Corduroy freebie

Have you missed me?  Back to school this year has seriously been a whirlwind this year.  You'd think after 20+ years it would get easier ..... WRONG!

So, although I've been working on a new learning pack it isn't ready - (yet).  Stay tuned.

However, I peeked at my blog stats and I know you've been visiting.  To thank you for your visit here's a little freebie to use with Corduroy Bear.  It can be used on it's own, with my Corduroy Booktivities or the other coordinating freebies found on this blog (just look for my LABELS on the right side of this blog and click on Corduroy).

 

click HERE to download

Students will color by word family code.  I've added an 'I can' student instruction card so just print and add it to your station.

As I said this would be a great companion to my Corduroy pack.  My favorite in the pack is a retelling rope.

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday and I'll be back soon with that new unit I mentioned :)

All new...

I feel like an author who just finished a trilogy.  I've been working away at completing 3 different insect themed literacy products and finally have the third one ready to list in my store.

It's an insect themed I Spy that focuses on word families.  To use this station students use a magnifying glass to find teeny tiny word family words hidden on four pages. Each page has two word families. The word families used are ack/ake, in/ine, at/ate, ell/ill. I have included blends and digraphs with the words. Students record the words on the recording page. An 'I can' student instruction card is included to keep students on task and just in case you want to save your ink I have added each page in black & white.

You can find it HERE at my TPT store and also in my I Spy Bundle.  If you already own the bundle you can download the addition for free.

This matches my Literacy Bundle and Mirror Words.  Would you like a chance to win all 3?  Enter below, but hurry, it's going to be a quick giveaway!  I'll be sleeping (hopefully!) when this ends so I'll choose 2 winners tomorrow after school :)

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Little Mouse Freebie!

I'm using my The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear unit later this month and needed another activity so I am posting it here as a freebie for you.

It's a color by word family activity and you can find it HERE for free.

I LOVE the book by Don and Audrey Wood.  You can read more about my unit HERE including a link to the book being read on YouTube.

Enjoy!

Word Family Easter Freebie

Hi all!  I've got my creative juices flowing again now that my report cards are DONE!!  That is such an amazing feeling (as you know!)  Now, to get through the rest of this never ending winter here in the east.

When getting all of my Easter literacy centers ready for next week I needed just one more activity so thought I would share it with you.  Click on the picture below or the link under to get your freebie!

To complete this activity students need to differentiate between word families  ack/ake, ick/ike and ock/oke. This is so hard to do for some of my students!  Each word family is colored a color from the 'code' to show understanding.  I have included "I can..." student instruction cards in both color and black & white.  You can download this for free HERE.

I used the same clip art that I used in my Easter Literacy Work Stations so they 'match' if you are using them.

If interested, you can read more about them HERE and my Easter Mirror Words HERE.

I hope that spring is starting to arrive where you are because it certainly isn't here!  Take a peek at the 'view' out my front door!

I Spy Word Family Words

Have you noticed that my posts are a little further apart now that I am back to school?  Like all of you, I am caught up in the September craziness!  Surely, it'll slow down soon.  Right? 

In the midst of the craziness I've been working on this new unit and I'm thrilled with the way it turned out!  We work on word families continually in first grade.  A challenge is always trying to come up with new ways to practice using them.  My I Spy activities are always such a hit with my students that I decided to create one that has students searching for teeny tiny words then sorting them into the correct word family.
Here's a peek:

To use this work activity I print one copy of each of the five I Spy pages (in color) and laminate.  Students useEach I Spy page has a matching recording sheet.

Each page has 20 hidden words from four word families.  The word families included are: ad, an, ap, at, ed, en, ell, et, ig, in, ip, it, ob, og, op, ot, ug, um, un, ut.

This activity has been posted individually at my TPT store but has also been added to my I Spy Bundle.  If you already own the bundle you can redownload for free to get the new activity.  This bundle has grown to include 14 I Spy word work activities including:

I Spy - 2 sounds of OO
I Spy - 2 sounds of Y
I Spy Alphabet
I Spy Bossy e
I Spy Loud Cows (ou and ow words)
I Spy Rhyming words
I Spy Sight Words
I Spy Silent Letters
I Spy Word Families

I Spy Christmas
I Spy Easter
I Spy Halloween
I Spy St. Patrick's Day
I Spy Valentine's Day

 

I'll send a copy of I Spy Word Families to the first 3 followers who leave a comment on this post.  Don't forget your email :)