Personal Titles are the words that go in front of someone's name. In American English, the most common salutations are "Mr.", "Ms.", "Mrs.", and "Miss"
This set comes with everything you need to pull together a mini-lesson on consonant blends. This game set focuses on consonant blends while reviewing all short vowel sounds, and most consonant sounds. Each student card will ask the reader to blend the first word and segment the next word. Update 3/12/16: This set now includes 2 game sets. The first set has students segment each sound in the blend, separately. For the second set, I have taken some instructional liberties. In that set, students will tackle the blend as one unit. This helps improve students fluency when reading blends! This set can be used as a daily, whole-class, warm-up to your reading time, a ticket out the door, or as an intervention activity with a small group (each student would receive more than one card in this instance = more practice!). 1 Teaching tips page 1 "Stop" sound poster 1 "Continuous" sound poster 1 Stop/Continuous Sound Sort and letter cut-outs 1 Teacher modeling card 30 Student Blending/Segmenting I Have, Who Has cards 4 versions of a Blends Chart 1 Tips page for using the Blends Chart My students love it, and it has really reinforced their letter/sound knowledge. Enjoy. Nicole http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Nicole-Rios
Hi everyone, My little learners have been working SO hard on their reading these past few months and I am VERY excited to show what what they have been up to!
Here are some DIY tactile ideas and my favorite tracing materials, that are inexpensive and easy for the Orton-Gillingham tutor to use.
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Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.
This week our first grade team analyzed some Fountas and Pinnell level G books to figure out what needed to be taught in reading to help our students…
Make phonics instruction interactive for your students with this fun hands-on phonics resource. Read this blog for the guide and a freebie!
I use the Fontas & Pinnell (F&P) Reading Level Chart. This chart is great because it breaks the school year into quarters and where your c...
If you don’t have time to use our super-simple title capitalization tool there is another simple way to capitalize titles quickly. The M.I.N.T.S. Acronym for Title Capitalization Rules The “MINTS” acronym will give you some set rules to capitalize titles correctly: M. – Months, days, holidays I. – The pronoun I N. – Names of […]
These free Printable Digraph and CVCe Activities are perfect for practice with identifying digraph sounds and reading long vowel words!
We know how important it is to teach our students to make inferences when they read. It's a tricky concept, and one that needs to be taught again and again. Students often confusing inferring with making predictions and observations, and some are just confused all together! Som
Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing author's purpose. This skill has been particularly difficult for my students in the past so I thought of creating this fun visual to help them remember that it can be easy as pie! **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)
Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.
A couple years ago I posted pictures of some homophone and homograph posters on Pinterest and lately they have been getting re-pinned a lot, so I thought I would post a link to the clip art that I used to make them. Homograph clip art Homophone clip art Enjoy!
Tips for adding creativity, innovation, and technology in your classroom.
Phonics fluency notebooks are one of my favorite literacy activities for teaching students to read with fluency and comprehension. I...
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R-controlled ir & ur phonics word lists & sentences to use to practice the sounds. Great for whole group, small group or 1-on-1.
It's Five for Friday on a Saturday!! :) Time to link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching. :) This week we finally got to teaching GCF/LCM within word problems. The students theoretically learned GCF/LCM in 4th grade, but applying it to word problems was a challenge. We started off by reviewing LCM/GCF. I shared with the students how I DISLIKE factor rainbows. In my opinion they are not as easy to use as a table, so that is why I taught them to make a table if the numbers are smaller. However, for the larger numbers I would like them to use prime factorization to help them: I also made a LCM anchor chart, but I made a mistake on it, and had to scribble it out, so it wasn't picture-worthy. :) We then played Showdown with my GCF/ LCM word problems for older students. They had to identify whether the problem was a LCM problem or a GCF one. This was really good practice, because it is a hard concept for them to pick up on. You can find my GCF/LCM task cards HERE. I also created this to reinforce what we were doing for my fall line-up in my classroom: On Friday my teammate and I as part of our Fun Friday Enrichment time for the students who have not struck out with our behavior system got to participate in the Save Fred Challenge!!! I found a great resource on TPT from Smart Chick Teaching Resources. It was great! I gave my homeroom either a diamond or club suited card, and my partner gave his homeroom a heart or spade. We then split the kids up. I sent all the black suited cards to his room, and he sent all of the red suited cards to my room. The students then partnered with the student who had the matching number and color of the other ones card. It was a GREAT way to have the students mix and mingle! :) If you have never done this activity before--it's GREAT!!!!! They had a ball! This week over on Facebook, my fellow NC teachers and I are participating in a blog hop!! There is something for ALL grade levels to be had!! FOR FREE!!! Here are all of the starting points for each grade level: PK-2 https://www.facebook.com/MyKindergardenBlooms 3-5 https://www.facebook.com/mrelementarymath?ref=bookmarks 6-8 https://www.facebook.com/NorthCarolinaHistoryGal My freebie is a great one for older students to practice reflecting points over the y-axis to create a picture! Snag it on my FB page and be sure to check out all of the other freebies available!!! :) Also, in the spirit of fall and Halloween, this week I will be participating in a Halloween themed giveaway contest with The Teaching 2 Step: I will be giving away this product: The contest starts next week, so be sure to head on over for your chance to win!! :) This week as a whole again was great. I am still very much enjoying my decision to be in middle school...LOVE IT actually. :) At the end of October we are having a "Scare the Bear" costume/dance party during the school day. My teaching partner and I want to dress up as something that goes together, but we are struggling with an idea, so if any of you all have an idea out there, let me know, please!!! :)
Upper elementary classroom tips and ideas with a focus on classroom management, student engagement, & cooperative learning.
