Today I am going to tell you about an idea I came up with a few years ago called CVC Cups! They help kids practice finding the middle soun...
How can sound be waves? It is a hard concept for kids. Try these 7 science experiments for kids to SEE sound. Learn the 5 senses with STEM activities.
Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name, for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]
This science center display helps children explore sound with common objects. I collected "found" items to display on the tray with a sign, "What
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Use this short vowel worksheet to help your budding reader identify short vowel sounds.
Preschool age kids should be spending plenty of time in play but these FREE beginning sounds letter worksheets for early learners are....
Try these easy sound experiments -- Elementary & Middle School kids will LOVE testing the science of sound with this fun wave experiment to create a 'gong' and explore how sound waves travel!
These free beginning sounds clip or cover cards are perfect for phonological and phonemic awareness. Download your free set today!
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How To Teach The Long I Sound - Learn how to teach the long i sound, the 6 long i spelling generalizations, and download my free long i word list!
Prefixes and suffixes in first grade? Kindergarten ? What?! I'm not sure who decided teaching them so early was the way to go but never fear...
Prepping your toddler for early reading lessons at home? These 13 fun phonics games and activities will keep your kids having fun as they're learning to read! Teaching phonics to toddlers can be fun and creative!
A big list of phonics strategies and phonics pattern activities, as well as a free pack of phonics and spelling pattern assessment sheets.
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How can sound be waves? It is a hard concept for kids. Try these 7 science experiments for kids to SEE sound. Learn the 5 senses with STEM activities.
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I love using my No Frills Articulation products. I keep them all in a binder and am able to flip through to the pages I need quickly. They are so great to pull out when I need some quick sentences to use when playing a board game that students have chosen, or when I have a quick articulation student that I only see for 5 minutes. I have also sent some pages home with students as homework. I am so excited about my newest addition to the No Frills family: No Frills Articulation: R This packet targets prevocalic /r/, as well as six different vocalic /r/'s (-ar, -air, -er, -ear, -ire, -or). In this packet, you get: Memory Cards (84 cards– 12 for each form of /r/): Print two copies of the cards. Laminate and cut out to play a memory game. Phrase Worksheets (4 worksheets): Students can read or repeat the phrases. There is a spot to record the number of correct responses at the bottom of the page. Sentences Worksheets (7 worksheets): Students can read or repeat the sentences. There is a spot to record the number of correct responses at the bottom of the page. Story Worksheets (4 worksheets): Students can read the stories out loud. There is a spot to record the number of correct responses after each story. You can get this packet at my TpT store HERE. If you are interested in more of these kinds of packets, I also have a bundle of activities available. There are five different No Frills Articulation packets available that are bundled together for 20% savings. It's like having a sale everyday! You can get the No Frills Articulation Bundle HERE. You can also read more about the packets included in an earlier post of mine HERE. You can win a packet of No Frills Articulation: R in the rafflecopter giveaway below: a Rafflecopter giveaway Jen
Music is organized sound. I like to give students opportunities to organize sound and icons for sounds before we work with organizing notation. One of the ways I do that is to create sound songs. We take a basic grid and brainstorms sounds we can make with our bodies (APPROPRIATE sounds *giggle*) and then draw shapes and simple picture to represent them. We draw them into the grid so that they are organized and then perform them for each other. FUN! Another thing I like to do is work with ready icons for body percussion. I introduce this in Kindergarten, but we review it in 1st and 2nd grades and add a composing element to it. Until recently I used a pretty old set of body percussion clip art to create a slide show. Here's what the new version looks like: I used this with some classes this week and they loved it! We talked about one sound to the beat means a quarter note and one picture in each square. After we add barred eighth notes or two sounds on one beat we'll take some time to compose our own. I'll print out little copies of all the body percussion actions and they will place them on the squares in the grid and perform. When we finish or as we begin to use this activity just to review or as a warm-up I'll add some body percussion worksheets to the end of class or to workstations. I'll be using these: Quick enough to do in the last ten minutes of class or at a workstation, I really like making connections to reading and writing AND music. Check out the Body Percussion set HERE.
