal Verbs is free and is included in my Grammar Tales BUNDLE. Purchase it now and get more adventurous grammar stories on Conditionals, Reported Speech, Relative Clauses, The Past Progressive, AND The Future Continuous.

About ESL Lifeline

ESL Lifeline eliminates the need for creating separate materials for your ELL students by providing high-quality learning resources that seamlessly integrate language development with subject matter. Resources and material seamlessly blend language development with subject matter, eliminating the need for creating separate materials for ELL students and saving you valuable prep time.

ESL Lifeline's materials help you unlock your ELL students' true potential, by helping your students:

Master both language and content in a cohesive and engaging way.
Develop essential language skills while exploring new subjects.
Boosting confidence and empower all learners to thrive in the classroom.

Learn more at www.esllifeline.com

This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses from ESL Lifeline’s store on Tpt – they are discounted. Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Reading Street, PIG IN THE WIG, Banner by Ms. Lendahand:)”

by Ms Lendahand of Lendahands Printables
1st Grade

Supplementary resources to supplement Scott Foresman's Reading Street® (2008/2011 version) for first grade Unit 1 Week 2 -- Pig in a Wig Banner.

If you are in need of effective and easy to prep for supplementary resources for this story check out these resources:
PIG in a WIG Teacher Pack by Ms. Lendahand

©Michelle Lenahan @ Lendahand’s Printables, 2016

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - January 29, 2025

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5. With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

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Sentence Patterns Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheets | Print | Digital | Easel - $4.00

by Charlene Texx
9th - 12th grades
Handouts, Printables

By varying sentence patterns and starting sentences with phrases or clauses instead of subjects and verbs, students can improve their writing and create more engaging prose. These 20 Valentine's Day-themed sentences follow a basic structure, beginning with the subject and verb. Challenge your students to rewrite these sentences while preserving their original meaning, encouraging sentence variety. Along the way, they’ll also be reminded of familiar themes and symbols associated with Valentine's Day.

Roll and Calculate Math Game - Adding & Subtracting Positive & Negative Integers - $3.99

by Scipi
6th - 8th grades
Activities, Games

Roll and Calculate is a hands-on Algebra math game designed to practice the addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers. Two players take turns rolling two dice numbered 1-6 and then add or subtract the numbers based on the placement on the game board.

Contraction Puzzles and Assessments for Winter - $4.50

by Mickey's Place

K - 3rd grades

Activities, Assessment, Centers

The purpose of the Contraction Puzzles with a winter theme, is to give students a way to practice this skill using manipulatives. The students can use the easiest puzzles first, the ones with a winter shape, to help them gain confidence in their skill. The second set of cards can be differentiated by contraction family. It will help them with learning the connection between the two words that make up the contraction with the actual contraction word.

Making Inferences: Thinking About Thinking - $2.49

by Reading Spotlight

3rd - 5th grades

Graphic Organizers, Worksheets

Mindfulness for reading comprehension! Thinking About Thinking aids students in discerning “the big picture” for factual and inferential understanding. Students conceptualize by placing words and phrases into columns labeled: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? Effective and easy to use, this set makes a strong addition to a metacognition repertoire. Perfect for homework, seat work, early finishers, extra credit and learning centers.

Learn Sight Words with Read & Write Winter Emergent Readers - $1.00

by Primarily Learning

K - 1st grades

Activities, Centers, Homeschool Curricula

These Winter emergent readers are thoughtfully aligned with the principles of the Science of Reading! With three engaging formats and two sets of graphics... (one for the weather with snow and one for no snow) ... kids can use the simple text to write, read, and retell their story as reading comprehension skills develop.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “How to Make a Snowflake-Procedural Writing”

by 123kteach
Kindergarten - 1st Grade

How to Writing: Procedural Writing- Have your students sequence and write steps on how to make a snowflake. See my blog post on ways to introduce procedural writing to your students. http://www.123kteacherblog.com/2017/03/getting-started-with-procedural-writing.html

You may be want to check out my writing prompts on how to do a wide variety of things using first, next, then and last. You can make mini books or use these awesome writing prompt papers to get started. These products can be used throughout the year as there are how to books and prompts for every season.

If you would like to have your students complete these "How To"
sequencing events on a writing prompt on a single page without drawing illustrations, please see the following link:

How To Writing Prompts using First-Next-Then-Last

If you would like this product used in a mini book format in which students can sequence events and draw about it on each page, then see the following link:

How To Mini Books using First-Next-Then-Last

These products contains 18 different "How To" mini books/ prompts to include the following:

*How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
*How to Get Ready for School
*How to Make Cookies
*How to Build a Snowman
*How to Make a Bed
*How to Plant Seeds
*How to Make Lemonade
*How to Build a Sandcastle
*How to Make S'mores
*How to Wrap a Present
*How to Decorate a Christmas Tree
*How to Make Hot Chocolate
*How to Make a Cake
*How to Make Pizza
*How to Tie Shoes
*How to Ride your Bike
*How to Blow Bubbles
*How to Be A Good Friend

How To Writing Prompts using First-Next-Then-Last

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