A school sponsored Family Literacy Night can be a whole lot of fun and a great way to build a strong community between school, home, and your town! But we also know they can take a lot of planning and coordinating too. We have some great ideas for you to help make your next Family Literacy Night a successful event… View Post
Improving Reading Fluency – Have you ever struggled with teaching reading fluency? If so, you’re not alone. Reading fluency, or the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression, is a skill that can be challenging to teach and challenging for students to master. Fortunately, with these five strategies to strengthen fluency, you can help your students become more… View Post
Improving fluency for students can be fun while they are learning! Add in an ice cream scoop and they will be loving it as they practice reading fluency! A good way to begin your whole group or small group lesson is with quick word warm-ups! You can read that post about fluency at the word level right here to catch… View Post
Fluency is always a focus for me and the students in my classroom. How can I improve reading fluency in my students. Or, working backwards, what is keeping them from developing this skill? Readers who are less skilled in fluency tend to read word by word and with a monotone voice. Short, chopping reading is a good way to describe… View Post
Organizing your classroom may not sound exciting right now. It is almost time for break! But before you head out, let’s take just a few minutes to tidy, declutter, and purge. Sounds like a whole lot of fun, right? Lol. Just stick with me. You will thank me when you head back into your organized classrooms after break is over…. View Post
Phoneme blending is key for students to develop into fluent readers and not get stuck in sounding out individual phonemes. But before we get to blending sounds into words using beginning, middle and ending sounds, let’s back up a few steps. To build stronger readers, we need activities that link phonemic awareness and phonics skills together! Phonemic awareness activity cards… View Post
One year a parent walked into my second grade classroom upset that her daughter had not yet been chosen to go to the principal’s office with a positive note for a reward. I was confused and felt really badly about it. Her daughter was a super sweet girl and I was sure that I had chosen her for this reward…. View Post
