Using Authors Purpose Matching Activity, studentsmatch the text to the Author's Purpose activity card to explain why the author wrote the book.

Using this Name that Shape Sorting Activity, students sort pictures of 2D shapes into the category that best describes which shape is shown.

Using Author's Purpose Sorting Activity, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Using this Find the Groups Grouping Activity, students place picture objects in the most appropriate category based on where it fits best.

Using Same or Different Activity, students usethe picture cards to practice visually discriminating things that are the same and/or different.

Using this Muffin Tops Antonyms Activity, students match the cards to make antonym pairs of opposite meanings.

Using this Size Activity, students play Categories to practice identifying the sizes tall, short, big and small.

Using We Go Together Activity, students play a picture card match game to pair items that are related.

UsingRainforest Vocabulary Matching Activity, students match pictures to words to build their rainforest vocabulary.

Using this Author's Purpose Activity, students read and sort story idea cards to determine the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade.

Using Cool Cat Sentences Activity, students sort and organize the different types of sentences (Telling Sentence, Asking Sentence, Exciting Sentence).

Using Crayon Number Matching Activity, studentscount objects up to 12 in a set in order to build their counting fluency.

Using this Short Vowel U Word Sort Activity, students sort each Short U Word under the matching word family heading with the short /u/ sound.

Using Syllable Sort Activity, students practice reading words and identifying the number of syllables.

Using this Vowel Letter O Activity, students match the short and long vowel O sound cards with the matching vowel crab cards.

Using this Vowel Letter U Activity, students match the short and long vowel U sound cards with the matching vowel crab cards.

Using this Battle Shape Battleship Activity, students classify two-dimensional figures by their properties by playing a game of Battle Shape (a geometrical rendition of Battleship).

Using this Matching Shapes Activity, students recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes.

Using this Counting and Sorting Pictures Activity, students match the pictures to their correct categories to find similarities between items in a group.

Using Rainforest Patterns Activity, students complete the animal patterns with animal cards to build their sequencing skills.