26 Free and FUN Color and Learn Australia ABC Worksheets! Kids learn all about 'down under' animals while practicing their alphabet and strengthening writing and reading skills.
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Integrating language arts skills into social studies can be tricky. There is already a lot of subject matter to cover without having to teach reading and writing skills as well! If a social studies teacher did not receive much language arts training within his or her certification program, integrating these skills can be even more […]
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Teaching young kids to recognize letters is the first step in their journey to reading and writing. Yet, with so many letters and sounds to remember, its not always easy for them.
Suzy Ultman A to Z Menagerie is a multisensory alphabet book unlike any other. This unique reading experience features a die-cut letter to trace and a satisfying pull-tab reveal for each letter of the alphabet. Each page is filled with diverse and colorfully illustrated first words to find and identify. • Teaches young readers hand-eye coordination, prediction skills, and rich vocabulary• Interactive experience of pulling tabs helps reinforce your little one's journey to learning the ABCs• Filled with charming and playful illustrations by Suzy Ultman This powerful learning tool not only allows concepts to be touched and experienced, but it also features a wide range of vocabulary words. First words include "challah," "curry," "kabob," "macaroons," "miso soup," "taco," and "udon." • A wonderful gift for parents and grandparents looking for an introduction to the ABCs for their baby, early childhood educators, and anyone who appreciates good design• Functions like a flash card and a guessing game: the central oversize letter is recessed beneath a die-cut, inviting readers to trace its shape before pulling the tab to discover the reveal• Great for fans of the TouchThinkLearn series by Xavier Deneux, Baby's First Eames by Julie Merberg, and Montessori: Letter Work by Bobby George
The Flashcards & ABC Magnetic Letters set is a comprehensive and thoughtfully designed educational tool, perfect for introducing young minds to the world of letters, sounds, and early reading skills. Packed with features to enhance learning, this set is both fun and educational, making it a favorite among parents and children alike.Key Features:🔠 Phonologically Appropriate: Each flashcard features words suitable for early learners, aiding in phonetic development.👌 Tactile Design: Thick and durable cards, easy for little hands to hold and built to last.🅰️🅱️ Comprehensive Letter Sets: Includes both uppercase and lowercase letters, promoting simultaneous learning of both letter cases.🧩 Spelling Made Easy: All words on the cards can be spelled using the provided letter sets, ensuring a cohesive learning experience.🔵 Special Vowel Highlight: Vowels are colored blue for easy differentiation, helping kids understand these critical characters in reading.✍️ Tracing Worksheets: Each card has a tracing worksheet on the back, guiding kids on how to write each letter.🧲 Full Magnetic Backing: Each alphabet letter is fully backed with a magnet, allowing for extended interactive play on fridges or whiteboards.🎉 Fun and Engaging: These flashcards make learning exciting and are an excellent tool for giving your child a head start in literacy.In the Box:A set of tactile, durable flashcards featuring phonologically appropriate words.Complete sets of magnetic uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters.Our Flashcards & ABC Magnetic Letters set is not just an educational resource; it's a doorway to a world of learning, where developing literacy skills is as enjoyable as it is rewarding. Perfect for home or classroom use, this set is sure to become a cherished tool in your child’s learning journey.
Visual tracking activities are important for school skills. Using the infinity loop with learning activities is an added bonus for strengthening the eye muscles… it helps them to smoothly cross midline.
Encourage creative thinking, problem-solving, and reading comprehension skills with these cut and paste Free Printable Ocean Kindergarten Sequencing Worksheets. Grab yours today! Are you ready for another undersea adventure with your little kids? I'm so
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.
Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session or read fluency sentences. I have my kiddos keep a composition notebook with past passages to go back and re-read. I use lots of guided reader books to find the just right text for my kiddos to read. These are also great books to leave for kiddos to practice between sessions. Fluency sentence strips from The Moffatt Girls are a GREAT help to boost fluency and confidence! They are also super easy to leave for practice between sessions. Fluency Reading Practice My kiddos have all had good sight word recognition and really need fluency work. I switch between leveled readers and text passages. I usually have kiddos read the text themselves first. After reading, we go back through the text and find words that were tricky and read them. Next, I have the kiddo read through the text with me or by themselves if they are confident. Using a leveled reader Using fluency passages and recording words read per minute (the kiddos love to see their growth!) Find these fluency passages HERE! Using text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Comprehension After some fluency practice with the selected text, I move into comprehension work. In our district, kiddos need to do a written response comprehension question as part of their reading assessment. I have my kiddos practice a written response question with every text and in every session. Comprehension with level reader I use these question stems to develop questions based on the text. Grab the question stems HERE! Completed written response, kiddos write in their composition journal Comprehension with text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Here I use a reading passage with several comprehension tasks for a 2nd grade kiddo. Find these reading passage + comprehension packets HERE! Phonics After the reading and comprehension tasks are complete, I work on some phonics task with my kiddos. One of my favorite tasks is doing a word family word splash. I select a word from our text. I like how this tasks shows kiddos that if they can spell a work like bat, they can also spell cat, mat, sat, etc. Writing short sentences with words from the Word Family Splash Word building and sounding out Extras I like to use phonics poems as an additional fluency tool. The kiddos glue them into their composition notebook so they can go back and re-read between sessions, continuing to build fluency with familiar texts. These phonics poems are from Susan Jones. I use our Literacy Bags in between reading tasks. Literacy Bags break up the rigorous reading and fluency practice we do for much of the session. You can find Literacy Bags HERE! I'm working with a few Kindergartners who need sight word practice. I use the K version of our Differentiated Reading Fluency passages. In K, the passages start as reading letters, then sight words fluently. It perfect support for my K kiddos! You can grab these HERE! Additionally, our Print a Standard packs have been a great support for targeting specific skills students need to work on. Each pack contains tasks for one standard and has several activities for that standard, so there are a lot of opportunities to help the student learn, practice, and master standards based skills. You can grab Print a Standard packs for ELA AND MATH HERE! Connecting with students and parents on a more personal level is the best part of tutoring. I love giving kiddos instant feedback and celebrating their successes! I also love that I can give them more choices to foster a love of reading. In the picture above, I'm showing several text selections. The kiddos I'm working with is able to choose the book he'll read with me for the session. I also love being able to help parents foster learning at home. I've found most all of my parents did not really know about their kiddo's reading level or reading abilities. This makes it difficult for parents to find the best "just right" books for reading at home. After I work with a kiddo, I leave the text piece we worked on for that session (a passage or a book) so the kiddo can re-read it with parents. I leave their composition notebooks with phonics poems for the kiddos to go back a re-read. I also leave the fluency sentence strips for practice between sessions.
