The research is very clear regarding the relationship between phonological/ phonemic awareness skills and later reading achievement. Children need to have an appreciation of how sounds can be put together to create words. Incorporating phonemic awareness activities into our … [Read more...]
Teaching the Consonant+le Syllable Type
It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllable words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day FREEBIE!
Be sure to jump on over to my TpT store to download this St. Patrick's Day freebie for learning and practicing sight words. When you download this file you'll receive 6 game boards with words from the first 6 lists of the Dolch sight words. The game boards are great for centers … [Read more...]
Fun Little St. Patrick’s Day Activity for Practicing Digraphs
St. Patrick's Day is soon approaching! My goodness, this school year is flying by. It's kind of fun how we measure our school year by the coming and goings of the holidays. So far this year we've had 9 snow days! Can you believe it? 9! It seems like we've been hit with a … [Read more...]
A Strategy for Helping Students Learn to Blend
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile you may know that I’m just a little (okay, a lot) addicted to professional books. I really love keeping up with the current research in reading and learning difficulties. One of my favorite authors is Isabel Beck. I love her book, … [Read more...]
ABC Penguins Freebie
I'm just in love with these cute little penguins that Kyle created. I thought they'd make a super fun ABC order activity for my preschool and kindergarten friends. I created both an upper- and lowercase set so that you can have your kiddos either put them in alphabetical order … [Read more...]
Long Vowel Spelling Patterns
Many of my first and second friends are now working with long vowel sounds. Those vowels can be so tricky as sometimes the vowel says a short sound and sometimes a long sound, and then to top it off, there are several different spelling patterns for long vowels. When our young … [Read more...]
Free Phonics Cue Card
I'm so lucky to be working with kind and dedicated educators! When my two school friends, Kim and Robin, asked me to create a cue card for them to use with their students, well of course, I was happy to do it. They had cue cards for the letters and sounds and just needed … [Read more...]
Free Digraph Posters
Have you ever had a project that you've been meaning to get to, but for some reason it just lingers on in your to-do list? That's kind of how it was with these consonant digraphs posters. They've just been sitting on desktop for literally over a year. Well, my friend was … [Read more...]
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