Reading Maven

This pack is a part of the Be a Master of Phonics assessment series. This pack is a clear cut, easy to use tool for monitor the progress of individual students while they are learning the r-controlled vowel rule. It can be used as an intervention progress monitoring tool, or as a formative assessment to guide your instruction. Each student page has an equal mix of r-controlled words that contain ir, er, ur, ar and or. The instructions for how to give the assessments, when to move on from o

This is a quick, 3-5 minute, activity to do with students to introduce the concept of visualizing. It is a story that is only a few sentences long that allows the students to create a mental image based on the first few sentences, and then forces them to change the image with the last few sentences. It is a great way to kick off a lesson on visualization and helps to make an abstract concept more accessible.