Elephant & Piggie Books Activities and VisualsMo Willems authors an AMAZING series of books starring Elephant and Piggie characters. This article shows lesson ideas and visuals to use with these great books.Learn More | Snowman Theme IdeasLearning About Winter- Check out some Snowman Theme Ideas.Learn More | The Color Monster by Anna LlenasThe Color Monster by Anna Llenas is a story about emotions. An adorable monster has mixed-up feelings and the author helps to sort them out by teaching each feeling.Learn More |
I Love You Blue KangarooI Love You Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark is a cute story about a toy blue kangaroo and his favorite child Lily. Things change when new stuffed animals arrive.Learn More | The Love Letter by Anika Aldamuy DeniseThis adorable story about love and friendship stars four adorable forest animals who learn how a simple love letter can change their mood and spark friendships.Learn More | The Little Engine That CouldCheck out these story activities and visuals to use with the book, "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper.Learn More |
The Boy With Big Big Feelings by Britney Winn LeeCheck out this story about big feelings and create materials to support lesson about these feelings and how to manage them.Learn More | Dancing Hands by Margarita EnglesMargarita Engles tells the story of how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln at only 10 years old.Learn More | Sight Words! Activities to Build Speed and Fluency in ReadingSight words are all the words that can be read immediately, on sight, without having to use decoding strategies. This article shared activities and resources for teaching sight words to early readers.Learn More |
Word FamiliesWord Families are a group of words that have a common group of letters with the same sound. Playing with word families help build phonemic awareness and decoding skills for reading.Learn More | Classroom RulesAt the beginning of the year, most teachers discuss and brainstorm a list of classroom rules and compile them into a set of 4-6 rules to display in the classroom. There are some important points to keep in mind as you and your class work through this beginning of the year ritual.Learn More | Martha Speaks by Susan MeddaughWhat would happen if your dog started speaking? Martha Speaks tells about a humorous dog who ate a bowl of alphabet soup and started talking! Check out story visuals and activities to use with this fun story.Learn More |