In this unit you will find:

*Tips for teaching the strategy to students

*How to use Beanie Babies to support learning

*Reading strategies outline send home parent letter

*Chunky Monkey outline send home parent letter

*Desk plates for visual learners

*One Syllable Chunky Monkey Activity

*Multi-Syllable Chunk it Up Activity

*Chunky Monkey watches for students to wear

*Chunky Monkey classroom poster-2 versions

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• Shape Mats: Practice building shapes with dough
• Count and Move: Pick a card and count the pumpkins. Then complete the given gross motor skill that many times. Example: Jump 4 times, Touch your toes 7 times.
• Color Match: Pick a pumpkin and match it to your board
• Counting Acorns: Look at the number and count the counters in the ten-frame. Fill the ten frame with that number
• Emotions: Work on identifying emotions, making facial expressions to represent emotions, and discussing emotions
• Bat Mats: Work on fine motor skills by tracing a variety of lines
• Positional Pumpkins: Practice positional words with this pumpkin board
• Letter Sound Coloring: Identify common fall-themed images and the sound they make.
• Sunflower Letters: Practice uppercase letters with these traceable cards
• Bag of Letters: Practice lowercase letters with these clip cards

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• Teacher Resources: Materials that will help the teacher implement and carry out this unit. This includes a Tips for Teaching the Strategy sheet and a How to Use Beanie Babies sheet.
• Parent Resources: Materials to help families understand the strategy and support their child at home with it. This includes a Reading Strategies Outline sheet and a Tryin’ Lion outline sheet.
• Buddy Badges: A year-long incentive program that works with ALL Reading Strategy units by Mrs V’s Chickadees. As students are “caught” using a reading strategy independently, they receive a Buddy Badge for their chain. Children can collect Buddy Badges for all strategies all year long. This is a great way to encourage independence with decoding.
• Self-Checking Charts: After reading, children will color in all of the strategies they used on their chart. This is a great tool for reflecting on our reading and for teachers to use as data. Check for patterns and help students challenge themselves.
• Reading Conference Binder Cover: Stay organized by creating a binder for your reading conferences
• Anecdotal Note Taking Sheets: Taking notes during reading conferences is imperative for collecting useful data. Track decoding habits, comprehension habits, the use of reading strategies, and set goals. These notes will also make writing report cards and IEP reports a breeze.
• A Guide for Writing Reports: Use the data from your notes to write clear and knowledgable reports. Great for report cards, conferences and IEP’s. This guide gives you the exact language to use based on the data you have collected.
• Desk Plates: Adhere the desk plates to your reading table to act as a visual reminder for students.
• Book Marks: Bookmarks come in color or black and white and can be used in class or at home.
• Student Watches: A great reminder for children the day you introduce this new strategy. Students will love wearing their watches all day long.
• Classroom Posters: Classroom posters come in color or black and white and can be hung up in your room.
• Brainstorm the Missing Word Activity: A teacher-led activity where a sentence is read and students must think of a word or words that would make sense in that blank.
• Picture Card Activity: Children receive a storyboard with four sentences. Each sentence is missing one word. They also receive a strip with removable pictures. They must fill in the blanks of each sentence with a picture card.
• Fill in the Blank Activity: Laminated strips with sentences allow students to write the missing word in the blank.

