When students are faced with challenging words, it’s essential they have the tools to break the words apart. Through explicit phonics instruction and word work, students can develop the essential skills they need to identify common phonics and spelling patterns within words. Students need to be able to identify word parts, as well as the phonics and spelling patterns, in… View Post
Improving Visualizing Skills With a Roll-a-Snowman Dice Activity
If you enjoyed my pumpkin visualizing activity for the fall season, you’re going to love the winter-themed “Roll a Snowman” version of the activity! Engage your students in rolling dice to create snowmen using the different descriptive words. More often than not, the snowmen come out looking VERY silly, which makes it fun for the students to visualize and illustrate…. View Post
Introduce Daily Phonics to Help Students Identify Phonics and Syllable Patterns in Words
Phonics is one the building blocks of literacy and is an essential component to reading proficiency. In order to read with accuracy and automaticity, students need to be able to map sounds to letters AND letters to sounds. Once students have sound-letter correspondence in place, they need opportunities to practice automatically recognizing sounds within words. Decoding strategies alone are not… View Post
Using Partner Poetry to Analyze Character Perspective
Partner poems are “poems for two voices” and exactly what they sound like… poems for two students or two voices! With each poem, students work in partner pairs to read their assigned character parts and practice the back-and-forth poem together. Your students will have fun using their voices to perform the highlighted reader’s theater style poetry scripts. Why Use Poems… View Post
Improve Reading and Writing with 25+ Winter Literacy Activities
If you’re looking for literacy activities to beat the winter blues, then you’ll love my Winter Resources for reading and writing! Students will be excited for literacy centers and reading group time when they discover the fun and engaging activities waiting for them, so check out the activities below and help your students improve their reading skills this winter. Winter… View Post
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