This activity is a hands-on way for kids to explore the concept of consonants and vowels. As adults we all learned that there are two different types of letters: the vowels are “a”, “e”, “i”, “o”, and “u” (and…
Rhyming is such an important phonological awareness skill. This giant rhyming words matching activity is perfect for pre-readers and beginning readers! I love the challenge of transforming an activity that would often be included on a worksheet to…
According to Debbie Miller in the book Reading with Meaning, “schema” is another word for background knowledge, or what one already knows about a specific subject. One’s “schema” does not just include facts, however, it also encompasses all of…
It’s Fluency Friday for our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series! Understanding punctuation is vital for helping our kids to become fluent readers. Our beginning readers should be able to model the correct inflection for each…
It’s Day 11 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Wednesdays during this series we are focusing on vocabulary and/or sight words. We have done TONS of sight words activities over the years (mostly…
It’s Day 9 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Mondays during this series we are focusing on comprehension and this Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort helps children understand the concept between real and…
Today is Day 5 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Thursdays during this series we will be focusing on phonics (one of the five elements of well-balanced reading instruction). Whereas phonemic awareness…
It’s Day 4 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Wednesdays during this series we will be focusing on sight words and/or vocabulary. This Sight Word Fishing activity is super fun and extremely versatile….
It’s Day 3 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series! Since it is a Tuesday, we are focusing on phonemic awareness activities. As I have previously mentioned, “Phonemic Awareness” consists of hearing the individual sounds,…
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Helping a child connect with a book is one of the most important things we can do as we are teaching him/her to read. This focus is often overlooked in our plight to teach children to read by decoding…
It’s Day 1 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series…and it is also a holiday weekend, so we are having a little fun with this first activity. This Pushpin Letters activity is great for promoting…
Join us for 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers! This series is perfect for children who are ready to begin learning to read! One of my very favorite things in the world is teaching children to read! As…
We’re kicking off our thematic unit on “Digging up Dinosaurs” by making this Dinosaur Fossils Craft using recycled coffee grounds. Besides being fun to make, these will be going in the sensory tub for the next week or two! …
When it comes to kids, everything is more fun when it is BIG! That’s why this Life-Size Hundreds Chart was a huge hit with my 5-year old! Sure, we could have practiced all these skills on a printable…
Teaching sight words is one component of well-balanced literacy instruction. For many decades, we see a constant swing back in forth in the primary methods for reading instruction. On one end of the pendulum, we taught phonics as the…
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We have a lot of “firsts” coming up in our family. My oldest son will start his first day of middle school next week. My baby starts kindergarten the following week. It’s the end of an era for me…