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Consonant Digraph worksheets help young learners grasp and practice the concept of digraphs, which are pairs of letters that combine to produce a single sound. These worksheets typically feature exercises and activities that focus on specific digraphs such as "sh," "ch," "th," "ph," and "wh."
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.
This spelling activities packet is great for independent work, whole group, or literacy stations! The 10 activities include: - Vowels and Consonants - Write it! Stamp it! (2 versions) - Rhyme Time - Word Search - Order your Words (2 versions) - Spelling Sentences - Pyramid Words - Rainbow Words - Dictionary Dabble - Invisible Words Updated 2/27/17: There are differentiated versions of many of the above activities! Feel free to e-mail me with any questions, comments, or requests! Kristen [email protected]
I wanted to post a pick of another favorite sight word game of my cuties. It's called Where's the Bear. I labeled Dixie cups with sight wo...
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A few months back I posted the 10 Activities for Learning Letters and Sounds activity kit that I developed for a few first graders who hadn’t yet mastered letters and sounds. The idea behind the kit was to provide fun, hands-on activities for either classroom voluteers or parents to work with their child at home. […]
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If you want to teach your little ones about the concept of opposites you will want to check out these fun opposites worksheets and activities.
I love using class call backs and attention grabbers! These are so fun! My class loves them! This freebie is a classroom staple!
I have been having so much fun volunteering in my grandson’s First Grade classroom this year. I get to work with small groups of children during Reader’s Workshop, and I love it. Over…
So, I got this fantastic idea for Pinterest as a way to end the endless question of, "I'm done....what do I do now?" that you get as a teacher. The teacher who I got the idea from had an "I'm Done" jar, but since I teach first grade and have an accident prone class, a glass mason jar didn't seem like the best idea. I got my craft sticks, jewels, and stickers from JoAnn's and I found some great plastic tumbler cups from Target. For this project, I wrote activities for the kids to do once completed with their work on the stick. Now, when kids finish they know they can go to the "I'm Done Cup" and pick out an activity to work on. I have had this in my classroom for about a month now and I love it! The kids are so much more independent and it's great too because there doing different activities each time. I used to say, "oh, just go and read a book" which got boring to them after a while, but now they have multiple things that they can do. Below are some examples of the activities they can choose from. "I'm Done" Cup Activities read a book from the classroom library read from my book bag read the decodable books write a letter write a story write a list practice math flashcards practice reading flashcards file papers practice spelling words make a sound/spelling circle map make a number of the day circle map I know this may seem like a lot of activities, but the variety of the choices actually helps with management. Before I'd have all of the kids in one area trying to get books and it typically turned into an issue. Now, they are doing a variety of tasks in different areas of the room so it gets rid of the congestion. I also decided to have two cups. Both cups have the same items in them, but this way the kids aren't all waiting to grab their stick from just one cup. See pictures below...
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I have been having so much fun volunteering in my grandson’s First Grade classroom this year. I get to work with small groups of children during Reader’s Workshop, and I love it. Over…
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It's great that you have parents who want to help out, but what jobs can you give your classroom volunteers to make the most of their time and effort?
