Monica Creates
MonicaCreates came to life from a need to keep my creative juices flowing and my positive disposition of sharing and collaborating. No one has all the answers. Let's spread our personal knowledge base in an effort to lighten someone else's load so they can be more productive in their chosen arena.
My arena includes: Creating Teaching Resources and Taking Photos
My goal in creating resources is to actively involve students in their learning
Resources include:
-Animated PPT lesson plans and hands-on activities with a focus on ELA at the elementary level.
-Sorts
-Teaching Strategies (most cross-curricular) These are some of my personal favorites as they are student centered, great for ESL/ELL, as well as for all levels and abilities and work for all content areas.
-Mentor Texts (currently only 2 resources. I’d love to make more so please make requests)/
-Resources to assist you, the teacher
-Photos (I’ve got lots of real photos that could be utilized with the above strategies, or other creations. Animals, Natural Parks, Clouds/Sky, Flowers, Bees/Pollination, Historical Places.
I’d be honored if you find resources within my arena that will help you work smarter and will less effort within your own space.
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Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing: Cross-Curricular: Teacher Task Cards
$4.75Prior knowledge helps students focus on not only what is known, but also what is not known as well as what new there is to learn. Teaching strategies to utilize summarizing is extremely important as...$4.75 -
FREEBIE - Keep Them Learning All Summer - Parent Handout
$0.00Research concludes that children who do not read and/or continue learning throughout the summer, can lose up to three months, or 22%, of the progress they made during their school year. This loss is...$0.00 -
Word Sort - Fall Theme - Differentiated - Cut and Sort
$4.50By sorting different words by different elements, young children make sense of words and patterns within words. This is an educational, timely, fun activity that includes word cards, picture cards...$4.50 -
Sight Word Practice - 1st Grade- Task Cards - Write - Color - Say - Spell
$4.5075% of words in early books are sight words. Children need lots of practice in different modalities to master these words. This great Re-usable Resource for Teaching, Individual Work, Review, or...$4.50 -
Sight Word Practice - Kindergarten - Task Cards - Write - Color - Say - Spell
$4.7575% of words in early books are sight words. Children need lots of practice in different modalities to master these words. This great Re-usable Resource for Teaching, Individual Work, Review, or...$4.75 -
Sight Word Practice - Pre-K - Task Cards - Write - Color - Say - Spell
$4.5075% of words in early books are sight words. Children need lots of practice in different modalities to master these words. This great Re-usable Resource for Teaching, Individual Work, Review, or...$4.50 -
Parts of a Book - Activity - Be the Author and Illustrator - Build a Book
$5.75Children need to not only be able to read a book, but must know the parts of a book as well. Not all books have the all the same parts. Understanding this helps readers prepare themselves for what...$5.75 -
Parts of a Book Activity - Kinder - 1st Grade - Activity - Build a Book
$2.00Children need to not only be able to read a book, but must know the parts of a book as well. Not all books have the all the same parts. Understanding this helps readers prepare themselves for what...$2.00 -
Word Families - Rhyming Words - Yes/No Sort - Activity - Printable
$3.75Word Families and Rhyming offer a phonemic awareness component – a predictable pattern. This awareness can make reading easier for beginning readers as the ‘families’ (or chunks), share the same...$3.75 -
Word Families - Rhyming Words - Dominoes Game - Activity - Printable
$3.75Word Families and Rhyming offer a phonemic awareness component – a predictable pattern. This awareness can make reading easier for beginning readers as the ‘families’ (or chunks), share the same...$3.75 -
Concepts of Print - Early Literacy -Letters, Consonants,Vowels - Diff. Fonts
$5.25Building Early Literacy Skills begins with a thorough understanding of Concepts of Print. These skills may seem very basic, but are crucial for further success as a reader. Pre-school, Kindergarten,...$5.25 -
Prefix Activity - Winter Theme - Identify, Meaning, Spelling - Recording
$3.50Teaching prefixes an important part of building better readers. Learning prefixes, their meaning, and proper usage make for a more proficient reader and writer. Prefixes, suffixes, and roots are the...$3.50