Teaching rhyming can be tough, but catchy videos and songs can make it easier! Here are three engaging videos for practicing rhyming in the classroom. Rhyming can be a tough skill to learn. Students need to hear many examples (and nonexmaples) of rhymes before they begin to hear, distinguish, and eventually, produce rhymes. I’ve scoured […]
Five Fabulous Videos for Learning Letter Sounds
Don’t waste time searching for videos on YouTube! I’ve compiled a list of my five favorite tried-and-true videos for teaching and learning letter sounds. It’s the 21st century, and we know that videos are highly engaging for kids and adults alike. So why not use videos for teaching and learning? I love using videos with […]
FREE Reading Tips Brochure – to Parents from Teachers
Download this FREE Help Your Child Learn to Read reading tips brochure to give your students’ parents. It will help them support their child in learning to read. In case you did not know, I am passionate about helping kids learn how to read! As a teacher, tutor, and teacher blogger, parents often email me and ask […]
Festive Christmas Phonemic Awareness Activity
Practice segmenting and blending sounds in words with this festive and fun Christmas phonemic awareness activity. Just print, play, and practice! Phonemic awareness is the foundation of learning to read. But sometimes, practicing the components of phonemic awareness can get…well…monotonous! The last thing I wanted was for my students to think such an essential task was […]
Kindergarten Reading Passages with CVC Word Families
Inside: Kindergarten reading passages are the perfect way for beginning readers to practice building reading fluency and reading comprehension. They use only CVC words and sight words so you can ensure to build confidence in your newest readers. Kindergarten Reading Passages For months I’ve had teachers email and ask me if I have anything like […]
FREE Phonics Sentences Bundle
FREE Phonics Sentences Activities So you’ve taught your students a new phonics skill…now what?! They need time to practice it, of course! But how? Flashcards? Games? Word searches? Whiteboards? Look, there are one million different ways to practice phonics. But there is one most important way to practice phonics. Are you ready? IN CONTEXT. (With […]
Decoding Drills for Fluency
Decoding Drills for fluency are here! So you’ve taught a new phonics skill…now what? Sure, your students can remember short a says /a/ when they are staring at an a, but what about when there are other letters there, too? What about when they read a sentence and there are words with other vowel sounds? […]
FREE Phonemic Awareness Worksheets
FREE Phonemic Awareness Worksheets I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to find no prep worksheets and activities to foster phonemic awareness skills for my kindergarten, first grade, and second grade intervention students. So many of the activities I find involve text on the student page. (I’m not talking about titles and directions, I’m […]
Beginning Phonemic Awareness Activities
Segmenting and Blending Sounds in Words Beginning phonemic awareness activities can be daunting. Seeing that phonemic awareness can be “done in the dark” (meaning that it doesn’t involve using letters), it can seem as though it is an abstract concept to teach. However, building beginning phonemic awareness is vital in teaching children to read. A huge […]
Phonemic Awareness Activities
Phonemic awareness activities for kindergarten, first grade, and intervention! These teacher task cards will help you make the most of every classroom moment. Use them during small groups, whole group, one-on-one, in tutoring, or during class transitions to make sure that your students are building phonemic awareness every day! WHY PHONEMIC AWARENESS? I remember my “Teaching […]
