GIANT Summer Bundle 1st-3rd, Creative Writing, Phonics, ELA, Math Games, Comics (2024)

Summer Bundle (over 180 pages!) to make learning fun over the summer, and prepare them for the upcoming school year! Activities and games for first grade, second grade, and third grade. Can also be useful for Kindergarten, fourth grade, and special education. Reading comprehension, phonics, letter writing, creative writing prompts, comic book pages, word searches, word search creator, coloring pages, connect the dots, math games, and paper folding activities!

1. Comic Book / Cartooning Blank Pages (42 pages)

2. Letter Formation Alphabet Charts - 4 versions - Kindergarten handwriting (4 pages)

3. Printable Primary Handwriting Storybook Paper (13 pages)

4. Guess the Word Phonics Game - Wordle-style, 4 versions (4 pages)

5. "Scribble Stories" - over 60 creative writing and illustration prompts (62 pages)

6. Math Maze - addition and subtraction within 20 - 2 versions, customizable (4 pages)

7. Reading Comprehension Questions and Activities (for use during and after reading) (10 pages)

8. Summer Coloring and Connect the Dots math activities (5 pages)

9. Paper Folding Activities - Paper Football, Fortune Teller, Mini-zine (10 pages)

10. Connect 4 Math Game - addition and subtraction within 20 - dice or spinner(included) (4 pages)

11. "Number Battle" Math Card Game - addition and subtraction within 100 - printable cards included, or use a standard deck of playing cards. (21 pages)

12. Summer Word Search - two versions (2 pages)

13. Customizable Word Search - practice phonics, spelling, vocabulary (5 pages)

1. Create your own Comic Books or Cartoons with these blank Comic Book Pages and traceable Speech Bubbles templates. The possibilities are endless, with 35 different varieties of cartooning boxes/comic book pages. There are also several choices for a comic book cover page. Great for creative writing, story telling, and dialogue for any elementary grade: Kindergarten, First (1st), Second (2nd), Third (3rd), Fourth (4th), Fifth (5th), home school, or even middle school. Use for summer writing, creative choice writing, early finishers, a morning or dismissal activity, centers, or incorporate into lessons.

Set Includes:

• 35 Different Comic Book/Cartoon Pages with variety of boxes.
• 2 Traceable Speech Bubble pages.
• 5 Versions of Comic Book Cover with variety of text box placement.

2. High Quality printable Letter Formation Alphabet Charts/Posters. Self-Guided with numbers and arrows on each Uppercase and Lowercase letter to help Preschool, PreK, TK, Kindergarten, and First Grade students with their handwriting. Includes 4 versions: Black and White manuscript lines, Yellow highlighted adaptive paper lines, "Sky, Grass, Ground" colored lines, and "Sky, Fence, Grass" colored lines with picture indicators.

Print out and post on desk, at a center, or around the classroom. Laminate or put in plastic sheet-protector for extended use. Project on board or smartboard and have students trace over for practice. Send home as homework or home practice. Great for summer, winter, or spring break practice.

3. Printable Handwriting Primary Paper for Kindergarten in Easy-to-Copy Black and White. Set includes versions both with and without NAME LINE, with and without PICTURE BOXES, in HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL format. Includes Foldable Storybook Booklet with picture boxes. Digitally project this onto the board for demonstrations or student practice! Great for Preschool, Pre-Kindergarten (PreK), Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade.

What's Included:

• 13 pages of Printable Primary Handwriting Storybook Manuscript Paper
• One copy of each of the following is included in this set.
  • Horizontal with picture box (4 lines)
  • Horizontal half sheet (4 lines)
  • Horizontal full sheet (7 lines)
  • Horizontal Storybook Foldable Booklet with picture boxes (4 lines)
  • Horizontal with picture box and name line (3 lines)
  • Horizontal half sheet with name line (3 lines)
  • Horizontal full sheet with name line (7 lines)
  • Vertical with picture box (6 lines)
  • Vertical half sheet (6 lines)
  • Vertical full sheet (9 lines)
  • Vertical with picture box an name line (5 lines)
  • Vertical half sheet and name line (6 lines)
  • Vertical full sheet and name line (9 lines)
• All pages are printable on standard 8 1/2" x 11" paper

