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Note: Please bear with me! When I changed web design programs I somehow lost this page and am having to rebuild it! Shouldn't take too long! In the meantime, here is a catalog of items and prices that you can order through PayPal. Please note that I have reduced lots of the prices!

Corner Store Catalog

All About Me! Collection

The All About Me! Collection contains the following topics:

I Have a Brain! (and other parts, too)

I Love My Hair!

Bedtime

Chores

Fancy Feet!

From Yummy to My Tummy

My Pets

My Favorites

Teachers and young children will enjoy the multiple thematic vocabulary word lists, suggested book lists, 27 poems, songs, activity pages (78 page reproducible booklet) 28 readers and matching big books and more!

Free!

All in the Family With Toons Program

The All in the Family with Toons Practice Pages is a full color reproducible teaching unit that has over 2400 pages of activities and materials for teaching word families. It is meant to supplement and extend instruction for over 100 word families for each of the five vowels, vowel digraphs, diphthongs and R-Controlled Vowels. Included are original songs, poems, chants, word cards, sorts, stationery, shape books, posters, word building mats, mini books, word slides, and puzzles.

The Toons Word Family Big Book contains over 150 reproducible big books (8½ x 11)) that focus on word family patterns and words and match the text in the word family readers. Great for introducing and reviewing word families in small groups or whole class. May be used for shared reading and/or placed in a center.

The Toons Word Family Readers has more than 150 reproducible readers that match the big books. All individual student readers are formatted two to a page for ease of reproduction and assembly and have a minimum of 8 pages. See sample below.

Toons and Tunes: Working with Word Family Onsets and Rimes Songbook has 178 pages of poems and songs in print ready format with an index and teaching suggestions. Also included are 17 recorded songs from the collection, These are perfect for developing spelling and word recognition using onsets and rimes along with old familiar tunes. These songs are delightfully illustrated by Ron Leishman of Toonaday.com and Toonclipart.com.

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The Toons Puzzles and Games Activity provides independent activities, puzzles and games for centers and small group instruction for word families.

The Word Family Tools for the Teacher includes suggestions for teaching word families, charts, word wall cards and more. Also included are reproducibles: 5 Color and Write Sets, 5 word search books, large Picture/Word cards for the bulletin board, 5 Rhyme and Spell word books, and Sentence Writing materials. Each word family has a keyword or anchor picture to help young readers and spellers as they learn to decode and write independently.

All in the Family with Toons Practice Pages (Word Family Sets)

Toons Word Family Big Books

Toons Word Family Readers

Toons Family Songbook

Toons Word Family Puzzles and Games Activity

Toons Word Family Tools for the Teacher

All in the Family

Example: The All in the "A" Family Collection is a full color reproducible teaching unit that has over 750 pages (which doesn't include the readers in the total count). It is meant to supplement and extend instruction for 27 word families for short a, long a and vowel digraphs for ai (ail, ain, and air). Included are original songs, poems, and chants, word cards, sorts, stationery, shape books, posters, word building mats, mini books, word slides, puzzles, readers and matching big books, and other independent games and activities to practice word family skills.

The Bonus CD contains sets of like items for easier location, suggestions for teaching word families, recommended order of instruction for first grade and more!

This set includes more than 2400 pages of activities and materials as well as over 100 readers and big books. More than 70 word families are addressed for each of the five vowels and vowel digraphs and diphthongs.

All Things Fall

All Things Fall is a full color reproducible teaching unit. Preschool and primary teachers will love to create an autumn classroom with this thematic set. It includes a 41 page activity packet, sentence writing activity, songs, poems, and readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphicgarden.com and www.art4crafts.com fame.

Animal Antics

Animal Antics is a full color reproducible teaching unit CD. Preschool and primary teachers will love teaching with this thematic set. It includes over 130 pages of activities that focus on animal identification and characteristics and habitat, as well as irregular plurals, writing activities, sorts, centers, game boards, 16 songs and poems. More than 20 animal readers come with matching big books and pocket chart activities. Most of the illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphicgarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Apple Picking Time

Big Book Bonanza

Big Book Bonanza is a full color reproducible collection that has well over 200 Big Books in English and Spanish for reading aloud in a shared book experience. Matching individual reproducible readers are available.

