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Find all the teaching resources that will save you $ and mountains of time.  It's back-to-school time when you create your classroom environment and lesson plans.  Let me help.  See the many teaching resources that will engage your students in joyful learning.

Check out this novel study for Charlotte's Web where you will find comprehension checks, discussion group task cards, theme study, poetry pages, character traits, graphic organizers, interactive flip booklet, visualization activity and vocabulary study...  and more.

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Browse over 410 teaching resources that focus on:

  • teaching literacy and life lessons with children's literature
  • teaching the language of all around numbers and facts that engage thinking
  • create a community of readers and writers
  • literature circles
  • informational text discussion groups
  • listen and talk activities
  • social studies learning
  • bulletin boards that teach
  • build a classroom environment that catches student attention
  • teacher resources that help with classroom management and organization
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All the many classroom organization resources are at your fingertips.  Alphabet displays, bulletin boards that teach and first-week of school activities.  

Alphabet Display
Alphabet Display

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Bright! Colorful! and Educational Alphabet Display. 

This is an alphabet display line for your classroom. Teach important  phonics lessons all year long with this alphabet.   Each letter is written in primary handwriting with a capital and a lower case letter. Pictures are bright, beautiful realistic photos. Below each realistic photo are an uppercase and lowercase letter in manuscript and also the word naming the picture. The words have vowels highlighted in red for teacher reference.


Classroom Posters for Little Learners

Catch their attention with these bright, colorful and meaningful classroom posters to teach admirable character traits. These posters can be a springboard for important class discussions on building good character. Display them in your classroom and refer to them often. Attitude in your classroom makes a difference.








Build a community of readers and writers.  Read children's literature and find book companions and novel studies to create authentic writing opportunities for your students.   One book companion you might try is Big Al.  This book teaches the life lesson of kindness, acceptance, friendship and an awareness of differences.   Big Al is a great read aloud to teach community and good citizenship.  This book companion for Big Al reinforce story elements and important reading strategies. 

Big Al, book companion, MrsQuimbyReads
Big Al - Book Companion

Only One You - Book Companion

Only One You

Read, Think, Write and Learn!  Reader response pages, writing prompts and activities that will enhance the reading experience of this book.  This beautiful story tells an important message in simple language.  Great book as a read aloud to teach citizenship and kindness. 

Perfect for a first day of school activity. The main idea is that we are all unique and have talents and each of us can change the world to be a better place. These pages may also be assigned for distance learning or school-at-home.



Listening Activity, MrsQuimbyReads
Listen, Draw and Follow Directions
Start your year out with attention and improvement of listening skills.  Students love to draw and they will learn to listen more closely when you use these "listen and do" pages.  You will receive 20 listen and do pages AND 20 teacher direction pages.  This is a tried and true listening activity.  Teacher reads the set of directions and the goal is to only speak the direction one time.  Children love these pages and will improve listening skills after doing only one page.  

3 important skills to teach using this resource:

  • listening
  • drawing
  • following directions




paragraph of the week, learning to write
Paragraph of the Week- Learning to Write

Paragraph of the Week provides a step-by-step  approach to writing a good paragraph. This would be suitable for second graders who are learning to write a topic paragraph, adding details and writing a closing sentence that sums it up. Space for illustration to add more understanding of the topic for their readers. Paragraph of the week can easily be used as an independent work packet and school-at-home assignments.







Back-to-School Writing Prompts



Engage your students in authentic writing experiences as you introduce them to a new school year. Making friends, reviewing routines and rules and setting goals for a good year. It's all here! These pages will also give you some beginning feedback on literacy skills, citizenship and student behavior. Also included are topics and guidelines for opinion writing. Perfect for first days of school activity.









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