Even More St. Patrick’s Day Activities!

admin March 6, 2014 No Comments

Our kiddos just love it when we add a little holiday fun into literacy centers.  The 4-In-A-Row games are ideal for literacy center activities as students can play these games with partners while learning targeted phonics skills.  Playing 4-In-A-Row is pretty easy.  Students just take turns reading the words on the game board and placing their colored chips in the square.  The first player to have 4 of their colored chips in a row wins the game.   When you download this activity you’ll receive 12 phonics-based game boards for practicing vowel teams, long vowel sound spelling patterns (for example:  i/ie/igh/y), and r-controlled vowels. The St. Patrick’s Day 4-In-A-Row Game Boards for Phonics is available through the Make, Take &

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Vision and Reading Difficulties

admin March 1, 2014 No Comments

  It happened again.  I’m reviewing a file of a student having difficulty learning to read and there it is!  A recording of three failed school vision screenings.  I would love to say that this is an isolated incident, but unfortunately, all too often we seem to overlook the obvious.  With all of our literacy screenings, progress monitoring, digging deeper assessments, we have all seemed to neglect the possibilty that the child may not even be able to see the text clearly.  We assume that the parents, after receiving the letter from the health department, followed through on the recommendation for further vision testing.  Ugg…. what valuable instructional time has been lost. Another frustration is that many children who actually

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St. Patrick’s Day Sight Word Game Boards

admin February 20, 2014 No Comments

St Patrick’s Day is coming up soon so let’s celebrate with a little freebie!  Kyle, my fabulous artist, created this adorable game board last year.  When you click the link below, you’ll be able to download 6 game boards with sight words from the Dolch 220 sight words.  I’ve also included a blank game board for you so that you can individualize the activity for your students. The St. Patrick’s Day Game Boards for the Dolch Sight Words can be downloaded for free from my Teachers Pay Teachers store. So, let’s get those St. Patrick’s Day centers ready!  Enjoy!    

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Homophones Activity

admin February 20, 2014 No Comments

Just click the following link to download this list of homophones: Homophones Word List 2 A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word or words, but has a different meaning and spelling.  Homophones can really trip up our young readers and writers.  It’s sometimes difficult for them to know for sure which spelling to use within their writing.  Targeted instruction in the meaning of the different spellings of these words is needed.  Activities involving homophones can actually be quite fun.  The Homophone Pear Match activity makes for a great literacy activity or as an activity for your small group instruction.  Students simply match each homophone pear and provides either a definition of the words and/or puts the

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File Folder Phonics

admin February 14, 2014 No Comments

File folder activities are great for classroom literacy centers.  They are typically used to reinforce skills so they are ideal for independent work.  For these activities, I’ve included a word sorting activity, a word writing activity and then a fill-in-the-black activity on the back of the file folder.  There’s a little bit of assembly involved, but it’ll be well worth it as, if laminated, the folders can be used over and over again.  Here’s a few pictures: Here’s the activity for Consonant + le: …and here’s a picture for the oi/oy file folder activity.  You’ll notice that some file folder activities have 2- , 3- and 4- areas for sorting and writing. I’ve included step-by-step assembly directions for each format.

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Multiple Meaning Words- Ice Cream Scoops

admin February 10, 2014 No Comments

When I was a Speech/Language Pathologist I used to love to teach multiple word meanings.  When students understand that a word can have a different meaning depending upon it’s use in oral or written language, their comprehension improves.  There are a lot ways to help students learn multiple meaning words.  The Ice Cream Scoops activity is a fun activity for expanding vocabulary by teaching multiple word meanings.  When you download this activity you’ll receive 16 ice cream cones containing words with two or more definitions.  Students match the definitions to the words.  You’ll want to be sure to have the students use the words in sentence so that they can clearly demonstrate that they understand the word meaning. Storing activities

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Parent Handouts- Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension

admin February 5, 2014 No Comments

So it’s almost mid-year conference time.  Parents often ask for ideas for helping their child at home.  Here are few handouts that can come in handy.  I’ve developed handouts for each area of literacy.  Each handout briefly explains the area of literacy and then ideas helping their child develop those skills are provided.  Hope you find them helpful! Click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Phonemic Awareness Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Parent Handout- Kindergarten Click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Phonemic Awareness First Grade Phonemic Awareness Parent Handout- First Grade-1 Just click the following link to download the Parent Handout for Learning Sight Words Learning Sight Words-1 Just click the following link to download the Parent Handout

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Super Fun Activities for Valentine’s Day!

admin February 1, 2014 No Comments

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and it’s time to change it up the literacy centers and small group activities.  Here are a few fun little activities for rhyme and learning letters and sounds. When you download the Valentine Hearts activity, you’ll receive 48 colorful hearts with pictures that rhyme.  Your students will have tons of fun finding the matching rhyming heart halves. The Make, Take & Teach Valentine Heart Matching activity can be found in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or on the Make, Take & Teach website. Here’s a fun activity for learning letters and sounds.  Students just match the letter to the beginning sound of the word. The Valentine Match Beginning Sounds activity can be

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DIY Play Doh Recipe

admin January 29, 2014 No Comments

Making Play Doh takes me back to when I used to teach preschool.  I just loved making my own Play Doh- homemade Play Doh is so much softer- and it was so much fun changing the colors and even, at times, adding scents.  I’ve tried a billion different recipes and found that the recipes that used cream of tartar and required cooking were hands-down the best.  Of course, it’s a bit more work, but well worth the extra effort.  I made this seasonal-themed Play Doh for the Winter Themed Math Activities for K-1 Packet.  Using the glitter added just the right touch to give it that glittery-snow effect.  So here’s the recipe: 1 cup of flour 1/2 cup of salt

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Fun Football Themed Activities!

admin January 27, 2014 No Comments

The Superbowl is coming up this weekend!  Although my favorite team isn’t playing in the big event, my second favorite team will be taking the field.  I have to admit I’m a pretty  big Peyton Manning fan so I’ll be cheering for the Broncos!  To celebrate the Superbowl festivities this weekend, I created a new football-themed activity for my second grade friends working on consonant + le.  This activity is a fast moving activity with lots of opportunities for response. The Touchdown! Consonant + le activity is available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Earlier this year, I created the game for the sight words and CVC words.  These activities will be great for your first grade centers! The Touchdown! Game for

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