Allie's Apples

(It's necessary to print out small (thumbnail) images to place in each blender. Also, the teacher must write either an ending or beginning blend on the line in each blender.) This activity is for students to look at an image, say the image's name, find the Final Blend that is in that word, and place it in the correct blender. No writing is necessary. Final Blend Examples: nk, st, rt After student places the image in the correct blender, all students make a "blending sound" with their mou

This game is for students to practice reading and identifying Long and Short vowel words (a,e,i,o,u). All boards have the same words. There are 5 game boards.

This is a document listing the reading and writing strategies and interventions that I use in my own reading classroom. I teach grades K-5, but I mainly use these with Grades K-2. The purpose of this resource is for use with a M.T.S.S. (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) in a large classroom of 10-30 students. Enjoy!

The words in these sentences are for students who are just beginning to put sight words together in phrases. Student will cut out each sight word from each sentence, mix up the words, and put back into the correct order. Difficult words like "rabbit" and "fish" are pictures.

This small poster helps students to decode words in the Long A, E, I, O, and U categories- each word is paired with a picture. This poster also aids students when learning the phonics rules which make a vowel have a long versus short vowel sound.

This is a list of my favorite App's for Phonics, Sight Words, and Decoding/Listening (comprehension), by category. It includes small screenshots of the apps' logos for easy searching, a brief description of each, and the creator.

This checklist allows a peer, or the writer him/herself, to assess a piece of writing, and to make sure that it includes the most essential writing targets for K-12. Students check either "YES" or "NO" for whether the writing includes that specific target or not, and many questions have a space for gathering follow-up information (i.e. The author uses interesting words. List Examples: ). This tool was created for story writing, but it can be molded for essay writing as well.

Students circle the correct spelling of words with dipthongs.

Learn how to chunk words with this game. I could not find anything interactive enough for my students, so I created a hands-on way to identify and build with word chunks.

Enjoy! (Theme for 2021 school year)

Posters with images for common dipthongs. Example: "Oo Balloon" Poster OO/OU I often point to the mini posters to help my students figure out spellings and pronunciations of words.

This worksheet helps students to understand Cause and Effect: Something happens in the present be-CAUSE of something that happened in the past. With this timeline, students will see how past and present are connected. They not only go backwards in their thinking, but forward as they think about the future effects of something happening in the Present. (The "Present" soon becomes the "Past," and the "Future" becomes the new "Present." On and on the timeline continues.....) Students choose event

This extensive art lesson focuses on Dot Art from the Indigenous Australian people. Students create artwork on pieces of nature, which reflect their personalities.

Fill in the Blank sentences without a word bank.

This is a worksheet for students to keep track of how much money Alexander lost from his $1.00 bill that his grandparents gave to him. Good for a re-read of the story or students who need to remain on-task during a read aloud.

Cut apart and use these cards to teach students how to flip vowel sounds from Short to Long and Long to Short. These words are "rule breakers." Each card has a matching word, based on the part that is Underlined. One of the match has a long vowel and one has a short vowel. "Hive" and "Shiver" both have I V E, and based on the Silent Magic E Rule, the "I" in Shiver should be a long I, but it is a rule-breaker. Flippy dolphin words are rule-breakers. In the case of "Apron" and "Gap," Apron has a

Read sentences with ow or ew and decide if the sentence is true or false.

Students look at the words on this sheet (categorized by phonics rules) and Tap them Out (Wilson's tap it out method): Phoneme segmentation on your fingers (A.K.A. “Tapping It Out”). Each two-finger tap is one phoneme [smallest sound]. Thumb with Index finger, Thumb with Middle finger, Thumb with Ring finger, Thumb with pinky finger, and if there are more than 4 phonemes [sounds], continue on to Thumb with Index finger and on. Example: Brakes = /br/ /a/ /ke/ /s/ (Reiterating that there are 6

This activity is based in the research of Bradford Daly and Timothy Smykowski, and Susan Zimmerman. Students can learn a new word in a context by Eliminating the other, insignificant words and Replacing them.

Practice medial vowel sounds i, e, and a. I and E sounds are often confused. You need to add (cut and paste) images to each square for kids to reference. Students shade in the sound in the picture. (Examples: catch, sit, wet, bell, milk, all)