If you have an early reader, you'll want to check out this free, printable poetry pack! You will find pages of poems that target the long and short vowel sounds, and your student will have fun with the rhyming lines.

Build word family and sight word fluency with these fluency passages for early readers. They are perfect for Kindergarten and 1st grade!

Travel and learn about London, England with this free mini geography reader that comes in both English and Spanish.

Finding decodable reading books for early readers can be quite a challenge! Below are some of the books we have in our classroom. The Peacekeeper Series I absolutely love the Peacekeeper Series available on Montessori Services. Each story is set in a Montessori classroom and shows how the children prevent or resolve a conflict. The words are phonetically […]

Collection of short plays for pre-school and kindergarten students. $1 each. Royalty-free when used in a classroom or school setting.

Learn about force and motion with these free little readers. What happens when you push or pull? Just print, cut one slit and fold into small 8-page books. They're in both colour and black and white with links to many more free readers in the post.

Early readers will love these rhyming activities including printables, games, and more. They are simple, engaging, and most of all - FUN!

I am busily thinking about what essential skills my students need before the end of the school year. With that in mind, I am looking at my data and my school's benchmarks to determine which skills I need to focus on. One area that I am going to tackle when we return from break is Concepts of Print. For some reason, about a third of my students are not performing at grade level. This may seem like no big deal but next trimester the benchmark is for each student to score 90% on this benchmark. We use ESGI's Concept of Print as our assessment. (Go, here to learn more about ESGI.) So, I created this to help us. Freebie on my Facebook Fan Page In the meantime, here is a sample of the anchor chart I made for one of my most missed questions on this assessment. Graphics by KPM Doodles Happy Teaching and Learning!

A list of early chapter book series about girls to keep kids motivated to read. Includes diverse books that all kids will love.

There are so many parts to reading instruction. It can be tricky to keep them all straight if you aren’t well-practiced. Luckily I can break this one down for

Have you ever heard the term phonemic awareness and wondered what it is? I get a lot of emails from parents who are ready to teach their child how to

What do you do when your Kindergarten student would rather play paper football than practice sight words? You combine his love of flicking folded paper across the table with introducing new words! This Paper Football Sight Word game will get the most resistant student excited about scoring sight word touchdowns! Paper Football Sight Word Game This post ... Read more

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Spring is almost here and I can't wait! I enjoyed making our new Spring Math and Literacy Packet for Kindergarten! This packet is filled with FUN,

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

My son has been known to forget end punctuation. Hence, the run-on sentence occurs. To give him a little grammar lesson on why run-ons are bad, I grabbed a roll of register tape and an Easy Reader Level 1 book. I copied the words from the book onto the register tape omitting end punctuation and capital letters. I stuck with a fairly short book, as the text gets kind of long regardless. When my son got home from school, I was ready with the register tape, scissors, pencil, and the stapler. Before he did our language arts activity, though, I pulled out a Grammar Tales book to help me explain just why run-ons are so troubling. This is our third experience with a book from the series and The No-Good, Rotten, Run-On Sentence didn't disappoint. It's the story of Kevin Crabtree whose great idea for a story became the longest run-on sentence in the history of writing (okay, I might be exaggerating just a bit). The first sentence ran and ran, right off the page and all over town. Finally, after many feeble attempts to catch the sentence, dear Miss Bartlebine comes to the rescue with her red pencil. The ridiculously long run-on was finally tamed into perfectly polite sentences with punctuation or by adding words like but, yet, for, because, or and. Now it was time to apply what he'd learned. I handed him the run-on story I'd copied and reminded him that sentences contain both subjects and verbs and always have complete ideas (i.e. no fragments). He worked his way through reading the register tape, stopping to analyze where adding punctuation would make the most sense and capitalizing the first word of the new sentences. Snip! He cut the register tape into shorter sentences that we kept in order and stapled together when he was done. This was a fair amount of reading since it often required rereading passages again and again until fixing the run-ons made sense. My son hung with it and when he was all done, I had him check his work by handing him the book from which I'd copied the text. He did a GREAT job!

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In this article we learn the benefits of show and tell and children. Show and tell meets the English Language Arts standards in Kindergarten and primary grades. Teachers will receive specific guidelines for the use of show and tell in the classroom. In addition we explore the similarities between show and tell and show not tell.

Games make learning fun! Read this post for tips on games to repurpose for your literacy lessons without breaking the bank!

