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As a current full-time first grade teacher with over twenty years of experience, all of my resources are designed to save teachers time and increase student success. You’ll find differentiation, scaffolding, clean formatting, click & go tables of contents, projectables for teaching or practice, answer keys & more in most of my resources. From monthly printables to reading comprehension to phonics practice to writing units to math and even parent input, I’ve got you covered!

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SORT, FIX & WRITE

These scaffolded capitalization worksheets will be a great addition to your ELA curriculum! Mastering the art of capitalization is essential, so there are a variety of worksheet formats with easy-to-decode words and sentences to allow for both individual work and whole group practice with capitalization. These worksheets aim to reinforce the understanding of lowercase, uppercase and title case through active participation and critical thinking.

FIRST GRADE MATH

Help your students build a strong understanding of addition and subtraction concepts by starting with Part Part Whole relationships ( aka Number Bonds ). By having a solid foundation with part part whole concepts students will have the skills needed to move forward with more complex addition, subtraction and problem solving. These NO PREP Part Part Whole Worksheets will provide your students with lots of practice using number bonds to develop a solid understanding of these foundational math concepts.

phonics bundle

You’ll LOVE this Growing Bundle of ALL my Targeted Phonics resources. These resources cover focused practice on decoding and blending lessons of carefully curated words for each phonics rule. Targeted Phonics is aligned with the Science of Reading in that it promotes beginning readers to read through a word to the last letter to reduce first-letter guesses. There are four pages included per short vowel set, with targeted phonics practice on each page. There are five parts with four pages each for a total of 20 phonics practice pages per set

phonics bundle

These no prep Tally Marks practice pages provide extra practice reading and writing tally marks to build number sense, visually represent numbers, practice subitizing and collect and interpret data. These tally marks worksheets are scaffolded to increase in difficulty so you can differentiate or give tiered practice during whole group, small group or intervention. Everything you need to support your students growth with understanding and using tally marks is included. Supplements any curriculum and great for morning work, RTI intervention, center work, homework, independent practice or test prep.

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