
This resource round-up is filled with ELA and social studies resources that will support your students critical analysis and creative thinking. We’re featuring reading comprehension, word work, writing skill building resources and more. Check out these resources — half of which are FREE!
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It’s FREE!“These are my favorite storybooks for making story time an ACTIVE learning experience for the students. Each book is all about ‘the rhythm of language’ – so important for young readers to hear. Just add some rhythm sticks, shakers, or clappers!” |
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“Get out your RHYTHM STICKS and tell a Group Story with a ‘steady beat’! Your kids will make some simple Jungle Animal Crafts, to use in topping their rhythm sticks for game play. This game uses humor, rhyming, and repetitive language to ‘focus’ your kids and keep them involved in the activity. I use this game with my Pre-K – 1st classes, my ESL/ELL kids, and my Speech and Special Education groups. Any kids who benefit from whole-body learning will have fun with this group game!” |
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It’s FREE!“With these puzzles, students will learn about life cycles and sequence the events in the story using their comprehension skills.” |
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“These engaging short stories will help students feel encouraged that they can tackle reading the story because there is not an overwhelming amount of text.” |
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It’s FREE!“Blank retell writing sheets an excellent addition to your literacy centres. Students can draw or write their retell while exploring the characters and setting.” |
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“Focusing on the Australian Prep/Foundation curriculum (first year of school) this is a great resource to help students explore and learn new concepts about a range of skills in Math, Science and Literacy in a fun and interactive way!” |
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It’s FREE!“This resource guides all young writers through the early stages of pre- writing. It includes varied story map approaches to organize initial ideas.” |
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“Key skill sets support all learners while readers are guided. This is highly recommended for any teacher new to this literature.” |
It’s FREE!“The first step in teaching a child to read is to teach the alphabet letters.” |
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“Students can easily and step by step learn the Geography concept Latitude and Longitude.” |
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It’s FREE!“A version of the classic I Have, Who Has game, this is sure to get your little ones more fluent with letter and sound recognition!” |
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“Do you ever need a few extra minutes in the morning to get the lunch count and attendance ready? If so, this is a great resource for you. It includes 4 months worth (5 days per week) of daily morning work. Answer keys included. You could also use this for your early finishers or just simply as an assessment.” |
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It’s FREE!“This product includes what you need to start the school year with remote learning. I hope this helps ease the transition of the beginning of the year.” |
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“This product is made with the intention to be used during a live zoom meeting or google meet meeting. These are made for Google Slides™.” |
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It’s FREE!“These monthly songs are perfect for any early classroom. Fun, engaging songs your students will love! “ |
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“These toddler lesson plans are perfect for any early learning classroom. Teachers and parents will love the print and go format, no more spending your whole weekends writing lesson plans.” |
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It’s FREE!“Students will easily learn to comprehend texts when they begin digging in with high-interest close reading passages. This freebie includes one passage, Polar Bears, text dependent questions and a weekly lay out of what close reading lessons might look like each day.” |
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“If you are looking for a calendar routine to get your students proficient in critical math and language skills this is exactly what you need. This packet is made based on major skills that students need to know and is divided up into 4 nine week sections for easy organization.” |
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It’s FREE!“Use this editable template to sketch out your year long plans. This resource makes it easy for teachers to see at a glance what should be taught during a specific month and/or week.” |
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“This bundle helps teachers support their Jolly Phonics instruction. The various activities included reinforce phonemic awareness, reading foundation skills, and sight word recognition.” |
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It’s FREE!“Use this Popcorn Five Senses sheet to record observations while popping and eating popcorn! This simple, engaging activity makes a fun distance learning assignment for families to enjoy together.” |
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“The Nursery Rhyme Concept of Word Bundle includes everything you need to teach and assess Concept of Word using 10 nursery rhymes!” |
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It’s FREE!” This resource includes paired passages about Cell Phones in School along with an Informational and Opinion Writing Prompts for text-based writing. There is a companion product that includes a set of comprehension questions in a testing format.” |
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“This guided writing bundle breaks down the different steps of the writing process and includes paired passages and an informational and opinion writing prompt. Each step has practice activities for the students to complete to help them develop mastery.” |
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It’s FREE!“This resource helps students become more engaged with a classic children’s story.” |
