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…
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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…
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…
Curriculum | phonics | Reading | Writing
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,…
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness sets the foundation for being a strong reader and writer. Honestly, this involves much more than just learning the letters and the sounds they…
Curriculum | phonics | Reading
The Science of Reading — Decodable Text for Beginning Readers
Reading skills are so important! Great reading skills set students up for academic achievement, not just in language arts, but in all of their subjects. They…
Making the Connection Between Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Teaching beginning readers is such a challenging job, but it is so rewarding to watch things start to click for our little readers. Our students need…
Phonics Instruction Made Easy
Phonics instruction is important because students have to know how to decode print in order to become fluent readers that can comprehend what they read. While…
Editable Word Work Activities
Word Work is such an important skill to practice in the primary classroom. Word Work, or word study, is often considered “spelling practice” in classrooms. While…
Reading Warm Ups
Time spent in small reading groups is so important, and we have to make the most of our time while I have them at my reading…
Digital Word Work
Teaching phonics is an essential skill for readers, but if it’s not jazzed up, it can be downright borrrring for kids. I absolutely LOVE teaching phonics. …
Phonics Spinners
I am always trying to think of ways to make phonics practice more fun. These phonics spinners will be the perfect addition to independent reading centers…
