Back to School News is creative writing task that I've used during the first week of school for many years. Students love it!As a teacher, you'll love this back to school writing activity too. Why? Read on, teacher friend!It's such a fun way to get to know your new students! Through this writing activity, you'll learn a bit about each students' summer, home life, and feelings towards school. ... Read More about The Perfect Back to School Writing Activity
Literacy Centers Aligned to the Science of Reading
What should students be working on independently while you teach small groups?This is a question that is continuously asked in my building and on social media. As teachers, we recognize the importance of time. There’s never enough time to do it all, so it’s imperative that all time students spend at school is purposeful. Below you’ll find many simple, evergreen ideas for word work centers ... Read More about Literacy Centers Aligned to the Science of Reading
Improve Fluency with Vowel Intensive Drills
A vowel intensive drill is the perfect way to open a small group lesson for students struggling with phonological awareness. Benefits include strengthening awareness of medial sounds, vowel sounds, and phoneme-grapheme correspondences. How It Works:Each student gets a set of vowel tents. You can give them all of the vowels at once, or you can give 2 or 3 at a time. (When I first start this with ... Read More about Improve Fluency with Vowel Intensive Drills
Teach Kids How to Decode Words
Beginning readers need to be explicitly taught how to sound out and blend unknown words. This will require lots and lots of modeling of using the alphabetic code: matching graphemes and phonemes. The goal of code-emphasis instruction is to help students automate sound-symbol associations to decode words accurately. Through lots of practice and exposure, they will begin to recognize some ... Read More about Teach Kids How to Decode Words
Phonics Fluency Games
When it comes to explicit phonics instruction, students need lots of practice both decoding (reading) and encoding (writing). It's easy to make decoding fun with phonics games to practice fluency! Check out my favorite ways to get kids reading with no-prep games that are easy to implement with any skill. Gamify Decoding PracticeTic-Tac-ToeThis is the easiest option when you only have a few minutes ... Read More about Phonics Fluency Games
Try Word Chaining for Phonics Practice
Looking for a new activity for your small group phonics instruction? Try using a word chain! Word chaining is like word building, but better, because it adds another level of thinking. Using a word chain gives students the opportunity to build words, but also to recognize differences between similar words. Word chains draw attention to the individual phonemes that make up words and their ... Read More about Try Word Chaining for Phonics Practice
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