Happy Halloween Making Words Activities! PDF & SMART Board

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This activity provides students with a fun way to practice word making and mathematics. Students will cut out letter tiles making the phrase "HAPPY HALLOWEEN". They will work independently and/or with a group to create as many words as they can. There is a final student activity sheet that allows students to analyze the words they have created.
*This comes with a matching SMARTBoard activity. Click on the pictures below to download this additional freebie.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Happy-Halloween-Making-Words-SMART-Board-Activity-1526383

Enjoy!
~Erin

Animal Kingdom/Animal Families Flip Booklet

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This exciting flipbook will help your students learn to take notes while researching the animal kingdom! With an individual tab for each animal family, room to write interesting facts and an area to draw and/or cut/paste pictures of examples of animals that fall under that classification.

This flipbook also contains a tab where students can write questions they still have about the animal kingdom and/or their research, as well as a glossary for important words. In the glossary, students will record important vocabulary they have learned and provide a definition.

There is a page of labeled photographs that students can cut/paste onto each section based on their classification.

Finally, there is a word find on the last tab that contains the names of many animals they have already seen and some that will challenge students to figure out which animal kingdom they belong to….what a great way for students to continue learning. *An answer key has been provided!

All-in-all, this is a simple, yet effective tool for you to use with your students.

If you like the design/layout of this product and would like one customized for another lesson you are doing, please email me through my TPT store or at erinmills67@yahoo.com and I can create whatever you’d like!

~Erin



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This download contains an easy-to-use reading rubric to use while pulling your guided reading groups. It focuses on questioning, determining Importance, monitoring comprehension, inferring, and includes point value for reading above/on/below reading level.
Both a black/white and colored-coded version is available.
~Erin

BUNDLE: 3rd Grade Spelling Menus, Parent Letter and Pretest Slips!



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This download contains a BUNDLE of 3rd grade spelling menus that will last you over 31 weeks!!. Each menu has a weekly spelling list and activities students can choose from.

Also included is a blank menu/list to help you differentiate for your diverse learners, pretest slip sheets & a generic parent letter (which I’m happy to customize for you:)!

This is a great set for homeschooling teachers and for educators that need a variety of spelling resources!

The lists target the following word studies:
• “oi” words
• “ou” words
• long a, e, i, o, u words
• “oo” words
• “ew” words
• “oa” words
• “ay” words
• “ei” words
• “ee” words
• “ea” words
• “ue” words
• “str” words
• “thr” words
• contractions
• homophones
• “igh” words
• “tch” words
• “dge” words
• Suffix –er
• Suffix –est
• Suffix –y
• Suffix –ly
• Suffix –ing
• Suffix –ed
• Suffix –able
• Suffix –ful
• Prefix –de
• Prefix –re
• Prefix –dis
• Prefix –un
~Erin Mills
The Organized Chaos of Instruction

Counting On..Counting Backwards By 2s!

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This simple, yet effective 2-40 number mat will provide students with a visual while counting forwards and backwards by 2s.
 Enjoy!
 ~Erin
 The Organized Chaos of Instruction

"OW" Word Sort, Poem & Word Study Activity

This week, we have been studying "ow" words. We began with a cute poem by Cherry Carl which I found online at http://www.wordway.us.com/FamilySets/LongOwSET.pdf.
We then went on to use the Making and Writing Words (I really like that book!) example found at http://www.timrasinski.com/presentations/IRA07Tim_Rasinski_2.pdf.
Finally, I made a simple word sort so that we could sort them in different ways. The examples are shown below :)
Hope these are helpful to you!
~Erin

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