I’m excited to share my 2nd ever unit study for K-2 learners! My first unit study, Seeds & Plants, has been such a big hit with readers that I thought I’d squeeze one more in before the end of this school year. {I will be adding even more unit studies.}

Animals Unit Study {for K-2nd}

This animal unit is PACKED with animal learning! Are you ready to see all this?

• comparing plants and animals
• how animals move
• animal coverings
• nocturnal/diurnal animals
• animal life cycle pages (1 for each Vertebrate and 1 for insects)
• Vertebrate/Invertebrate Picture Sorting
• Vertebrate Picture Sorting (Mammal, Amphibian, Bird, Fish, or Reptile)
• Invertebrate Picture Sorting (6 jointed legs, 6+ jointed legs, or no legs)
• common Vertebrate/Invertebrate cut & paste mats (see the FREE Vertebrate example pages)
• comparing animals
• Animal Snapshots (animal report pages)
• field trip pages (for pet store, zoo, and others)
• animal journals
• animal needs
• endangered animals
• animal habitat cut & paste mats (mats for farm, ocean, desert, forest, fresh water, polar regions, rainforest, grassland, and mountains)
• animal adaptations
• create your own animal
• predator/prey puzzles
• food chain puzzles
• comparing kinds of eaters (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore)

• interactive notebook/lapbook resources and pages (or you can pick and choose from the pack)
• AND an Animal Book List for Kids!

Whew! Did you get all that?

This unit is PACKED FULL of activities that require learners to draw, think, write, sort, match, and MORE! It’s perfect for the classroom or at home!

Want to see a sample? Click HERE download sample pages from this pack.

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Animal Alphabet Handwriting Pages

Practice handwriting with the animals from A to Z! These clean and simple handwriting pages provide practice with writing both upper and lowercase letters within the boundaries of 3 lines (two solid lines and dotted middle line).

Learners are challenged to practice writing their letters BIG and small on each page. They’re perfect for preschool or Kindergarten writers!

Included in this pack are: 

1. Lowercase Letter Formation Resources – wall charts and simple foldable book {in color and blackline}

2. Uppercase & Lowercase Pages – Separate pages are included for each with an animal that begins with that letter. Each time the learner drops down, the lines are closer together. This gives learners practice writing big and writing smaller.

The learner is given guidance with green dot(s) and arrows on the first time trying each letter. Each line has a support example and then just the green start dot for more tries.

Use pencil and paper OR slip into a plastic sleeve protector and use dry erase marker to make them reusable! {affiliate link included}

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6 Syllable Types Interactive Pages

This 60+ pack will get learners cutting, pasting, writing, analyzing, dividing, and reading these six syllable types:

1. closed syllables
2. open syllables
3. r-controlled syllables
4. CVCe syllables {accent in 1st and 2nd syllable}
5. vowel team syllables
6. c+le syllables

Also included is:

• a 6 syllable types overview single page and bookmarks
• a word list key with words from this pack broken into syllables
• color resources for “Cut the Cheese”
• editable “Cut the Cheese” cards {in color & blackline}
• ambiguous divisions – a few words seem to have more than one “correct” way to divide the syllables, so pages are included for both ways

All activity pages come in blackline. The 6 syllable types single page, 6 syllable types bookmarks, and “Cut the Cheese” activities also are included in color.

*EDITABLE ACTIVITIES! – “Cut the Cheese” is also included in editable form so you can create your own! After opening with Adobe Reader, just type your words right into the blue-ish colored fields and either save or print.

Find free samples from this pack in my dividing syllables post!

Ready to grab your copy?

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4 Seasons: a K-2 Unit Study

I’m so excited to share my newest K-2 Unit Study about the four seasons!
In this 65+ page pack, you’ll find:

-editable student assessment pages
-writing and critical thinking activities
-4 seasons sorting activities (with picture cards AND word cards)
-cut & paste seasons activities
-What makes the seasons? pages
-a fun fact sheet about each season
-seasons in both the Northern AND Southern Hemisphere
-seasonal cycle of an apple tree
-seasonal cycle of a tree
-a recommended booklist

-& notebook/lapbook resources {see photos above}

Just like our Seeds & Plants Unit Study and our Animals Unit Study, many of the activities are designed to get kids outside, exploring, touching, and learning about their world.

