I have taught in elementary education for a total of 22 years. 16 of those years were in the classroom and the past 6 years in Title 1 Reading. I have also held the positions of Title 1 Building Coordinator and RTI Coordinator for our school.
This Blends and Digraphs Activities Word Work Chunk Its resource is great for helping students with reading and spelling using onsets and rimes. These pages are No Prep- Print & Go to save you time. Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as part of the Chunk Its Bundle! Students color the picture, glue the sound chunks and write the whole word. Then to help students apply this skill, they read a sentence using these chunks and draw a picture to demonstrate comprehension. Contents
All the Roll and Write and Roll and Read phonic activities for blending sounds are bundled together in this one bundle! Students roll, blend, write and read the sounds to make words. Students roll each cube, then blend the sounds together, deciding if the words are real or nonsense words. Fun cards like Roll Again, blending mats and recording sheets are included. CVC short vowels, blends and digraphs, onset and rime, long vowel silent e, bossy r, and more phonics skills are included for some rol
This Blends and Digraphs Activities I Have Who Has game contains 25 cards using 24 of the most common blends and digraphs. This game is designed to give students practice in isolating the beginning blend and digraph sounds, then identifying which letters make those sounds. Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as part of the Blends and Digraphs Bundle! I have also included a blends and digraphs chart containing all the blends and digraphs used in the game. You can print and post
Data Tracking Forms Assessment Binder is a tool for organizing and keeping all of your individual student and whole class assessment data in one place. It is packed with record sheets for you to keep data organized. Keep track of kindergarten and preschool skill progress! Contents:► Two different binder covers ► Capital letter cards ► Lower case letter cards ► Number cards 1-20 ► Basic colors identification cards ► Basic shapes identification cards ► 2 number grids for writing numbers ► Name c
Reading fluency is key to stronger reading comprehension! When students are needing to improve reading fluency, practicing in a fun and a variety of ways is so important! Fluency passages and fluency phrases are important ways to achieve this! Small group reading and RTI reading intervention groups can begin by building a strong base of automaticity with sight word / high frequency words lists practice worksheets. Scooping words into phrases strengthens fluency and confidence that grows stronge
With these Letter Identification activities students spin their way to learning their ABCs and beginning sounds with this fun spinner activity! Students spin a paperclip, say the letter or letter sound, and write the capital or lower case letter the paperclip landed on in the boxes. They keep spinning until they have a winner! These sheets are printer friendly and can be used with whole groups or small groups, in centers, or RtI Intervention groups. Contents:✎ 1 page for each letter of the
RTI Data Tracking Forms Binder is a must have item if you are wanting to implement RtI graphs for your intervention groups but not sure how to get started!! This item will help you document the progress of your students, keep track of students in the tiers, notify parents of participation in RtI, and help students track their own progress and so much more! Find the digital version of this RTI Binder here!Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as part of the K-3 RTI Data Tracking Forms
Persuasive Writing Activity - Do your students like playing the game Would You Rather? This activity takes the fun of the Would You Rather questions but with a twist, puts them on task cards and scaffolds your students during the writing process as they learn to write about their opinions, but in a really fun and interesting way! This activity can be used in a center or as a whole group activity. You won't believe the fun thinking your students will have as they give their reasoning for what
Improving fluency is hard if you are unable to decode multiysllabic words! But you can provide your students with fun and meaningful fluency practice with multisyllabic word decoding that will increase their fluency, comprehension and vocabulary! Students will practice reading word triangles, sentence comprehension cards, fluency phrases using multisyllabic words, fluency phrases comprehension cards & 2 page-spread stories with comprehension questions.. All these activities were designed to flow
If your students are struggling to decode multisyllabic words and to improve their fluency, these reading fluency and comprehension passages with questions using multisyllabic words are going to make it so much easier for both you and your students! These activities include a variety of skills that build reading strategies! ! No prep- print and go 2 page spread stories that cover many skills: 2 syllable target words, syllable division, fluency practice, fluency rating, 3 purposes for reading, p
Let's face it- improving fluency is hard if you are unable to decode multisyllabic words! You can provide your students fluency phrase practice with multisyllabic word decoding that will increase their fluency, comprehension and vocabulary! Students practice reading fluency phrases using multisyllabic words. Then strengthen their comprehension and vocabulary by choosing the correct word to fit the fluency phrase. Find the DIGITAL version of this resource here! Click here to SAVE by purchasing
