Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - 10/5/2022

 

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Halloween Multiplication Facts 1's to 12's BUNDLE | Jokes | Digital Print - $4.90

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

2nd - 4th grades
Worksheets, Printables, Centers

Are you looking for an easy-to-use resource to help your students practice multiplication facts 1's to 12's? This BUNDLE of worksheets has fun Halloween jokes to work on this skill! Maybe you need both printable and digital options to reach all your students. These 12 different worksheets are perfect for practicing these math skills. The same 12 different worksheets are also digital! There are answer keys for easy grading. With this purchase you will have access to both a printable and digital version.

Math Halloween Fraction Riddles Putting Fractions in Lowest Terms, Equivalency - $3.00

by Scipi

3rd - 5th grades

Activities

This math resource contains eight Halloween fraction riddles which provide students practice in identifying fractional parts in lowest terms as well as recognizing equivalent fractions. Specific words are provided, and the students are to figure out the correct fractional part of each particular word. If the correct fractional part is identified, when the students write the fractional parts on the lines provided, a new word is formed.  Each group of new words becomes a Halloween riddle.   

Halloween Bingo for ESL/ENL - $4.00

by Urbino12

PreK - 8th grades
Activities, Games, Lessons

A Halloween themed bingo game your students will be delighted to play! Includes: cover sheet, directions for playing three different ways (differentiated instruction) teacher script with 16 clues in English and examples for younger and/or lower functioning students, blank bingo sheet with free space, black and white pictures labeled with vocab word, colored pictures labeled with vocab word, Trick or Treat! display for your classroom, 

Happy Halloween! display for your classroom and a set of 75 bat themed markers to play the game.

Halloween Ghosts CVC Words Rhyming Pictures BOOM Cards™ - $3.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

K-1st grades

                                                                             Centers

In this Halloween themed digital task cards phonics deck your little learners select the picture on the tombstones that rhymes with the picture on the ghost. This paperless literacy resource has kid friendly Halloween graphics. Boom Cards™ are exciting, interactive, and fun! They are great for learning stations, technology specials classes, extra practice, RTI, and assessment.

3-Digit Addition Task Cards Halloween - $2.50

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

2nd - 3rd grades 
Activities, Games, Task Cards

This resource contains 24 - 3-digit addition task cards with a Halloween theme. Place these task cards in your centers or display them around your room for your students to solve on the included recording sheet. The 3-digit addition task cards include problems with and without regrouping. This resource would be a great way check for understanding while providing your students with a fun activity around Halloween. 

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - 11/17/2021

                                

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or simply by leaving a comment on this blog post.

Thanksgiving Kindergarten Sight Word Game - $2.50

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno
PreK - K
Vocabulary, Thanksgiving, Phonics

Gobble, gobble, gobble! Your students will enjoy learning their sight words with this cute, colorful, engaging, Kindergarten sight word game. This no prep sight word game would be a great addition to your Language Arts centers/stations for your students to continually practice their sight words while having fun "gobbling."

Turkey in the Straw CVC Words Rhyming Pictures BOOM Cards™ - $3.00

by Kamp Kindergarten
K - 1st grades
Thanksgiving, Autumn, Phonics

Your little turkeys will love this engaging rhyming pictures phonics deck. Learners select the correct picture on the haystacks for the picture on the turkey’s haystack. This deck is great for learning stations, technology specials classes, extra practice, RTI, and assessment. This paperless literacy resource works well for Thanksgiving, turkey, autumn/fall, or farm themes, but may also be used anytime during the year. 

Spanish: El Día de Acción de Gracias BINGO - $4.00

by Urbino12
9th - 12th grades
Foreign Language, Spanish, Thanksgiving

A Spanish Thanksgiving themed bingo game (El Día de Acción de Gracias ) your students will be delighted to play! Vocabulary words included in this game are:

el pavo, los peregrinos, los nativos americanos, el navio, la mesa, la salsa, el plato, el vaso, el tenedor, el cuchillo, la cuchara, el maíz, el puré de patata, los guisantes, las zanahorias, la salsa de arándanos rojos, pan, manzanas, pastel, pastel de calabaza, rebanada, agua, cuerno y jamón.