Teach 2nd grade? This unit can help you when teaching your learners. I learned quite a bit just putting it together!

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If you’ve played our free 1-2-3 FLIP IT! with your child, you will be excited to use 1-2-3 SPELL IT! It’s a bit more challenging than 1-2-3 FLIP IT! and in our bundle pack, you’ll find game boards for several different phonics patterns.

How to Play:

1-2-3 SPELL IT! is played in a similar fashion as Uno. Each player gets 7 letter cards. The object is to be the first player to get rid of all your cards. The way you get rid of your cards is by playing a letter card from your hand on the game board that will spell a REAL word {only real words are allowed}. Once you’ve spelled the real word, you must read it. Both players must agree that it is indeed a real word! Players take turns in this manner until one player is out of cards. Further directions are on the first page of the download.

In the deck, I’ve also included these Wild Cards. If a player has a Wild Card in her hand, she may substitute it for any letter {consonant or vowel} to help her create a real word on the board. When a player plays the Wild Card, she must tell what letter the Wild Card represents, then she must read the word created.

Is your child ready for more spelling games? Then, you may want to purchase my 1-2-3 FLIP IT! / 1-2-3 SPELL IT! Pack. In this 47-page pack are FLIP IT! and SPELL IT! game boards and cards for:

• Short Vowel Words
• Short Vowel with Blends and Digraphs (such as stop, clam, or black)
• Long Vowel with Silent e (such as name, home, or bike)
• Long Vowel Digraphs (such as road, bead, or rain)
• R-Controlled Vowels (such as bird, turn, or herd)

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Dolch Second Grade Sight Word Pages

These Dolch Second Grade sight word pages are an interactive way for learners to build fluency with their sight words.

Learners will get extra sight word practice as they read the word, find the correct spellings of the word, use spelling manipulatives to build the word, trace the word, write the word, AND (this part excites me) use the word in the context of a sentence. {The example above comes from this Dolch Primer pack.}

Learners can write the sentence themselves, dictate it to you, copy it from a sentence you create together, write it with you (sharing the pencil) or any combination of these. You can really differentiate this step for your learners.

This individual pack includes words from the Dolch second grade word list.

You can get even more goodies with our DOLCH BUNDLE PACK. It includes all PP-3rd Dolch sight words PLUS 65+ Dolch Nouns and Editable pages not found in our individual packs!

All sight word pages are included with the triple handwriting lines or single lines like you see above. Click HERE FOR THE PREVIEW.

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Dolch Third Grade Sight Word Pages

These Dolch Third Grade sight word pages are an interactive way for learners to build fluency with their sight words.

Learners will get extra sight word practice as they read the word, find the correct spellings of the word, use spelling manipulatives to build the word, trace the word, write the word, AND (this part excites me) use the word in the context of a sentence. {The example above comes from this Dolch Primer pack.}

Learners can write the sentence themselves, dictate it to you, copy it from a sentence you create together, write it with you (sharing the pencil) or any combination of these. You can really differentiate this step for your learners.

This individual pack includes words from the Dolch third grade word list.

You can get even more goodies with our DOLCH BUNDLE PACK. It includes all PP-3rd Dolch sight words PLUS 65+ Dolch Nouns and Editable pages not found in our individual packs!

All sight word pages are included with the triple handwriting lines or single lines like you see above. Click HERE FOR THE PREVIEW.

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Fry First 100 Sight Word Pages

These sight word pages for Fry’s first 100 words are an interactive way for learners to build fluency with their sight words.

Learners will get extra sight word practice as they read the word, find the correct spellings of the word, use spelling manipulatives to build the word, trace the word, write the word, AND (this part excites me) use the word in the context of a sentence. {The example above comes from this Fry’s first 100 word pack.}

Learners can write the sentence themselves, dictate it to you, copy it from a sentence you create together, write it with you (sharing the pencil) or any combination of these. You can really differentiate this step for your learners.

This individual pack includes words from the Fry’s first 100 words only.

You can get even more goodies with our FRY BUNDLE PACK. It includes all the words on Fry’s first AND second 100 word list PLUS 65+ Common Verbs and Editable pages not found in our individual packs!

All sight word pages are included with the triple handwriting lines or single lines like you see above. Click HERE FOR THE PREVIEW.

