During reading activities

hold students accountable while they independently read with these easy to implement reading tips and tricks and strategies

FREE PRINTABLES Kindergarten Reading Passage with Comprehension Questions - FREEBIES Spring Frog theme - fluency and sight word practice - guided reading groups - small reading groups and intervention - first grade RTI #kindergarten #kindergartenreading #readingintervention

This kindergarten blog post will illustrate 17 different activities that can be used to build fine motor activities into your curriculum.

Reading comprehension skills like making inferences, finding the main idea, and recognizing cause and effect are critical curriculum elements in any ELA classroom. As our students build their reading skills, they need to develop their understanding of 12 different reading comprehension skills. One of my favorite ways to teach students about the reading skills is with doodle notes. Don't worry...I've put together a 20+ page set of doodle notes that you can download for FREE! (Sign up at the…

27 Phonics Games that make reading fun! Kids will love these fun hands-on phonics games that teach letter sounds, digraphs, letter blends, vowel sounds, and more! #playdoughtoplato #phonicsgames #teachingreading

Teaching blog post on using genre crafts to teach genres in the upper elementary classroom

An activity to practice reading and comprehension. There are four small texts and students fill in the chart according to the texts after they read them. Then they find out who is who. It's for lower learners. - ESL worksheets

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

In our classroom we have been learning all about prepositions. I usually hate teaching grammar, but these hands-on reading units have made it so much more fun! Pinterest I started off by introducing prepositions with a song… These songs were PERFECT!! If you play them, be prepared for a classroom of little singers that will […]

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…