Reading Is Elementary

I Need My Monster is a wonderful book that describes various monsters that a young child needs because their monster went "out fishing" for the evening. This lesson plan has the students practicing the skills of visualizing, or creating mental pictures, as they read. The lesson plan also has the students finding the clues that the author provides to help them with their mental pictures. The second part of the product has the students creating their own monsters. Then, they must write a piece

Font sorts are great for your students who come into kindergarten with little knowledge of letter identification. Students should just sort two or three letters to start off with. Stay away from some of the fancier fonts for the beginning. Once students have gained some proficiency, they can handle a few more letters at a time. Students can sort upper case letters or lower case letters. They can even sort upper from lower case with a single letter. Font sorts are also a great way for studen

This is a bundle of all of my beginning letter sound books. The bundle contains 22 emergent readers excellent for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. The books come in both color and black and white. The graphics closely match the text to reinforce each sound. Not only are emergent readers an important part of the Common Core State Standards, but this book is an excellent tool to teach voice-to-print matching. It is also good to to teach students about how the pictures in a book, and

This product is an incentive program for students to help learn the sight words that are ever so important to reading success. This is a BUNDLE of all of my Incentive Packs Pre-Primer through Third Grade. To see each one individual, please click the links below. Dolch Pre-Primer Incentive Dolch Primer Incentive Dolch First Grade Incentive Dolch Second Grade Incentive Dolch Third Grade Incentive The program is called "Sight Word Celebrities" and is based on a movie premiere theme with a movie

Sight words are one of the keys to early reading success. This product will help you as a teacher ensure that your students are growing in the acquisition of their sight words. Many of these words do not follow the sound patterns that young children are learning. I chose a popcorn theme for these words because these words should just "POP" into their heads. This product contains all 5 of my Assessment Packs: Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Word Assessment Pack Popcorn Theme - CCSS Aligned Dolch Prime

These posters are for use in your classroom or reading room. They are decoding posters based on the "Beanie Baby" theme used with cute Melonheadz graphics. They are a great resource tool for students to use when they get "stuck" on a word. Please enjoy!!

This listing has over 80 printable practice pages for the Pre-Primer Dolch sight word list. This listing also includes a Memory/Concentration Game and a Roll-a-Word Game for extra practice made fun! This listing incudes: 40 individual practice pages for each word. Students will color, trace, write, and build each new word. 13 "I Spy" pages where students will search and color specific words. 14 practice pages where students will "butter" the word (trace it in yellow), write and build the word

Sight words are one of the keys to early reading success. This product will help you as a teacher ensure that your students are growing in the acquisition of their sight words. Many of these words do not follow the sound patterns that young children are learning. I chose a popcorn theme for these words because these words should just "POP" into their heads. The 40 words in the Dolch Pre-Primer list are: the to and a I you it in said for up look is go we little down can see not one my me bi

This product is an incentive program for students to help learn the sight words that are ever so important to reading success. The program is called "Sight Word Celebrities" and is based on a movie premiere theme with a movie as the reward at the end of the year. The sight words at this level have been broken down into smaller, teachable lists. Each list that a student masters, will earn them more rewards for the movie at the end of the year. The rewards include: admission ticket to the movie

This listing has over 80 printable practice pages for the Primer Dolch sight word list. This listing also includes a Memory/Concentration Game and a Roll-a-Word Game for extra practice made fun! This listing incudes: 52 individual practice pages for each word. Students will color, trace, write, and build each new word. 17 "I Spy" pages where students will search and color specific words. 19 practice pages where students will "butter" the word (trace it in yellow), write and build the words. 11

This product is for an emergent reader excellent for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. The book is available in both color and black and white. The illustrations all contain pictures that start with the "l" sound. The book is half a page with the same words and pictures on the top as the bottom. On the top half of each book, I have added small circles or dots to help students track and practice one-to-one matching. Not only are emergent readers an important part of the Common Core Sta

Sight words are one of the keys to early reading success. This product will help you as a teacher ensure that your students are growing in the acquisition of their sight words. Many of these words do not follow the sound patterns that young children are learning. I chose a popcorn theme for these words because these words should just "POP" into their heads. Words included in this assessment are: he was that she on they but at with all there out be have am do did what so get like this will yes

This product is an incentive program for students to help learn the sight words that are ever so important to reading success. The program is called "Sight Word Celebrities" and is based on a movie premiere theme with a movie as the reward at the end of the year. The sight words at this level have been broken down into smaller, teachable lists. Each list that a student masters, will earn them more rewards for the movie at the end of the year. The rewards include: admission ticket to the m

Sight words are one of the keys to early reading success. This product will help you as a teacher ensure that your students are growing in the acquisition of their sight words. Many of these words do not follow the sound patterns that young children are learning. I chose a popcorn theme for these words because these words should just "POP" into their heads. The words included in this assessment are: of his had him her some as then could when were them ask an over just from any how know put ta

This product is for an emergent reader excellent for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. The book is available in both color and black and white. The illustrations all contain pictures that start with the "g" sound. The book is half a page with the same words and pictures on the top as the bottom. On the top half of each book, I have added small circles or dots to help students track and practice one-to-one matching. Not only are emergent readers an important part of the Common Core Sta

This product is an incentive program for students to help learn the sight words that are ever so important to reading success. The program is called "Sight Word Celebrities" and is based on a movie premiere theme with a movie as the reward at the end of the year. The sight words at this level have been broken down into smaller, teachable lists. Each list that a student masters, will earn them more rewards for the movie at the end of the year. The rewards include: admission ticket to the movie

This product is for an emergent reader excellent for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. The book is available in both color and black and white. The illustrations all contain pictures that start with the "r" sound. The book is half a page with the same words and pictures on the top as the bottom. On the top half of each book, I have added small circles or dots to help students track and practice one-to-one matching. Not only are emergent readers an important part of the Common Core Sta

This product is for an emergent reader excellent for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. The book is available in both color and black and white. The illustrations all contain pictures that start with the "j" sound. The book is half a page with the same words and pictures on the top as the bottom. On the top half of each book, I have added small circles or dots to help students track and practice one-to-one matching. Not only are emergent readers an important part of the Common Core Sta

This data form is an easy to use way to organize the many informal reading assessments that you may give to students in a year. This also allows teachers to look at more than one year at a time. In this way, teachers can see the growth history of a student's reading ability. Copy it front and back, and you have their entire elementary reading data in one spot!

This product is an incentive program for students to help learn the sight words that are ever so important to reading success. The program is called "Sight Word Celebrities" and is based on a movie premiere theme with a movie as the reward at the end of the year. The sight words at this level have been broken down into smaller, teachable lists. Each list that a student masters, will earn them more rewards for the movie at the end of the year. The rewards include: admission ticket to the movie