Literacy Picnic
When spring fever hits, I like to bring out some themed centers.Ā I amp up the fun and keep my students engaged and excited about learning! Ā StudentsĀ wonāt dare misbehave because…
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When spring fever hits, I like to bring out some themed centers.Ā I amp up the fun and keep my students engaged and excited about learning! Ā StudentsĀ wonāt dare misbehave because…
To celebrate reading this week, Iām sharing my set up for ELAR.Ā This system is flexible and ever-changing, but the basic structure remains the same year to year which…
The Guided Reading Teacher Binder I am excited to share a new organizational tool to help with 4 distinct parts of guided reading!Ā This guided reading binder keeps track of…
Keeping students engaged in learning should be at the top of my list of to dos as a teacher. The reason behind it is simple. Ā If I am working hard…
When it comes to reading instruction, I find myself treasure hunting for the right resources to enhance my instruction. Ā This is such a time waste! Ā This blog post is going…
Let’s talk about some literacy activities made just for spring or April! Ā There are three different sets available for the gradesĀ kindergarten, first, and second! Ā I am sharing example activities across…
I love teaching phonics. Ā It’s so empowering for students to have confidence in their sounds as they tackle decoding new words. Ā Teaching a new phonics pattern each week is fun…
February is one of my favorite teaching months.Ā Thereās a looming excitement of a day off to honor presidents.Ā February also offers about a million special days such as Groundhog…
December Lit Kit time is here! Ā This all in one December literacy kit comes in three grade levels! The pictures in this post are a mixture of the three grade…
When it comes to teaching from the standards or a district scope and sequence, there’s no question that ELA (English Language Arts) has the LARGEST amount of skills and standards…
This summer has been a whirlwind of fun and excitement! Ā I enjoyed spending time presenting in Oklahoma, Texas, and Orlando! In justĀ one more day I will be off to Vegas…
Ā When spring fever hits, I like to bring out what I secretly call “Disneyland Centers” Ā I amp up the fun and keep my students engaged and excited about learning! Ā StudentsĀ won’t…
Teaching word families is a wonderful way to help students recognize patterns in the written language while simultaneously becoming better readers! Ā In our room we focused on different spelling…
The second set of sight words and fluency phrases booklets are complete. Ā You can now track your student’s sight word knowledge up to 1000 Fry’s words! Want to put in…
One of my favorite activities each week during guided reading was our read and match station. Ā Students were introduced to a phonics pattern each week for our spelling program. (we…
During my guided reading session last week in Tennessee , I was asked how I track sight words.Ā I did my best to describe these little leveled sight word…
One area that I love to teach is phonics. Ā If you read this blog you already know that! Ā I’m excited that my BIG phonics bundle is finally complete! Ā This bundle…
Hello!Ā I am going to begin a little series of teaching ideas.Ā I’m going to start with September.Ā Never mind that we are halfway through the month y’all.Ā The world…
In this post I hope to share a few basic fundamentals about beginning readers!Ā No matter how many years I have been teaching, I don’t think I will ever feel…
It’s been a week! We had 3 days of state testing, torrential downpours, and a field trip! Although I don’t envy the “big kids” for their grueling and stressful testing…
As a teacher of reading, we come to discover that there are some habits that separate skilled readers from those that struggle. Struggling Readers Tend To: Rely on context clues…
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