I have a fun reading resource for you! Book Talk is loaded with ideas to use for retelling stories, comprehending reading, and using books and tools to share some good conversations. Click here for a preview. Students will have plenty to do during reading time. Plus, there are some great homework ideas too! I recently updated this cover and added more graphic organizers and activities to this resource. Here are just a few examples of what's included: Questions to ask partners or questions for parents to ask their child about the book they are reading. It helps start and guide the conversation about books. If you ONLY want the Book Talk Questions, scroll to the bottom of this post. The questions come in a variety of ways. You can get them all on one sheet or on small papers like below. I put a ring on these and students have a ton of questions to ask themselves or with their partner. These are handy and ready to go on a moments notice. You can use these questions for any genre you are reading. This pack includes 5 book reports with directions and rubrics! Just copy and send home for homework projects. This pack has graphic organizers to keep the conversation going through writing. Over 40 graphic organizers included! Also some reading activities for students that finish early or need some more enrichment. One sheet is for partners to do together and one sheet is for the individual learner who can work at their own pace. You will be sure to find some reading logs in this pack too. There is even one for the entire class to keep track of the books you read together as a class. Plus so much more!!! All activities can be used with any book or any reading program you use in the classroom. You can find Book Talk here on my blog for a discounted price: Discounted Price:Sell ebooks If you ONLY want the Book Talk Questions, click the picture on the left. This pack has 10 pages full of questions students should be answering while reading their story. You can only purchase these questions here on my blog. Click to read more about it. If you ONLY want the book reports, Click on the picture below. Book Reports have 4 book reports with directions and a grading rubric. There are also 3 extra reports to use at anytime! You can ONLY buy this on my blog right now. Thanks for stopping by! See you soon,

I think my favorite part of teaching kindergarten students is to watch them grow in their reading skills. Many come to you on the first day of school only learning to read their name, while others come in already reading books. But to see the growth that these students make in one year is astonishing!

The English language is a tricky one. There are so many rules for kids to learn, that only require them to

These FREE Short a CVC Word Family Fluency Activities are low prep and perfect for building confidence in early readers!

Teaching nonfiction text structure so your students can successfully read and understand informational texts

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I have always assigned nightly reading. Why? I don't assign nightly reading because I want to give students "reading homework." I don't assign nightly reading

These FREE sight word coloring pages are a fun way to help your kids improve reading fluency and comprehension.

Remember how I promised you sweet kinder teachers I would be making fluency passages for you? Well, Cara has created fluency centers to get kinders-3rd graders going on the road to fluency! Are you dying with excitement? I am!!! Cara and I are linking arms to help kids fall in love with reading and have fun doing it! Let me tell you Cara has a fluency center your students will love! Check out the glory of all this cuteness…. How cool is that? I am a fluency nerd, so Cara’s center makes me happy. I am 100% OK with being a fluency nerd because it is a HUGE part of why my students are addicted to reading! However, I know that just because it works, it does not mean it’s easy for other teachers to “just implement” it. So I wrote a 101 Guide to give you 10 game-changer strategies and games to help you rock your reading program! new cover Speaking of rocking reading, Cara is helping all of our readers Rock Their Fluency! Click any picture to go grab it from TpT. Look at this! It is seriously “presh” and Cara has taken the time to do levels K-3 and even bundled them for you! Be.still.my.heart. These fluency centers ROCK! Each of Cara’s packs follows the format below: My students do a passage a week for our traditional fluency drills, but the great thing about adding Cara’s fluency center to my classroom is four-fold: Sight word practice Phrase practice such as “in the”, “big dog”, & “not me” Sight word intensive independent reading Engagement- “Roll and Read” is like recess for the reader’s brain! It’s fun! Kids need time to play and learn at their own pace. This is one of the reasons I LOVE Cara's center!!!! I can put the kinder-3rd grade materials out and the kids will choose what they are most comfortable with. Plus the idea of the fluency folders provides the perfect way to differentiate. Her materials are JUST brilliant! If you are looking to add traditional fluency practice to your week, my fluency units will bring you joy and get you results! Each unit has: Lesson Plans for the Week A Power Passage in 3 formats for fluency, close reading, and/or comprehension Questions page for close reading or a quiz Writing prompt with 4 thinking maps for differentiation Smart Art Project with directions in words and pictures Bulletin board lettering All of these are bundled into a unit that will have April, May, and June fluency units. The April units you see above are loaded in now. I will be adding in the May units starting next week. It’s going to be a HUGE bundle when it’s done!!! I hope that you are ready to Rock Your Fluency with Cara and I! Please keep us posted on how it's going!!! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Build word family and sight word fluency with these fluency passages for early readers. They are perfect for Kindergarten and 1st grade!

A twist on the traditional chatterbox or cootie catcher, perfect for revising sight words and early reading strategies, whilst also having a giggle.

These free Printable Digraph and CVCe Activities are perfect for practice with identifying digraph sounds and reading long vowel words!

If you have more than one child and you are homeschooling, you know about Scattered Brain Syndrome. Here's a language arts curriculum that can help!