We all love Pete the Cat, right?? I know I do and my students adore him! Just something about that easy going cat that they seem to relate to and enjoy. We did Pete the Cat last year too. If you want to see those activities, just click here to see them. This year, we read Pete the Cat I… View Post
I have been lucky enough for the past 3 days to attend the Marre Reading Conference! One of the keynote speakers was Georgia Heard and she was fabulous! During her keynote address, Georgia Heard shared poetry and how poetry met common core standards. We all know we should be reading, sharing and writing poetry, but sometimes we need a little… View Post
Binders, binders, binders! Do you test for fluency during your Response to Intervention (RtI) time? For some students we use fluency tests if that is the appropriate skill at that time for them. And once again, Reading A-Z has helped me out with this! This site has an abundance of fluency tests ready to go if that is what you… View Post
Do you use Elkonin Sound Boxes to help you teach phonemic awareness? I think these little boxes are great! If you haven’t used these little boxes, you should try them! Students place an object under each box. I like to use things about the size of coins. Pom Poms work well too and are quiet. That is a bonus!! For… View Post
We are a little over half way through our first cycle of RtI. If you want to read about our RtI process click here. Knowing what interventions to teach was not the hard part. Finding assessments that were ready to use was giving me problems. I needed a large variety of assessments to cover the many different areas our school… View Post
Happy Halloween to everyone today! It’s going to be a fun and crazy day! Tammy, at Forever in 1st and Andrea, at Reading Toward the Stars have both booed me! You MUST go to their very fine blogs and visit them. One of the rules of being booed is to share some October activities or books that you have been… View Post
Have you heard of assessment walls? Does your school use them? This is a shot of our phonemic awareness assessment wall. It is in my room, which is centrally located to the kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Assessment walls are great visuals for conversations between teachers on what skills need covering. Our goal: blank wall! This is what my wall… View Post