Confusing Word Sets Crossword Puzzle  - $1.49

by Reading Spotlight

7th - 11th grades

Vocabulary, EFL - ESL - ELD, Writing

Unique, helpful, and motivating, this crossword puzzle provides extra practice in words that are often misconstrued, like affect—effect. 21 sets of these troublesome words improve students’ word choice and writing in an enjoyable way.

Sight Word Practice - Play a Tic Tac Toe Sight Words Game - $3.00

By Primarily Learning

K - 2nd grades

 English Language Arts, Reading, EFL - ESL - ELD

Sight Word Practice can be fun!  Would you like to find a new game for reviewing tricky words? Try Tic-Tac-Toe Sight Words! Practice 72 sight words with irregular spellings that need to be taught with a ‘look and say’ approach. Have fun! 

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Boosting Reading Fluency with Easter Rhythm and Rhyme!

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Easter is a great time to shake off those winter blahs and breathe new life into reading with kids, especially those who have fallen into the monotony, robotic reading trap! Here are five fun ways to use rhythm and rhyme to liven things up! 

1. Go back to familiar reading and do a Phrasing and Fluency Blitz! When I taught Reading Recovery, there were times that a student would plateau at a a level for more than a week. We would be advised to take two or three lessons for a phrasing and fluency blitz - rereading some familiar, easier books to rebuild confidence, model and practice phrasing and pick up the pace.  Sometimes, decreasing the reading level was in order. Many of our students' favorites were readers that rhymed, had a lively rhythm and made us both laugh! While some children naturally read words like he said, said the girl, here it is,  look at the, can see the, went to the, in phrases; and read quickly enough and with proper intonation and expression to understand (and demonstrate understanding of) what they are reading, many need a lot of encouragement, modeling and direction instruction to read fluently, with phrasing and expression. 

2. Use poetry, music and movement! Consider the Hokey-Pokey song. The last five words / two phrases: that's what / it's all about - everyone comes together in unison at that point in the song. I would argue that it's because it simply makes sense, and it sounds right! Some phrases just work. So why waste it? Years ago I used  The Bunny Hop Easter Song and Movement Activity in Kindergarten poetry books as a music and movement activity. It works particularly well if modeled and echoed first before showing earliest readers the text:

This freebie also has a black and white version included with it - ideal for poetry folders!

Bunny ear construction is off the charts in the craft center when this song is in season - be ye warned! Everyone wants to be the bossy bunny who gets to say, "Stop!"

3. Seize teachable moments to model and emphasize the natural rhythm of language

As I was saying - certain phrases just belong together.  To add to the list from #1, all about the seems to be another such phrase, these days anyway. When Meghan Trainor was singing I'm All About the Bass every time I turned on the radio in 2014,  there was no getting it out of my head.

This Fun, Fluency Reader version practically wrote itself as I drove in to school listening to Trainor's voice, over and over again... My students knew the tune instantly. I modeled the first read to them, and we practiced a few phrases in isolation before we all enjoyed singing it fluently from beginning to end (over, and over and over again.)

 

There is a twist on a familiar Fairy Tale in this book that the kids find hilarious (but humor and laughter are topics for other days...).

Limitation of liability: It's all about the Eggs is not recommended for those who are prone to getting songs stuck in their head or with one last nerve.

4. Get silly. Get rhyming books!

Here are just a few Easter-themed picture books that rhyme. I'm on the hunt for more!

5. Encourage oral language beyond one word.

Encourage kids to speak in sentences and phrases by:

•  asking open-ended questions yourself that can not be easily answered with only one word
•  restating what they said in an expanded, phrased sentence with appropriate intonation (with the understanding that you're ensuring you heard them correctly)

Example:
When hunting for an Easter Egg, asking 'Where is the blue Easter egg?' may elicit a pointed finger and reply of 'there' from a student.

The adult can follow with "Oh, yes, it's under the chair'. (Consider the fun and expanded conversation that follows if the adult's answer is incorrect!)

What are some of your favorite phrasing and fluency boosters?

Happy Easter everyone!

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