John Talavera
Autism iHelp – Sorting
Here is an app that will help kids sort objects! Sorting is an action that promotes cognitive flexibility and executive function. It is a key skill used in categorizing scientific data, making generalizations, and is foundational in...
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Billy Brown and the Belly Button Beastie
How would you feel if you lost your belly button? Read about Billy Brown in Billy Brown and the Belly Button Beastie by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk. Young learners retell the story, answer questions, focus on the letter B and parts of the...
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Sorting
Students understand that sorting helps find things at a later date. For this sorting lesson, students use a website game and sort the common items. Students sort folders and other classroom items. Students discuss how sorting helped them...
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Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie
Students read the book Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie and complete a variety of activities related to the book. In this reading lesson plan, students complete activities including discovering body parts, bubbles, retelling,...
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The Button Box
Students classify buttons. In this classification lesson, students listen to the book The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid before observing, describing and classifying real buttons.
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Button Puzzle
For this vocabulary words worksheet, students use their vocabulary words one time each and sort them so that they share categories of adjacent words. Students complete 1 activity.
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Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish Lesson Plan
Students explore the concept of copying one another. In this early childhood lesson plan, students discuss what a copycat is and why people copy one another. Students then discuss the story Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish, recording...
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Another Backpack Idea- The Button Bag
Students receive activity bags to bring home and share with their families. They are excited to have "homework" and they accomplish several skills by completing the activities within the bags. This is great for special needs students.
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Math and Literature
Students listen to the reading of "The Button Box" and use buttons provided to tell a story about a chosen button, compare their own buttons to those in the reading. They estimate how many buttons are in a bag and sort buttons based on...
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What's in the Pocket?
In this math worksheet, students cut and fold 2 pockets, one labeled "circle" and one labeled "square." Students cut out 12 small pictures of square or circular objects and sort them into the correct pocket.
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Frog and Toad
Second graders use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast buttons after listening to the story, A Lost Button.
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Button Sort - Cross Reference #607, Literature (Elementary, Mathematics)
Students write free flowing thoughts and feelings in their journals. They practice observation skills. They write using adjectives to describe an object. They choose a special button from among many unusual buttons.
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Easter/Spring Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble each word in an attempt to find the right spelling for the theme of Spring. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Simple Searches
In this space worksheet, students load a copy of ViewPoint and open the Solar System datafile. There they look through database sheets, using the Preview Sheet and Next Sheet buttons and respond to 8 questions. Then students do some...
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For The Record
Students create a database that catalogs their music collection of CD's and tapes. They sort, analyze and print selected database records in answer to questions about their favorite music recordings and performing artists. Each student...
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students sort the letters to determine the correct spelling of the words. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Dakota-Ojibway
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the letters to create the correct words for the 24 words. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Scramble
In this literacy instructional activity, students practice unscrambling the letters for the new words that written in capital letters. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Hairy Bear Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, learners unscramble the words in order to find the correct spelling and rewrite them in the spaces provided. The answers are found by clicking the button found at the bottom of the page.
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ESL: Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
In this ESL verb tense activity, students type the correct form of a given verb in boxes to correctly complete a paragraph. Students may click on button for help and immediate feedback.
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Which Word is Different?
For this interactive classification worksheet, students view names of objects and select the appropriate classification title for the set of objects. There are 10 multiple choice questions.
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The Cream Cake Mystery Print Off
In this rhyming words worksheet, learners cut out the pictures and color them. Students then sort the words into groups according to their rhyming pattern.
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Words by Heart: Question Answer Relationship
Even though readers investigate matters of the heart, this activity promotes the inner workings of learners' brains. The fifth lesson of six has the teacher first model the strategy to the class before having small groups practice. To...
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Relative Pronouns--Omission
In this grammar worksheet, students choose whether to omit or keep the relative pronoun in ten sentences. Students check their answers when completed.