Teacheretically Speaking

After reading Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie, students can work on retelling the steps Amelia took to make the apple pie. Students will draw a picture for each step. This is great for retelling and also doubles as a "how-to" activity.

We use easy readers every Friday. Each easy reader has a sight word. This easy reader is called "Thank You, Mom" and is used around Mother's Day. The sight word is THANK Students write their name. Students highlight the word THANK. Students illustrate the book. Students take the book over the weekend to read. This is a great way to create "at-home" libraries and learn new sight words.

Are you having a baby? Is a teacher on your team having a baby? This is a fun way to celebrate, especially during remote learning. There is a secret message and a space for the students to respond to questions.

We use easy readers every Friday. Each easy reader has a sight word. This easy reader is called "I like Apples." The sight word is LIKE Students write their name. Students highlight the word like. Students illustrate the book. Students take the book over the weekend to read. This is a great way to create "at-home" libraries and learn new sight words.

This is a emergent reader you can use with your students. It will help exposing them to the possibility of wearing a mask at school. Emergent readers are great to use when focusing on 1:1 correspondence, fluency, accuracy and sight words.

My class is using DRA reading levels this year. You can look online and convert the levels to F&P levels if needed. While I send some books home, I wanted to give parents a few more resources to use. I researched some books at each level (-1-12). These are books and book collections that can be found online or at the library.

This is my classroom reading program. This document is easy to edit. You can edit the dates, expectations, guidelines, etc. This log is an easy one for parents to follow and teachers to read when it is returned to school. Outline: 1. Students take home "Zippy" (ziploc bag of books & log) 2. Students read at home four times and log reading. 3. Students bring Zippy back to school to trade books. 4. Once they meet the monthly goal, they receive a Book It certificate.

This is a handout to use in a math center. You can also use this whole group, small group, or with a math tutor. The children identify the missing number by counting and write it in the box. I use this in the beginning of the year.

This checklist helps parents stay accountable. This document is easy to edit to your classroom homework expectations. In kindergarten we do not use assignment notebooks. This is a great alternative to stay organized.

This is an easy reader. We use these every Friday in kindergarten. This book features our sight word: when. Students read the easy reader. Students highlight the word when with a yellow crayon. Student draw pictures connected to the story. Students take the book home and practice reading. This is a very effective way to learn sight words and increase books in the at-home libraries.

This is an activity I use in my writing center. The children use the word wall and the classroom to find words to write. On the left side they write the word in pencil. On the right side they write the word in colored pencil. They choose different colors and write over the word (overlapping colors) until it looks like a "rainbow."

This is a great way for you to assess your students. In class, you can have this as a task at centers. Students can read through the words as they record themselves on their device. During remote learning, students can read through the words as their parents record them. Then parents just upload the recording onto your learning platform.

This is a emergent reader you can use with your students in grades PreK, K and 1. It will help exposing them to the possibility of wearing a mask at school. Emergent readers are great to use when focusing on 1:1 correspondence, fluency, accuracy and sight words. For this reader, I would focus on the sight word "see." 1. Display the reader. 2. Read the book together and students come up to the front to point to the sight word. 3. Pass out the reader. 4. Students put their name on the front co

During our phonemic awareness practices, I write a word family on the board and students call out words that belong in that word family. This practices our word families and rhyming. Students are highly engaged in this activity. I created this document as part of their literacy homework and remote learning practice. When students can master their word families, they get a deeper understand of sounding out words and their accuracy while reading improves.

Use this log to help parents keep track of reading at home. The book it certificate is an incentive. You can decide how many minutes you want the families to read and can use this from month to month.

This is a cover page and letter for a home writing journal. I start sending these home in October to encourage writing at home. I attach blank pages to the journal.

This is a great easy reader for the first week of school. The children can illustrate the book.

Students can draw pictures to answer questions about their teacher. This would be a good welcome activity for the first week of school.

Celebrate fall with this freebie! After reading From Seed to Pumpkin or another nonfiction pumpkin book, students can complete their own life cycle of a pumpkin by drawing each stage in the labeled circle. Simple and easy! Perfect for pairing with a nonfiction read aloud and great activity for the beginning of the year.

Students can read a nonfiction book about Chicago. There are a lot of good ones on Epic! Then they can complete the worksheet. 1. Windy City 2. Hot dogs 3. lake, river