Do you use picture sorts as part of your word work during Small Group Reading? These beginning sounds picture sorting cards are just what you need! Help your students hear beginning sounds and determine which letter is making that sound. More Picture Sorting Cards:CVC and CVCe Picture Sorting Cards for Small Group Reading and Literacy CentersBlends and Digraphs Picture Sorting Cards for Small Group Reading and Literacy CentersContents:► 152 Picture Cards Total ► Picture cards for all 26 lett
Reading fluency is key to stronger reading comprehension! When students are needing to improve reading fluency, practicing in a fun and a variety of ways is so important! Fluency passages with comprehension questions and fluency phrases are important ways to achieve this! Small group reading and RTI reading intervention groups can begin by building a strong base of automaticity with sight word practice. Scooping words into phrases strengthens fluency and confidence that grows stronger as they p
Do your students need practice blending and reading root words with common suffix added to them? This Root Word Plus Suffix center activity gives students practice blending the sounds, reading the words and deciding if it is a real word or a nonsense word. Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as part of the Roll, Blend & Write It Bundle! This product works best if you have the Differentiated Instruction Cubes from teacher stores but works well in a pocket chart too. Students can h
Open and Closed Syllables & the other 6 syllable types in these word pyramid centers game activities build decoding skills and word fluency! They also build vocabulary so that reading comprehension is strengthened using these 4 syllable Words Triangle cards and Sentence Comprehension cards! Students practice reading words that are broken into syllables to build word fluency, then strengthen comprehension by reading sentences and choosing the correct 4 syllable word to fit the sentence. Find our
November Opinion Writing Activities Take It or Leave It provides a fun way for students to practice opinion writing and providing reasons for their opinions. If you like Would You Rather activities, you will love these Take It or Leave It Writing Activities! Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as part of the Take It or Leave It Monthly Opinion Writing Bundle! Kids have strong opinions about all kinds of things and November topics will bring out a lot of them! And they LOVE telli
Learning with Digital Boom Cards- Open Syllables, Closed Syllables, Vowel Team Syllables & More Bundle builds decoding skills, word fluency and has gone digital with Boom Cards! These cards also build vocabulary so that reading comprehension is strengthened by using these multisyllabic Word Triangle cards and Sentence Comprehension cards. Students practice reading words that are broken into syllables to build word fluency, then strengthen comprehension by reading sentences and choosing the co
Do your 1st or 2nd grade students need more phonics decoding and reading fluency practice and YOU need a quick way to assess both phonics and fluency during RTI Reading Interventions or for your classroom? With this BUNDLE of Short Vowel CVC, Blends and Digraphs, Long Vowel Silent E CVCE, R Controlled Vowels and Vowel Teams phonics and fluency worksheets you also get quick check assessments - great for weekly testing - that are perfect for interventions, whole group, small group, centers, s
This Monster Craft and Writing activity goes great with the book Go Away Big Green Monster! Students will create a fun monster and write about their monster using the the writing frames or monster themed writing paper. So much monster fun and makes a colorful display for your room! ContentsHair, eyes, ears, nose, teeth, mouth, head, shirt, and shirt decorations for creating a monster craft 2 writing frames to go with the books Go Away Big Green Monster and Glad Monster, Sad Monster Words to fil
Make it a happy Mother's & Father's Day! These Mother's Day Writing and Father's Day Writing activities with writing prompts on Mother's Day & Father's Day paper to create flip books make great writing activities for your students to celebrate their moms and dads! Students write about how their mother or father is their super hero and what parent won't love reading about that? They create a cute display too with or without using the toppers! Click here to SAVE by purchasing this resource as par
I have taught in elementary education for a total of 22 years. 16 of those years were in the classroom and the past 6 years in Title 1 Reading. I have also held the positions of Title 1 Building Coordinator and RTI Coordinator for our school.
Teaching style
Best practices and researched based, hands on learning for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension and writing activities.
My own education history
I have earned a B.S. in Elementary Education, a master's degree in Reading and my reading specialist certificate.
Additional biographical information
Visit my blog for ideas and ways to guide your students to better reading and writing: http://www.conversationsinliteracy.com/
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