Small Groups Made Simple: 5-Step Daily Routine
"Anyone use a small group routine they love?" "What do you do in your small groups?" "I need help during small group/center tim...
Phonics
10 Activities to Teach Beginning Sounds
Learning to identify beginning sounds is a key skill when our students are first learning to read. Sometimes getting those begi...
18 CVC Activities to Get Your Students Reading
So your students now recognize their letters and associate these letters with their sounds (phonemic awareness). And, they are ...
Ways to Use Exit Tickets in your Classroom
How do you check for student understanding? As educators, we are constantly checking in with our students. Perhaps you are al...
39 Easy Prep Ideas for Word Work
So, this is 39 Ideas for Word Work? You may be thinking, does anyone need that many? I DO! I like to meet the needs of my stude...
20 Phonics Activities That Aren't Boring
I've always loved teaching phonics, but there have been many times when I couldn't come up with fun phonics activities to pair ...
9 Ways to Engage Your Students During Reading Block
For many of us, our reading block lasts anywhere from 90-120 minutes every day. That time is extremely important because it is...
Teaching Tips for Your Students with Dyslexia
Students with Dyslexia are sometimes the most challenging students to figure out! They seem brilliant at specific tasks but the...
Teaching Letters and Sounds: 27 Strategies that Work
If we want to help our students learn their letters and sounds, we must have multiple Strategies for Teaching Letters and Sound...
Ideas for Engaging Students with Fluency Passages
Improving reading fluency in our students is one of the main goals of any elementary school teacher. I personally struggle with...
Homework in the Primary Classroom?
The topic of homework seems to be a hot-button issue in education lately. Do we give it to students? Do we not? If we provid...
Making the Most of Your Sound Wall
Should I put a sound wall up in my classroom? Perhaps you were like me and wanted to, but didn’t know what to do with it. Her...
Don't Pitch Your Leveled Readers!
Being a teacher over the last year has drained me! What seems to be making it harder this year are the false critiques of my cu...
The 3 Big Ps: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics
What are the 3 Big Ps? Teachers know that students will learn to read easier if they have a strong foundation of oral language ...
Renewed Buzz on the Science of Reading
Any teacher that has been in a primary classroom for some years knows that reading protocols change often. Too often, people ma...
9 Reasons Your Students Will Love Interactive Notebooks
I'll admit... I wasn't on the interactive notebooks train when it was presented to me (read: mandated with zero background or f...
19 Sight Word Activities to Try Today
Let’s talk SIGHT WORDS. Words you recognize by sight, a.k.a, little turds. Just being honest and I know I’m not alone. (I see y...
60 Spelling Activities for Elementary Students
How many hours a week do you spend prepping spelling activities? ? What if you had a resource that would allow you to create 60...
25 Hands On Spelling Activities for Any List
Memories flash back to me standing alongside my peers in Elementary School. My fingers are crossed behind my back, standing st...
12 CVC Activities to Get Your Students Reading
So your students now recognize their letters and associate these letters with their individual sounds (phonemic awareness). And...
17 Reading Intervention Strategies You Need to Try
Struggling readers need the right support to build confidence and skills. Whether you're a teacher, tutor, or parent, having a ...
11 Activities for Emergent Readers to Practice Fluency
While activities for emergent readers to practice fluency can look slightly different, the basic concepts are the same - helpin...
YouTube Videos that Teach PHONICS
Phonics videos are great to use in a variety of settings! I use phonics videos to get my students started in the morning, duri...
23 Alphabet Activities for Primary Learners
As a former kindergarten teacher, learning the alphabet was the first thing I taught every year. Over time, I have collected mu...
10 Amazing Apps for Preschoolers and Early Learners
As a homeschool mom, I am always on the hunt for great educational apps. Both educational but still fun and entertaining for my...
10 Reasons Why Teachers are LOVING Individual Centers
Have you been wondering how to incorporate centers this school year? We had the same concern and decided to develop individual ...
17 Teacher Resources You Might Not Know You've Been Missing Out On
This year has me scatter-brained and trying to stay organized with everything being thrown my way. I keep coming across some aw...
10 Ideas For Your Winter Morning Tubs
One of my favorite things to do for our homeschool is changing out our morning tubs. I usually theme them depending on the seas...
10 Fun Poetry Activities for Elementary Students
Poetry in the classroom can be very fun.There are different activities for everyone.Your students will love it and always shout...
"Hands-On" Ideas for the Digital Classroom
No computer screen necessary for this one... let's share some Hands-On Ideas for the Digital Classroom. I found over my years ...
30 Fun Spelling Activities for Primary
We spend countless hours creating spelling practice activities for our primary students that are fun and not just writing the w...