Big Book Bonanza II also has over 200 reproducible Big Books for reading aloud in a shared book experience. However, the focus is on high frequency words and word families. Suggestions for reading aloud are included.

Blends Bonanza

Blends Bonanza is a full color reproducible collection that has 26 blends sets as well as support materials for teaching this skill. Included are updated posters, puzzles, poems and songs, configuration and cloze activities, crossword puzzles, skill wheels, shape books, big book, word cards, sorts, word searches, alphabetizing, charts, dominoes and other new games and activities. New to the CD are little reproducible readers!

Bossy R

The Bossy R (R-Controlled) collection includes activities and support materials to use in teaching and mastering the concept of the R-Controlled in reading and spelling. For instance, the ar files had word family sets (ar, ark, arm), little readers, kid cards, word wall cards, and an I Have Who Has game. The er, ir, or and ur files also provide a wide variety of activities with plenty of opportunity to practice the Bossy R skill. Also included are a Jeopardy game, a Bossy R Poster and an original song.

Available in website catalog at no cost

Building Better Readers CD
with Little Bitty Books

I have developed over 600 reproducible readers that focus on a wide assortment of word families, themes, and sight words. Most of the books are in English, but there are a number that have been translated into Spanish, German, and Norwegian as well. All of these books are available in a large format for reading aloud or shared reading.

Here's how to use: Go through the database below and decide which titles will work best for your needs.

Available in website catalog at no cost

Calendar Collection

The Calendar Collection contains more than two dozen reproducible primary calendars for children as well as sets of matching numbers and posters to use on the bulletin board calendar. They are colorfully illustrated with art4crafts clipart and address a wide variety of themes and topics for your classroom. Each month, holiday, and theme has several calendars to choose from. Spanish calendars are included in the set. Collection includes the following themes: snow, penguins, Valentines, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, rain, spring, plants/flowers, Mother's Day, Father's Day, patriotic, seashore, apples, school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Nativity, Fairy Tales, Ladybugs, zoo animals, frogs, pets, farm animals, bees and bears, daisies, pandas, and sports. If you know which months you'll be doing certain units, please let me know and I'll personalize your set to meet your needs.

and lots more!

Camping is Cool!

The Camping is Cool! collection contains:

60+ page activity packet, I Have Who Has word game, more than a dozen Readers and matching Big Books, a Songbook, summer camping calendars, and a compound word activity.

Everything is reproducible and colorfully illustrated by Ron Leishman from toonclipart.com

Available in website catalog at no cost

Centers in the Classroom

The Centers in the Primary Classroom collection contains reproducible literacy centers and work mats for individual children and small groups in pre-k to grade 2. They are colorfully illustrated with art4crafts clipart and address a wide variety of themes in language arts as well as math skills/topics for your classroom. Task board signs and suggestions for organizing and managing your centers are also included.

Available in website catalog at no cost

This is Christmas!

This is Christmas! is a full color reproducible teaching unit. The set includes over 200 pages: original poems, songs, and extensions to go with them: puzzles, seven big books, certificates, word wall cards, stationery, shape books, recipes and readers with pocket chart activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Available in website catalog at no cost

Cloze the Gap!

This contains a document that includes 100 activities for "filling in the blanks" with word family words from ab to the sounds of y. The focus is to support the development of independent decoding and comprehension skills. The images are the talented artwork from Ron Leishman and his toonsclipart.com. You may recognize them from the Toons Practice Pages.

Available in website catalog at no cost

Colors All Around

The Colors All Around CD contains songs, poems and support materials such as handwriting, practice sheets, and certificates in a 68 page packet. 38 little readers with pocket chart activities match and complement more than 30 big books, too.

