Hello Reader, You heard that right. This is big. We have now made our Phonics Videos for CVC, CVCe, and Suffixes all FREE on YouTube for you to use whenever you need to! Use these 14 Videos for FREE during: instruction morning work small group whole group interventions centers or whenever you have a few minutes for review! See ALL Full-Length SOR Targeted Phonics Videos Why are we doing this? We believe in these phonics videos. We want your students to learn and practice important phonics...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, So here's the story. One busy morning before school, I let my hair go curly instead of styling it straight as usual. I thought it looked pretty good, so I went to school. No one said anything about my new style, good or bad, but I did get some second glances... The bell rang, and I opened the outside door to greet my 1st graders with a big smile. As many of you know, first graders notice everything new. James, in particular. And there he was, first in line, eager to start the...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, It's hard to teach guided reading groups when the rest of the class needs your attention. During centers, are your students: off task? asking for help? lacking confidence? frustrated? misbehaving? When your students lack confidence about the task they are required to complete, they may show it in disruptive ways. Here are some things to be mindful of when you are planning centers: Target activities to your students' needs. Target activities to your students' levels. Be clear...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, When we group and regroup students regularly based on data, we are grouping flexibly. As our students' goals change, our instruction to target those goals changes. *If you want to read more about how to assess, group, and instruct students flexibly, see the link to a great blog post at the ↓↓bottom.↓↓ Once you have them in appropriate learning groups, we get busy organizing our materials. Here are some materials that you can easily create every time you re-group students! Just...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Fluency speed drills are a game changer for building reading fluency, automaticity, sight word fluency, decoding, and more! But don't take our word for it... "This resource has really helped me integrate fluency practice in my small group time easily. They are quick and students love to complete them. I also love that they have skills that relate to what we are learning for the whole year. My students have been using them for about three weeks and I've already noticed a...
12 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, It's almost April, but this is no April Fool's joke...Scroll down for your exclusive, FREE Spring Activity! Spring is a time for new life, and a perfect time to introduce some life cycles for science and reading! Learning about life cycles is important for our young students. Life cycles outline the stages of development and processes that living organisms go through from birth to reproduction. Complete with lesson plans and more than enough activities for a 3-week unit! Living...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Happy Spring, Reader! We have some AWESOME, easy-peasy Spring activities that you can use today! Most are quick and easy to prep and so engaging. Check them out! Cut, color, glue, and staple these Spring Ducks to your wall! These adorable spring ducks turn out so cute! You can either print the templates on colored paper for students to cut out or make templates on heavy paper for students to trace around. Then they trace their hands and glue together. EASY PEASY! Spring Duck Craft These...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss was sure ahead of his time. He knew the importance of phonemic awareness, rhyming, and alliteration before Science of Reading was a thing. His books are filled with fun, repetitive phrases, sight words, and silly nonsense words that keep students asking for more until they can read Dr. Seuss books independently. So why not celebrate his birthday with...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, You AND your students will love this super easy phonics center and they will ask for more: These little flip books are one page to print, easy to cut, easy to staple, and great practice for reading word families! Each book also includes one nonsense word. Students have to circle whether it is a real word or not a word. Differentiate with various levels: ose word family ose word family with blends and digraphs Completed ose word family books Long Vowel Flip Books BUNDLE Short...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, If you didn't get a chance to dive into our popular 5 Ways To Build Reading Fluency blog post, here's the link again. We just added more content you may like in that post. We all know that better reading fluency leads to better reading comprehension. In fact, reading fluency is one of the BIG SIX elements of reading. If this all resonates with you, you're in luck today. We just created another SOR-aligned reading fluency resource that you will love. And it's a STEAL at 50% off...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read