Carrie McDaniel

Use the following 2-sided blends and digraphs mini chart with students in grades 1-3 or older intervention students in grades 4-5 to teach, review, and reinforce phonemic awareness. Each digraph/blend listed features a picture cue that helps students link their reading to writing and writing to their reading. This tool is helpful for students to have out during writing and begin to write unknown words by linking them to similar blends/digraphs on the chart. In reading, students who practice read

Running records are one of the most valuable formative assessment tools that teachers can use to analyze student reading behaviors and help make instructional decisions. While a full running record analysis gives teachers the best information, it is not always realistic to conduct a full running record every day for every student; hence the birth of this partial running record form. Use this tool to monitor student progress during familiar readings at the beginning of a Guided Reading lesson by

Use these long vowel flash cards as an anchor to K-2 or intervention students' learning of the Common Core's ELA Reading Foundational Skills standards for long vowel sounds a, e, i, o, and u. Each card features the upper and lowercase letter with a picture cue representing that long vowel sound. For best results, print each page on white cardstock, laminate, cut apart, and place on a large binder ring for daily review. Students can chant, sing, or say "Aa acorn, Ee eagle, etc.. * Note: Before p