Compound Connection

Compound Connections is a fully updated color reproducible instructional unit that focuses on developing an understanding and recognition of more than 46 common compound words. The collection includes a 116 page packet with a wide variety of activities: sentence writing, games, stationery, certificates, poems and songs, word searches (5), cloze (4), puzzles, word cards and matching pictures, compound cash, shape books and desktop nametags. Also included are big books and matching readers, Bingo, kid cards, Go Fish, Junior Jeopardy, I Have Who Has cards and more. Most of the artwork is from www.art4crafts.com.

Coordinated Cows, Cats and Critters
(Coordinate Grid Activities)

Coordinate Cows, Cats and Critters is a full color reproducible teaching unit CD that focuses on reading, writing and interpreting coordinate grids. This thematic unit includes more than 75 pages of motivating activities and suggestions that can be used as a teacher directed, independent practice, literacy centers, and/or for instruction with the SMART Board®. Themes include bears, bees, birthdays, bugs, cats, Christmas, cows, fairy tales, farm animals, frogs, Halloween, monkeys, pandas, penguins, polar bears, rainy days, school days, seashore, snowmen, and zoo animals. Young children will enjoy the coordinate grids, jigsaw puzzles and riddles that support master of this important skill.

Proceeds from the sales of this CD are dedicated to maintaining a scholarship fund and to support the growth of literacy for children and teachers. International shipping costs will have to be calculated at the time of purchase.

Contraction Action

Contraction Action is a full color reproducible teaching unit used to help students master the art of the apostrophe! Included are games, sorts, a reader and matching big book, poems, rhymes and songs, practice pages and more!

Critter Conversations:
Pet Activities

Critter Conversations is a full color reproducible teaching unit CD. Preschool and primary teachers will love to create a classroom with this thematic set. It includes an activity packet (shape books, puzzles, calendars, games, word cards, stationery, math and more) original songs and poems, and readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. Some of the big books are in Spanish. Children will enjoy learning money skills with the sets of Puppy Play Money and Cat Cash. The focus is on pets, especially dogs and cats, with illustrations from www.art4crafts.com . Being a dedicated pet owner gave me the motivation to put this together!

De Colores Spanish Colors

De Colores Spanish Colors reproducible collection includes big books and matching readers, poetry and songs, practice pages, sorts and games and a 58 page thematic activities packet.

Easter Eggstravaganza

The Easter Activity Set contains two full color packets for the classroom teacher. Activities include handwriting practice, syllable sort, word search, Easter verbs and suffixes, fractions, spelling, coordinate graphs, abc order, picture puzzle graph, crossword puzzle, vocabulary match, cloze (fill in the blank), configuration, addition, riddles, songs, poems and much more.

Big books, matching readers, and activities for centers add to the fun along with two scripts for drama!

Fun on the Farm

Fun on the Farm is a full color reproducible teaching unit. It includes aa 70 page activity packet (shape books, cards, games, stationery, centers, practice pages, math and more) original songs and poems, and readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The focus is on farm animals and activities with illustrations from art4crafts.com.

Fun With Family

Fun with Family is a full color reproducible teaching unit. It includes a 73 page activity packet, calendars, shape books, cards, games, stationery, practice pages, math, a 36 page booklet of original songs and poems, and 16 readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The focus is on friendship with illustrations from art4crafts.com. (This goes well with the Valentine's Day CD.)

Fun With Friends

Fun with Friends is a full color reproducible teaching unit. It includes an activity packet, calendars, shape books, cards, games, stationery, practice pages, math, original songs and poems, and readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The focus is on friendship with illustrations from art4crafts.com. (This goes well with the Valentine's Day CD.)

Fun With Frogs

Fun with Frogs is a full color reproducible teaching unit. It includes a 70+ page activity packet (shape books, cards, games, stationery, practice pages and more) original songs and poems, and readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The focus is on frogs with illustrations from www.art4crafts.com.