Character traits is an important skill to help students understand characters. This post shares strategies and free character trait activities.
I love using sorts like this with my students. They are easy to use and so versatile! I use them for: -Anchor charts -Small group practice -Quick assessment This set includes: -Sorting Headers: Good Choices, Bad choices -18 Good Choices Graphics -11 Bad Choices Graphics -1 Black and White Printable Customer Tips: How to get TPT credits to use on future purchases: • Go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you provide feedback, you’ll earn TPT credits that can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Plus, the feedback you provide helps me customize my products to specifically meet your needs. Be the first to know about sales, discounts, freebies and new products: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. It’s that easy! You will now receive email updates and messages about my store.
Teaching young kids to recognize letters is the first step in their journey to reading and writing. Yet, with so many letters and sounds to remember, its not always easy for them.
Being able to sequence is an important skill for math and reading. Discover hands-on sequencing activities for preschoolers that are perfect for building a strong foundation.
Dog Busy Box for Preschoolers. Teach and Learn Important Preschool skills with a fun interest themed busy box. Printables, DIYs, Toys, Books!
Do you teach a wiggle worm? Or perhaps your learner(s) have been sitting for a while and you can see the energy level going down. Enter wiggle brain breaks! These wiggle brain breaks can help wake up and recharge the brain, something I particularly need after lunch! *This post contains affiliate links. **The free printable can ... Read More about 20+ FREE Wiggle Brain Breaks
5 toddler pre-reading skills every parent should know about! These are the skills to inculcate in your kids BEFORE teaching them to read.
How do you infuse the teaching of reading skills and strategies? If you use a basal reading series, you most likely focus on one skill and strategy for a 1-2 week period. Even if you don't use a basal and find your own texts to use, it's a great practice to focus on re-teaching and reviewing comprehension skills and strategies. They're all so interrelated anyway. When I teach reading skills and strategies, I like to display a poster on our class focus wall. This lets anyone who walks in the classroom know what we're targeting at the time, and is also a great reminder for students. Even better than that, I have the same posters available to students at their desks. I don't start the year with a full ring of cards because that would be overwhelming, but I do give students a card to add to their rings as we go over it. I find students referencing their comprehension rings often during their seat work, independent reading, and even group work. We use these during small group time as well. To use these cards, I print them (they come 4 to a page), laminate, cut them out and hole punch. The students do the rest. I know it can be tedious to laminate these bad boys, but I want them to last all year. Plus, it's a great task for my parent volunteer! There are the posters we use throughout the year. They're bright and fun, meaning they draw attention to themselves--which is the point! You can find these posters as well as mini-posters in my TPT store. They're bundled together as well for a discounted price!
Would it surprise you to learn that the world’s first computer programmer was a woman? And a woman born more than 100 years before the first computer was ever invented? Ada’s Ideas is an amazing, picture book biography of Ada Lovelace, documenting her life and creativity in mathematics that far…
If you know me, you know that a good sort is one of my favorite instructional strategies. I actually think my grade level colleagues get si...
Color can be a helpful tool when teaching music literacy and developing music-reading skills, for students of all ages. Color provides a quick way of sorting and organizing visual elements, especially elements that are the same. Here are some of the benefits of using color, plus four simple ways to
Teach your four-year-old more than ABCs and 123's. Make sure they are ready for kindergarten by teaching them these 8 essential life skills!
Fine motor skills are so important for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop the strength that’s needed for a lot of basic skills they need to learn such as tying their shoe laces to learning how to write. There are so many objects that you can use around your home for basic fine motor activities,...Read More »
Engaging, fun ways to teach your students summarizing skills. Strengthen their reading skills and provide practice with this challenging concept.