Story Sequencing Reading Passages This pack contains 20 reading comprehension passages that target FLUENCY and COMPREHENSION through SEQUENCING STORY EVENTS in an INTERACTIVE way.The students will really have to go back in the text to be able to do the cut and paste. The students will have to: * read the passage 3 times to improve FLUENCY * cut the sentences at the bottom of the page and glue them in the order they are in the story to show COMPREHENSION Story titles: 1. Kate's Breakfast 2. Tom's New Kite 3. Sam's Morning Chores 4. Going Fishing 5. Matt the Dog 6. Rosa Goes to Sleep 7. A Snowy Day 8. The Lost Puppy 9. A Peanut Butter and Honey Sandwich 10. At the Pet Store 11. Pam's Busy Day 12. A Visit to the Zoo 13. A Picnic in the Forest 14. In the Mountains 15. The Life Cycle of a Frog 16. Will's New School 17. At the Library 18. Ava's Chores 19. At the Park 20.Hiking in the Forest Bonus: a graphic organizer with transition words designed to help the students retell the stories Happy teaching! Dana's Wonderland
Use this list of praise and prompts for teaching reading, free printable for your guided reading binder.
As readers move from reading beginning readers to hard texts, they need to develop strategies for reading longer words. Some readers can make this move almost naturally, while other readers {like my oldest son} do not. Today, I’m sharing some simple strategies for reading longer words resources you can download for free! {The free printable ... Read More about Strategies for Reading Longer Words
Before children learn to read, they must first have an understanding of how sounds work within words. Learning to recognize and produce rhyme is one of the very first phonological skills that children acquire on their way to becoming proficient readers. Working with rhyme is an important component of the early childhood curriculum. Research tells us […]
So today, I let my kiddos practice -ar word families with the spinner game I shared yesterday. I think it may have been a winner. My fast...
This research-based reading intervention program is AMAZING. Over 10,000 teachers are using The Reading Intervention Program and seeing incredible results.
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18 Reading Tips to Help Your Child Learn to Read I've got a couple of cute first graders who are still working on their reading skills. There's so many great ideas out there to help out, thought I'd share! 1. Reading needs to be fun. Here's some great ways to make it more appealing! 2. Make these brilliant blending buddies, great for helping the kids blend their letters! 3. These darling strategies will help when a child gets stuck on a word. 4. How do your kids know how to pick out just the right book? Try the 'If the Book
Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing "R" controlled vowels. These can be a little tricky for students, so using the "Bossy R" character seems to really help them understand the rule. It will be approximately 32 x 24 inches, and will be a copy of my original. **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)
Click HERE to go to my TPT store! I am having my first SALE! I am very excited. I have posted a couple new items tonight just in time for the sale. I have been working on a word mark up packet for the second grade teachers in my district that practices Fundations skills in level 2. I have finally finished it and got it posted at my store. I created a bookmark cheat sheet for students to accompany my pack and that took me some time. I am still not sure if it is perfect yet so I am hoping for some feedback!! Here is a peek at my new pack! It includes daily practice for Level 2 --Units 1-17. Below is a copy of my Cheat Sheet bookmark for students. I am still not 100% sure that it is completed so any ideas or suggestions please feel free to share! Click HERE to get your FREE bookmark!
When it comes to teaching reading and spelling, there are three terms that are used often: phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics. But what do they mean? How are they the same? How are they different? Do I really need to know the difference? How do you teach each one? Such great questions! Let’s explore ... Read More about Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, & Phonics
Happy Mother's Day to all you mommies out there! I hope your day is filled with love and relaxation. Each and everyone of you deserves it! I am getting ready to spend the day with my boys at one of my favorite places- Santa Barbara! Brunch + the beach= one happy Mom! I can't wait to share pics with you later on. But first, I have some exciting news: It's hard to believe I started this amazing journey into the blogging world one year ago today! I have been incredibly blessed this last year. I have connected and formed friendships with so many of you. I have been able to share my teaching adventures and ramble about my crazy ideas- and you all have supported me. I can't thank you enough! If you can't tell, I have been looking forward to this milestone and wanted to make it meaningful and special. In order to help celebrate this milestone, I have asked ten of my dear blogging friends to help spread the cheer. They have all touched my life in different ways. Some have helped answer my silly blogging questions, others have inspired me with their own blogs and all of them are supporters of my journey. They are a few special pieces of my blogging journey puzzle! A party, wouldn't be a party without a party favor. I created a little something for each of you to take with you, as a way of saying thank you for being a follower. Make sure to enter the giveaway and before you leave, grab your FREEBIE! Now it is your turn to join in the fun and celebrate with me! This giveaway will run for one week. I will announce the winner next Sunday! Good luck! Here are all the items you can win: a Rafflecopter giveaway Now that you have followed some of my favorite blogging friends, here is your prize! I created a little packet called A Day at the Beach Multiplication Activities to help you bring a bit of summer into your classroom, all while helping your kiddos review their multiplication skills. It includes a flap book and two array review sheets. Just click on the picture to download it now. Thanks for helping me celebrate my first blogiversary and Happy Mother's Day!
