Growing Firsties

Parent support for reading at home is beneficial for beginning readers! Parents are so busy that this parent letter will provide support for students reading take home books. It features comments that parents can make to support their child's word-solving (decoding), fluency and comprehension. Parents don't always have "reading-teacher-language" on the tip of their tongues to compliment and/or support their readers. This document will do just that, providing information on comprehension, fluency

We can help our beginning readers grow into independent readers with strong reading comprehension by teaching them important self monitoring skills they can use while reading. These self monitoring skills are great decoding strategies and reading comprehension strategies that will help them become more fluent readers that easily comprehend what they are reading. As a teacher you know the benefit of increased reading fluency and comprehension, so why not add these self monitoring skills to your

This helpful back to school parent support bundle includes a parent input questionnaire to help you get to know your new students and their families as well as a parent letter that provides support for students reading at home with their parents. Reviews for the Parent Input Form:This is a great resource to use especially for open house back to school night! Easy no-prep sheets to help teachers get ready for the new year! — Carina S. I use this input form every year with my students. It is such

EVERYTHING you need to simplify conferring in writing for capitalization, punctuation and spacing especially for beginning writers in kindergarten and first grade. This Conferring Toolkit is set up for side by side writing conferences with your students with the teacher script on the left and a continuum for learning the focus point on the right, as well as goal setting with sticky notes for each student's goal setting page. Student goals include spacing between words, capitalizing single senten