November is a time of Thanksgiving. A time to remember our blessings and I believe most of us have many, many things to be grateful for! I am most grateful for my family, our health, and our friends that we share our life with. A 16 of my blogger friends have put together a blessings giveaway for you! It is… View Post
Teachers never have enough time and prepping centers takes a lot of time! I want to share with you some easy and inexpensive fall literacy centers that your students will love while they are learning! Pick A Pumpkin is beyond easy and my students ask to play it almost every day! I bought a couple of decorative pumpkins from Walmart… View Post
We have introduced Read to Self and set expectations. Reading Tool Kits are popular and students use them as they read to jot thoughts about books. Our students are working on building reading stamina and are really enjoying their books! It takes a lot of practice, but students love Read to Self. I used to use the big size gallon… View Post
Before ever beginning guided reading groups, you need to do the work of establishing routines and building reading stamina. Doing these things first will help your guided reading small group activities run so much more smoothly! Before diving into guided reading groups, I take time in my classroom to teach students how readers choose books. Some students really do not… View Post
We’ve spent some time learning about what readers do before we begin guided reading groups. One of my favorite ways to get started is to read Wolf! and set reading goals with growth mindset guiding us. If you haven’t read Wolf! you need to! It is perfect for teaching students not to give up on improving reading. It is a… View Post
Our state has mandated that we begin screening students kindergarten through 3rd grades for dyslexia this year. And it is important to remember that we are screening for indicators, but we are NOT diagnosing dyslexia. We needed to make managing dyslexia screening as easy as we could. Our state department required several areas of skills that needed to be included… View Post
It’s Back to School time and if you teach preschool, kindergarten or first grade, you are thinking about letter recognition and letter identification activities for your little students. You need ABC activities that are fun and that really WORK! There are a lot of different ideas and games for learning the ABCs. These are just a few of them that… View Post