Let me do the printing and gathering of materials for you. The Make, Take & Teach intervention kits are designed to be used to target specific skills during small group or individual instruction. When you order a kit you’ll receive all the materials needed to assemble your … [Read more...]
Printed Pre K- K Cookie Sheet Bundle
We know that children learn best when we provide hands-on activities. The Make, Take & Teach cookie sheet activities have certainly been a hit with our young students. These activities are ideal for either small group instruction or as independent center activities. Simply … [Read more...]
Phonemic Awareness Activities – Just Grab and Go!
Last year I was cleaning my basement getting ready for our annual garage sale and came across all those old Disney movies housed in VHS cases. Although our VHS player is long gone and the kids are now into their late teens and twenties, parting with those old movies was pretty … [Read more...]
Phonemic Awareness Activities On the Go!
It's amazing sometimes where inspiration hits. A few weeks ago I had to kill about an hour and decided to hop on over to Michael's Craft Store. As I was walking through the bead aisle I found this really handy plastic tote. It was just the right size to fit picture cards! … [Read more...]
Parent Handouts- Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension
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 … [Read more...]
Race Car Blending
Here's a super fun way for teaching students to blend words. Just a quick little stop at the dollar store to pick up a few race cars and you're all set. Simply provide each student with a racing track and a car and have them say the sounds of the letters as they move the car … [Read more...]
Teaching Phonemic Awareness Skills
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 … [Read more...]
Phonemic Awareness Intervention Kit and Activity Pack
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 … [Read more...]
8 Great Ideas for Teaching Segmenting and Blending
Phonemic awareness- 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 (Yopp, 1992) The best predictor of reading difficulty in kindergarten or first grade is the inability … [Read more...]