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Ocean Animals Dominoes Reading and Crafts- PowerPoint editable
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One of our favourite activities for learners of all ages. It is a full lesson or about an hour in duration

I love doing this activity, it is self directed and students really get into it. It is a whole class activity that can be done in groups, pairs or as an individual. I like to give each students a copy so they have their own work to present and take home

This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs.
Students are given a board and the Ocean animals description and have to match the description to the Ocean animals picture and glue it to the board
They go horizontal across the top and the bottom and vertically along the sides.
When you ( or the students) cut out the dominos make sure there is a picture AND a description on the domino ( dominos have two sides)
Make sure the students know how to glue them as sometimes they will stick them all at the top.

We also have a rubric to show you how it fits together.
You should print the dominoes on a4 paper and the board to stick on a3!!!
We will have an instruction video on the YouTube site as well.

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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Farm Animals Reading Comprehension Worksheets Kindergarten and Grade 1+
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The free ones are here /Free version of the farm reading worksheets.
The read along YouTube is here :) https://youtu.be/dFYmvI5nEsY

I have made these for my school and students. Guided and leveled readers can be really really expensive so I thought putting some packs of leveled readers might be helpful to teachers out there. These reading passages are leveled using the SMOG and Flesch Kincaid Grade Level. As with all things this is dependent on the background, prior knowledge and reading level of your students. Some will find it easier some will find it more difficult. So they are designed for you to use your professional judgement

I have started to make some readers based on themes. This theme is farm animals and there will be others to come on the site soon as well. These are aimed at Kindergarten and grade 1 to 2 students and i have tried to keep the text at lower reading levels. There are editable versions on the store if you wanted to increase the difficultly for your particular students.

Reading and writing together is a great way to cement knowledge and with students natural affinity towards wildlife this is a good subject to use to encourage that.

They images are below so you can get an idea of the content.

They can be used as part of general lessons or as part of a Guided reading programme ( which is what i am going to try to build up here) A set of reading cards for schools to be able to target reading levels for their students and implement a cost saving reading system to help them better cater for learner diversity. There are multiple sets of these on the site some are multi – topic and graded, others (like this one) are set on a particular subject. In this case farm animals. They are constantly, work allowing, added to so it maybe worth booking marking the site.

The phonics resources on this site also go well with this and they are also available in both free and editable versions

These are also editable if you need but there is a small fee from the shop. there are also other graded readers and phonics resources both here and in the store.

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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CVC and Short Vowel Poems Comprehension
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A set of rhyming CVC poems for students to practice reading CVC, high frequency and sight words. They are a little more difficult than the previous onset and rime readers but offer a more genuine experience. They also introduce rhyming for students ( in the form of a poem)

We have included four questions on each page, including at least one that covers reading comprehension strategies to try to introduce both these essential skills and higher order thinking.

Here we have two examples to use in home of classes and the link to the full set as well.

Hope they are useful for you

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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12 Dinosaur Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Cards
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This is the 12 PDF version of these Dinosaur Cards.

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I love teaching children about dinosaurs, I have books and fossils to show them and their enthusiasm rubs off on me. There is something about these huge animals that just captures imagination of children.

So i have put together these reading cards with 12 of the most popular dinosaurs on theme. Each has some information and then 5 comprehension questions and a coloring box with the dinosaur in it (I will make the coloring images bigger for download in a short while in case you need)

Reading comprehension is both difficult and essential for younger learners. Half the battle is getting them motivated on a topic to be willing as well as able to try to use reading strategies. These cards will help. You can add additional questions as you wish.

Here there are 4 examples and in the premium set we have 12 for you. which should be enough to cover any of your students favorite dinosaur!!

On these reading comprehension cards we have the following dinosaurs
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Dinosaur Days
- Diplodocus
- Brachiosaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Pterodactyl
- Spinosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Triceratops
- Velociraptor
- Giganotosaurus
- Plesiosaurus
There is plenty of information for Children on dinosaurs online, however there seems to much less for early or ESL readers. That’s why we have designed these. They should be more suitable for beginning readers of English.
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Halloween Lesson Pack – PDF Versions
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Use the Coupon Code — Halloween — to get this for free on Halloween.

Its our treat! and promise no tricks!!!

We are giving this away as a thank you to all of you who have helped us grow over the last 9 months.
have a great Halloween day and night!!

We have a scary video for you here as well :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQScary video :)

ok maybe one trick….

We have included in this Halloween Lesson Pack.
The 2 versions of the Halloween Dominoes Full Class Activity (see the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqu4c1MFvk
Halloween Costume and Monster Word search
2 Versions of the Halloween Matching Worksheets
15+ Flash card and pictures for Halloween Vocabulary
15+ Images ( 4 pages_ of Halloween Monster colouring images.

These should get you through the festivities for this year!

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Halloween Dominoes Activity – PowerPoint editable
$3.00
THESE ARE THE Editable PowerPoint VERSIONS

One of our favourite activities for learners of all ages. It is a full lesson or about an hour in duration

I love doing this activity, it is self directed and students really get into it. It is a whole class activity that can be done in groups, pairs or as an individual. I like to give each students a copy so they have their own work to present and take home

This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs.
Students are given a board and the Halloween riddle or description and have to match the description to the Halloween picture and glue it to the board
They go horizontal across the top and the bottom and vertically along the sides.
When you ( or the students) cut out the dominos make sure there is a picture AND a description on the domino ( dominos have two sides)
Make sure the students know how to glue them as sometimes they will stick them all at the top.
Once they have finished, they can complete the centre part of the board and describe their favourite costume and what Halloween words were there.
There are two versions here a riddle poem version for more advanced students and a simpler version for younger or beginning learners
We also have a rubric to show you how it fits together.
You should print the dominoes on a4 paper and the board to stick on a3!!!
We will have an instruction video on the YouTube site as well.

