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An organized and well-designed balanced literacy center can show student growth over the entire year. My favorite center that grows with my kinders is our detective center. Get your kinders on mission being letter and word detectives!
 
This pack features:
  • a poster explaining what goals and choices are available (what to do)
  • a literacy center icon - 6 bin/materials picture icon labels
  • 37 page detective notebook (Students grow from simply copying words, to reading them and noticing chunks, bits and utilizing their reading strategies!)
  • 35 focus cards (featuring A-Z, digraphs and beginning reader common phonics patterns)
  • tips for adding phonics phones, cameras and silly glasses to make your detectives feel "official" 
When you put it together what do you get? Focused, exploration of environmental print or in other words, l-e-a-r-n-i-n-g!
 
Product Length: 45 pages
 
 
Helps Meet Common Core English/Language Arts Standards:
  • K.RF.1.c-1. Isolate words within printed text. Example: Isolate words using index cards or by circling words.
  • K.RF.1.c-2. Point to individual words using one-to-one correspondence.
  • K.RF.1.c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
  • K.RF.1.d-1. Identify orally at least 50 percent of uppercase letters in random order.
  • K.RF.1.d-2. Identify orally at least 50 percent of lowercase letters in random order.
  • K.RL.4.e-2. Break words into sounds to read unknown words.
  • K.RL.4.e-3. Chunk unknown words into parts to read unknown words.
  • K.RL.5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
  • K.L.1.a-1. Print at least 50% of uppercase letters.
  • K.L.1.a-2. Print at least 50% of lowercase letters.
  • K.L.1.a-3. Print all uppercase letters.
  • K.L.1.a-4. Print all lowercase letters.
  • K.L.1.f-2. Write by moving left to right and from top to bottom.
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This Quarter 1 Complete Common Core Assessment Packet is the handy assessment tool you need when assessing kindergarteners. Most testing in kindergarten is done one on one and this packet helps you be consistent, have a place for documentation and keeps it all organized in one place.

With kinder-friendly directions, included workspaces and a "learning along the way" theme this packet is also teacher friendly.

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*Print Clearly is a parent friendly free font you can download to go along with the parent letter. (Optional) {Click here to download}

Purchase the Complete Common Core Assessment Bundle and get this packet as well as Quarters 2 and 3 and save! (Quarter 4 is coming fall 2011)

If you love this product, and your school or district purchase the multiple-license versions, we'll refund your purchase but let you keep your product FREE as a thank you for your reference. Email kindertrio@gmail.com for details. This product is a single-license item for use in one classroom. We currently offer this product also as a 6-license and 50-license item. See KinderTrio's shop for more details.

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This Quarter 1 Complete Common Core Assessment Packet is the handy assessment tool you need when assessing kindergarteners. Most testing in kindergarten is done one on one and this packet helps you be consistent, have a place for documentation and keeps it all organized in one place.

With kinder-friendly directions, included workspaces and a "learning along the way" theme this packet is also teacher friendly.

Included:

*Print Clearly is a parent friendly free font you can download to go along with the parent letter. (Optional) {Click here to download}

Purchase the Complete Common Core Assessment Bundle and get this packet as well as Quarters 2 and 3 and save! (Quarter 4 is coming fall 2011)

If you love this product, and your school or district purchase the multiple-license versions, we'll refund your purchase but let you keep your product FREE as a thank you for your reference. Email kindertrio@gmail.com for details. This product is a single-license item for use in one classroom. We currently offer this product also as a 6-license and 50-license item. See KinderTrio's shop for more details.

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Keep yourself organized using these guided reading forms.

Designed for working with beginning readers, these forms will help you keep it all in one place and easily accessible everyday.

  • Use a simple Individual Reading Log to keep track of what books each individual student has read, the levels of progression and their running record score when applicable.
  • Running Record Sheets come in two different styles (two column and three column).

Save time with these running records and tips on how to organize a fully functional guided reading binder! 

Product Length: 6 Pages

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This Complete Common Core Assessment Bundle (Quarterly Packets 1-3) is the handy assessment tool you need when assessing kindergarteners. Most testing in kindergarten is done one on one and this packet helps you be consistent, have a place for documentation and keeps it all organized in one place.

With kinder-friendly directions, included workspaces and all three themed quarterly packets, this bundle is also teacher friendly.

Included:

*Print Clearly is a parent friendly free font you can download to go along with the parent letter. (Optional) {Click here to download}

(Quarter 4 is coming fall 2011)

If you love this product, and your school or district purchase the multiple-license versions, we'll refund your purchase but let you keep your product FREE as a thank you for your reference. Email kindertrio@gmail.com for details. This product is a single-license item for use in one classroom. We currently offer this product also as a 6-license and 50-license item. See KinderTrio's shop for more details.

Find out who KinderTrio is! {Click here}


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