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Welcome! I help teachers, tutors, and parents unlock the magic of reading with engaging games and hands-on resources aligned to the science of reading! Make learning to read simple and joyful with ready-to-go, research-aligned resources today!
About the Creator:
April is a literacy coach and special education specialist with 16 years of experience teaching students to read. April believes in joyful learning and is ready to help you transform your teaching to help your students soar! Here's a few things to know about the creator behind Little Bird Learning, April is:
🍎 Orton-Gillingham certified
🍎 LETRS trained
🍎 Multisensory math trained
🍎 Certified in elementary education, special education (infants to adults), and school administration
🍎 A highly sought-after professional developer
🍎 A district office leader
🍎 A lover of all things reading who has helped more than 40,000 teachers, tutors, and parents teach their children to read in a joyful way!
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Phonics Cheat Sheets | Portable Sound Wall | Student Phonics Folder Mini-Posters
Are you looking for a simple way to help your students remember sounds, spelling rules, syllable types, and syllabication strategies while they read and spell? Look no further! This set of Phonics Cheat Sheets includes 10 phonics posters with visual cues for sound-spelling relationships, spelling rules, syllable types, and syllable division strategies to help your students build independence with reading and spelling. With a portable sound wall, syllable cheat sheets, and sound-spelling chea
Not Specific
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading Strategies, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.3
, RF.K.3a
, RF.K.3b
+13
Diagnostic Reading Assessments Toolkit - Print and Digital Reading Inventories
This comprehensive diagnostic reading assessments toolkit includes everything you need to assess your students' reading skills! This toolkit assesses the following skills: phonological awareness, letter knowledge, decoding, sight word reading, oral reading fluency, and reading comprehension. With 120+ pages of diagnostic reading assessments, this toolkit is essential for special education teachers, reading interventionists, or teachers diagnosing students for Response-to-Intervention (RTI).
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+39
Open and Closed Syllables Interactive Notebook Activities and Posters
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your students about open and closed syllable types? This resource includes everything you need to teach your students to read and spell words with open and closed syllables including 4 colorful posters with easy-to-remember definitions for open and closed syllable types plus a week of interactive notebook activities! Your students will love taking notes with the flapbooks, sorting words into the interactive pockets by syllable type, and changing wo
1st - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.K.3b
, RF.1.2a
, RF.1.3
+3
Orton-Gillingham Spelling Rules and Generalizations Posters Mini Anchor Charts
Teach your students to spell words accurately and independently using this set of Spelling Rules and Generalizations Posters. No more guessing words or interrupting your writing conferences to ask for help with spelling a word!Does this sound familiar? When you ask your students to write, instead of the beautiful sound of pencils scratching paper, you hear… CRICKETS… and then the hands go up all with the same question... “How do I spell ____?” Or maybe…Your students are silently struggling to sp
Not Specific
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
L.K.2c
, L.K.2d
, L.1.1
+15
K-5 Diagnostic Math Assessments Toolkit - Print and Digital Math Inventories
Assess your students’ readiness in math, pinpoint learning gaps, and get the information you need to plan lessons, create flexible groups, and accelerate instruction without wasting any time using diagnostic math assessments!Every year, you get a new group of students. It takes time to get to know them and what they know about math. With the return to in-person learning, many students are demonstrating gaps in learning, particularly in math. Don’t waste those precious first weeks of school! M
Not Specific
Basic Operations, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
K.CC.A.1
, K.CC.A.2
, K.CC.B.4
+51
Open and Closed Syllables Digital Read and Cover | Digital Sorting Activity
Are you looking for an engaging and fun way for students to practice sorting words with open and closed syllables?! Look no further! This Read and Cover Activity is engaging, fun, and provides hands-on practice with identifying and sorting words with open and closed syllables! This product includes 5 Read and Cover Workmats with a total of 30 words! Each set includes audio directions and a video model of how to sort words by syllable type using "drag and drop" on Google Slides. Your students
1st - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.K.3b
, RF.1.2a
, RF.1.3
+3
Also included in: Endless Digital Phonics Games Bundle - LEVEL 2 | Orton-Gillingham
Phonics Interactive Notebook Printable Word Work Activities & Posters for K-3
Save BIG with this MEGA bundle of Phonics Interactive Notebooks! This money-saving MEGA bundle has 33 interactive notebook sets! Phonics Interactive Notebooks are an engaging way to take notes, learn new phonics concepts, and apply learning to read and spell words in fun ways. Not sure? Try the Qu Interactive Notebook Activities and Posters for free to see the layout, poster design, flapbooks, and foldables available in each set!▶️ What's included in each set of Phonics Interactive Noteboo