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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Halloween Dominoes Activity – PDF
$1.99
THESE ARE THE PDF VERSIONS

One of our favourite activities for learners of all ages. It is a full lesson or about an hour in duration

I love doing this activity, it is self directed and students really get into it. It is a whole class activity that can be done in groups, pairs or as an individual. I like to give each students a copy so they have their own work to present and take home

This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs.
Students are given a board and the Halloween riddle or description and have to match the description to the Halloween picture and glue it to the board
They go horizontal across the top and the bottom and vertically along the sides.
When you ( or the students) cut out the dominos make sure there is a picture AND a description on the domino ( dominos have two sides)
Make sure the students know how to glue them as sometimes they will stick them all at the top.
Once they have finished, they can complete the centre part of the board and describe their favourite costume and what Halloween words were there.
There are two versions here a riddle poem version for more advanced students and a simpler version for younger or beginning learners
We also have a rubric to show you how it fits together.
You should print the dominoes on a4 paper and the board to stick on a3!!!
We will have an instruction video on the YouTube site as well.

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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Kindergarten Reading Comprehension and coloring cards – PDF Version
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THESE ARE THE PDF VERSIONS

Kindergarten Reading Comprehension has to introduced slowly and methodically. It needs to reinforce both Phonetic and sight words so students can develop both the confidence to use every day words, and the skills to blend sounds to make simple words
These simple easy to read lesson resources for younger learners of English help to achieve both of these aims. They are also able to be used as coloring resources to add a sense of ownership to the work. .

They have simple sentences followed by three simple questions. to help build that confidence. These can be guided during a lesson or self directed either at home or in a classroom.

This is the PDF version so if you would like to be able to change to make suitable for your own individual situation take a look for the editable version.

You can hear them read out loud here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNeyIrGSOeA

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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Kindergarten Reading Comprehension and coloring cards – Editable
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THESE ARE THE PDF VERSIONS

I have made these for my students. Guided and leveled readers can be really really expensive so I thought putting some packs of leveled readers might be helpful to teachers out there. These reading passages are leveled using the SMOG and Flesch Kincaid Grade Level. As with all things this is dependent on the background, prior knowledge and reading level of your students. Some will find it easier some will find it more difficult. So they are designed for you to use your professional judgement

These can be listened to here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNeyIrGSOeA
In this pack there are five readers that have been leveled using the above systems at Grade 4 and one at Grade 4/5

They can be used as part of general lessons or as part of a Guided reading programme ( which is what i am going to try to build up here) A set of reading cards for schools to be able to target reading levels for their students and implement a cost saving reading system to help them better cater for learner diversity.

The phonics resources on this site also go well with this and they are also available in both free and editable versions

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

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14 CVC Reading Comprehension Cards and questions – PowerPoint Editable version
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This is the 14 Editable version of these Short E CVC reading Cards.

These 14 cards allow students to practice developing reading skills and to start to introduce reading to learn and comprehension skills.

This editable version is great if you are a teacher and want to change details for your individual classrooms

CVC Reading skills are the cornerstone of emergent readers. Once students have worked out, and its not always an easy realization, that the 44 sounds (depending where you are) are all blended together to make words and that there is a relationship there it is like a firework going off. Suddenly sounds are being put together, simple words actually become simple and skills like segmenting and constructing words become common place. We have hundreds of worksheets on developing these skills, and now we have the readers below to help both practice and consolidate these skills.

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14 CVC Reading Comprehension Cards and questions – PDF
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This is the 14 PDF version of these Short E CVC reading Cards.

These 14 cards allow students to practice developing reading skills and to start to introduce reading to learn and comprehension skills.

We also have editable version if you are a teacher and want to change details for your individual classrooms

CVC Reading skills are the cornerstone of emergent readers. Once students have worked out, and its not always an easy realization, that the 44 sounds (depending where you are) are all blended together to make words and that there is a relationship there it is like a firework going off. Suddenly sounds are being put together, simple words actually become simple and skills like segmenting and constructing words become common place. We have hundreds of worksheets on developing these skills, and now we have the readers below to help both practice and consolidate these skills.

We have the read aloud version on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gcqaJVEwg

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GRADE 4 – READING / WRITING COMPREHENSION CARDS FOR KINDI, PRIMARY AND ESL STUDENTS – PDF Version
$1.00
THESE ARE THE PDF VERSIONS

I have made these for my students. Guided and leveled readers can be really really expensive so I thought putting some packs of leveled readers might be helpful to teachers out there. These reading passages are leveled using the SMOG and Flesch Kincaid Grade Level. As with all things this is dependent on the background, prior knowledge and reading level of your students. Some will find it easier some will find it more difficult. So they are designed for you to use your professional judgement

In this pack there are five readers that have been leveled using the above systems at Grade 4 and one at Grade 4/5

They can be used as part of general lessons or as part of a Guided reading programme ( which is what i am going to try to build up here) A set of reading cards for schools to be able to target reading levels for their students and implement a cost saving reading system to help them better cater for learner diversity.

The phonics resources on this site also go well with this and they are also available in both free and editable versions

Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

Add to cart