Trigraph: 3 letters that stand for one phoneme (e.g. tch, dge) -tch = /ch/ after short vowel (e.g. catch) -dge = /j/ after short vowel (e.g. ridge) After I finished creating Literacy Lessons Level 2, which covered consonant blends, I noticed that several of my students needed to work on reading and spelling words with… Continue reading Trigraphs: -tch and -dge
Once your students have mastered the concepts taught in Literacy Lessons: Level 1, they will be ready to tackle reading and spelling words with consonant blends and trigraphs. Consonant Blends are two or three consecutive consonants within a syllable that each represent a distinct sound. Blends appear frequently in the English language and are crucial… Continue reading Literacy Lessons: Level 2 – Consonant Blends & Trigraphs
Over the past few years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and friend of several parents with young children, I've been asked the question over and over again - how do you teach a child to read? As a Kindergarten teacher, I taught my students to read by building their phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting,… Continue reading Literacy Lessons
This year I have been working with students in Kindergarten-3rd Grade and I was having a hard time getting organized and planned for my groups of students from four different grade levels because of the many different assessments that we use to determine who qualifies for "intensive intervention". In my county, we give PALS which… Continue reading Phonemic/Phonological Awareness: Rhyming
This year I have been working with students in the lower grades on foundational reading skills. With each student, I started with a Foundational Reading Skills Assessment to figure out the specific phonemic awareness skills that they needed to review as well as the letter sounds that they needed to work on and then designed… Continue reading Phonics Instruction: Encoding & Decoding
We just wrapped up the first quarter of the 2020 school year and every grade level is transitioning from teaching fiction reading skills to nonfiction reading skills. So, I figured this would be the perfect time for me to update a product that I created a while ago and share what's included with all of… Continue reading 3rd Grade Reading Unit: Reading to Learn
Creepy Carrots by Aaron ReynoldsJasper always helps himself to carrots from Crackenhopper field until one day, the carrots start following him. Jasper sees carrots everywhere and gets to a point where he can't stand it anymore! He decides to build a fence around the field so none of the carrots can get out. Jasper’s plan… Continue reading FAVORITE OCTOBER READ-ALOUDS
An interactive read-aloud is a reading lesson that is focused on one standard and taught through the reading of one book and the guided conversation that students engage in before, during, and after reading. In an interactive read-aloud, the teacher models fluent reading and guides students to apply a comprehension skill to a text that… Continue reading Interactive Read Alouds
This week I thought it might be helpful to round up some books and activities that you can use during the first week or two of school! A lot of the books that I found promote Social Emotional Learning, which I know is a big focus as we return from what has been referred to… Continue reading VIRTUAL Read Alouds for the First Week of School
If you have been following me on Instagram for a while, you probably know that I LOVE making, using, and displaying anchor charts for my students. As we have been transitioning to virtual learning over the past several months, I've been brainstorming ways that anchor charts can still be used and I've come up with… Continue reading TEACHING TIP: How To Use Anchor Charts During Distance Learning
Teaching To The Test-Taker 