Games Galore
70+ Games

Games Galore is a full color reproducible collection that contains 70+ games for K-3 readers and for intervention and remediation for older students and second language learners. It includes a variety of bingo games (9), open ended board games (9), Jeopardy (8), Wordo (5), Blends and Dolch Domino Sets (9) I Have, Who Has (12), Go Fish and Concentration/Memory games (18). These are great to use in small group instruction and for independent practice with a strong focus on word recognition and phonics.

Hang on Homophones!

Hang on Homophones is a reproducible teaching unit that focuses on some of the most common homophones. The activity set includes crossword puzzles, practice pages, cloze activities, word searches, word wall cards, word posters, a reader and big book and games for independent practice.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween is a full color reproducible teaching unit that focuses on one of the most popular holidays: Halloween! It includes a 62 page activity packet, centers, little readers and matching big books, poems and songs, games, calendars, stationery and writing activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

High Frequency Words for 1st Grade

Years ago a team of Maryland first grade teachers in one of the largest schoool districts in the country asked me for a template for the Words of the Week activities so that they could make some to match their particular word lists. Since I already had the templates for everything, I decided to make a set of activities that are specific to first grade and fill their request at the same time. I also added Big Books and matching little readers and pocket chart activities to the mix for building fluency and word recognition and to provide more opportunity for practice. It's been a very popular collection! Thanks, Mark!

Holiday Happenings

Holiday Happenings is a full color reproducible teaching unit that focuses on some of the most common holidays: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The activity set includes over 200 pages: 27 original poems and songs, and extensions to go with them: puzzles, practice pages, certificates, name tags, shape books and word wall cards. A readers theater script and emergent readers with pocket chart activities add to the total presentation. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Math, Measuring & More!

Math, Measuring and More is a full color reproducible instruction teaching unit that focuses on a variety of primary math skills. The activity set includes: original poems and songs, basic fractions, big books for counting, domino derby, expanded notation, fact families, handwriting, math centers, math journal set, math readers, money, ordinal numbers, practice pages, shapes all around, story problem cards, times tables and writing and math activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphicgarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business is a full color reproducible thematic teaching unit that focuses on the antics of playful monkeys. The activity set includes: original poems and songs, and extensions to go with them: puzzles, practice pages, certificates, name tags, writing activity pages, big books, readers, shape books and word wall cards. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphiccgarden.com and www.art4crafts.com fame. One kinder teacher's comment: "This is perfect for when we go to the zoo!"

Pretty Papers

Pretty Papers includes a wide assortment of full color reproducibles for creating certificates, gift bags, gift boxes, greeting cards, recipe cards, shopping lists, stationery and tags. The artwork is from art4crafts.com and you'll love it and your kids will, too!

Ready Readers

Ready Readers includes a large assortment of full color reproducible readers for developing a collection of familiar texts for your emergent readers. Included are readers about the alphabet, animals, colors, friends and family, holidays, kindergarten, misc readers, school days and seasons. Support materials for the classroom help you get your reading work organized. The artwork is from art4crafts.com and you'll love it and your kids will, too!

Ready Readers II contains more than 200 reproducible readers that focus on mastering high frequency words, fluency and word families. It comes with a database that indicates the word family, theme or high frequency word focus. The artwork is a bit more sophisticated for older readers.

Rhyme and Spell

Rhyme and Spell includes a large assortment of materials to support the mastery of rhyming and spelling: games and activities, practice pages, rhyme and spell books, rhyming puzzles, support materials and word family delivery vans.

Rhythm and Rhyme

and more!

Rhythm and Rhyme is a full color reproducible collection with individual collections of songs and poems. It includes over 350 print ready poems and songs for children that will be great for "poem of the day," and for poetry notebooks that help children build fluency in reading. It features common school themes, holidays, dinosaurs, patriotic pride, seasons, word families, phonics (alphabet) and more. Suggestions are included for using poetry in the classroom along with literacy center signs and ideas. I'm always open for suggestions and requests for new poems and songs! Please don't hesitate to ask.