4. Practice phonics, phonemic awareness, graphemes, and phonemes with this Wordle-style GUESS the WORD game! Print and play! Four versions included: 5 letter words, 4 letter words, 3 letter words, and 6 letter words. Use sheet protector or laminate and use dry-erase marker for multiple uses. Students have six tries to guess a word. When a word is guessed, their partner (or the teacher, if done whole class or small group), will mark the letters in the words to help the student figure it out. Practice heart words, or sight words in or lower elementary (K-2), or expand vocabulary and practice spelling in upper elementary (3-5), but can be used for all of primary school and beyond! Can also be a fun center, early finisher activity, homework game with family, morning work with partners, or small group game. Use in Special Education services to practice phonemic awareness. Connect to Science of Reading curriculum as phonics practice.

Set Includes:

• 5 letter "Guess the Word" game board with instructions.
• 4 letter "Guess the Word" game board with instructions.
• 3 letter "Guess the Word" game board with instructions.
• 6 letter "Guess the Word" game board with instructions.
• 5 letter/4 letter/3 letter/6 letter "Guess the Word" game board with instructions and "Name" and "Date" line on top.

5. Over 60 creative writing prompts using lines, shapes, speech bubbles, and various settings to spark ideas for drawing illustrations and promote creative writing ideas. SCRIBBLE STORIES include versions in both primary, handwriting, manuscript lines for Kindergarten and First Grade, as well as wide ruled lines for First, Second, and even Third Grade. Included is a selection of basic shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, and rhombus. Speech bubbles promote stories with dialogue. Pre-made settings include a cave entrance, a castle on a hill, a forest, a river or trail, under the sea, in space, in the air, in a city, in a room, an ocean or hill with birds flying, looking out through a window, and an open door. Also included are blank pages with illustration box, as well as full pages of lines, both in primary, handwriting, manuscript lines, as well as wide ruled lines. A variety of random shapes, lines, and scribbles, lets the creative writer in every student soar!

Set Includes 128 pages total:

• 62 pages of creative writing prompts with Primary, Handwriting, Manuscript lines.
  • Shapes: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, rhombus.
  • Speech Bubbles: two speech bubbles, a single speech bubble, a "thought" bubble.
  • Settings: cave entrance, a castle on a hill, a forest, a river or trail, under the sea, in space, in the air, in a city, in a room, an ocean or hill with birds flying, looking out through a window, and an open door.
  • Random lines, shapes, squiggles, swirls, corners, stars, bumps, curls, etc.

• 62 pages of creative writing prompts with Wide Ruled lines (with all of the same prompts shown above).
• Blank Primary, Handwriting, Manuscript lines and illustration box.
• Blank full page of Primary, Handwriting, Manuscript lines.
• Blank Wide Ruled lines and illustration box.
• Blank full page of Wide Ruled lines.

6. Practice math fact fluency of addition and subtraction within 20 with these fun and engaging MATH MAZES! Students must add and subtract, and follow the path of the correct answers to get out of the maze! Customizable versions included. Use for math facts, words and letters, colors, shape attributes, or just as a fun maze! Students can also create their own customized mazes. Great for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. Use as morning work, seatwork, meaningful homework, fluency practice, early finisher activity, or center.

Set Includes:

• Addition within 20 Math Maze and answer key.
• Subtraction within 20 Math Maze and answer key.
• Customizable Math Maze #1 with answer key.
• Customizable Math Maze #2 with answer key.

7. PreK, TK, Kindergarten, First (1st), Second (2nd) Grade Reading Comprehension Practice. Includes questions for Fiction and Nonfiction, in the form of paper dice, spinners, and task cards. These can be used over and over, with dozens of Reading Response and Activity Choice (Action) combinations!

Practice: recall, who was in the story and what happened, characters, setting, personal connections, pictures/diagrams, facts already known, and facts learned, through activities including Telling, Writing, Drawing, and Acting!

