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Kindergarten Listening Skills Teaching Materials (4 products)

teaching book - listening skillsListening Skills for Young Children

Grade Level: Preschool - Grade 1
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003264
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Help children develop their listening skills and prepare for formal learning. Activities teach children to focus, interpret, recall, organize, and carry out multiple tasks in order.

These listening activities begin with simple, single directions and progressively include more complex, multiple directions.

Also included are teacher-directed physical activities in which children are instructed to move in single or multiple ways. These practices, along with the rhythm clapping suggestions, lend themselves well to getting everyone's attention and bringing a group together.


Pages: 144


listening and following directions teaching resourceListen, Look, and Do!

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $11.99
Product #: 3804018
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Great activities for learning to follow directions!

Over 120 activities to strengthen visual and auditory discrimination and memory skills!

Listening, following directions, and the ability to remember what we have seen or heard are essential skills for "learning how to learn" and for successful everyday living.

Research has shown that visual and auditory discrimination and memory skills should be taught and that practice is required to improve these skills. The engaging activities found in this teaching resource book will provide young and special learners with meaningful skill practice.

A wide variety of activities are included:

  • Listening Games
  • Following Directions
  • Stories and Rhymes
  • Puzzles
  • Pictures to Color
  • Cut-and-Paste Activities
  • Sequencing Activities
  • Same and Different Concepts
  • Hidden Pictures
  • What's Wrong Pictures
  • Large Group Activities

The activities and ideas in this teacher resource will help children become better learners!

96 pages


Listening Skills Lotto Teaching Supplies / Classroom Game

NEW! Listening Lotto: Alphabet Names and Sounds

Grade Level: Preschool and up
Price: $15.99
Product #: 3846033

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Learn to identify alphabet letters and beginning letter sounds and improve listening skills while having the fun of playing lotto!

2 ways to play! Identify letter names or beginning sounds.

12 game boards, 180 game tokens, 1 audio CD

Match letter names to letters or match words with beginning letter sounds to letters. To play, students listen to the CD and place tokens on the letters on their game cards that match what they hear. Includes (12) 5.5” x 8.5” game cards with 12 letters per card; 180 game tokens; an audio CD; and directions in English. Supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

No reading required, 1 to 12 players


Listening Skills Lotto Classroom Game and Educational Materials

NEW! Listening Lotto: Colors and Shapes

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 3846029

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Learn to identify 14 colors, eight 2-dimensional shapes, six 3-dimensional shapes, and improve listening skills while having the fun of playing lotto!

2 games! Play Colors Lotto or Shapes Lotto!

12 photographic game boards, 120 game tokens, 1 audio CD

Match color names to colors or match shape names to shapes. To play, students listen to the CD and place tokens on bears found on their game cards that match what they hear. Includes (12) 5.5” x 8.5” game cards with 8 photos per card; 120 game tokens; an audio CD; and directions in English. Supports NCTM standards.

No reading required, 1 to 12 players


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Kindergarten Writing Skills (6 products)

traditional printing teaching  materialTraditional Printing

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $4.99
Product #: 1003330
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This resource helps children learn to correctly form the uppercase and lowercase form of each letter. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed.

Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead.

The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.

  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing the correct form of each uppercase and lowercase letter.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in pencil grip and paper position.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing from left-to-right and top-to-bottom on the page.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing words legibly in modern printing, using correct letter formation, appropriate size, and spacing.

Pages: 48


modern printing teaching materialsModern Printing

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $4.99
Product #: 1003329
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This resource helps children learn to correctly form the uppercase and lowercase form of each letter. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed.

Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead.

The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.

  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing the correct form of each uppercase and lowercase letter.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in pencil grip and paper position.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing from left-to-right and top-to-bottom on the page.
  • The student will demonstrate competence in writing words legibly in modern printing, using correct letter formation, appropriate size, and spacing.

Pages: 48


reading and writing skills activitiesFull-Color Literacy Activities: Reading and Writing

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003237
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This book has ready-to-use pieces needed to implement great reading and writing activities! From story starters to reading a menu, students are sure to learn while having a lot of fun. Includes easy, step-by-step directions.

This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful, and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program.

This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on reading and writing. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs.

Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, substitute teachers, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book. Since many of the activities are generic, they can be adapted to meet a variety of individual needs.

This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students.

Pages: 176


Beginning Writing Teacher Resource BookBeginning Writing

Grade Level: Kindergarten, First - Second Grade
Price: $10.99
Product #: 1003223
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Give emergent writers the practice they need as they progress from the scribbling stage to writing paragraphs. This book features a variety of activities for the different phases of writing, as well as writing samples from actual emergent writers.

This teaching resource book includes a variety of activities including:

  • Journal Writing
  • Class Newsletters
  • Brainstorming Ideas
  • Personal Narratives
  • Using Descriptive Language
  • Word Walls
  • Autobiographical Writing
  • Publishing
  • Writing Letters
  • Punctuation

The activities target standards in these areas:

  • The writing process
  • Conventions in writing
  • Writing using graphic methods to describe
  • High frequency vocabulary
  • Complete sentences

Pages: 80


Journal Prompts Kindergarten First Grade Teaching Resource BookDaily Journal Prompts

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2061114
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  • Two prompts for every day of the year
  • Build beginning writing skills every day.
  • Motivate students to write with high-interest topics.
  • Assess students' writing skills all year long!

With fun and engaging writing prompts like these, your students will jump at the chance to write! This teacher resource book includes two prompts per day that touch on holidays and seasons, favorite memories, sports and hobbies, animals and nature, or other kid-captivating topics.

Daily writing is an important part of any successful writing program, but keeping a constant supply of fresh and fun journal prompts for your students can be a challenge. With this teacher resource book you'll never need to search for a great journal prompt again! Students will improve their writing skills as they write lists and directions, create imaginative stories, complete sentence starters, share opinions, pen poems, compare and contrast, and much more.

Inside this handy resource book you'll find the following:

  • 732 holiday, seasonal, and high-interest prompts-two for every day of the year!
  • a reproducible journal cover for each month
  • a reproducible student writing sheet for each month
  • a reproducible rebus word bank for each month

This teaching resource makes it easier than ever to make writing a part of your daily plans and to assess your students' writing progress.

Pages: 112


Journal Writing Teaching Resource BookJazzing Up Journals

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $14.99
Product #: 4002215
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Guided Journaling for Beginning Readers and Writers

This teacher resource gives you dozens of ideas for captivating children's interest in writing and suggestions for developing their writing skills.

Journal writing is effective for children at all levels of literacy development because they are encouraged to write about their own experiences. This teacher resource book helps you incorporate the benefits of journal writing into every aspect of your curriculum.

You will find simple directions for making a dozen unique cross-curricular journals; practical ideas for managing journal writing time; and tips for conferencing, publishing, and keeping children motivated to do their best work.

The varied ideas in this teaching resource will help you develop and maintain a classroom routine that emphasizes how much fun it is to write.

Includes:

  • A mini lesson for each type of journal
  • Reproducible covers and writing pages
  • Ideas to motivate young writers
  • Tips for conferencing with children about their writing

112 pages


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