I found these cute frog containers at Walmart and thought they would be perfect for a digraph sorting activity for my first grade teacher friends. If you can't find the containers at Walmart, you might want to head on over to Target as they carry many of the same seasonal items. Although the frog containers are adorable, the sorting activity really works with any type of container. Click HERE to download 32 FREE consonant digraph pics for sorting. Ideas for differentiating this activity for small group instruction can be found on my blog. www.blog.maketaketeach.com
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Teach your child to recognize and read consonant digraphs /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ with a digraph garden!
This free beginning sounds chart is a great resource for making rhyming words or spelling word families. Includes 55 different beginning sounds!
Our school has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards and one of my favorite units in 1st grade is our Sound Unit. NGSS asks that students conduct experiments to explain that vibrations make…
If you're on pinterest you've likely seen the french fry sight words or french fry math games popping up everywhere. I decided to steal borrow this fun idea. I of course gave it a speech
Chunk Spelling, the key to helping your students develop strategic spelling skills.
Here are my tips and tricks for moving from making sounds in isolation to working on the VC and CV syllables during articulation therapy.
A few weeks ago, I asked teachers on my FB page for topics of interest. I wrote all of the topics down and pinned them on my office's bulletin board. My bulletin board is my "go to" place when I need a topic for a blog post. Today's topic, vocabulary games, is courtesy of my FB readers. Here are a few games I found that you might like to try: This site has elementary and middle school games. Middle School Vocabulary Activities Elementary and middle school vocabulary game. My all around favorite site that had MANY activities including this one: Click to visit the site. It is great! This vocabulary packet is aligned with 1st - 3rd Common Core Standards. Click
Download worksheets and activities on short vowels a, e, i, o, u for kindergarten. Listen and identify short vowels or middle sounds. Free printable include
b-d Letter Reversal: Match Beginning Sound Worksheet is a printable activity for your students to practice identifying letters b and d.
Prefixes and suffixes in first grade? Kindergarten ? What?! I'm not sure who decided teaching them so early was the way to go but never fear...
Just click the following link to download this list of homophones: Homophones Word List 2 A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word or words, but has a different meaning and spelling. Homophones can really trip up our young readers and writers. It’s sometimes difficult for them to know for sure which […]
I LOVE saving figurative language until June - it's such a fun language unit ... and perfect for our "dreaming of summer brains". We finished up our EQAO testing mid week, and this onomatopoeia activity was the perfect break from testing. How fun is that??? Students chose two contrasting colours - one for the background and one for the word and border "bursting out of the page". They also needed newspaper (cut just a fraction smaller that the "bursting out of the page border" and glued the newspaper on top. They glued their word on top of that (we had brainstormed a lot of onomatopoeia words, but for some reason most of them chose SPLAT for their word). I also had them do a little shading under their letters for that little extra POP (see, I know some onomatopoeia words, too). ;) I had seen this awesome idea on Pinterest and followed it back to Artisan des Arts. Her examples are FANTASTIC!! We also wrote simile poems this week. I found a little template HERE for the students to use for their rough copies. When students were finished their templates, I had them write out their good copies, and illustrate a few lines with a small image. I hung these up, too ... LOVING our bulletin board switch up ... even this late in the school year!!! (I have two of these "smART class" bulletin boards side by side in the classroom. 15 more school days left ... I think I can ... I think I can ... Happy Friday!!!
If you're looking for a fun way to introduce common digraphs, you'll love these free dice and beginning and ending digraph posters.
Free Printable Sound Scavenger Hunt
Social skills can be taught just like academic skills. Follow this six step process to teach your students how to work more effectively in cooperative learning teams.
Have fun with phonics by playing this Stomp It Out Reading Game! Your little one will blend letter sounds together to read simple CVC words!
All about the schwa sound, including how to teach it, schwa word activities, and a free schwa words list pdf download.
