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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 time.” Targeted small
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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 beginning sounds to stick can
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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 beginning to grasp that sounds can
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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
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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 with my otherwise
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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 the one time
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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 then never master the alphabet. They
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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 Sounds. Alphabet recognition and
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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 provide
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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
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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
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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 as