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 Reading Intervention Binder is just what you need to get started with using reading binders during small groups, reading interventions and even literacy centers! This FREE resource demonstrates how students can move from individual sounds to blending sounds and chunks to reading sentences and short stories! Great for kindergarten, first grade, and below level second graders. This FREE resource is a part of the Word Work Intervention Binder Bundle.Click HERE to see the en
Prove It To Me is a way to introduce students to using clues the author gives in the text to understand what they are reading and to use these clues as evidence in their writing. The clues in these cards are easy to find and use as evidence since this is an introduction to this skill. These cards can be placed into a center or just copied and used as daily work like morning work. You will need to model first how to write a good answer using the answer frames. If you love this freebie, you may
Closed Syllables Multisyllabic Words Reading Intervention Binder is just what you need to get started with using reading binders during small groups, reading interventions and even literacy centers! This FREE phonics decoding multisyllabic words packet demonstrates how students can learn how to decode closed syllables sounds with a variety of activities and games. Great for firsti grade students and up learning to decode multisyllabic words. This packet is a part of the Closed Syllables Multisyl
This Scoop It Up Fluency Reading Intervention Binder is just what you need to get started with using reading binders during reading small groups, reading interventions and even literacy centers! This FREE resource demonstrates how students can move from individual words to fluency phrases to reading sentences with expression to reading short stories for comprehension! Great for first grade, second grade, and third grade. This FREE resource is a part of the Scoop It Up Reading Intervention Binde
Christmas - Holiday Prove It To Me is a way to introduce students to using clues the author gives in the text to understand what they are reading and to use these clues as evidence in their writing. The clues in these cards are easy to find and use as evidence since this is an introduction to this skill. These holiday stories contain the words Christmas and Santa; be sure you are allowed to use them in your school before downloading. Place the Prove It To Me poster in the center or post in you
Need a fun way for your students to practice easy, high frequency sight words? I Have Who Has Monster Game is a great way to practice those words and help student become fluent reading those easy beginning words. ► This game includes words like: I, a, the, is, up, my, can, etc... ►27 I have Who Has.... game cards, including the start card and the ending card ►Directions for use ►Ideas for when to play Teachers like you say:✅ My students LOVE this game. We've played it so many times and it d
Name activities for kindergarten and preschool should be fun and engaging to help your young students learn to recognize and write their names and to learn the ABC letters! In this free name activity printable, you can send home the parent note, letter cards, writing paper and list of easy activities to be completed at home. I've also included an assessment page to use after students have gotten to practice learning the letters in their names. Names are fascinating to kids so using their names
Decorate your room with this FREE Welcome banner and I Am student pennants! These are great for Back to School, Parent Teacher Conferences or anytime! Included are the individual letters for Welcome and an I Am poster for students to fill out about themselves and illustrate their picture. Makes a great bulletin board or wall display! Contents:✎ Welcome Banner- one letter per page ✎ Reading- I Am Pennant- students fill this in to tell about their reading lives ✎ Math- I Am Pennant- students f
This concepts of print assessment can be used 4 times per year: first quarter, second quarter, third quarter and fourth quarter. There is a notes section included for you to be able to add short anecdotal notes as you assess. It was created to pair with this Kindergarten Assessment Data Binder- to keep all your beginning, middle, and end of the year data organized in one place: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Assessment-Data-Binder-311517If you wish to purchase the bi
If your class is learning about Plants, Plant Life Cycle and Parts of a Plant, you will want this free Digital Flipping for Plants Booklet! The cover comes in color and. included are 4 pages with lines for students to write on about plants. After completing each page, students mark words or ideas they need to check. Then students remove the circles marking these words or ideas and place a thumbs up picture to show they have completed the page. Great addition to your plant unit and plant activit
Students can use this Informational Text Response Booklet with any informational text to help them record their all of their learning. Makes a great way to display student learning! Students fill out their booklet as they read their informational texts. This can be done whole class, during reading small groups, in literacy centers or even during RTI Intervention groups. Contents:►Informational Text Response Booklet cover ► My Schema about…page ► New Learning about…page ► Misconceptions about…pa
Sending home positive behavior notes to parents are a great way to build positive communication and for encouraging students! These free positive notes are fun and a have a space for you to write a personalized message to students. The 8 note card designs are in color and in ink saving black and white. Also included is a tracking sheet to help ensure that you are sending home notes to all students! Your students and parents are going to LOVE these encouraging notes and will be displayed in a pl
Need a way to practice sight words and phrases with your students for fluency? This PowerPoint has every preprimer sight word used at least twice and is presented in phrases. A fun and colorful way to build your students' fluency! Can be used as a whole class activity or in literacy centers at the computer.
Great for RtI, whole or guided reading small groups or literacy centers!
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Students can have a fun time reading holiday words while playing Holidays I Have Who Has... This is a great way to practice reading fluency with holiday words. ► This Holiday I Have Who Has contains 27 different holiday words on cards. Remember that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases and I love that feedback! ❤️⭐ Be sure to follow my store to know when new items and freebies are added! ⭐Thank you!
Can learning decoding & spelling (encoding) multisyllabic words be FUN?? Yes, it can with Back to School Spin It Map It Spell It! Students spin back to school spinners to determine the number of syllables and the category of words they must choose. After spinning, students will be word mapping to help them with spelling multisyllabic words! All in a fun Back to School theme! These decoding multisyllabic words activities are great for whole groups, small groups, interventions, after school tutor
Growth Mindset: Teach students the value of working hard and being dedicated to reaching their reading goals with this Growth Mindset Banner, student reading goals pennants, and exit tickets! Contents:► One Growth Mindset Banner- Two letters per page ► One Growth Mindset Reading Goals pennant- students fill in this page to tell about their reading goal and what action they will take to work towards it ► One Growth Mindset Math Goals pennant- students fill in this page to tell about their math
Use these fun, fall ABC letter cards for some extra practice on identifying letters and sounds! Great way for quick, easy assessment! INCLUDED: 26 letter pair (capital and lower case) cards with a fall theme. 26 capital letter cards with a fall theme 26 lower case letter cards with a fall theme Ideas for how to use Ideas for using these cards as exit slips:• Letter identification • Letter Sounds • Beginning Sounds • Ending Sounds • Vowel Sounds • ABC Order (if you have the letter that comes af
Teaching word decoding strategies just got a lot more fun with this FREE Decoding Strategies Set! The kid friendly language and a fun dog theme make it easy for your readers to remember the strategies. Decoding Strategies Anchor Chart Posters help you teach the strategies and are great for displaying in your classroom. The student bookmarks make great tools to use as students read. Great for kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade elementary classrooms, small groups, interventio
This Digraphs Assessment Freebie is one part of our Beginning Blends & Digraphs Phonics Word Assessment System. It is a great way to start using quick check assessments to determine what progress your students have made. This assessment sample package contains a set of word cards in both black and white and color, a word list set in black and white and color, directions, how to use the assessment, and one assessment recording sheet. CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE BLENDS & DIGRAPHS PHONICS ASSESSMENTS
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Sound Boxes can be a great tool to use to help you teach phonemic awareness with your students. These fun sound boxes are in a monster theme that students just love!
This set of of sound boxes includes:
► 4 different Sound Box pages in a cute monster theme-
✎ 2 boxes
✎ 3 boxes
✎ 4 boxes
✎ 5 boxes
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PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
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Experience
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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