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Heart words is a science-based way to teach high frequency words, or sight words. Learn all about it and download a free worksheet!

Peer Assisted Learning is a strategy that is implemented to encourage engagement between higher-performing student and lower-performing students in a structure peer tutoring and student-centered activity. This product includes a math lesson modeling how to set up "PALS" in your own classroom! ...

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I’m telling you. When I began to truly understand the alphabetic principle, it absolutely blew my mind. I’m sure I’d heard the phrase before. And I’m sure I had even learned what it meant. But when I actually understood its role in teaching beginning readers and helping struggling readers, it all became very clear. I’d always ... Read More about What is the Alphabetic Principle?

Learn Orton-Gillingham lesson components. Includes the five parts of each lesson, related materials, and additional activity suggestions.

Teaching phonemic awareness is important for all readers, especially those who struggle. Check out my top tips with sample activities!

Phonemic awareness is an essential reading skill for beginning readers or struggling readers to develop. Many people don’t realize why phonemic awareness...

I’m telling you. When I began to truly understand the alphabetic principle, it absolutely blew my mind. I’m sure I’d heard the phrase before. And I’m sure I had even learned what it meant. But when I actually understood its role in teaching beginning readers and helping struggling readers, it all became very clear. I’d always ... Read More about What is the Alphabetic Principle?

It's a big elephant in the room but this week we are discussing the controversy of phonics and balanced literacy in kindergarten.

Have you ever noticed students having difficulty not only with visually similar letters such as b and d, but also having difficulty with letter sounds that seem more surprising such as /b/ & /p/ or

These short vowel coloring pages are a fun way to get kids to listen for sounds in words (phonemes). Kids can even spell words after they have colored!

Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. This strategy is often used as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Partner Reading strategy allows students to take turns reading and provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.

Motivate students and increase elementary math fact fluency with this color coded system.

Teach your students how to hear sounds in words with this free phonemic awareness activity! The clip cards are a fun way to teach phoneme isolation. #phonemicawareness

Student pen pals, anyone? My first grade teaching friend in DC gave me an idea for my latest packet (yes . . . I am talking about you, sweet Nicole). She approached me a few months ago about the possibility of having our new kiddy crews team up next year and become classroom pen pals. I

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Five things you need to know about how to teach rhyming to kids in real, meaningful ways. Teaching rhyming doesn't need to be overly complicated!

I’ve certainly received tons of feedback on our Write-It Phonics Cards line. The original Write-It Phonics Cards Bundle contained card packets for addressing phonics skills from beginning sounds to r-controlled vowels. This bundle is just an extension and addresses the long vowel sound spelling patterns. Teachers just love that they can be used over and over […]

Students will have fun learning about polygons with this colorful hands-on unit! What's Included: Polygon Pals Cover Page What's Included Page Polygon Definition Poster (Color and B & W) Polygon Pals Poster (Color and B & W) Quadrilateral Poster (Color and B & W) 2-D Shapes That Are NOT Polygons Poster (Color and B & W) Polygon Pals Chart Polygon Pals Answer Sheet 1 1/2 pages of Polygon Matching Shapes Cards (6 per page,/ Color and B & W) 1 1/2 pages of Polygon Matching Definitions Cards (6 per page / Color and B & W) 2 Polygon Matching Name Cards Pages (6 per page / 3 blank cards / Color and B & W) Acknowledgements Page Thank You

Phonemic awareness is an essential reading skill for beginning readers or struggling readers to develop. Many people don’t realize why phonemic awareness...

Consonant Digraph Snap is a fun and faced paced phonics game, providing lots of practice in digraph recognition in words.

This week's featured teacher is Tina of Mrs. Peyerk's Porcupine Pals. How long have you been teaching? This is my eighth year of teaching. What grade levels have you taught? I have taught 2 years of preschool and I just started my sixth year in first grade. What is your favourite part about teaching? The best part is seeing the lightbulbs click! It's ah-mazing! What is your best advice for a beginning teacher? You can't do everything. Pick out what is most important for the students and meeting their needs. Do that first. Whatever you have time for after that, is a bonus! Tina would like to share this Visualizing Vocabulary Freebie from her TpT Store. You can download the file by clicking on the picture below. If you download this freebie, don't forget to leave Tina some feedback for her generosity. You can do this by clicking on "My Purchases" and finding the download in your "Free Downloads" tab. Don't forget to check out Tina's gorgeous blog for lots of great primary teaching tips! I don't even teach primary anymore, but Tina's blog is so visually appealing that I can't help but follow it with bloglovin'! Thanks, Tina, for participating in this week's Teacher Feature.

Multisensory instruction can help kids with reading issues like dyslexia learn to read. Here are a few examples of multisensory reading techniques teachers use.

Use a set of alphabet clothespins to practice spelling words, sight words, and word families. They're easy to make and fun to use.

Match words using similar letter patterns with its picture in this OG Word Family printable worksheet.

Learn about the Science of Reading and structured literacy, and why small group instruction is so important for students.

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I am always on the hunt for new, fun phonics games! Teaching the same phonics patterns and skills over and over can be difficult for both my students and for me as the teacher to try and have students practice these skills without getting bored. Before we play phonics games, there is always a direct […]

Hey all! I'm here to tell you a little bit about Reading Kits! Reading Kits are a fun way to incorporate repeated practice in skills that are at each student's Guided Reading Level. Each level will

This week I introduced visualizing to my little ones with a super easy and powerful lesson! Visualizing is such an important comprehension standard in primary grades! As our students delve […]

Writing to a pen-pal abroad can facilitate lifelong friendships & is a great learning experience. Here are some ways to find a pen-pal for your child.