Reading Fluency in 5 Easy Steps
Learning to read is one of the most complex skills for elementary students. Between letter sounds, blends, articulation, and prosody, there is so much to process…
Curriculum
Easy Phonics Practice and Assessments
Teachers have to focus on so many standards each year. Honestly, the amount of content to teach can be overwhelming when realizing this is how much…
Comprehension Notebooks
When students begin reading, they focus mainly on the words and illustrations. Therefore, they really don’t know anything about seeing how the characters grow and change…
October Interactive Fact Folders
Students are always so curious about how everything in the world works. They are especially curious whenever a holiday or special event arrives! Sadly, they often…
Sentence Trees: Reading Fluency
It is heartbreaking to see students not believe in themselves. This often comes in the form of giving up, becoming frustrated, and wanting to cry. Teachers…
First Grade Writing Mini-Lessons
Teachers have to make tough decisions about how much time to spend on standards. They want to ensure students are ready for everything in life. Therefore,…
Phonics-Based Spelling Assessments
Do your students seem to struggle more and more with spelling each year? A large part of this may be due to how much technology society…
Phonics Newsletter
Parent communication is absolutely essential in the classroom. Teachers need parent support. They need to have a positive relationship and be able to have open communication…
Beginning of the Year Assessments
No teacher likes to hear the words assessment or data. Instead, they would rather focus on words like engagement and relationships. However, assessments are a huge…
Phonics Activity Book
Teachers know that phonics instruction is essential for teaching students how to read. Therefore, they spend hours developing creative lessons and activities to make phonics lessons…
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Dictation sentences
Phonics skills create a solid foundation for students to become successful readers and writers. Honestly, they can handle many challenges when they understand how vowels, consonants,…
Phonics Activities
Learning to read is such a complex skill. Thus, teachers break down the process into stages. It often begins with learning individual letters and the sound…
