Remember Cootie Catchers? Or did you call them Fortune Tellers? When I was in 5th grade, these carefully folded papers were all the rage with me and my friends. Since I became a teacher, I have used Cootie Catchers in all subject areas. Want to create your own Cootie Catchers? Read on, and you can also pick up a freebie!
In my classrooms, I adapt Cootie Catchers to different subject areas. From reviewing Science concepts to reviewing math facts, this is a quick and easy tactile tool with very little prep involved. We use them to review prefixes and suffixes, and to discuss fiction and non-fiction texts with parents. I created a set of 35 themed blank templates so I always have a quick and easy activity when needed. Click on the picture below to view these in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: www.ShopMrsSykes.com.
Want to try it out? Here's a FREE set of 4 themed Cootie Catchers for personal and/or classroom use, waiting for you to add the content your students need. For an added challenge, have students come up with the content to include. For example: Create a Cootie Catcher that asks about the character actions in The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics). {Amazon affiliate link, in case you need an engaging read for your kiddos! Thanks!}
Create Your Own Cootie Catcher Freebie
Don't remember how to Cootie Catchers? If not, here's the video from YouTube from the QR Code included.
Do you want to create your own Cootie Catchers for Commercial use? Click the picture below to download a free .png file you can insert into your creations for commercial use. Attribution is appreciated but not required, if you use my template in your creations. Feel free to send me a picture of how you use them, too!
The ultimate goal of literacy is to help students become life-long readers, so they can be educated citizens. The child's first and most influential teacher is their parent and/or guardian. With that in mind, it is crucial to give families the tools they need to help this child, as well as other children in the household. {Here's a link to an article from The Atlantic: How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students } I love to invite families to school for Literacy Night. I've helped organize, prepare, and lead Literacy Nights at least 8 times over the course of my teaching career, and I plan to continue this for years to come. Here are my tips for an easy and successful Literacy Night in Upper Elementary classrooms. Make and Take for Literacy Night, grades 3-5 At a recent Literacy Night at my school, the parents met in the gym to see a quick presentation about state testing. The students went to the media center to watch a video, learn how to do the Make and
When you have students who are in upper elementary classrooms reading several years below grade level, your phonics instruction needs to be systematic and focused. Today we will look at several students* reading far below grade level, and we will walk through how to address their needs. * All student names have been changed, in case you were curious.
Tomorrow, July 4th is my one year bloggiversary, one year since my first post. ( printables from Fountas and Pinnell - still an incredibly popular post!) A year, already?!? O-mi-gosh! I started this blog hoping that it would help me have an online place to organize resources. Over the past year, this little blog has benefited me tremendously, in ways I did not anticipate: My hubby loves that I have a place to rant pleasantly discuss the ins and outs of classroom teaching; I've made so many new bloggy buddies {I'm hoping to meet more of you in person at meet-ups!}; I've become more technologically savvy capable of following the directions I continually Google about how to disable/enable different blog features; I took the plunge and opened my online stores, helping bring a bit of needed income into our home; I feel like I'm contributing to the self-paced professional development of others, by sharing some of my Literacy resources. {This is what I miss mos
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