Encourages engagement, choice, and buy in. Can be used during or after any amount of reading (independent reading, or listening to reading). Most effective for Kindergarten through 2nd grade, but can be used with PreK and TK to prepare for Kindergarten.

Use at home for homeschool, summer school, or summer practice. Use as meaningful homework, or in the classroom as seatwork, a morning activity, or for centers. The hands-on creation of the dice and cards allows for scissor and dexterity practice. The use of the spinners also promote fine-motor skills practice. Print on cardstock, laminate, or place spinners in plastic sheet protectors for extended use.

Set Includes 10 pages:

• 3 Paper Dice:
  • Reading Response Questions
  • Nonfiction Reading Response Questions
  • Reading Response Actions

• 3 Spinners:
  • Reading Response Questions
  • Nonfiction Reading Response Questions
  • Reading Response Actions

• 3 pages of Cards:
  • Reading Response Questions
  • Nonfiction Reading Response Questions
  • Reading Response Actions

• 1 page listing all Reading Response Questions and Actions

8. 3 Coloring pages and 2 Connect the Dots (1 to 100) pages. PreK, TK, Kindergarten, 1st (First) grade. Spring and Summer outdoor nature scenes with friendly cute animals.

Coloring pages include butterflies, bees, bugs, a rabbit and a lizard, a cat, dog and mouse, birds, and aquatic animals including a dolphin, crab, seagull, seal, and fish. All animals are happy and friendly, great for lower elementary and primary school.

Connect the Dots pages are from 1 to 100, and include an image of two friendly bees and a honeycomb, and a group of butterflies around a flower.

Use for: Early finisher activities, morning work, practice Kindergarten math standard of counting from 1 to 100, and recognizing the numbers. No prep centers, seatwork, or part of a work packet. Occupational Therapy (OT) can use to practice pencil grasp, dexterity, and fine motor skills. Great for Special Education, or just plain fun at school or at home!

9. Classic Paper Folding Games and Activities including: Paper Football, Fortune Teller, 8 Page Mini-Book, and a bonus Secret Code Key using the values of a standard deck of playing cards. Also included is four different Letter and Word Games that get kids thinking! Perfect for SUMMER BREAK: road trips, car rides, planes, trains, or in the backyard, on vacation, holiday, or just to keep brains thinking with simple, no prep, hands-on activities. All you need is a sheet of paper for these activities. Great for all ages and all grades, but elementary grades (Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth) may have the most fun. Practice gross and fine motor skills with folding and cutting paper, and by playing with the Fortune Teller and Paper Football. Practice writing with the Mini-Book and Code Key. Work on Letter Sounds, Spelling, and Critical Thinking with the Letter and Word Games. This packet is great to have as a backup set of easy no prep activities any day and any time of the year!

Set Includes:

• Paper Football - Instructions how to make one from a sheet of paper, and instructions how to play the game.
• Fortune Teller - Instructions how to make one from a blank sheet of paper, and instructions how to play. Also included is a color and black and white version of a pre-filled-in Fortune Teller, ready to cut out, fold, and play.
• 8 Page Mini-Book - Also known as a Zine. Includes instructions how to create an 8 page book using a single sheet of paper with NO STAPLES!
• Secret Card-Letter Code Key - (Which is not so secret). Using the values of a standard deck of cards, this code key will get kids spelling, writing, and practicing critical thinking. Includes a super cool OFFICIAL Card-Letter Code Key Card, which is the size of a playing card. This can be laminated or printed on card stock so it can be taken everywhere!
• Random Letter Spinner - A spinner with all 26 letters of the Alphabet. Includes instructions how to use. Use for randomly choosing letters while playing a Letter or Word Game.
• Letter and Word Games - Four different games included. Instructions and variations for each. No prep needed. Can be done on car rides, road trips, plane trips, vacation, holiday, or at home. Practice letters, spelling, words, phonemic awareness, and critical thinking.

10. TK, Kindergarten, First, and Second Graders can practice ADDING WITHIN 20 with this NO PREP, GAMIFIED set of "4 IN A ROW" activities. INDIVIDUAL or SMALL GROUP practice. Great for seatwork, centers, early finisher activities, meaningful homework, a morning activity, or as fun, gamified math practice over a break. Four different game boards total. Two use a pair of dice to find sums between 2 and 12, and the other two game boards use spinners to find sums between 0 and 20. Laminate or put in plastic sheet protectors and use with dry-erase markers for extended use!