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Fry Second 100 Sight Word Pages

These sight word pages for Fry’s second 100 words are an interactive way for learners to build fluency with their sight words.

Learners will get extra sight word practice as they read the word, find the correct spellings of the word, use spelling manipulatives to build the word, trace the word, write the word, AND (this part excites me) use the word in the context of a sentence. {The example above comes from this Fry’s first 100 word pack.}

Learners can write the sentence themselves, dictate it to you, copy it from a sentence you create together, write it with you (sharing the pencil) or any combination of these. You can really differentiate this step for your learners.

This individual pack includes words from the Fry’s second 100 words only.

You can get even more goodies with our FRY BUNDLE PACK. It includes all the words on Fry’s first AND second 100 word list PLUS 65+ Common Verbs and Editable pages not found in our individual packs!

All sight word pages are included with the triple handwriting lines or single lines like you see above. Click HERE FOR THE PREVIEW.

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NO PREP Alphabet Activities Bundle Pack

This MEGA bundle pack is a must-have if you are teaching learners their letters and letter sounds.

You’ll find twelve different kinds of activities for helping learners with letter recognition, uppercase/lowercase letters, letter sounds, and/or fine motor work with handwriting, playdough, and magnetic letters.

Of course, the best thing about this pack is that learners are getting some hands-on practice in a NO PREP way!

This NO PREP alphabet activities bundle pack includes:

1. Alphabet Stamp & Say Pages
2. Roll & Race Alphabet Games
3. Alphabet Sounds Sorting Mats
4. Alphabet Dot Mazes
5. Alphabet Build-a-Word Mats {color and blackline included}
6. Simple Handwriting Alphabet Pages
7. Alphabet Activity Pages
8. Trace & Dot Letter Sounds
9. Alphabet Dough Mats
10. Fold & Read Alphabet Books {two versions}
11. Alphabet Sorts for Letter Fonts & Cases
12. Alphabet Rainbow Roll & Write

Over time, I will be spitting up the bundle and selling each alphabet activity separately. When I do, the link will become live in the list above.

Click HERE or on the image above to see a preview
of all the activities included in this bundle pack.

If you are teaching toddlers or preschoolers the alphabet, I recommend our Learning the Alphabet packs.

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No Prep Alphabet Books: Fold & Read

If you teach learners who need some focused practice on their letters, these easy to fold and read alphabet books are fantastic! Six blackline pictures are included for each letter so learners have concrete examples for each letter sound.

Each letter book emphasizes the beginning sound that the letter makes, including all five short vowels. The only exception is letter x, which has its focus on the final x sound in words like box and six.

To make each book, just fold once on the horizontal line and once on the vertical line. Show your learners how to do it themselves so it’s completely no prep for you!

Two Versions are included to help you differentiate:

• Version 1: Learners fold twice, color, and read the book.
• Version 2: Learners fold, trace each word, color, and read the book.

Click HERE or on the image above to see the preview.

Grab a copy of our NO PREP Alphabet Activities MEGA Bundle Pack! It includes our no prep alphabet books PLUS 12 MORE no prep alphabet activities for teaching your learners the alphabet!

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I often am asked if I will bundle just the blackline phonics readers from Learn to Read and make them available for purchase. So, here they are!

24 readers are included in this resources: four phonics readers for each short vowel and four short vowel review phonics readers.

You’ll find these phonics readers:

Short a Readers (from Unit 1)

• On the Mat – at family
• Lad on my Pad – ad family
• Can He Find it? – an family
• Go Away? – short a word family review

Short o Readers (from Unit 2)

• Jump and Hop – op family
• Play! Jump! Jog – og family
• Come and Help – ot family
• One Funny Dog – short o word family review

Short i Readers (from Unit 3)

• One, Two Three – ig family
• What Can You Do? – ip family
• Where are They? – it family
• I Have it! – short i word family review

Short u Readers (from Unit 4)

• Look Out! – ug family
• In the Tub – ub family
• Did You Like It? – ut family
• In and Out – short u word family review

Short e Readers (from Unit 5)

• We All See It – ed family
• So Wet – et family
• I Have Ten – en family
• Can it be? – short e word family review

Mixed Short Vowel Word Family Phonics Readers (from Unit 6)

• What Came Out? – short a and short o
• Run Away – short i and short u
• Into the Cab – short a and short e
• I Must Get – all five short vowels

Click HERE or on the image above to see a preview of these phonics readers.

