The abcteach Newsletter

This newsletter features links to some of the great new materials on our member site. Look around abcteach: you are sure to find something for every subject, age, and interest!

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New Math Worksheets

• Telling Time
  A worksheet for learning to tell time. Clock faces may be printed in different sizes and colors, in various time increments, and with hour hands pointing directly to the hour or moving continuously from one hour to the next.

New Materials

• Craft: Chinese Lantern (with extras)
  Instructions for making a Chinese lantern, with Chinese New Year phrases and a dragon to color.


• Comprehension: Tall Tale - John Henry (upper elem/middle)
  Read a John Henry tall tale and answer the multiple choice questions, then read a true story about John Henry with short answer comprehension questions. Sort fact from fiction in a review worksheet. Think and write about the values reflected in these tall tales. Finally: Write your own John Henry tall tale. A great unit!


• Story Sequence: Margaret's Valentines (elem/upper elem)
  Read the story, then number the events as they occur in the story. Write the story again in your own handwriting and draw a picture to go with the text.


• Story Sequence: Margaret's Valentines (primary/elem)
  Cut out the pictures and put them in order next to the sentences. Then write a story that uses the sentences as the foundation. Good early reader work.


• Story Sequence: Margaret's Valentines (upper elem/middle)
  Read the events, put them in order (explaining the reasoning for the order), then write them into a story with creative embellishments. This lesson is adaptable to a variety of levels.


• Word Strips with Pictures: Presidents' Day (primary)
  These Presidents' Day word strips with pictures go with our ABC order literacy center.


• Word Strips with Pictures: Valentine's Day (primary)
  These Valentine's Day words strips with pictures go with our ABC order literacy center.


• Teaching Idea: Story Boxes (multi-age)
  Enhance reading and understanding of any book with this great "story boxes" (or story sacks, or story bags...) project. Adaptable to any age.


• abcteach Early Reader Word Walls -Week 19 (primary)
  Materials for the abcteach early reader word wall lesson for week 19.


• abcteach Early Reader Word Walls -Week 20 (primary)
  Materials for the abcteach early reader word wall lesson for week 20.


• Posters: Fact and Opinion
  Simple posters, one for fact and one for opinion, and one explaining their importance.


• Book: Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game (elem)
  Word search, word unscramble, cloze exercise, spelling work, story sequencing, and short answer comprehension to review David Adler's story of a birthday party game.


• Handwriting Practice: Handwriting Sample - cursive (DN-style font)
  Use for assessment ("This is a sample of my best cursive handwriting.")


• Handwriting Practice: Handwriting Sample - cursive (HWT-style font)
  Use for assessment ("This is a sample of my best cursive handwriting.")


• Handwriting Practice: Handwriting Sample - manuscript (ZB-style font)
  Use for assessment ("This is a sample of my best handwriting.")


• Large Poster: Endangered Animals of Africa
  


• Large Poster: Endangered Animals of Asia
  


• Large Poster: Endangered Animals of Australia
  


• Large Poster: Endangered Animals of Europe
  


• Color by Number Addition: Bat (primary)
  Solve the simple addition problems. Use the answers to color the picture.


• Color by Number Addition: Frog (primary)
  Solve the simple addition problems. Use the answers to color the picture.


• ESL: Board Game, “Name something…” #6
  One of several vocabulary building board games, part of the “Name something…” series.


• ESL: Board Game, “Name something…” #4
  One of several vocabulary building board games, part of the “Name something…” series.


• ESL: Color and Write, Van Gogh’s Bedroom
  Write the word and color the picture of Van Gogh’s bedroom.


• ESL: Compare objects in Van Gogh’s bedroom and the students’
  Indicate which objects are found in each bedroom.


• ESL: Flash Cards, Van Gogh’s Bedroom
  Flash cards with vocabulary for “ Van Gogh’s Bedroom” activities.


• ESL: Game Cards, Van Gogh's Bedroom
  Game cards for “Van Gogh’s Bedroom.”


• ESL: Match and Write the vocabulary of “Van Gogh’s Bedroom”
  Write the correct word from the list under the picture.


• ESL: Match and Write the vocabulary of “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” b/w
  Write the correct word from the list under the picture. b/w


• ESL: Matching, Bedroom Objects
  Match the bedroom objects with the vocabulary.


• ESL: Painting—Van Gogh’s Bedroom
  Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles, 1889, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Use for unit on bedroom vocabulary and the oral puzzle game.


• ESL: Puzzle Game, Van Gogh’s Bedroom, board and pieces
  Background board and puzzle pieces for Van Gogh’s Bedroom game.


• ESL: Rules, "Van Gogh's Bedroom" oral puzzle game
  Rules for the oral puzzle game, "Van Gogh's Bedroom".


• Tangrams: Chinese Zodiac
  Make tangrams for the animals from the Chinese zodiac.


• Tangrams: Chinese Zodiac (solutions)
  Shows the individual shapes needed to make the animals of the Chinese zodiac as tangrams.

