Ultimate Valentine’s Day All Month Long in February
Happy February! I love to incorporate fun Valentine's Day themed ideas into the classroom all month long! I use the word Valentine's Day, but I use these activities the entire…
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How to Teach Sounds and Phonemic Awareness Skills
Playing with sounds to strengthen beginning reading skills is the most important phonemic awareness skill to develop. It is especially important for beginning readers and those struggling to read. How…
7 Math Centers Ideas to Make Math Easy
Many teachers know how to teach math but getting math centers down takes a lot of classroom management, forethought, and modeling centers beforehand. Here are 7 math centers ideas to…
Free Winter Resources for Teachers
Don't let the winter blues drag you down! Grab a few free winter resources for teachers so you have time to play in the snow!⛷️or☃️ You know me...love to use…
Most Important Skills for Beginning Readers
What is the most important thing you can do to help beginning readers? Segmenting and blending, in other words, phonemic awareness. Through a Tier 3 RTI, research study I learned…
What are 10 Best Alphabet Books for Beginning Readers?
Learning the letters of the alphabet can be difficult but when you make the letters engaging and connect them with books, it also makes learning so much more fun! 📌THIS…
The Best Way to Help Students Struggling to Learn Letters
Do you know the best way to help students struggling to learn letters. All teachers know that getting students to learn letter names is so important for beginning to read…
Amazing Books to Develop Numbers for Kindergarten Students
🤣 I love combining math with as many different subjects as possible! Read alouds make a great way to incorporate reading comprehension (click to get comprehension questions), math skills, rhyming…
The Best Thing to Teach Beginning Readers
Do you teach beginning readers? If you teach beginning readers, you need to focus on so much more than guided reading and sight words! You need to focus on phonological…
Start the Day Magically with Easy Routines
Getting your day started can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be! With a little extra thought and planning on your part, you can have a class that…