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.3
, RF.1.3
, RF.1.3a
+10
Phonics Word Cards & Picture Cards for Pocket Chart Sorting & Matching
Save BIG with this MEGA bundle of decodable word cards with matching picture cards! This money-saving MEGA bundle is JAM-PACKED with 1,377 total word cards! Why do you need matching word and picture cards in your reading toolkit? Word cards are one of the most versatile and powerful tools in your reading toolkit! There are so many flexible ways to use word cards and picture cards to amp up the fun while maximizing growth in your reading instruction. From reading, matching, and sorting to
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
CCSS
RF.K.3
, RF.1.3
, RF.1.3a
+8
FLOSS Rule Decodable Word Cards and Picture Cards Set - FLSZ Bonus Letters Words
This resource includes 40 word cards and matching picture cards for one-syllable words ending in -ff, -ll, -ss, and -zz. Use this resource to help your students master the FLOSS/Bonus Letters rule when reading and spelling in a variety of different ways by matching words and pictures, sorting words by word ending, playing a memory match game, creating a pocket chart center, a read the room activity, or using the picture cards for a magnetic word work center. One of my favorite activities is "
1st - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.3b
6 Syllable Types Posters Set | Orton-Gillingham Syllable Types Anchor Charts
Teach your students to recognize, read, and spell words with all six syllable types using this colorful and engaging set of syllable types posters! This resource includes a zipped folder with vertical posters, horizontal posters, high-resolution PNG versions of each poster, and a Google Slides slide deck with all six syllable types. NOTE: This product will download as a zipped folder containing PDF files and PNG files.▶️ What's Included in the 6 Syllable Types Print and Digital Pack?✅ Vertica
Not Specific
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.K.2
, RF.K.3
, RF.1.2
+6
CVC Words Decodable Word Cards and Picture Cards Short Vowel Sort & Match
This set includes 164 decodable word cards with matching picture cards to help your students read and spell CVC words (e.g., bat, pig, hop, cup). Use the matching word and picture cards to sort words by vowel sounds, match words and pictures, play memory games, mark-up words by identifying vowel sounds and syllable types, spelling words with magnetic letter tiles, and more! There are so many ways to use these versatile decodable word cards and picture cards with your students! This set is
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.3
, RF.1.3
, RF.1.3b
Also included in: CVC Words Activities | Short Vowel Phonics Centers and Activities Bundle
Diagnostic Reading and Math Assessments | Beginning and End of Year Assessments
Are you ready to pinpoint learning gaps and press the easy button on lesson planning? With this comprehensive set of 20 diagnostic reading and math assessments, you'll have the data you need at your fingertips to group your students, plan instruction, and set your school year up for success! Picture this: Your small groups are ready, you know every one of your new students' strengths and needs in reading and math, and you have a plan to knock out learning gaps by the end of the first week of sch
Not Specific
Math, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1a
, RF.K.1b
+29
Phonics Interactive Notebooks and Posters - Level 1 | Short Vowels and Digraphs
This money-saving bundle includes 7 sets of Phonics Interactive Notebook Activities and Posters with high-color posters and engaging hands-on activities to teach your students to read and spell one-syllable words with short vowel sounds, consonant digraphs, double consonants -ff -ll and -ss, nasal /a/ sounds -am and -an, and suffix -s. This bundle is loaded with engaging interactive notebook activities to help your students master these sounds, concepts, and spelling rules. These multisensor
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.2d
, RF.K.3
, RF.K.3b
+7
Orton-Gillingham Posters Structured Literacy Anchor Charts Phonics Class Decor
What if every poster you needed to teach phonics using a structured literacy approach was in one convenient bundle?! That's like pressing the EASY button for Back to School! With 192+ colorful posters, this bundle has everything you need to teach your students to read and spell accurately and independently. What Orton-Gillingham Posters are Included?✅ Orton-Gillingham Sound-Spelling Posters✅ 6 Syllable Types Posters✅ Syllable Division Posters✅ Orton-Gillingham Spelling Rules Posters and Mu
Not Specific
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
RF.K.3
, RF.K.3a
, RF.K.3b
+26
FLOSS Rule Activities and Games FLSZ Bonus Letters Phonics Posters Centers Cards
With 10 engaging FLOSS Rule activities, this money-saving bundle includes everything you need to teach your students to read and spell words with bonus letters ff, ll, ss, and zz!What's Included in the FLOSS Rule Activities Bundle?✅ FLOSS Rule Interactive Notebook Activities and Posters✅ FLOSS Rule Word Cards and Picture Cards Set✅ FLOSS Rule Read and Cover Activity | Print Version✅ FLOSS Rule Word Puzzles✅ FLOSS Rule Clip Cards✅ FLOSS Rule Board Game - Flight of the Tooth Fairies!✅ FLOSS
1st - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
L.1.2
, L.2.2d
, L.3.2f
+1
Suffixes -ED and -ING - Digital Word Puzzles | Distance Learning | Google Slides