Set Includes:

• Dice “4 in a Row” Addition Game Board (49 squares)
  • Requires 2 dice (not included)
  • Sums 2 to 12.

• Dice “4 in a Row” Addition Game Board (90 squares)
  • Requires 2 dice (not included)
  • Sums 2 to 12.

• Spinner “4 in a Row” Addition Game Board (49 squares)
  • Spinner uses pencil and paperclip (hold pencil with one hand, flick paperclip with the other)
  • Sums 0 to 20.

• Spinner “4 in a Row” Addition Game Board (90 squares)
  • Spinner uses pencil and paperclip (hold pencil with one hand, flick paperclip with the other)
  • Sums 0 to 20.

• To cover the sums, use tokens, or have students color the squares.
• For a reusable activity, laminate or place in plastic sheet protector and use with dry-erase markers.
  • TIP: If you only have one color dry-erase marker, students can draw “X’s” and “O’s”, or other shapes for their squares on the game board.

• Use as seatwork, centers, early finisher activities, meaningful homework, a morning activity, or as fun, gamified math practice over a break (summer break, spring break, Thanksgiving break, winter break, etc).

11. Number Battle! Addition and Subtraction Card Game. Use the included 0 to 100 Card Set, or a standard deck of cards. Students practice math fluency, adding and subtracting within 20, or within 100, depending on the cards used. Students also practice comparing numbers to determine greater than or less than. Great for TK, Kindergarten, First (1st), Second (2nd), and Third (3rd) grade. Use as a math center, meaningful homework, group activity, small group fluency practice. Include in sub plans, as a morning exercise, or as a supplement either in class, or at home, especially over breaks (spring break, summer break, Thanksgiving break, fall break, or winter break).

Set Includes:

• Number Battle: Addition Game Board
  • 3 versions: Basic game board, squares with detailed instructions, squares with basic instructions.
    • TIP: Laminate, or print on paper, and double with a sheet of cardstock in a plastic sheet protector for durability (or print on cardstock and put in plastic sheet protector).

• • Instructions: Can be printed on the back of the game board, or displayed on board for class reference.

• Number Battle: Subtraction Game Board
  • 3 versions: Basic game board, squares with detailed instructions, squares with basic instructions.
  • Instructions: Can be printed on the back of the game board, or displayed on board for class reference.

• 0 to 100 Card Set
  • Each card has easy to read numbers.
  • Each card is a perfect fit for the game board, and is roughly the same size as a standard playing card.
  • To practice adding and subtraction within 20, print several copies of the 0 to 15 pages to make a deck (3 copies would roughly equal the number in a standard deck of playing cards).
  • TIP: Print on cardstock or laminate for longer lasting cards. If game board is in a plastic sheet protector, the cards can be kept in there with it for easy storage.

12. Celebrate the Summer season by learning about vocabulary terms, and practicing spelling them with an EASY, NO PREP Word Search (Word Find) activity. Use as a simple center, meaningful homework or seatwork. Can be used in Kindergarten, first (1st), second (2nd), or third (3rd) grade. Words in alphabetical order.

Word List: beach, bike, camp, garden, hat, hot, ice cream, ocean, outside, picnic, play, run, sun, swim, summer

13. Create and Customize your own WORD SEARCH using a simple Google Slides Template. Four levels of difficulty. Use sight words, vocabulary or spelling words to make classic Word Finds. Use random letters to create Boggle games. Use numbers to make math games.

Google Slide includes 5 pages:

• 5 x 5 grid with word list box, title line, and Manuscript (Handwriting) Name Line.
• 6 x 6 grid with word list box, title line, and Manuscript (Handwriting) Name Line.
• 10 x 10 grid with word list box, title line, and Manuscript (Handwriting) Name Line.
• 10 x 10 grid with word list box, title line, and "Name _______ Date ________".
• 20 x 20 grid with word list box, title line, and "Name _______ Date ________".

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