Blooming Tiny Minds

Blooming Tiny Readers for 1st Grade gives you everything you need to help foster a love of reading in your classroom. The teacher reads the book throughout the week and models how to think deeply, ask questions, and so much more. Each week there is a focus on different comprehension skills and strategies. All lesson plans and activities are aligned with the Common Core and FL B.E.S.T Standards. You can do ALL of what we include or pick and choose the activities that work best for you and yo

This resource uses the science or reading to help teach high frequency words. Using orthographic mapping strategies, the science-based heart word method teaches students to sound out the parts of irregular words that do follow phonics rules.  Students then only need to learn a small portion of the word that is the “tricky part” by heart. What's included? 5 heart word cards (the, of, and, you, to)5 hands-on worksheets1 assessment