Free R-Controlled Vowels Posters

admin June 8, 2013 No Comments

Creating these R-Controlled Vowels posters has been on my to-do list for quite sometime.  Today is my official first day of summer vacation and there’s no better way to begin vacation than to get going on that never-ending list.  Of course, there’s a few household chores, but those items aren’t quite as fun.  Okay, there’s one household chore that’ll absolutely have to get done today–it’s early June and our Christmas lights still need to be taken down from around the house.  Yikes! Click HERE to download the FREE R-Controlled Vowels Posters    

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Phonemic Awareness Intervention Kit and Activity Pack

admin June 2, 2013 No Comments

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the Make, Take & Teach Activity Pack for Phonemic Awareness.  The activities contained in this pack are ideal for use within your targeted small group intervention.  If your school uses the DIBELS Next as a universal screening assessment, the activities align with the Initial Sound Fluency and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency assessments.    We know that children learn best with a hands-on approach to teaching.  These activities are hands-on activities which means that you’ll have to gather some materials to assemble several of the games.  When you download the Response to Intervention- Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack from my Teachers Pay Teachers store you’ll receive the following activities in the downloadable pdf. A 19 page teaching

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Preventing the Summer Slide

admin May 28, 2013 No Comments

As much as teachers love summer vacation, there’s always a little (actually, big) panic that sets in as we pack up the classrooms and send our children off during those three lazy months of fun in the sun.  What if they never pick up a book?  Oh, and they were so close in learning all their math facts- will they forget?  We’ve worked so diligently teaching skills and the kids have learned so much—what if when they return in September and they forget?  The loss of skills during the summer in the educational world is known as “The Summer Slide” and it is very real.   Research indicates that children who live in poverty consistently lose 2 months of reading performance

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Fun Little Alphabet Games

admin May 17, 2013 No Comments

Kyle created this cute little ladybug for another activity and I thought he would be ideal for a fun little springtime and summer themed alphabet activity.  When you download the ABC Ladybug game you’ll receive 4 free ladybug game boards and letter circles.  To play the game, provide each child with a game board and place all the letter circles face down on the table.   Players take turns choosing a circle and matching the beginning sound of the letter to the picture on their game board.  The first player to have all the dots on their ladybug covered wins the game. Click the following link to download this fun little freebie Ladybug Alphabet Game Maybe your students are more into

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Explicit Instruction Website

admin May 12, 2013 No Comments

After reading my earlier blog post on The Need for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction, my new friend, Erin, from the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning sent me a link to Anita Archer and Charles Hughes’ website www.explicitinstruction.org.  She thought I’d enjoy the vidoes on the website and she was absolutely right!  Its one thing to read about an instructional strategy, but it’s another to see it in action–and demonstrated by a master teacher. If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you may know that vocabulary instruction is one of my favorite topics.  On the Explicit Instruction website there are are two videos of Dr. Archer demonstrating a vocabulary lesson (one for kindergarten and the other for second grade). 

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Alphabetic Principle Activity Pack and Intervention Kit

admin May 6, 2013 No Comments

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the activities contained within the Make, Take & Teach Alphabetic Principle Activity Pack and Intervention Kit.  The activities contained in the pack and kit are ideal for your small group intervention and are aligned with the DIBELS Next assessments and early literacy assessments commonly administered in schools.  We know that all children learn best with a hands-on approach to teaching and learning.  The activities contained in the printable pack and intervention kit are hands-on activities.  This means that you’ll have to gather some materials to assemble several of the activities.  If you purchase the intervention kit, I’ve provided all the printables and materials for you all contained in a sturdy Sterilite container.   The

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Dolch 220 Sight Word Assessment

admin April 28, 2013 No Comments

The Dolch 220 sight words make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text.  Most of these words cannot be sounded out and students need to be taught to instantly recognize these words in order to be fluent readers.  Because recognizing these words is so important during reading, it is important that we use a variety of activities to teach, practice and memorize sight words. It all begins with assessment.  Before you begin teaching sight words, it is important to know which words your student(s) already know.   When you download the Sight Word Assessment and Progress Monitoring file, you’ll receive the assessment, student recording forms and progress monitoring charts.  You’ll want to periodically re-assess you student(s) to be

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Springtime Vowel Sorting Freebie!

admin April 13, 2013 No Comments

I was out shopping the other day and stopped in at the Dollar Tree.  It’s so much fun when they change their seasonal items.  The spring items are especially fun to use in some sort of activity.  These cute little watering cans are ideal for a sorting activity.  We have a few kiddos who are still confusing their short vowel sounds and this spring-themed activity will be great to use during small group instruction.   When you download this freebie you’ll receive 32 flowers with short vowel pictures.  Directions for assembling your activity as well as teaching directions are included in this file. Click the following link to download this freebie Flower Can Freebie Enjoy!

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It’s a Soccer Shoot Out!

admin April 11, 2013 No Comments

Soccer is my sport!  I love, love, love soccer.  My oldest child was five when we enrolled him in our city recreational league.   Our family has been hooked ever since.   You know how organizations are always short on volunteers?  Well, the soccer league was short on coaches.  When I was asked to coach I remember saying, “I’ll think about it” and the next thing I know I received a roster of 15 10-year-old boys.  Having never played soccer, I did what any rational person would do–googled “how to coach soccer.”  How difficult can it be- right?  Well, ever since I’ve coached all three of my kids recreational league teams as well as Lizzie’s travel team.  I loved every minute of

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Vowel Teams Baseball Freebie!

admin March 26, 2013 No Comments

I’m really having fun creating sports-themed activities.  It’s kind of funny that I haven’t yet created a single activity for my all-time favorite sport, tennis, and only one for my second all-time favorite sport- soccer.  I’m trying to keep with the sports season and it seems like baseball is it for the spring.   Baseball really wasn’t big in my family.  The kids played in our recreational league as young children and only lasted a few summers.  We found it, oh should I really say it?–deep breath–kind of boring.  Okay, please no hate comments from baseball fans.   I will say, however, that one of my favorite family pictures was taken at the ball field. Oh my gosh, this picture was literally taken 13 years ago! 

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