Are you looking for an engaging and fun way for students to practice reading and spelling words with suffixes -ed and -ing (e.g. sprinting, fishing, sprinted, fished)?! Look no further! These Digital Word Puzzles are engaging, fun, and provide hands-on practice with reading and spelling one-syllable words with inflectional endings! This product includes 2 sets with 20 total word puzzles including audio directions and a video model of how to put the puzzles together using "drag and drop" o
1st - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.3
, RF.1.3b
, RF.1.3f
+2
3-Letter Blends and Trigraphs Digital Read and Cover Matching Activity
Are you looking for an engaging and fun way for students to practice reading one-syllable words with 3-letter blends and trigraphs (scr-, shr-, spl-, spr-, squ-, str-, thr-)?! Look no further! This Read and Cover Activity is engaging, fun, and provides hands-on practice with identifying and sorting words with open and closed syllables! This product includes 5 Read and Cover Workmats with a total of 28 words! Each set includes audio directions and a video model of how to read and cover using "
1st - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.1.3
, RF.1.3b
, RF.2.3
Also included in: Endless Digital Phonics Games Bundle - LEVEL 2 | Orton-Gillingham
Oh My Ostrich! - Ostrich Words (VCCCV) Two-Syllable Words Card Game
This FUN phonics card game is designed to keep your students engaged as they practice reading two-syllable words with closed syllables that follow the VC/CCV and VCC/CV syllable division patterns known as "ostrich words" (e.g. sub/tract, pump/kin). Students race to collect as many cards as possible - just beware of the Head in the Sand cards or players may lose all their cards! This card game is also designed to be a companion activity for foundational literacy instruction as well as struct
1st - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCSS
RF.1.3
, RF.1.3d
, RF.1.3e
+3
R-Controlled Vowels Decodable Word Cards and Picture Cards Set | Bossy R Words
Are you looking for a set of decodable word cards to teach one-syllable words with r-controlled vowels (e.g., barn, cord, fern, girl)? Then look no further! This set of 58 word cards with matching picture cards will be one of the most versatile and powerful tools in your reading toolkit! There are so many flexible ways to use word cards and picture cards to amp up the fun while maximizing growth in your reading instruction. From reading, matching, and sorting to marking up words, playing game
1st - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.3
, RF.1.3b
, RF.2.3
Also included in: Advanced Phonics Decodable Word Cards and Picture Cards Bundle - LEVEL 5
Glued Sounds Decodable Word Cards and Picture Cards Set for NG NK Word Families
This set includes 48 decodable word cards with matching picture cards to help your students read one-syllable words with glued sounds -NG and -NK (e.g., sing, bang, honk, junk). Use the matching word and picture cards to sort words by sound, match words and pictures, play memory games, mark-up words by identifying welded sounds and syllable types, spelling words with magnetic letter tiles, and more! There are so many ways to use these versatile decodable word cards and picture cards with yo
1st - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.3
, RF.1.3b
, RF.2.3
+1
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About the store
Experience
Welcome! I help teachers, tutors, and parents unlock the magic of reading with engaging games and hands-on resources aligned to the science of reading! Make learning to read simple and joyful with ready-to-go, research-aligned resources today!
About the Creator:
April is a literacy coach and special education specialist with 16 years of experience teaching students to read. April believes in joyful learning and is ready to help you transform your teaching to help your students soar! Here's a few things to know about the creator behind Little Bird Learning, April is:
🍎 Orton-Gillingham certified
🍎 LETRS trained
🍎 Multisensory math trained
🍎 Certified in elementary education, special education (infants to adults), and school administration
🍎 A highly sought-after professional developer
🍎 A district office leader
🍎 A lover of all things reading who has helped more than 40,000 teachers, tutors, and parents teach their children to read in a joyful way!
Teaching style
I love using multisensory instruction techniques to support my students in all content areas. I believe learning should be FUN and dynamic - that's how you make the learning sticky! I use a lot of visual supports and hands-on materials and activities in my lessons to help students grasp new material. I have my associate-level certification in the Orton-Gillingham approach to structured, multisensory reading instruction. I use concrete-representational-abstract scaffolding in math.
Awards & shining teacher moments
- District Curriculum and Assessment Writer
- District-Level Professional Development Leader
- Experienced Teacher Coach and New Teacher Mentor
- Teacher of the Month and Teacher of the Year Nominee
My own education history
M.S.Ed. in Special Education from Johns Hopkins University
Post-Masters Certificate in School Improvement Leadership from Goucher College
Certification in Orton-Gillingham
Additional biographical information
I love hiking, traveling, trying new things, exploring the natural world, and experiencing arts and culture in new cities. I believe that each student is a special treasure in the classroom and that the learning environment is enriched by our different strengths, talents, and interests.
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