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 ... View Post
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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 ... 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 ... 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 ... View Post
Engage Students With “If I Lived in a Snow Globe” Writing Activity
We all know how difficult it is to get some students excited about writing, but sometimes all it takes is an engaging, fun activity to get the most reluctant writers eager to write! Scaffolded writing activities such as roll-a-story story starters, writing prompt sticks, or fill-in-the-blank ... View Post
How to Use the “Scoop + Phrase” Activity to Improve Fluency Phrasing
Phrasing is reading smoothly by scooping or grouping words together into meaningful phrases. I often refer to this fluency skill as "scooping" since students can picture themselves "scooping" up groups of words while reading, just like a pelican scoops up fish or a shovel scoops up a pile of sand at ... View Post
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