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Part of phonemic awareness is the ability to manipulate sounds. This is an indicator for reading success. In this packet, students will have the opportunity to isolate the beginning sound of different words. Students will then delete that phoneme to make a new word. Since part of phonemic awareness skills we are targeting is being able to HEAR and manipulate sounds, ball without the /b/ sound becomes all. Another example would be that green without the /g/ sound would become ring. The spelling

All About What's in the Bag?Are your students ready to be Reading Detectives? This Boom Deck will have your students using their schema and clues from the riddles to infer what is inside each bag. They must read the clues carefully and not be tricked by some similar clues. Learning to infer is an important reading strategy that can be difficult for young readers. The pictures on the task cards will help beginning readers become successful at making inferences. Are your students ready to solve th

Young children often get confused with the difference between letters and numbers. This packet provides hands-on ways to help young children differentiate between the two. Students also work on ordering letters from a to z and numbers from 1 to 20. Included in the packet are: *Small number and letter cards to be used for creating an anchor chart *Numbers and Letters labels for anchor chart *Large letter and number cards for whole group activities *Large numbers and letters labels for whole group

reading strategies- chunking decoding strategy Chunky Monkey teaches students how to look for chunks and little words inside bigger words. Children are able to answer the question Does it look right? by using what they know about words to decode unknown words. For example, children can read the word cupcake more easily if they break down the word into cup and cake instead of trying to sound the word out. In this packet, your students learn to be Word Detectives on a mission from Chunky Monkey. C

All About What's Hatching-Oviparous Animal RiddlesDo you know what animals are oviparous? What schema do you have about animals that lay eggs? Your students will become Reading Detectives as they use their schema and clues from the riddle to infer what is hatching from each egg. Learning to infer is an important reading strategy that can be difficult for young readers. The pictures on the task cards will help beginning readers become successful at making inferences. Are your students ready to so

The ability to segment words into individual phonemes (sounds) and blend them together is a crucial skill for beginning readers. This skill will help readers take a word like flag and segment the word into /f/ /l/ /a/ /g/ and then blend it together to decode and read the word correctly. Stretchy Snake helps young readers stretch out sounds and blend them together in this fun and engaging bingo game packet. There are 5 different bingo games that can be used as part of your Guided Reading groups o

All About Letter or Number Id: Young learners often have trouble distinguishing between letters and numbers. These are important concepts for them to understand. In this deck, students will work on the following activities: *identifying if it is a letter or a number *identifying letters and numbers in a group *sorting letters and numbers This is the perfect deck for Kindergarten and 1st grade students. They will love completing this Letter or Number Investigation. Check out some more Boom cards:

All About Stretchy Snake Blending: Stretchy Snake is here to help your students stretch out words and blend the sounds together. Being able to blend sounds together and say the word is an important skill for beginning readers. In this deck, students will say the letter sound as they touch each dot. Students will then slide their finger across the arrow to blend the sounds together to read the word. Finally, students will find the matching picture. The deck is like an interactive version of Elkon

The animals at the zoo have learned how to text! They want to invite your students to be Animal Detectives on an Inference Mission. Your students must read the text messages on the phones and infer which zoo animal sent it. They must pay careful attention to the clues in each text message that tell about that animal's special creature feature. After they have discussed and inferred each text, they will open the TOP SECRET Animal Selfies envelope and look at the selfies each animal took. After co

All About Missing Letters with Chicka Chicka Boom BoomThis deck is perfect to use while reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Students will look at the alphabet boxes and find the missing letter. Students will drag the missing letter coconut into the correct spot. This deck is great for word work centers and for practicing letter recognition, sequencing and beginning alphabetical order. You can also play this deck whole group on an interactive board as a review for letters. This would be a perfect t

Your children will LOVE this hands-on way of learning to segment words into individual sounds. Using Elkonin (sound boxes) helps teach children to segment and push individual sounds into separate sound boxes. This will help teach children to segment unknown words when reading and when spelling. This activity can be used in your Guided Reading or RtI groups. Children can also use this activity in a learning center. To REALLY make this activity engaging, the teacher can tape large sound boxes on t

About the Stretchy Snake Blending Deck: Stretchy Snake is here to help your students sound out words and blend the sounds together. Being able to blend sounds together and say the word is an important skill for beginning readers. In this deck students will say the sound as they touch each dot. Students will then slide their finger across the arrow to blend the sounds together. Finally, students will find the matching picture. Have some f-u-n with this deck and get ready to read these CVC words.

The Reading and Decoding Strategy Friends are ready to send your word detectives on a mission to learn strategies that will help them when reading and decoding unknown words. This bundle is FULL of hands-on activities that will engage young readers and help them be successful. This bundle includes ALL 7 of the Reading and Decoding Strategy Activities for Guided Reading packets. Read more about each packet below. Eagle Eye Reading and Decoding Strategy PacketEagle Eye teaches students how to look

Flippy Dolphin teaches young readers how to flip the vowel sound if the short vowel sound does not help them decode the word accurately. Readers are able to answer the questions Does it sound right? and Does it make sense? If the word does not make sense or sound right, the reader can flip the vowel sound saying that vowel's long sound. In this packet, your students learn to be Word Detectives on a mission from Flippy Dolphin. Flippy Dolphin brings your students a TOP SECRET envelope with some

All About Who's in The Mitten Riddles: After you have read Jan Brett's The Mitten, it is time to send your class on an Inference Investigation. Students will read the clues and infer what animal crawled inside the mitten. They will have to really think because there are animals crawling into THIS mitten that weren't in the book. Learning to infer can be a difficult reading strategy. The simple clues and pictures help lend support to young students. The riddles are great to use whole group on a

Stretchy Snake teaches young readers how to stretch out the sounds in a word and how to blend those sounds together to decode an unknown word. Children are able to answer the following questions with this strategy: *Does it look right? *Does it make sense? In this packet, your students learn to be Word Detectives on a mission from Stretchy Snake. Stretchy Snake brings your students a TOP SECRET envelope with some reading and decoding activities to complete. Included in the packet are: *Stretchy

All About Change 1 Sound: Developing phonemic awareness is an important part of building a strong reader. In this deck, students will change 1 sound in a word and substitute it with another letter to build a new word. Students will be changing the beginning sound in the word. Students will listen to the audio directions to change 1 sound in a word to make the new word. For example, students will change 1 sound in map and make it say nap. In order to do this, students will drag the letter needed

All About Chicka Chicka Boom Boom RhymesThis deck is perfect to use when reading the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Students will look at the pictures on the coconuts and determine if the 2 words rhyme. Students will either choose yes or no. Since Boom cards are interactive, students will know immediately if they have the correct answer. Boom cards can be played on an Interactive Board or as a literacy center. Be sure and check out my other Boom decks that can be used with the book Chicka Chicka

Skippy Frog teaches students the strategy of skipping the unknown word, reading to the end of the sentence, and then hopping back and reading the sentence again. Students will look at the beginning letter of the tricky word and think what would make sense. Students will try the word they think it is and read the sentence again answering the questions Does the word look right? and Does the word make sense? In this packet, your students learn to be Word Detectives on a mission from Skippy Frog. Sk

Inferring can be difficult for young learners until you make it hands-on and fun! To begin the Inference Investigation, your class receives a TOP SECRET envelope and 4 Mystery Bags. You must work together as reading detectives to find the clues to infer what is inside each bag. Students will practice using the sentence stem I infer it is a _____ because _____ when sharing their thinking. After opening the bags and seeing what's inside, it is time to send off your detectives to begin their own