No Prep Alphabet Activities
Kindergarten and preschool teachers and parents... we have made No Prep Alphabet Activities just for you! So simple to use......
No Prep Alphabet and Number Booklets
Kindergarten and preschool teachers and parents... we have made no prep alphabet and number booklets just for you! So simple ...
Activities to Teach Phonics and Math
Little hands need to be manipulating items during learning. And I'm not talking about a touchpad or mouse... What if you could ...
47 Boredom Busters for Kids at Home
For many of us, school is happening at home to help keep our students, staff, and families healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic...
10 No Prep Activities to Include in Your Send Home Packets
So you found out you need to make 1-2 week's worth of send home plans, and you need to put something together ASAP! Education t...
9 Ways to Increase Fluency in Students
Increasing reading fluency in our students is one of the main goals of any elementary school teacher. If they are not fluent ...
30 Spelling Activities for ANY List of Words
We work hard to teach our students how to spell words correctly—and we spend countless h...
5 Tips to Manage Independent Reading
Every teacher knows that independent reading is a crucial part of a well-balanced literacy program. Independent reading allows ...
19 Phonics Videos Your Students Will Love
Phonics videos are great to use in a variety of settings! I use phonics videos to get my students started in the morning, duri...
Guided Reading Groups in 5 Simple Steps
It is hard enough planning for whole group reading block and small group centers/stations. We now also incorporate guided read...
Implementing Literacy Centers in the Primary Classroom
You've purchased our fabulous years worth of literacy centers, but now what to do with all of those hands-on activities?! Impl...
10 Ways to Freshen Up the Way You Teach Phonics
Let’s talk about PHONICS!! We are all familiar with having to teach the names of letters and their corresponding sounds to our...
10 Things You Have to Know When You Teach Reading
10 Things You Have To Know When You Teach Reading The more I become experienced in my craft, the more I realize that most teach...
Literacy Centers: Your Top Questions Answered
You asked, and I am here to answer! Play the video below to get your burning questions answered when it comes to our 1st and 2n...
May Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
I can't wait to share our May Literacy Centers lineup with you! But first, I just have to share some amazing feedback we have b...
April Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Diphthong Sort: This center encourages students to read words with diphthongs and then sort them. The bags give so much nov...
Literacy Centers Done Right
You might already know the many different options in which you can run your literacy centers. You can have students work in rot...
March Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Man...we did it again! 10 AMAZING Literacy Centers to start your month on the right foot! The Root of it All: Students w...
February Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Our February Centers are here and ready to be printed! You will find many different engaging activities that incorporate so man...
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for January
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for January are HERE! Here’s what will be inside once you open the January folder of the Bundle! ...
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for December
Here's what will be inside once you open the December folder of the Bundle! Suffix Word Building:This is great for vocabulary...
10 November Centers for 2nd Grade
We are happy to feature TEN more 2nd Grade Literacy Centers for the month of November! You will find a variety of phonics, lang...
7 Ways to Simplify Your Literacy Stations
Planning and implementing literacy stations can seem so daunting when the possibilities are virtually endless. When I first sta...
1st Grade Literacy Centers for August
First Grade Literacy Centers for AUGUST are here! Kick-start your year with meaningful, intentional centers to get your student...
1st Grade Center Activities for July
I am in LOVE with the new centers we have for you this July. I was sure to include a variety of Literacy Centers you can use w...
1st Grade Centers Activities for June
If you teach first grade, this is the magical time where many of your students are making the shift of “learning to read” to ...
10 Easy to Prep Literacy Centers Ideas for May
May is almost here! If you teach first grade, this is the magical time where many of your students are making the shift of "lea...
April Literacy Centers for First Grade
10 More First Grade Literacy Centers await you! I can't wait to share what I've had up my sleeve this month! Each month I rele...
1st Grade Literacy Centers for March
I can’t be more excited to share my March Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and liste...
First Grade Literacy Centers for February
We can’t be more excited to share our February Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and ...
First Grade Literacy Centers for January
We can’t be more excited to share our January Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, a...
December Literacy Centers for First Grade
We can’t be more excited to share our December Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and...
November Centers for First Grade
We can’t be more excited to share our November Centers for first grade with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language...
Phonics Posters for Primary Students
First grade teachers know how important it can be to have visual cues in a classroom full of emergent readers. I created the...
October Literacy Centers for First Grade
We have just added TEN MORE First Grade Literacy Centers for the month of October! We can’t be more excited to share our Octobe...
September Centers for First Grade
We can't be more excited to share our September Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, a...
Phonics Activities for Primary Students
When I first started teaching I could not deal with the lack of meaningful phonics activities provided by the adopted programs...
Ten Literacy Ideas for Emergent Readers
Thinking of fun and engaging centers can be hard sometimes! I have surfed the internet, and it is hard to find great DIY cente...