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 punctuation mark. I chose to focus on periods, question marks, and exclamation marks for this activity for very beginning readers. It ...
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Sight Word Spray
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 with my older kids), but this might be my absolute favorite sight word activity because it was interactive and SUPER easy to set up! Not only is this ...
Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort
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 make believe. When I was first explaining the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction to my daughter, she was calling it "Nonfiction" ...
Beginning Sound Match
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 concentrates on the sounds (phonemes) used to form spoken words, phonics instruction associates sounds to written symbols (i.e. the ...
Sight Word Fishing
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. Once you have created the "fish", you can use them again and again! Sight words, also known as “high-frequency words”, are the most common words ...
Bubble Gum Stretch Phonemic Awareness Activity
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, recognizing them, and learning how to manipulate the sounds within a word. Phonemic awareness does not include any written symbols (letters of the ...
Your One Stop Shop for Literature-Based Activities for Kids
*This is a sponsored post on behalf of Ivy Kids. I was compensated in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are 100% mine. For several years now, I have shared my ongoing admiration for Ivy Kids. Taseea, a former teacher and mother of three, is the founder of Ivy Kids and is truly a genius in my book! Every month, Ivy Kids creates at least 12 thematic activities based on ...
Reading Comprehension Recording Sheets for Beginning Readers
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 or sight words alone. The more we read aloud to children and engage them in conversations about the book, the better they will remember details about the story. I created ...
Pushpin Letters
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 fine motor skills as well as teaching children to hold a writing instrument correctly. Although our series is on reading, pairing reading and writing together is always ...
30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers
One of my very favorite things in the world is teaching children to read (I even wrote a book about it...just a little subtle plug, haha). As far as my own children are concerned, all of them have learned to read (or are currently learning) at different ages and stages of their development. I never want learning to read to become a chore or something they dread. Rather, I want it to ...
