From letter recognition to letter names and sounds teaching the alphabet to our youngest learners requires a lot of repetition…
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Beginning Blends Anchor Charts to Engage Young Readers
Teaching students to read is never an easy task! There are so many components and steps to the reading process…
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Teaching Digraphs with Anchor Charts
Your students are understanding letter names and sounds, can blend, chunk, and stretch sounds. Now what? It’s time to jump…
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Fun Doubles & Doubles + One Activities
I absolutely love teaching math to first graders. There are so many new skills and concepts introduced throughout the year….
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Short Vowel Anchor Charts
If you’ve been around my blog for any amount of time, I’m sure you have noticed how much I absolutely…
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Stellaluna Book Activities
Teaching reading comprehension to young readers can sometimes feel like a chore, but it doesn’t have to! We love reading…
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My Mouth Is A Volcano
When teaching young children, it is important to help them learn control and restraint when it comes to speaking out…
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Tryin’ Lion Reading Strategy
Every good teacher knows how important it is to have strategies in place to help their young learners as they…
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Dotty Giraffe Reading Strategy
Getting our young learners to understand punctuation, inflection, and expression when reading and writing can seem like a big challenge….
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Base Ten Blocks for Teaching Place Value
Young students often think of numbers much differently than we do. In fact, math concepts in general are quite abstract….
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Do Unto Otters Social Emotional Learning
As teachers, we all know that academic skills and concepts are not the only things that we teach. In fact,…
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The Recess Queen Activities
During those first few weeks of back to school, it is really important to set classroom standards and expectations. I…
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