Getting organized for guided reading can be a challenge. In order for it to be effective, you need to keep your resources handy and all together. So I like to keep my guided reading books and lessons together in individual binders. Each binder is organized by level. and having the spine labeled helps to find the resource I need in seconds! Inside the binder is where a disaster can happen if you are not mindful! Right inside the cover is where I put the sound boxes. I slide ... continue reading...
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Valentine’s Day Unit UPDATES
Hey Everyone, I just updated my Valentine's Day unit and added the Emergent Reader to it. If you have already purchased this unit please go to TPT and download the revisions. Here's a link to the post about Valentine's Day unit. This Valentine's Day unit will be the perfect addition to your Valentine's Day fun. It includes an original story for Shared Reading picture cards. Also, If you don't have this little packet.... go get it. It is FREE! ... continue reading...
Handprint Puzzles: First Day Puzzle Freebie
I can't believe it is already time to start talking about First Day of school activities. Mercy! The summer flew by! If you are a mamma stuck at home in the house with littles who love the phrase, "I'm bored!" it probably crawled by! But, for me it seems like it is almost over before it even got started! Handprint puzzles are a great activity to do on the first day of school. One of my favorite things to do on the first day of school are these handprint puzzles (Thank you to Little ... continue reading...
RAWR! Dinosaur Dig Day! Dinosaur Unit
My Dinosaur unit has been posted to TPT... Click on the T-Rex picture above to view my dino unit on Teachers pay teachers. We made Paleontologists using our pictures. The book inside tells about what we did during our Dinosaur Dig Day. Sorry... It's hard to see how adorable these are since I had to blur out the faces. Our shirts that we made for our Dinosaur Dig Day. On our Dinosaur Dig day the kids got to see ... continue reading...
Duck for President | President’s Day Reading Lesson Ideas
Duck for President reading lessons for kindergarten and 1st grade! This is a great book for President's Day. Reading comprehension, responding to literature, and a fun craft! Duck for President | President's Day Reading Lesson Ideas I love reading this book in February for President's Day. Duck is quite a funny character as he works his way into becoming President. Here are some fun writing response and activity ideas that go along with this book! Problem/Solution In this story, Duck and ... continue reading...
Polar Express Unit and Free Song Download
I uploaded my Polar Express unit to TPT last night. I still have some more stuff that I want to add to it but a lot of you were emailing me that you needed it NOW! :) I will let you know when I finish updating it. It is on sale until Friday. :) You can click on the picture to view the unit. Linda McCardle put the song I wrote for this unit to music. You can get the song by clicking on the link below. Thank you so much ... continue reading...
Literacy Centers Part Three Big Book Station and ABC center FREEBIES
Kids love Shared Reading time. There's just something about being actively involved in reading a story that you love. Each week I introduce a new big book. We spend a week reading the book, closely analyzing the text and getting to know the characters. Joy Cowley is one of our favorite authors. After we've spent a week on a big book I don't just put it away and forget about it. The big book joins all of the other big books in the big book center so that the Littles can ... continue reading...
Bump & Jump Numbers and update on Interactive Reading Journal freebie
Okay, so I've got some good news and some bad news! The good news is that Mel and I posted the Numbers 1-50 Bump & Jump games yesterday and they are on SALE! The other good news is that we posted an ABC Freebie of the games and you can get it HERE I've also finished up the Nonfiction Interactive Reading Journal and I'd love to give you some freebies. You can click on the cover to view the unit on TPT. I put two on a page to save on copying. Just click on the image to ... continue reading...
RAWR! Dinosaurs Unit
To view all of the fun filled learning ideas and activities that we did from my Dinosaurs Unit click HERE and HERE to see our charts, pictures and activities. Here are a few new activities that we did this year.... We read, Can I have a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dad, Can I please? and wrote what we would do if we had a T-Rex. I want a T-Rex so he can take me to the movies. He would pick me up from school. He would clean up my room. (I love all the labels she ... continue reading...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
School is out for the Summer! Woot! Woot! I am really looking forward to not having to set the alarm for awhile. :) I have several conferences to get ready for (HINT: Big giveaway coming soon! Vegas anyone?) but I also plan to spend a little bit of time floating in the pool and playing with these little sweeties. Anywhoo.... Here's how we spent our last week of school. We had lots of fun reading different versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff Here are our ... continue reading...
Hang on! Christmas Break is almost here! Ho-Ho Endings Literacy and Math Freebie
This Ho-Ho Endings Literacy and Math Freebie is free in my TPT store. Just click on the picture below. Need some Print and Go activities? This unit is 25% off through tomorrow. Enjoy the Sweet Sums Freebie from this unit by scrolling down. Click HERE to download the Sweet Sums FREEBIE from December in a Snap! If you need some last minute crafts or center activities then you will want to check out my ELF CAPADES unit. It is my favorite Christmas ... continue reading...
Chit Chat Messages, Close Reading Passages & More! Giveaway
I just uploaded my newest resource to TPT! Go to my Facebook page and leave a comment for your chance to win the unit. I will be giving it away tonight at 9 p.m. This resource is on sale for the first 72 hours. :) Click on the cover to view the unit on TPT. ... continue reading...
Opinion Writing for kindergarten and first grade
Opinion writing in kindergarten is one of those things, in my opinion (see what I did there) is best done spirally. We certainly introduce writing for a reason as a unit of study. However, we want the students' understanding of opinion writing to grow as their transcription skills grow. Recently Deedee worked in a kindergarten class and tested our new Opinion writing unit! She started by asking the question... Students wrote their opinion on a slip of paper and placed it on the ... continue reading...
Guiding Readers Questions and Answers
Last November Deedee and I had a conversation about her desire to do more with the books she was using for Read Alouds. Her kids loved many of the books she was reading to them, and they wanted to hear them again and again. She felt that she had a great foundation with writer's workshop (more on that later) but she wanted deeper connections and interactions with the texts that she was reading to her class. So we created Guiding Readers. What are Guiding Readers? Guiding Readers started ... continue reading...
Phoneme Segmentation! Make and Take Freebie and Book Talk Tuesday
Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
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