Reading tricks

Syllable division is important for decoding. Teach students to divide words into syllables and how to decode each of the syllable types.

This kindergarten blog post will illustrate 17 different activities that can be used to build fine motor activities into your curriculum.

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Close reading is a hot topic that's just getting hotter! Here are 21 anchor charts, bulletin board ideas and other resources that you can bring into your classroom to turn your readers into even closer readers.

Pass them on to your first grade teacher friends!

Sharing some activities to do with students for teaching CVCE words using magic e. All of this and more is available in my TPT store!

A clever classroom trick to help children learning to write inside lines

I have a super manners is a english rhyme for preschool kids. They can learn manners from this song in a easy way. #englishrhymessupermanners

Teaching questioning to primary readers can be challenging. I recently released a new edition of Concrete Comprehension for Primary Readers:

Are you looking for the most effective way to teach children to read? This analogy will change the way you think about teaching phonics - for good!