Seasonal Materials

• Holiday/Seasonal >> Holidays >> Chinese New Year
• Holiday/Seasonal >> Holidays >> Valentine's Day
• Holiday/Seasonal >> Holidays >> Presidents' Day

• Comprehension: Mardi Gras (middle school)
  A reading comprehension about this festive season.


• Bookmarks: Chinese Year of the Rat
  Four "year of the rat" bookmarks (Rat years are 1972, 1984, 1996, and 2008.) The year of the rat starts February 7th, 2008.


• Border Paper: Rats
  Lined and unlined paper with rats running around the border; this paper is great for the Chinese "Year of the Rat".


• Fiction: Rikki's Valentine (upper elem)
  Rikki loves her pets, and she wants another one: a parrot. Will she get one? Find out with this realistic fiction reading comprehension, with short answer questions.


• Glyph: Valentine's Day
  How old are you? Draw that many chocolates inside the heart.


• Graph: Candy Hearts (elementary)
  Place each candy heart in the column with the same color name. Which color had the most? Which color had the fewest? *candy hearts not included!


• Alphabet Letter Patterns: Lincoln and Washington (color)
  The letters of the alphabet, presented in black outline, filled with the colorful heads of Lincoln and Washington. Four letters to a page. Great for bulletin boards, desk decorations, and more. These match our February presidents calendar header.


• Comprehension: Presidents' Day (elem/upper elem)
  A reading comprehension explaining briefly the difference between the federal and state holidays. This includes very short biographies of Washington and Lincoln.


• Large Poster: U.S. Presidents (b/w)
  To use this informative four-page poster of all the U.S. Presidents and their terms: print the pages, fold the edges, then glue or tape together along the edges. Laminate the poster for longer use.

Spanish Materials

• Spanish: Diario de febrero (elementaria)
  Un diario de 30 páginas para el mes de febrero para alumnos de elementaria. A 30 page journal for elementary students.


• Spanish: Entrada simple para diarios (primaria)
  Forma para una entrada simple de diario apropiado para estudiantes de primaria. Simple journal entry form for primary students.

French Materials

• French: Associer et Ecrire le vocabulaire de la chambre de Van Gogh
  Write the correct word under the picture. Ecrire le mot correct sous l’image.


• French: Associer et Ecrire le vocabulaire de la chambre de Van Gogh n/b
  Write the correct word under the picture. b/w Ecrire le mot correct sous l’image. n/b


• French: Colorie/écris, La chambre de Van Gogh
  Écris le mot et colorie l’image de la Chambre de Van Gogh Write the word and color the picture of Van Gogh’s bedroom.


• French: Comparaison, objets dans la chambre de Van Gogh et la chambre de l’élève
  Indicate which objects are found in each bedroom. Indiquer où se trouvent les objets.


• French: Flash Cards, Chambre de Van Gogh
  Flash cards with vocabulary for Van Gogh’s Bedroom activities. Cartes de mémoire pour renforcer le vocabulaire de la Chambre de Van Gogh.


• French: Game Cards, Chambre de Van Gogh
  Game cards for “La Chambre de Van Gogh”. Cartes pour “La chambre de Van Gogh”.


• French: Matching, Bedroom Objects
  Match the object with the vocabulary. Associer l’objet avec le vocabulaire


• French: Painting—la chambre de Van Gogh
  Van Gogh’s painting, La chambre de Van Gogh à Arles, 1889, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Use for unit on bedroom vocabulary and the oral puzzle game, "Van Gogh's Bedroom". “La chambre de Van Gogh à Arles, 1889. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. à employer avec l’unité sur le vocabulaire de la chambre et le “casse-tête verbal” de "La chambre de Van Gogh".


• French: Puzzle Game, Chambre de Van Gogh, board and pieces
  Background board and puzzle pieces for Van Gogh ’s bedroom game. Jeu pour le casse-tête verbal “La chambre de Van Gogh”


• French: Règles du jeu, la Chambre de Van Gogh
  Rules for the puzzle game, "Van Gogh's Bedroom". Règles du jeu "La chambre de Van Gogh".


• French: Tableau—Objets de la chambre
  Three versions: pictures, French, English; pictures, French; pictures, English. Use as study aid, exercise, or testing. Trois versions: images, français, anglais; images, français; images, anglais. Servent d’aide mémoire, d’exercise et de contrôle.

German Materials

• German: Bookmarks - Sports
  Twenty bookmarks with black-and-white illustrations; English word above and German word below.


• German: Card Game - Sports
  "Hast du eine FECHTEN-Karte?" Match the sports vocabulary cards in pairs in this vocabulary-building variation of Go Fish.


• German: Chart - Sports
  Three versions: one with pictures, English, and German; one with pictures and German; one with pictures only. These are great teaching tools and review worksheets.


• German: Cloze - Sports
  Complete these simple sentences with nouns, using the picture clues and word bank. Good vocabulary practice.


• German: Flashcards - Sports
  Picture cards with vocabulary words in German, with no text, and flashcards with the words in German and English.


• German: Matching - Sports
  Two matching exercises: match German vocabulary words with illustrations, and match German vocabulary words with their English counterparts. With answers.


• German: Picture Sentences - Sports
  "Wir spielen Baseball." Choose the sentence that best matches the picture.

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