School Days

School Days is a full color reproducible teaching unit. Preschool and primary teachers will love creating a classroom theme with this companion set to go along with Teddy Time. The set includes over 200 pages: 25 original poems and songs, puzzles, certificates, name tags, word wall cards, story telling cards and six readers with pocket chart activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com fame. All will receive a reproducible Writers at Work Practice Book and scrapbooks for Kindergarten and First Grade.

School Days Music CD Set (2)

The companion music set has 28 songs for school days along with a reproducible songbook, all new big books, readers, pocket chart activities, writing activities, word cards, stationery and patterns for a songbook quilt as shown above (quilt contains 24 song squares to choose from). Students can collect their favorites as they learn the songs. This crafty collection will also serve as a great reminder of songs they can sing together in the classroom. Shipping is free!

Scott Foresman 1st Grade/Second Grade

This print ready reproducible collection includes activity packets that include configuration, cloze, word search, awesome artist, clever connector, sentence writing, score with Scrabble, onsets and rimes and abc order. Also included are big books and matching readers, materials for phonics applications and word cards. It's perfect for differentiating instruction for a variety of learners. The second grade CD addresses dictionary skills as well.

It's a Knight's World!
Silent Letter Kn

This full color, print ready reproducible set includes a 24 page activity packet, bookmark, game cards, certificate, color and write, memory game, mini book, puzzles, 8 readers and matching big books, sentence writing activities, word wall cards and much more. It's perfect for differentiating instruction for a variety of learners.

Spread, Sprinkle, Sprout!
Spring Activities CD

Spread, Sprinkle, Sprout! is a full color reproducible teaching unit. Preschool and primary teachers will love to create a classroom with this thematic set. It includes a 65 page activity packet (shape books, puzzles, calendars, games, word cards, stationery, math and more) 24 original songs and poems, and 11 readers with matching big books and pocket chart activities. The focus is on spring: seeds, plants, and rainy days. Most of the illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com fame.

What's Next, Suffix? CD

The Suffix collection offers suitable instructional materials for the classroom teacher to help young children recognize and use suffixes correctly as well as learning the meaning of commong suffixes. Included are big books and matching readers, center activities, practice pages, word wall cards and more!

Summer at the Seashore CD

Summer at the Seashore is a reproducible thematic unit with clever artwork from art4crafts.com. It includes big books and matching readers, calendars, stationery, poetry and songs, puzzles and games, weather bears, and a 43 page thematic activities packet that will keep your young readers busy and interested.

Tallest or Shortest?
(Let's talk about measurement!)

Tallest or Shortest? is a full color reproducible math skills unit . Preschool and primary children will love the activities that come with this thematic set. There are 26 different sets of activities that include suggestions, graphing (inches), measuring by centimeters, shortest to tallest sorting mats and sorting pictures. These are great for small or large group instruction and for independent practice in centers. Everything you need is there! Also included is a small collection of print ready measurement songs. The illustrations for the activity sets are the whimsical work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of art4crafts.com. The SMART Board© version of this CD is also available upon request.

Themes include: Be Thankful (Thanksgiving), Bears and Bugs, Busy Bees and Bears, Christmas Cookies, Christmas Cuties, Coordinated Cats, Coordinated Cows, Critter Connection, Farm Animals, Fun with Frogs, Happy Birthday Bear, Happy Easter, It's Raining, Monkey Business, Once Upon a Time, Perfect Pandas, Perky Penguins, Polar Bear Buddies, Super Snowmen, The Luck of the Irish, Time for School, Trick or Treat, Valentine's Day, Winter Wonderland, and Zippety Zoo.

Teddy Time

Teddy Time is a full color reproducible teaching unit. Preschool and primary teachers will love to create a classroom "Teddy Time" with this set. It includes over 200 pages of original poems, puzzles, pocket chart activities, songs, certificates, readers, calendars, math and more. Everything you need is there! The illustrations are the whimsical work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphicgarden.com and www.art4crafts.com fame.

It's Valentine's Day!