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“This resource has everything that students need to understand and be assessed on finding the central message in stories. It can be used digitally, or for face to face learning.” |
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It’s FREE!“This Google Slides™ digital activity will allow your students to work with word families – whether you are teaching in an in-person, hybrid or virtual setting!” |
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“Over 40 pages of CVC practice using all vowel sounds! This product comes with printable worksheets and digital worksheets on Google Slides™.” |
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It’s FREE!“This informational reading passage provides practice with multiple comprehension skills. Students will use the text to identify the meaning of words, answer questions, and complete a main idea and details web.” |
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“These fun brain breaks are great ways to get kids up and moving for even small periods of time! Simply roll a die and do the activity listed!” |
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It’s FREE!“This free product contains pages to support your students in writing informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. This product allows them to participate in shared research and writing projects by exploring a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions.” |
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“Students always love a good game of bingo! Use this Simply First Spring Bingo to play in your classroom with your students to celebrate the Spring season! :)” |
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It’s FREE!“Prepare students for handwriting with these prewriting mats. Great for strengthening fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.” |
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“Letter and Number Formation Tracing Mats : Test Drive Bundle : A great hands on activity for early learners who are ready to learn letter formation.” |
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It’s FREE!“Your students will have fun learning about Texas State Symbols in this engaging BINGO activity! Teach Texas History with no prep! This digital version allows you to keep distance learning fun!” |
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“Build Texas history interactive notebooks using these TEKS-aligned Regions of Texas activities. This product contains 3 Texas Regions tasks to engage your students whether they are in-person or in virtual classrooms! Distance learning is a breeze when you use the digital option included in this product.” |
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It’s FREE!“This magic e word sort helps students to recognize, read and spell magic e words. This resource supports early literacy development and aids students in building a foundation for recognizing magic e words.” |
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“Great resource for your Orton Gillingham open and closed syllable lessons! Plenty of worksheets, games, and activities for students to enjoy!” |
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It’s FREE!“Get students digging deeper in nonfiction texts with this differentiated informational reading passage all about the polar bears. Students will love finding out about these huge Arctic mammals, all while sharpening their informational reading skills.” |
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“Get students digging deeper in nonfiction texts with this differentiated Mysteries and Legends Reading Passages download!” |
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It’s FREE!“Colonial American Taverns were an important part of life in the 13 colonies. This resource includes informational text as well as enrichment activities.” |
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“Contains a one-page reading passage about two well-known female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, one reading comprehension worksheet, and a teacher’s key, as well as two graphic organizers and a coloring page.” |
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It’s FREE!“Use this interactive story comprehension book to allow students to demonstrate comprehension of the book “Zoey and Sassafras: Dragons and Marshmallows”.” |
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“Stay organized with your progress monitoring data collection with these versatile tracking sheets! Three versions including Editable Google, PowerPoint and print and go are included to meet the needs of every special education teacher!” |
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It’s FREE!“This resource includes an editable parent letter, poem, and reading poster to send home to families to guide them as they support their child’s at-home reading growth and enjoyment. Prepared by an academic language therapist and reading specialist, the customizable letter provides solid research-based tips and helpful information for parents to aid in fostering reading skills at home.” |
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“In this engaging and informative web quest, students learn about planet Earth, the Earth Day holiday, environmental awareness, recycling, conservation, and more! This resource supports students as they develop important comprehension, research, and technology skills.” |
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It’s FREE!“Get students digging deeper in nonfiction texts with this differentiated informational reading passage all about the planet’s largest mammal. Students will love finding out about the blue whale, all while sharpening their informational reading skills.” |
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“Students will sharpen their informational reading skills with these ten nonfiction rainforest passages. Whether modeling close reading strategies or having students dig in independently, students will be totally engaged with these differentiated and high interest articles.” |
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It’s FREE!“In this freebie, students can collect nature items, sketch them, or compete on a scavenger hunt BINGO board. Also included is a writing template page to write about their favorite nature find (or whatever else you choose).” |
