Kids love playing games. So why not incorporate teaching and practicing sight words into active and fun activities designed to keep them engaged while still learning! Bowling for Sight Words is a kid-endorsed, absolutely awesome game for practicing sight words. This bowling … [Read more...]
Parent Handouts for Learning Sight Words and Improving Reading Fluency
As the school year ends, parents often ask for suggestions on how to help their child at home over the summer months. Last year I developed several parent handouts to address specific areas of reading. The Learning Sight Words handout provides suggestions for teaching and … [Read more...]
Spring Math and Word Family Activities
Just before heading out for a walk the other day, my friend showed me a robin's nest complete with three chirping baby robins who took up temporary residence in her garage. That reminded me that I haven't yet posted the Robin's Nest Addition Freebie on the blog. I know there's … [Read more...]
Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Several years back all the K-6 and special education teachers in our districts participated in the Language Essentials for Teachers of Language and Spelling (LETRS) training. One of the beginning sessions introduced the the five key areas of reading instruction proposed by the … [Read more...]
Bead Slide: A Tool for Teaching Phoneme Segmentation
The bead slide is one of my favorite tools to use when teaching the phonemic awareness skill of phoneme segmentation. They are so simple to make. Check out the video to see how to use and make the bead slide. Sometimes it's just hard to come up with words … [Read more...]
Counting Bugs!
I'll admit it, I love my cup of coffee in the morning. For a month now, I've been looking at the blue plastic Maxwell House container thinking that there must be some way to incorporate it into an activity. Then it hit me. Stick a label on the container and it'd be perfect … [Read more...]
DIBELS Next Parent Handouts
Oh, Yeah! It's DIBELS testing week. I absolutely love listening to those kiddos read and seeing the progress they've made since the beginning of the year. Okay, I'd admit, after the 5th day of testing, I nearly have the story of the "Cocoa Stand" memorized and I am a little … [Read more...]
Reflections on Reading
At the end of May, my oldest daughter will be graduating from high school (sniff, sniff). Our local high school honors the top academic graduates each year by having a banquet. Through hard work, dedication and the opportunity of having top-notch teachers all through school, … [Read more...]
A Mother’s Day Note
My graphic artist, Kyle, is so sweet. She created this adorable Mother's Day note template that she would like to share with you to use with your students. She remembers writing a letter to her mother on a note just like this when she was a child. Awwww. She made a colored … [Read more...]
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