Not only do these books work on short vowel CVC word families, but they introduce 2 new sight words each. Review of these sight words is built in to each reader.

The 48 sight words included are: all, away, are, be, but, came, come, did, do, find, funny, get, good, have, help, here, into, jump, like, make, must, new, no, now, on, one, out, play, ride, run, said, saw, she, so, they, there, this, three, too, two, was, went, what, where, who, will, with, & yes.

Want the entire Learn to Read Bundle? Click HERE or on the image above.

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These No Prep Alphabet Build-a-Word Mats are a great way to focus on one letter sound while reviewing other letters at the same time!

Using magnetic letters or letter tiles makes learning letters hands-on and multisensory, perfect for struggling learners! The pictures on each mat give learners concrete objects with which to connect letter sounds.

Twenty-six mats are included in color and in blackline.

Nearly all the consonants focus on the beginning sound, with the exception of x, which focuses on its final sound of /ks/. {Why did we do this? First, because x is more common in the final position with beginning readers. 2- The sound of x is more consistent in the final position than in the first.}

The five vowel mats all have CVC words with the short vowel sound in the middle. This allows learners to put letter sounds together to blend and build real words.

Click HERE or on the preview above to see more.

Grab a copy of our entire NO PREP Alphabet Activities MEGA Bundle Pack! It includes these No Prep Alphabet Build-a-Word Mats PLUS 12 MORE no prep alphabet activities for teaching your learners the alphabet!

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These No Prep Alphabet Sorting Mats are a fantastic way to zero in on letter sounds.

Each mat features a simple cut and paste format with eight pictures. Only six of the pictures begin with the featured letter. Learners must figure out which two pictures don’t belong and only glue the two that do.

These are great for isolating beginning letter sounds in words!

Grab a copy of our entire NO PREP Alphabet Activities MEGA Bundle Pack! It includes these No Prep Alphabet Sound Sorting Mats PLUS 12 MORE no prep alphabet activities for teaching your learners the alphabet!

Click HERE or on the preview above to see sample sorting mats.

Grab these mats at my Teachers Pay Teachers shop or below!

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These NO PREP Letter Font Sorts feature a cut and paste format for helping learners not only recognize uppercase and lowercase letters, but think about letter recognition in a more flexible way. Because every page features different letter fonts, learners get exposure to those tricky letters like a, g, and t!

Grab a copy of our entire NO PREP Alphabet Activities MEGA Bundle Pack! It includes these No Prep Letter Font Sorting Pages Mats PLUS 12 MORE no prep alphabet activities for teaching your learners the alphabet!

Click HERE or on the preview above to see sample sorting mats.

Grab these mats at my Teachers Pay Teachers shop or below!

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Are you getting ready for a road trip? Then, you’ll love our NO PREP Road Trip Games Pack!

NO PREP Road Trip Games Pack

Let’s face it. A long car trip with kids isn’t exactly a relaxing event. You can pop in movies, but after a couple, my kids are done.

So I created kids this no prep pack, which features 10+ different games and activities (nearly 30 pages long) you can just hand to your kids for those long car trips. All activities are black/white, so you don’t have to worry about that using up your colored ink!

I recommend these games for K-5 learners, although I know my rising 7th grader wants to do some of them, too!

This NO PREP pack features:

• Folder Cover (Optional – Keep all the games in a folder like you see below. This is the only prep you’ll do!)

• Finish the Picture Pages (easy and harder)
• What Will it Be? Squiggle Drawing Pages (6 different pages)
• Squiggle and Draw
• Dot Games – played the traditional way (2 levels)
• Tic-Tac-Toe Boards
• How Many? Tally Boards (3 different boards)
• ABC Game (uppercase and lowercase boards)
• Hangman
• U.S. License Plate Game
• Where are We? Map
• How Many Words Can You Make? Games (5 different pages)
• Create Your Own Word Search Games (3 levels of difficulty)
• FOUR BONUS Road Trip Writing Pages (great to use on your trip home!)

Click HERE or on the image above to see the preview!

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