Best Selling Teaching Resources for Fall for Primary Grades

 Read. Think. Write. Learn about Christopher Columbus. 

High-Interest Reading passages to read about this character in history. Writing prompts that will show understanding of Christopher Columbus and American history. Learning new information and practicing writing skills to show what has been learned.

Christopher Columbus Writing Prompts
Columbus - Printables



This resource includes:

reading text about Christopher Columbus
poem about 1492 and the sailing ships for fluency practice
reading text with comprehension questions -find the evidence
picture word matching
describing words
T- Map 'was-wanted-had'
label the picture
discover new words
cards for retelling
spin-off activity

There are 14 pages and these pages would be appropriate for beginning readers and writers. You might also assign these for distance learning and school-at-home.







Stellaluna Book Companion
Stellaluna Book Companion

Enhance the reading experience of the book, Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon, with these reader response pages. A great book companion!

This book is wonderful to read aloud to your class and use as a springboard for class discussions on 'being yourself' and 'accepting the differences of others'. Improve reading achievement with these reader response pages and comprehension checks.

There are 25 pages included in this resources and they focus on:

  • comprehension
  • theme
  • compare and contrast
  • favorite part of the story
  • listening page
  • would you rather ...
  • quiet time 'think of a story'
  • sign up to tell your story
  • word study pages include - ABC order, rhyming words, making new words
  • illustration and writing sentences
  • picture cards for retelling and creating a literacy center


  Celebrate Our Heroes! 
On Veterans'  Day

    Writing prompts are about freedom, courage and being a hero. Also an introduction to the 5 branches of the military.   

Veterans' Day
Writing Prompts

  Pages include:

  Veterans’ Day Writing Stationary
  Honoring our Veterans
  Match 5 branches of government
  adjectives to describe Veterans
  write to a Veteran
  What is a hero?
  What does it mean to be patriotic?
  What does it mean to be brave?
  Why we celebrate Veterans’ Day?
  Read-write about freedom.

  These pages could easily supplement your class discussions and reading about Veterans and our freedoms in America.



Fall Into Engaging Teaching Resources - Book Companions for Children's Literature

FALL into 
Engaging Teaching Resources

Reading children's literature in the classroom and at home is powerful.   Children show a keen interest in the books you read and they become engaged and motivated readers themselves.  Reading to children is proven to improve cognitive development.  Cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand.  The simple and complex problems presented in children's literature creates a construction of thought processes.  These processes include remembering, decision-making and problem solving.  Children who have a rich and full background of stories and books have many opportunities to practice the skills of information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, memory and attention span.  When you read aloud to children, you provide them with a background of knowledge which helps them make sense of the world.  Children see, hear, and read which leads to thinking and more reading.  Talking about books gives this reading process power.  Power to bridge stories to their own lives and make connections to people, places and situations.  Read good books. Talk about good books.  Write about good books.  and you will find that one good book leads to another.

Some books for you to read this fall....



teaching resources, writing prompts
In November - Book Companion














 






Book Companion for Old Lady


Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon


What Do You Do With
a Problem?

You can find more book companions here

Halloween Fun!  
Boo!tiful! Resources


My Teacher On Halloween is more fun for the teacher! than her students!

Read on to find more teacher-created resources  that will engage your students in reading, writing and learning