The Magic e Game Boards activity is available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store. Many of my first grade teacher friends are looking for fun and interactive center activities. Here’s a fun little freebie for practicing the magic e rule. When you download this freebie you’ll receive 4 colorful game boards. Enjoy!
I’ve been absolutely lovin’ those dry erase pockets I picked up at Walmart during their back to school sale. My goodness, they were only a little over a $1.oo each! My mind is literally spinning with activities to create to use with them. The kids really like this twist on what would normally be a black and white worksheet. The pockets are particularly helpful during small group instruction when working on targeted phonics skills. I know so many of my first grade friends are working on short vowel sounds so creating a dry erase pocket activity for short vowels seemed to be a logical fit. For each vowel, there is a word family page where the student is to write
Click HERE to download this free activity from my online TpT store. Here’s a fun little freebie for practicing addition and subtraction facts. It’s great for either your small group instruction or as an activity for your math centers. The game is super simple to play. To play, you’ll need two players each with different colored chips. Each player takes a turn solving a math problem and then placing their chip in the square. The first player to have 4 of their colored chips in a row wins the game. Sounds simple? Not so fast- players have to be sure to block their opponent as they try to get their 4-In-A-Row. When you download this file you’ll receive 4 colorful
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds. The child’s level of phonemic awareness upon entering school is one of the strongest indicators of how well he/she will learn to read. Children must have an understanding that words are made up of separate speech sounds that can be broken apart and put together to form words. Without this understanding, learning the alphabet doesn’t make much sense. Although some children enter school with an appreciation of the sounds of language, many do not. The exciting part is that, as teachers, by assessing our students’ phonemic awareness skills early on, we can identify those who
Halloween is just around the corner and it’s time to add a little holiday spirit into centers and small groups. These Halloween-themed game boards might just do the trick. There are 9 boards using words from the Dolch 220 sight word lists. You can easily differentiate your literacy center activities by choosing which boards to use with specific groups. Your kiddos might even enjoy taking a few home for added practice. Click the following link to download the FREE game board for list 4 of the Dolch sight words Halloween Sight Word Game Board List 4 If you like this little freebie, you might like all the Dolch sight words printed on Halloween-themed game boards. When you download
Are you ready for some football? I absolutely love football! From our friday night high school games, to traveling to Michigan State University to watch the Spartans to weekend pro games. Love it all! Your little football fans just might get a kick out these activities. Here’s a little football FREEBIE for you. The Make, Take & Teach Football Addition Game makes for a fun center activity for practicing math facts to 12. Super quick to make. Need a little activity for practicing sight words? When you download this file, you’ll receive all Dolch 220 sight words printed on these colorful footballs. This game is a fast-paced game with lots of opportunities for practice. To play the game, students take
Do you have those very special go-to activities? The spider web game is definitely one of mine. I started my career as a Speech and Language Pathologist many years ago and the spider web game was one of the first games I made. My very dear friend and mentor, Jill, introduced me to this game as she was using it with her students working on specific sounds. I quickly made one of my own for my therapy sessions. This game was so much fun the kiddos started asking to play it in September and kept wanting to play it through Thanksgiving. This activity is so versatile, I just adapted it for use with sight words. To create your own game,
It’s been nearly 10 years now that our schools have been using the Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy (DIBELS) Next as a school-wide reading assessment. DIBELS was first introduced as part of Reading First and fit so nicely into our new Response to Intervention initiative. The DIBELS Next is a valid and reliable screener that can identify students at-risk for reading difficulties. The idea is that if we can identify those students early, we can put in place interventions to actually prevent the reading problem! Personally, I love this assessment. It does exactly what it is suppose to do. In the ensuing years; however, misunderstandings of the assessment have lead to inappropriate use of the data as well as inappropriate
Kyle (fabulous artist) did such a wonderful job designing these candy corns. I just love them- and the kiddos do too! They were such a hit last school year. This year I added the vocabulary activity. They are super easy to make. Simply print the candy corns on card stock and cut them into three separate pieces. That’s it! Your center activity is all set. The Candy Corn Alphabet activity is perfect for students just learning letters and sounds. Students match the beginning sound to both the upper- and lowercase letters. The Candy Corn Alphabet activity is available through the Make, Take & Teach website or through my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Many of our preschoolers and kindergarteners need extra
I’m really loving my tabletop pocket chart that I picked up at Walmart. It’s perfect for small group instruction. Unfortunately, you can only find these during the months of July and August when school supplies are available- bummer. After searching the web, I was able to find a similar tabletop pocket chart. It’s a bit more expensive than my Walmart find, but it will work just as well. If you weren’t able to grab one at Walmart this year, you might want to check out this option: So, I’ve been creating activities for my pocket chart. I’m slowly, but surely working my way up the phonics ladder. So far we have Pocket Chart Pictures for Early Literacy and Pocket Chart
