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This is a great way to teach letter and number formation to Kindergarten, First and Second Grade students. I use this in conjunction with Handwriting Without Tears. The writing lines in the file are the same as the Handwriting Without Tears writing lines. Using the SMARTBoard this year with letter formation, a lot of reversals and incorrect letter formation has been eliminated. Students are having fun with handwriting! Also important to note, my students are showing much improved letter naming a

I have compiled all of my Smartboard Lessons I use with Fountas and Pinnell Phonics. When I started teaching this phonics program, I thought the lessons would be more interactive, engaging and easier to use on the Smartboard ( and they are!!). This file contains 70 Smartboard slides to help teach Fountas and Pinnell Phonics for first grade. I have created over 30 phonics lessons, included words games, an alphabet handwriting practice and cheer, and a few blank games slides so you can customiz

I have compiled all of my Smartboard Lessons I use with Fountas and Pinnell Phonics. When I started teaching this phonics program, I thought the lessons would be more interactive, engaging and easier to use on the Smartboard ( and they are!!). This file contains 70 Smartboard slides to help teach Fountas and Pinnell Phonics for first grade. I have created over 30 phonics lessons, included words games, an alphabet handwriting practice and cheer, and a few blank games slides so you can customize

Are you looking for an interactive strategy to help students learn sight words? I have created three interactive Smartboard files. They are split up by the first 25, 50 and 100 most common sight words according to Fountas and Pinnell. Every slide has a sight word along with the option of hearing the sight word read aloud. I use this the smart board file as a whole class when introducing a sight word and with individual struggling students. I feel very comfortable letting my struggling readers w

I use this fun interactive smartboard file to teach and reinforce some common digraphs. I have created three word sorts and three games for digraphs th, sh, and ch. For digraph th, we sort the words based on which sound the th makes (voiced and not voiced). After that, the students pair up during word work and play the game. The touch the dice and move their game piece. Next they say the word they landed on or get help from their partner. All the words in the game are th words. For digraph

I created this phonogram smartboard file for Word Work in my first grade classroom. I use the Daily Five and this station was consistently the loudest. This new smartboard Word Work has helped a lot! The students really enjoy sliding and sorting the words. They have caught on fairly quick to the word families and have started applying these to their everyday reading. I use this to help teach common word families. The word families on included are –ore, -ace, -ide, -ime, -ole, -one, -ile, -it

I use this Smart Notebook file to teach addition to first graders and improve basic number sense. You can use this in small groups or with the whole class. Students manipulate the objects to learn addition facts and build number sense. I have the class close their eyes while one student drags an item (baseballs, basketballs, watermelon eaters) under the the picture. Students then guess how many items disappeared. Using the pictures and number stick, students figure out the missing number and t

I use this Smart Notebook file to teach addition to first graders and improve basic number sense. You can use this in small groups or with the whole class. Students manipulate the objects to learn addition facts and build number sense. I have the class close their eyes while one student drags an item (baseballs, basketballs, watermelon eaters) under the the picture. Students then guess how many items disappeared. Using the pictures and number stick, students figure out the missing number