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More Teaching Common Core Standards With Kiddy Lit V

Getting To The Core, With Clothing, Specifically--What She Wore!

activities for Mary wore a red dress, lessons for mary wore a red dress, daily 5 activities for the first week of school daily 5 activities for september, writing prompts for september, writing prompts for the first week of school, writing prompts for back to school, writing class books, class book ideas, class book writing prompts, common core lessons for first grade, common core lessons for kindergarten, common core activiries for first, common core activities for kindergarten, rhyming word lessons, color lessons, color activities,color booklets, rhyming word activities, Mary Wore A Red Dress is another of my favorite back to school books.

It’s a great book for introducing color words to students.

In my “Red Dress Packet” I’ve included 11 color-picture cards to go with the book.  You can pass them out to your students to use as manipulatives when you read the story.

Print and laminate them.  Attach a magnet or piece of Velcro to the back and have students sequence them on your white board or a flannel board to enhance story time.

After the reading, pass out the pieces again and have students retell the story using the manipulatives.  See if they can get them in the proper order.

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One reinforces their name and what they wore to school having them incorporate a describing color word.  “My name is _______________. I wore ______________________ to school.”

The first page begins with the teacher: “I'm the teacher, _____________. I wore _______________ to school."

The other is a take off of Martin’s Brown Bear and asks: “________________ what do you see?” What makes this class book so special is that the teacher glues the students’ first day photograph on the pages and students use describing words to write the sentence.

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You could also take pictures of the principal, secretary, lunch staff, librarian, playground assistants and anyone else you think students need to be familiar with, and include those in the book, so you can use it as a handy reference tool as well, helping your students become familiar with names as well as faces.

This 38-page packet of fun activities that reinforce color recognition, reading, writing and math skills also includes:

  • 10 color-word wall word flashcards with 10 matching color cards +
  • Covers to make an Itty Bitty Color-Word Book
  • 5 Graphing extensions
  • 8 skill sheets including "Rhyme Time" with words that rhyme with dress, shirt, pants and hat.
  • "We CAN Tie Our Shoes!" Poster-Roster
  • A connect the dots tennis shoe and
  • 4 Certificates of Praise for shoe tying

Class book pages are great for your Daily 5 activities, or September writing prompts! activities for Mary wore a red dress, lessons for mary wore a red dress, daily 5 activities for the first week of school daily 5 activities for september, writing prompts for september, writing prompts for the first week of school, writing prompts for back to school, writing class books, class book ideas, class book writing prompts, common core lessons for first grade, common core lessons for kindergarten, common core activiries for first, common core activities for kindergarten, rhyming word lessons, color lessons, color activities,color booklets, rhyming word activities, activities for Mary wore a red dress, lessons for mary wore a red dress, daily 5 activities for the first week of school daily 5 activities for september, writing prompts for september, writing prompts for the first week of school, writing prompts for back to school, writing class books, class book ideas, class book writing prompts, common core lessons for first grade, common core lessons for kindergarten, common core activiries for first, common core activities for kindergarten, rhyming word lessons, color lessons, color activities,color booklets, rhyming word activities,

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Making Class Books

December Writing Prompts That Make A Fun Class Book!

class books, writing class books, December writing prompts, writing prompts, winter writing prompts, gingerbread writing prompts, mitten writing prompts, activities for The Mitten, mitten activities, activities for The Gingerbread Man, gingerbread activities, Even your most reluctant writers will enjoy contributing a page to a class made book.  I try to make one each week, sometimes more depending on the themes I’m doing.

Students TRACE the sentence and fill in the blank.  So that they don’t have a problem with spelling and I can manage this activity with an entire class without a lot of repetitive questions, I gather everyone in front of the white board.

Read the prompt and then ask your students to give you as many examples as they can think of.

writing prompts, December writing prompts, activities for The Mitten, mitten activities, activities for The gingerbread man, gingerbread activities, class books, writing class books, I tell my Y5’s to put on their thinking caps and we make motions and sounds to do that.

As they raise their hands and give me suggestions, I write them on the board.

They choose an idea from the list and then take their seats and get down to business.

I always do a sample, complete with an illustration, so that they have a model to refer to, that is posted on the board.

When everyone is done with their page, we do the graphing extension(s).  I laminate their contributions + the graph(s) and put them into a book, and then read it to the class.

Afterwards, it goes into our “Class Made Books” basket.  This is one of my students’ favorite items to read during quiet time.

activities to go with The Mitten, Mitten activities, writing prompts for December, writing class books, gingerbread activities, mitten writing prompts, gingerbread writing prompts, activities to go with The Gingerbread Man story, Some of the books we make I develop as a nice follow up for a popular story that we’ve just read.

These stories usually follow a theme such as Jan Brett’s The Mitten or the classic winter fairy tale The Gingerbread Man.

For the gingerbread story, I pass out Keebler gingerbread cookies and tell my students to take just one bite.  I ask for a show of hands to see who bit off what and then they write and illustrate their page.  I also graph the results.

December writing prompts, gingerbread writing prompts, mitten writing prompts, activities to go with The Mitten, mitten activities, activities to go with the story The Gingerbread Man, writing class books, class books, writing prompts, Click on the link to view/print Our Mitten class book.

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As always, if you have an idea you’d like to share, I’d enjoy hearing from you.  I’m currently looking for topics and books that teachers want me to make class books and writing prompts for. diane@teachwithme.com

Happy Winter Writing!

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