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“This bundle includes everything an elementary student needs to know about maps, map creation, and differentiated map skills. It includes scaffolded practice of the function of map features, adequate opportunities to apply map skills, and various purposes for students to create maps.” |
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It’s FREE!“Now more than ever students are relying on technology both inside and outside the classroom. These computer shortcut posters will make a great reference display for all learners.” |
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“Included in this bundle are novel study units for the book Restart written by Gordon Korman and the book Save Me a Seat written by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan. Both novel studies are fully comprehensive including printable and digital comprehension questions, pre-reading activities, character studies, reading skills strategies, and a christian connection resource.” |
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It’s FREE!“Capitalization rules are a must for your 3rd-5th students to review at the beginning of the year. A capitalization slideshow, guided notes, and practice page that will keep your students engaged in the social distancing or distance learning classroom are included.” |
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“Digital grammar lessons for your virtual or social distancing classroom. The product includes a PowerPoint and Google Slide Show, printable or Google guided notes, and a printable or Google practice page. An excellent way to review grammar rules!” |
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It’s FREE!“Summarizing is made more hands-on with these cut and fold templates. They can be used with any text to help summarize any story or article.” |
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“These Boom Cards are perfect for helping students spell short vowel CVC words. Simply drag the letters into the correct spaces to spell the words pictured.” |
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It’s FREE!“This Math Cheat Sheet has been downloaded over 300,000 times on Learn in Color’s website and is a quick, color-coded reference guide for students in grades 4-8, created by a student.” |
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“Perfect for grades 4-8, these math reference guides are available in English and Spanish. Use them to start a reference binder.” |
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It’s FREE!“Struggling to teach all those Common Core Language Standards? This NO PREP Daily Language Grammar Practice for First Grade makes it easy. Lists all the standards for easy planning!” |
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“This DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDE resource is for beginning readers who need practice on Fry’s HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS in PHRASES to improve READING FLUENCY.” |
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It’s FREE!“This is a simple way to assess your students’ understanding of nonfiction text. The sample responses and rubric will help your students turn in quality work!” |
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“In this resource, students receive immediate feedback while working through the card deck. Cards and multiple-choice answers are randomized each time you play so each deck can be used multiple times!” |
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It’s FREE!“This is a FREE Preschool schedule that is completely interactive.” |
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“Get ready for a fun filled year with your toddler, Preschooler, or Kindergartener learning with different weekly themes in this GROWING BUNDLE!” |
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It’s FREE!“These fun and engaging question word posters, games, and visuals provide students and teachers with a very helpful roadmap for developing student reading comprehension. This product also includes an editable template so teachers (or students) may develop their own question word game!” |
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“This Orton-Gillingham Lesson: Complete Guide takes a lot of the work out of organizing a lesson by dividing each step into sections so the teacher can write in the specific skills to address during the lesson.” |
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It’s FREE!“Celebrate St. Patricks Day while practicing graphing in math. Enjoy a yummy treat too!” |
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“This resource is great for celebrating International Talk Like A Pirate Day each year or just having fun with your students while learning about pirates!” |
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It’s FREE!“This resource includes information on Phonemic Awareness using David Kilpatrick’s “Equipped for Reading Success” as a guide and reference. Videos to be used either for instruction or practice are linked for each of the 10 levels as outlined by Kilpatrick.” |
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” I developed these resources and activities to support teachers in implementing their phonics program whether face-to-face or virtual. Included are a digital card deck, digitally animated blending board for all syllable types and patterns covered in Phonics First (or any phonics curriculum), master slides designed for student practice with the weekly plan from Phonics First.” |
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It’s FREE!“Organizing made easy with editable baseball themed drawer labels!” |
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“This novel unit guides students through The Magic Tree House’s Balto of the Blue Dawn novel. Students will be engaged in comprehension, vocabulary, sequencing, research, and more.” |
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It’s FREE!“Let’s make autism acceptance a priority! Find a free unit all about renowned scientist, Temple Grandin, along with open-ended write and draw templates to support student comprehension and synthesis.” |
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“This Google Doc newspaper template guides students through creating their own articles, adding text and images. Compatible with Google Classroom and great for collaborative projects, class or school paper, and individual reports!” |