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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Role of Teachers and Schools in Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is the role of teachers and schools in regards to communication with parents? Come and explore this informative article revealing how important open communication is for students.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Help Your Kids Do Great in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on how parents can be more involved in their child's education. Teachers will benefit from this informative article and can pass it along to parent's as a valuable resource.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Help Your Kids Do Great in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on how parents can be more involved in their child's education. Teachers will benefit from this informative article and can pass it along to parent's as a valuable resource.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Nhdhhs: A Resource Guide for New Hampshire Relative Caregivers [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As the title states, this document provides information for caregivers who are not a child's parents, which includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. While the government and social service agencies are specific to New Hampshire,...
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Generations United: Grand Successes: Stories of Lives Well Raised [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read personal stories of grandparents and the grandchildren who had positive upbringings with them. Includes stories about well-known people, e.g., actor Jamie Foxx, Olympic athlete Felix Sanchez, and Barack Obama. The stories are...
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Other

Libris Design: Lighting for Libraries [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Overall lighting concerns and issues are addressed in this .pdf document. Must-reading for those involved in building a new facility or redesigning an old one.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story. Students will locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme) in...
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Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Reader of the Rocks

For Teachers K - 1st
A nonfiction article where students read about Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, located at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The article provides an overview of Antarctic...
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Curated OER

Abc Toon Center

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great interactive site for kids with games and stories. Read along in a storybook, play in the game room, or play other games like a word search or jigsaw puzzle. A very good way to learn for children.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Counting Mat

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will practice counting and number identification with this activity which can be good for a math center. The teacher gives students the counting mat and many small objects to count with. Students will read the numbers and...
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Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Five by Two

For Teachers K - 1st
This card game reinforces number identification and sequencing and is conducive to small groups/centers. The students will need a deck of playing cards including some of the face cards. Instructions and variations for play are included.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Top Tips for Engaging Dads

For Teachers K - 1st
The U.K.'s National Literacy Trust offers ideas that schools and nonprofit organizations can implement to get fathers involved in their children's reading.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Number Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will practice number recognition by trying to identify three numbers in a row to win Tic Tac Toe. They will also trace the number on their grid to practicing writing numerals. This is a perfect independent game for pairs...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Find the Numbers 0 5 or 5 10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity helps students practice number identification and is conducive to small groups/centers. Materials needed can be made from index cards and blank wooden cubes. Variations are included to make this activity simpler or harder...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1.ri.4.10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This website offers various resources to meet the common core standard of reading informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Resources include center activities, lesson plans, and a professional development article.
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Center for Media Literacy: What Is "Critical" Viewing?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Understand the term "critical viewing" as it relates to visual literacy. Learn how to assess the media around you in order to become more knowledgeable and not easily manipulated by what you see.
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Center for Media Literacy: What Is "Critical" Viewing?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Understand the term "critical viewing" as it relates to visual literacy. Learn how to assess the media around you in order to become more knowledgeable and not easily manipulated by what you see.
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History is Fun

Jan Brett: Number Book Covers Pdf

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages for your number book cover. Each number book cover has a different design around the edge with a place in the center to write your name.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tracking and Predicting the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st
Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.
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History is Fun

Jan Brett: Matching Numbers and Amounts Flashcards for 1 20 Pdf

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages to practice matching the number with the correct amounts. Cut the cards into two parts. One side has the number while the other side has an illustration with an object that shows the...

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