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Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...

Building listening comprehension skills doesn’t have to be boring! "Mashed Potatoes" is a listening game that promotes listening comprehension AND giggles!

These free phonics reading passages have it all: phonics skills, fluency practice and comprehension questions. Plus, students love them!

Decodable reading passages are a great way to teach phonics skills to first graders while also increasing reading comprehension and fluency.

Planning your guided literacy time is bout to get so much easier. I get asked a lot about how to tie reading and writing together, while focusing on fluency, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, writing, etc. I create this resource to get kids excited about reading and writing, and to make planning

The Science of Reading is like a recipe for success in literacy. And just like a recipe, it requires multiple ingredients to make it work. Phonics is an important ingredient, but it's not the only

Inside you will find: * 6 Read and Color pages. * 4 Read and Draw These comprehension activities are ideal for students in kindergarten and first grade. Use this as a listening comprehension activities for your kindergarten students, or have your first graders read the passages and work independently. These are perfect for literacy centers, independent work, morning work, fast finisher, homework and more. Check out the full packet here: Reading Comprehension Activities (THE BUNDLE) This set goes well with my: Reading Comprehension Check (The Bundle) Check out the freebies here: FREE Reading Comprehension Check You may also be interested in: Reading Comprehension THE BUNDLE Reading Fluency and Comprehension THE BUNDLE If you have any questions, please email me at: [email protected] before purchasing *************************************************** Follow my stores for more AWESOME FREEBIES and GET UPDATES on my NEW PRODUCTS!! Connect with me: Teaching Biilfizzcend Instagram Teaching Biilfizzcend Pinterest

These bookmarks are simple tools designed to equip young readers and parents/teachers alike! From phonics to reading comprehension, they offer helpful guidance and prompts to make stronger readers. Flexible printing options allow you to customize how you use this resource! They can be printed single or double sided in different combinations so you can choose what is most helpful for you. PLEASE READ PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE PRINTING. Please Note: This purchase is for your personal use only, not for resale or redistribution in any way. Do not share the digital or printed files. Any books or other materials in photos are for staging purposes only and are not included with your purchase. This product is a DIGITAL FILE only, that you will be able to download and print yourself after purchase. Here is a helpful article with instructions on how to download your digital files: https://www.etsy.com/help/article/3949. No physical goods will be shipped with this purchase. WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE: - Printing guide - 4 pages of bookmark printing options all pages sized and prepped for printing landscape on 8.5”x11” paper ** Keep in mind that colors on a screen may vary slightly from how they appear in print due to differences in monitor/printer calibrations and printing methods. Due to the nature of digital items, all sales are final. —- + —- + —- D O W N L O A D I N G Files cannot be downloaded using the Etsy mobile app. Using your internet browser, log in and go to www.etsy.com/your/purchases Click on your purchase, then on the right hand side you will see a “download” button. Save your files to your device. *If you purchased as a guest instead of logging in, Etsy will email you with your direct download links. P R I N T I N G I recommend printing on a heavier weight paper or laminating bookmarks to extent their life (links provided in printing guide)

No prep 2nd grade decodable passages that practice 190 + isolated phonics skills with decoding, fluency, and comprehension.

These strategies for teaching phonics are perfect for focusing on specific phonics skills while students are also ncreasing their fluency.

These free phonics reading passages have it all: phonics skills, fluency practice and comprehension questions. Plus, students love them!

Creative ideas to get kids excited about reading deeper.

There is no official science-backed treatment or medication to treat dyslexia. For all we know, the best way to overcome dyslexia is to adapt a new learning process as early as possible in life. We already discussed a couple of ways of doing it. Another important measure is to

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite. Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading

Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...

This is an interactive Open Court formatted lesson plan template. It is designed to highlight the green, red, and blue sections for every lesson (Phonics, Reading/Comprehension, and Writing). It is a great way to include your vocabulary, reading strategies, assessments, and much more. In addition, t...

An educational blog hosted by a collaborative group of teacher-authors hoping to share creative and colorful ideas and activities from our classrooms!

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

Check out these science of reading centers ideas to help give your kinder and first grade readers authentic practice during literacy centers.

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.

Teach your students about character and setting with this easy to use versatile pack of character and setting worksheets and story elements graphic organizer with bonus story elements worksheets will complement your ELA curriculum. This no-prep pack of character and setting worksheets include short passages with easy-to-read text that allows students to choose the character and setting of the story. Also included are fill-in-blank character and setting worksheets to use with a story of your choosing. KINDERGARTEN PHONICS WORKSHEETS WHAT IS INCLUDED ⭐Character / Setting Worksheets ⭐Emergent Readers with Character / Setting and Comprehension Questions ⭐Graphic Organizer to use with ANY book ⭐Character / Setting Sorting Activity

These Reading Strategies Posters and Interactive Anchor Charts are a must-have for introducing and reinforcing tons of important reading skills and reading comprehension strategies! Printing flexibility allows for either printing full-page reading strategies posters, interactive anchor charts, or mini (half page) posters/anchor charts for students' reading notebooks! Now you can introduce a lesson with a poster or anchor chart, while students are able to interact with them at the same time in their own reading notebooks! Adding them to their own notebooks is the perfect way for students to have easy access to ALL lessons taught, so you don't have to worry about keeping every poster on display throughout the year. Be sure to take a look at the product preview for a closer look! 24 Reading Strategies Posters/Anchor Charts Include: Reading Strategies Create Mental Images (Also Includes "Visualize" as wording option) Use Background Knowledge Ask Questions Make Inferences Determine Importance Synthesize Information Monitor Comprehension Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Make Connections Text to Self Connection Text to Text Connection Text to World Connection Create Sensory Images Set a Purpose Make Predictions Draw Conclusions Use Context Clues Think aloud Use Spelling Strategies Read Fluently Close Reading Fake Reading vs. Real Reading 2 Versions: Two versions are included for the posters - one with more details (more text) and one with less text (larger font). 4 Formats: Full-Page Posters, Full-Page Interactive Anchor Charts, Half Page Posters or Anchor Charts, and a digital Google Slides™ format This product is available at a discount in the Reading Posters Bundle, and at an even larger discount in the Reading & Writing Visuals Bundle! More Reading Strategies Resources: Reading Strategies Bookmarks Reading Comprehension Strategies Crafts Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers

Today I’m starting a brand new series right here on the blog…because…I think we could ALL benefit. It’s all about the area of reading comprehension and, as educators, we are often really good at providing lots of practice in this area, but, in honesty, it’s a really difficult area to teach. What often happens is […]

Stuck doing remote or distance learning? Do you homeschool? Encourage kids to learn and practice reading at home or in the classroom with these online reading programs and apps. Try any of these engaging digital reading programs or apps to help kids with phonics, reading comprehension, and fluency.

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I can't even believe May is almost here…. time flies in the spring! This might just be my favorite time of year to teach kindergarten.

Reading comprehension activities that are engaging to students are a must! These reading comprehension games and fun reading comprehension activities to improve reading comprehension will help your students learn reading comprehension skills while having fun at the same time.

Kindergarten Reading Comprehension .A Printable PDFPupils will improve their reading and writing skills. They will read the passages and answer the questions. English Created Resources prid

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If you're searching for a valuable tool to enhance reading comprehension skills and engage students in exploring literary worlds, short story reading comprehension worksheets are a great choice. Designed for teachers and parents seeking to promote critical thinking and analytical skills, these worksheets provide a platform for young readers to delve deeper into the characters, themes, and plots of captivating short stories.

Have students who just can't remember what they have read? I have ten reading comprehension strategies to use right away to help them out!