Activities on the Go! Race Car Blending

admin December 27, 2015 No Comments

It’s always so much fun to take a little trip to our local Habitat for Humanity restore. You never know treasures what you can find. When my kiddos were furnishing their college apartments and dorm rooms we were pretty much restore regulars. My girls are also big crafters and love to use recycled materials in their projects. Last year on one of our many trips to the store we came across these old VHS movies. We have tons in our basement too as they stored those old Disney favorites.  As we were going through the stacks traveling down memory lane, the idea of using the cases to store activities hit. What a great way to recycle and the activities would fit

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Cookie Sheet Activities for Early Literacy

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The Cookie Sheet Activities for Early Literacy have certainly been popular activities for our little preschool and kindergarten friends. Whenever we can add a hands-on element to our activities we accelerate learning. There’s tons of research supporting the use of a multi-sensory approach! When you download the cookie sheet activities for early literacy you will receive three different activities targeting early literacy skills. The first activity involves alphabetic order.  There are 9 templates available for upper- to lowercase matching, lowercase matching and just placing the letters in order. There are 71 colorful pictures and 10 templates for learning and practicing the concept of rhyme. The templates are differentiated as you can choose to use either four or two rhymes. Students can learn

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Printed Pre K- K Cookie Sheet Bundle

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We know that children learn best when we provide hands-on activities. The Make, Take & Teach cookie sheet activities have certainly been a hit with our young students. These activities are ideal for either small group instruction or as independent center activities. Simply print the templates, cut the pictures (optional: placing a magnetic strip on the pics) and gather magnetic letters. You’ll have activities that will last for years! When you order the Printed Pre K Kindergarten Cookie Sheet Bundle you will receive the the colored templates for Volume 1 (Early Literacy- ABC Order, Rhyme, Word Building), Volume 2 (Early Numeracy) and Volume 4 (Beginning Sounds and Short Vowels). All templates are printed in color on office paper. Corresponding pictures are printed

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Intervention Kits for Teachers

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Let me do the printing and gathering of materials for you. The Make, Take & Teach intervention kits are designed to be used to target specific skills during small group or individual instruction. When you order a kit you’ll receive all the materials needed to assemble your activities.  Activities are printed in color and on 90lb cardstock.  All the materials are provided in a sturdy Sterilite container.  When needed, activities are printed in triplicate for use with multiple students.  Each kit contains a step-by-step teaching manual which makes the activities ideal for use with either teacher or para-professional led groups.  Ideas for differentiation are also included. Kits can be ordered through the Make, Take & Teach website or through a school purchase order.

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Phonemic Awareness Activities – Just Grab and Go!

admin October 12, 2014 No Comments

Last year I was cleaning my basement getting ready for our annual garage sale and came across all those old Disney movies housed in VHS cases.  Although our VHS player is long gone and the kids are now into their late teens and twenties, parting with those old movies was pretty difficult.  I can’t tell you how many times I watched Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast- I can still sing many of those songs years later.  While I was looking at that old stack of tapes, I was trying to think of ideas for re-purposing the case and it hit me!  They would make ideal storage containers for activities!  Here’s the vision: The step- by-step directions for the activity

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Phonemic Awareness Activities On the Go!

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It’s amazing sometimes where inspiration hits.  A few weeks ago I had to kill about an hour and decided to hop on over to Michael’s Craft Store.  As I was walking through the bead aisle I found this really handy plastic tote.  It was just the right size to fit picture cards!  Many of my teacher friends are constantly on the move and tote is just perfect! The phonemic awareness tote contains over 500 colorful pictures for teaching the Syllables, Rhyme, Beginning Sounds, Onset-Rime, Phoneme Isolation and Phoneme Segmentation.  Each skill area contains a common core alignment card, activity card(s) and colorful and engaging pictures.  The borders are color-coded per skill for easy organization. Although the tote found at Michael’s

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Parent Handouts- Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension

admin February 5, 2014 No Comments

So it’s almost mid-year conference time.  Parents often ask for ideas for helping their child at home.  Here are few handouts that can come in handy.  I’ve developed handouts for each area of literacy.  Each handout briefly explains the area of literacy and then ideas helping their child develop those skills are provided.  Hope you find them helpful! Click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Phonemic Awareness Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Parent Handout- Kindergarten Click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Phonemic Awareness First Grade Phonemic Awareness Parent Handout- First Grade-1 Just click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Learning Sight Words Learning Sight Words-1 Just click the following link to download the Parent Handout

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Race Car Blending

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Here’s a super fun way for teaching students to blend words.  Just a quick little stop at the dollar store to pick up a few race cars and you’re all set.  Simply provide each student with a racing track and a car and have them say the sounds of the letters as they move the car across each letter.  We want to be sure that they are smoothly blending the sounds together and not stopping between each sound and this little activity may just do the trick.  It’s also a great way to engage those boys! The Race Car Blending activity can be found in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.  

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Teaching Phonemic Awareness Skills

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds.  The child’s level of phonemic awareness upon entering school is one of the strongest indicators of how well he/she will learn to read.  Children must have an understanding that words are made up of separate speech sounds that can be broken apart and put together to form words.  Without this understanding, learning the alphabet doesn’t make much sense.  Although some children enter school with an appreciation of the sounds of language, many do not.  The exciting part is that, as teachers, by assessing our students’ phonemic awareness skills early on, we can identify those who

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Phonemic Awareness Intervention Kit and Activity Pack

admin June 2, 2013 No Comments

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the Make, Take & Teach Activity Pack for Phonemic Awareness.  The activities contained in this pack are ideal for use within your targeted small group intervention.  If your school uses the DIBELS Next as a universal screening assessment, the activities align with the Initial Sound Fluency and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency assessments.    We know that children learn best with a hands-on approach to teaching.  These activities are hands-on activities which means that you’ll have to gather some materials to assemble several of the games.  When you download the Response to Intervention- Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack from my Teachers Pay Teachers store you’ll receive the following activities in the downloadable pdf. A 19 page teaching

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