Teacher's Take-Out

HFW Word List and Assessment Freebie

Sunday, June 30, 2013

High Frequency Words (HFW) are the highest use of words in our language. Students should focus on these words to help them with daily reading and writing. I have the first 100 HFW in list form and as an assessment. The assessment sheet has you keeping track of your student's reading all year long. There are 5 columns on the assessment sheet for 5 opportunities to see how your students are reading their HFW.

Put word lists in a reading center for students to practice reading words. Students can partner read the words together. Send word lists home for homework so students can practice reading and writing their HFW.

Here is the complete set of Lists and Assessments for HFW 1-1,000. This pack includes two HFW Lists and Assessment Forms for all 1,000 High Frequency Words. These lists are great for keeping track of reading levels and spelling lists. Click the picture on the left to read more about it.

Have you tried Snakes and Ladders HFW Game? These game boards are all about Fry's HFW 1-200! Your students will love reading their words while playing this game. Try the Freebie below to see if you like it.

This set also comes in Dolch Words!

Here's a set of FREE HFW 1-100 in flashcard form. Try the fun game for beginning readers!

ABC Order to the 1st letter is all about HFW. This set includes task cards and worksheets to put in ABC order. All words in the pack are using HFW 1-100! Click the picture on the left to read more about it.

Here are some other helpful resource you may like using HFW. Click on the links below to be taken to Amazon:
1,000 Fry and Dolch Words
Sight Words Poetry Pages
Sight Word Sentences
Sight Word Posters
Sight Word Game

Hopefully you'll find some goodies to keep your beginning readers busy during reading time.

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Long and Short Vowel Games and Centers- Free Poster!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Long and Short Vowel Games and Centers will help your students will be able to distinguish long vowel sounds from short vowel sounds.

This pack includes 18 short vowel words and 18 long vowel words for EACH vowel sound! Use these task cards for games and centers that are included in this pack. Also included are 3 worksheets for EACH vowel sound. Use the worksheets for added practice or as assessments. Each vowel sound comes with a T-Chart and some recording sheets for the games and centers.

Here are some examples for Vowel A:

This vowel pack has 5 Games and Centers for EACH vowel sound.

Freebie! Long and Short Vowel Poster. This poster is a reminder for students to distinguish between the long and short vowel sound. This little poster is Free on this blog only. Click the picture to get your FREE Short/Long Poster.

Here is another Freebie! This little sheet has students reading words as they switch back and forth between the long and short vowel sounds. This is perfect for listening to students read in a small group or for students to read with a partner at a reading center. Click the picture for the cvc/cvce sheet.

Need more vowel resources? Here is a quick and easy reading center for using long and short vowel sound, Making Words with Word Lists. There are a total of 20 word lists. Students try to make as many words as they can from the list. They need to match a blend of letters on the left to match with a vowel sound on the right of the list.

Here's another phonics resource you don't want to miss, Blends and Digraph Games and Centers. This pack includes a set of short and a set of long vowel words. This pack includes 6 games with a focus on blends and digraph sounds.

Word Puzzles have a pack of 40 worksheets to practice making "real" words while being able to practice vowel sounds. These are easy to set up for a reading center. Students Cut and Paste letters around the sheet to make words. Click here for a FREE trial of this pack.

You do not want to miss out on these cute worksheets for phonics.

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Mystery Activities and a Freebie

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Do you love a good mystery? Kids love to be detectives and solve a good puzzle too. Mystery Name is a great way for students to get to know their classmates and generate new words in their name. The student who is chosen to be the “Mystery Name” gets some recognition too! Create a Mystery Name for each student in your classroom.

Use Mystery Name for: a warm-up activity, or morning work.

Scramble each student's name on the recording sheet below and make a copy for all the students. Students use the letters in the name to unscramble to find the mystery name and to create new words. Click on the picture to download it for FREE and to start using it today.

FREE Mystery Name for a getting to know you activity

Here are some more Mystery Activities to use in the classroom during math time:

Missing Numbers with some challenging equations

Another fun mystery activity is Making Inferences. This pack includes 20 task cards that display a small paragraph. Students need to figure out what's happening in each card. These are perfect for 2nd graders or your ESL learners! These task cards will help students use their skill of trying to infer what is happening on each task card. Students need to be careful readers and have some background knowledge to infer each passage. You can use these task cards with the gameboard for 2-players or with the recording sheets.
These task cards are also uploaded into Google Forms creating 5 Self grading quizzes. These quizzes can be copied into your Google Classroom to assign to students. Click the picture below to read more about these task cards.

Here are some other fun mystery resources you may like:
Mystery in the Library Party Card Game
Mini Mysteries
Guess Who Game

Here are some mystery books for kids:
Case Closed
Detective Camp
Nancy Drew Stories
BallPark Mysteries
The Boxcar Children
Magic Treehouse

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Star Student Poster- Freebie!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Do you have a Star Student or Student of the week? If you do, you can save some money with this free and fun little poster for your Star Student or Student of the Week.

I pick a student each week to focus on. I give this poster to my star student to fill out at home and bring back to school so they can share it with their classmates. These are great posters for a "Get to Know You" activity. Students love the recognition! They fill out the poster that's all about them and share it with their classmates. Click the picture to download it for FREE! This is also uploaded into Google Slides to use with your Google Classrooms.