Segmenting and Blending phonemes in the early grades is not just a game, it’s crucial. This vital part of phonemic awareness will lead to future success in decoding and encoding. For kindergarten and first-grade teachers, fostering phoneme segmenting and blending…
CVC Activities for Word Building are the foundation of all spelling. Students need to practice word building over and over and over! Providing a variety of CVC word building activities will help students make solid letter/sound associations, understand letter order…
Learning to read is an incredibly important and rewarding task for young learners. One of the foundational skills we can use to support young learners is word building. Starting with a strong foundation of phonics and systematic manipulation of words can…
Summer isn't too fair off. In Coastal Virginia, we are ready to rest, recharge, and review the year and reinvent some lessons while we refresh others. Whew! Quick Summer writing A few years ago I wanted something to offer my…
Do you need an intervention for students struggling with spelling words confidently? This is it. Stoplight writing is something students can hang on to. Teaching emergent readers to write can be far more complicated than you think. Writing words involves,…
All early learners need to have intentional cvc lessons and activities to make sure they can develop into proficient readers and writers. Let’s start 2020 off with a bang. What else could be more of a bang than making sure…
Had a teacher recently ask me what my favorite Back to School resources from my store were. "You have so much in your store, and there's so much on TPT, I get overwhelmed." Well, teachers don't need any additional stress. After…
CVC Words are the cornerstone of reading and writing. The majority of early learners need very specific things: a foundation of letters and sounds and their clear connections, a bank of known words, and exposure to lots and lots of…
Spelling can be far more complicated than you think. Writing words involves, at a minimum, knowing letter names, knowing letter sounds, understanding letter/sound associations, knowing letter formations AND being able to hold the pencil and make the letters. WOW. That…
I've talked about book introductions in another blog post. Check out my post 4 Book Introductions You Don't Want to Miss gave 4 ideas for introducing a book. Too often we skip the introduction and jump into vocabulary and reading, but…
Expectations are the key to student success. If you believe it, they will do it. It's time to up the game. BUT, that doesn't mean changing the game. You know I'm a "process/product center" girl. I believe in centers where…
Magnetic Letters are a bit of an obsession for me. It's one of the things on my list when I visit thrift stores. I am always gathering upper and lower case letters. One summer I even sorted all my letters…
