Phonics Posters to Support Structured Literacy
This post shares our latest and greatest Phonics Posters to support structured literacy. Why Should I Use Phonics Posters? Phonics posters provide students with an image connected to sound. As…
Structured Literacy Resources
Today’s post focuses on our best resources to support structured literacy. We’ve gathered our most effective and practical resources for systematic and supportive instruction in literacy. Structured Literacy is the application…
Word Chains for Reading Skills
Word chains are a simple and effective phonemic awareness activity where students sound swap their way through a series of words. Word chains offer practice with blending, segmenting, and phoneme…
Five Must-Have Teaching Resources
Teaching fads have come and gone over the years, but there are some practices I have continued to do that have withstood the test of time. These mainstays of the…
Flip Up Phonics
Teaching phonics is like giving students a formula for reading. With phonics instruction, students successfully decode hundreds of words over a matter of weeks and months. Flip Up Phonics is…
Guided Reading Resources the Smart Cart
Join me on the floor of my office as we explore many guided reading resources on the “Smart Cart!” I will share the resources packed on the cart as well…
Let’s Celebrate Reading!
To celebrate reading this week, I’m sharing my set up for ELAR. This system is flexible and ever-changing, but the basic structure remains the same year to year which…
Keeping Up with Phonics and Word Families
I love teaching phonics. It’s so empowering for students to have confidence in their sounds as they tackle decoding new words. Teaching a new phonics pattern each week is fun…
Read and Match Pocket Chart Cards
One of my favorite activities each week during guided reading was our read and match station. Students were introduced to a phonics pattern each week for our spelling program. (we…
All the Phonics!
One area that I love to teach is phonics. If you read this blog you already know that! I’m excited that my BIG phonics bundle is finally complete! This bundle…
Phonics: What Why & How
Phonics and spelling instruction can vary a lot from classroom to classroom. Over the last twelve years that I have been a first grade teacher, I have seen fads and…
Little Classroom Moments
Here’s an oldie that proves to be so effective {and telling} in small group math! Bears in a cave has been around since my first year of teaching and I…
Spelling and Phonics – Step by Step
Here’s what works for us! First up on Friday afternoon I stock this 5 drawer unit with the activities for the following week. This is a picture from last year. …
Word Work Storage and Yearly Plan
I have compiled my pictures of word work from last year into one post in hopes of showing how we organize and teach word work all in one neat and…
The Big Phonics Bundle! {Purposeful Word Work}
This school year I have been creating purposeful word work for my students to do during our guided reading block. I wanted to give my students meaningful activities that would…
Workshop Talk!
This year my entire morning is workshop style. My class goes 3 full hours in workshop mode every day. We do our reader’s workshop (loosely based on The Daily Five)…
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