It's Valentine's Day is a full color reproducible teaching unit. The activity set includes over 80 pages of original poems and songs, games, puzzles, practice pages, certificates, cards, gift bags, name tags, shape books and word wall cards. Emergent readers with pocket chart activities and matching big books add to the total presentation. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Big Book

Weather Wise

Weather Wise is a full color reproducible teaching unit that focuses on three different types of weather: sunny, rainy, and cold. The set includes an activity packet for each weather focus with original songs and poems, and extensions to go with them: puzzles, games, certificates, word wall cards, stationery, shape books, calendars, word searches, cloze, math and writing activities, shape books and more. Also included are big books and matching little readers with pocket chart activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of www.graphicgarden.com and www.art4crafts.com fame.

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland CD is a full color reproducible teaching unit CD. The set includes over 75 pages in an activity packet with original songs and poems, and extensions to go with them: puzzles, certificates, word wall cards, stationery, shape books, calendars, word searches, cloze, math activities, shape books and more. Also included are big books and little readers with pocket chart activities. The illustrations are the work of Helena Normark, the talented artist of GraphicGarden.com and art4crafts.com fame.

Mc-Graw Hill Wonders Kindergrten

Unit lessons 1-10 have an activity that focuses on beginning sight word recognition. Each packet includes reproducible pocket chart materials to reinforce building sentences. 37 reproducible guided readers and matching big books for shared reading reinforce independent practice and familiar reading. Also included are 8 colorful Go Fish games that may also be used for Concentration.

Everything is on one in individual Unit/Lesson folders for easy access. A database also facilitates successful use of the materials in the classroom.

Mc-Graw Hill Wonders 1st Grade

In an effort to make things more convenient for first grade teachers I decided to create a set with all of the supplemental materials on it. Unit lessons have a seven page activity packet, phonics and/or spelling practice activities and a guided reader for independent practice of high frequency words and/or phonics skills.

Mc-Graw Hill Wonders 2nd Grade CD

In an effort to make things more convenient for second grade teachers I decided to create a set with all of the supplemental materials on it. Unit lessons have a nine page activity packet, phonics and/or spelling practice activities outlined in the second grade matrix and a vocabulary poem for independent practice of high frequency words and/or phonics skills in context. Included are reproducible instruction sets for word families, r-Controlled vowels, blends, contractions, suffixes, plural nouns, comparative endings, digraphs, diphthongs, and silent letters. Everything is in individual Unit/Lesson folders for easy access.

W.O.W.!
Words of the Week

Words of the Week is now available and includes every single item on this page in well-organized folders for easy access and planning. I have one more story to write (11d) and more Wordo games to add as well, which shouldn't take me too long. While I was rebuilding this page I realized that it might be a good idea to add little readers for young children who may not be ready to read the more difficult stories for comprehension. Several lessons already have them and I have more to add for additional practice.

Contents include: 11 units with four weeks of lesson per unit:

                 5 page packets that focus on 5 new words per lesson
                Story comprehension packets that focus on the five new words
                Word Wall cards
                Fluency Drill
                Readers
                Three handwriting practice sheets (modern, cursive, etc.)
                Unit Review packets (six pages each)
                Words of the Week take home book
                Games: Wordo, Concentration, I Have Who Has and cards for the games

Writers at Work

Writers at Work contains stationery and posters, math journal story problem cards, writer's tools, materials for primary writers workshop, and suggestions for writing and publishing in a primary classroom. This set also includes reproducible picture dictionaries to support emergent or struggling writers as well as a high frequency word practice book. Colorful shape books support the final step in the writing process: publishing!

Licensed by www.graphicgarden.com
Licensed by www.art4crafts.com

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Credit should be given to Helena Normark from www.graphicgarden.com andwww.art4crafts.com for generously licensing me to use her artwork for this website and for the CDs that are available for purchase. Ron Leishman, whose artwork is available at Toonaday.com and Toonclipart.com has also agreed to let me use his artwork for the purpose of creating materials for teachers and students. Without their permission I would not be able to continue to provide instructional activities for you! Both artists have said that they believe in what I'm trying to do in order to provide quality resources for educators. I am extremely grateful to both of them!