Literacy bins grade 1

Do you have Morning Chaos? First Grade Morning Bins to the rescue! Get ready to transform your morning routines with these fun hands-on activities! First

Learn quick and easy ideas to help you with setting up reading centers and literacy centers in your classroom. Get them organized for the year.

Classroom teachers have a ton of daily tasks to guarantee that students are engaged and learning. It's a tough job, and a stressful one, too. Teachers wear out easily if their classrooms aren't well managed. Creating a classroom that runs itself while you teach in smaller groups is the best way to keep students engaged.

Actionable tips on setting up student groups, choosing literacy centers, and effectively organizing materials and classroom space!

Structured literacy is evidence-based instruction requires clear, direct teaching, sequential lessons, continuous assessment, and multimodal techniques to engage various parts of the reading brain. While multi-sensory learning or the use of multiple tools for building words (sand, screens, letters, counters, etc) is popular on social media – the true meaning of multi-sensory or multimodal learning...

For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them. Let me give you the break down on each of my 5 centers, and how I manage them!

Find 10 FREE sight word games and activities for your students to use during literacy centers. Many of these require very little materials to make.

Do you have Morning Chaos? First Grade Morning Bins to the rescue! Get ready to transform your morning routines with these fun hands-on activities! First

Free Alphabet Sensory Bin - It is important to use hands-on activities that are fun and interactive when teaching students to recognize alphabet letters. I wanted to share some free resources to help you create an alphabet sensory bin along with a fun way to practice writing letters. You’ll need the cupcake letter cards, which are available as a FREE download at the bottom of this blog post. You will want to print, laminate, and cut apart the alphabet cards.

Embrace a soft start to your school day in the first grade classroom. Use Good Morning Tubs to give grade one students a fun way to work on math and literacy skills as well as fine motor skills and spatial awareness. It is a social way to begin the day that really calms my first grade and second grade students and sets the tone for the day.