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• Teacher Resources: Materials that will help the teacher implement and carry out this unit. This includes a Tips for Teaching the Strategy sheet and a How to Use Beanie Babies sheet.
• Parent Resources: Materials to help families understand the strategy and support their child at home with it. This includes a Reading Strategies Outline sheet and a Tryin’ Lion outline sheet.
• Buddy Badges: A year-long incentive program that works with ALL Reading Strategy units by Mrs V’s Chickadees. As students are “caught” using a reading strategy independently, they receive a Buddy Badge for their chain. Children can collect Buddy Badges for all strategies all year long. This is a great way to encourage independence with decoding.
• Self-Checking Charts: After reading, children will color in all of the strategies they used on their chart. This is a great tool for reflecting on our reading and for teachers to use as data. Check for patterns and help students challenge themselves.
• Reading Conference Binder Cover: Stay organized by creating a binder for your reading conferences
• Anecdotal Note Taking Sheets: Taking notes during reading conferences is imperative for collecting useful data. Track decoding habits, comprehension habits, the use of reading strategies, and set goals. These notes will also make writing report cards and IEP reports a breeze.
• A Guide for Writing Reports: Use the data from your notes to write clear and knowledgable reports. Great for report cards, conferences and IEP’s. This guide gives you the exact language to use based on the data you have collected.
• Desk Plates: Adhere the desk plates to your reading table to act as a visual reminder for students.
• Book Marks: Bookmarks come in color or black and white and can be used in class or at home.
• Student Watches: A great reminder for children the day you introduce this new strategy. Students will love wearing their watches all day long.
• Classroom Posters: Classroom posters come in color or black and white and can be hung up in your room.
• Brainstorm the Missing Word Activity: A teacher-led activity where a sentence is read and students must think of a word or words that would make sense in that blank.
• Picture Card Activity: Children receive a storyboard with four sentences. Each sentence is missing one word. They also receive a strip with removable pictures. They must fill in the blanks of each sentence with a picture card.
• Fill in the Blank Activity: Laminated strips with sentences allow students to write the missing word in the blank.

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• Camping Vocabulary: Become familiar with key camping objects and words by tracing the words and building the objects with dough
• Shape Mats: Practice building shapes with dough, tracing them, and identifying them, all on one mat. Laminate and it becomes reusable!
• Fine Motor Tracing Cards: Practice pencil grip and fine motor skills with these tracing cards. Trace a variety of straight, curved, and swirly lines
• Counting Fireflies: Count the fireflies on each card (numbers 1-10) and represent that number using manipulatives
• S’more Letters: Complete s’more puzzles by matching up uppercase letters
• Patterns: Complete AB, ABB, and ABC patterns

• Letter Formation: Trace uppercase letters
• Identifying Letters: Match up lowercase letters on each sheet
• Number Work: Number formation, counting objects and tally marks for numbers 1-10

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• Shape Mats: Practice building shapes with dough
• Shape Cards: Pick a 2D shape card and match it to the pumpkin shape card
• Counting Pumpkin Clip Cards: Count the pumpkins (1-10) on each card and use a clothespin to clip the answer
• Pumpkin Number ID: Match the numbers from the card to the board
• More or Less: Children use manipulatives to represent “more” or “less” depending on the seed card they pick
• Pumpkin Patterns: Complete the AB, ABB, and ABC patterns
• Seed Counting: Pull a handful of seeds and count them out
• Measurement Mats: Use cubes and links to measure the height and width of a pumpkin
• Fine Motor Tracing Cards: Practice pencil grip and fine motor skills with these tracing cards. Trace a variety of straight, curved, and swirly lines
• Pumpkin Vocabulary: Become familiar with key pumpkin vocabulary by tracing the words
• Alphabet Puzzles: Complete the pumpkin puzzles by matching the uppercase and lowercase letters
• Pumpkin Pie Rhymes: Put each slice of pumpkin pie on the correct plate by matching up the rhyming images
• Feed the Pumpkin: Sort the images by syllables and feed them to the correct pumpkin
• Letter Sound Boards: Place the pumpkin card with the correct beginning sound next to each image
• Uppercase Lowercase Sort: Sort the letters by uppercase and lowercase letters
• Roll and Draw: Roll the die and follow the directions for drawing a jack-o-lantern
• Pumpkin Investigation Book: Create a take-home book where you explore and investigate your pumpkin. Record your observations inside of your book
• Pumpkin Emotion Writing Paper: Look at the pumpkin’s face and illustrate/write about a time you have felt the same way

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• Suggested Weekly Schedule
• Letter Poster

• Dab a Dot
• The Letter Says
• Sounds Like, Looks Like
• I Spy
• Color by the Code Lowercase
• Color by the Code Uppercase
• Sort it Out- Uppercase Lowercase Sort
• Sound it Out
• Color the Sound
• Trace the Lowercase
• Trace the Uppercase
• Let’s Write It

• Snap Cube Letter Mat
• Dough Letter Mat
• Popsicle Stick Letter Mat

• Student Made Letter Sound Books
• Guided Reader

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