Starting out a new school year can be an overwhelming and sometimes a scary time for students. They have a…
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Fun Activities to Teach the SH Digraph
Congratulations! Your students have mastered single letter sounds and are probably reading basic sentences. What a fun thing to watch…
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Flippy Dolphin Reading Strategy
Vowel sounds can be especially tricky for our beginning readers. Just when they get used to the short vowel sound…
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Decoding Unknown Words with Skippy Frog
Hooray! Your students are reading sentences. It’s taken a lot of hard work, patience, and some really clever reading strategies…
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L Blends Anchor Chart and Activities
Learning to read is just hard! We start with the alphabet and letter sounds and jump into simple CVC words….
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2D Shape Anchor Charts
If you know me, you know I love anchor charts! I use anchor charts for all subjects, including math. I…
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The Chunky Monkey Reading Strategy
If your young readers have already mastered fun reading activities like Eagle Eyes, Lips The Fish, and Stretchy Snake, you…
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Stretchy Snake Reading Strategy
Teaching students to sound out words by stretching the sound of each letter is a very important early reading strategy….
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Lips The Fish Anchor Chart And Activities
It may seem like a daunting task to teach reading comprehension to emergent readers. It’s far from impossible though. Even…
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Activities For Teaching Story Structure
Understanding story structure isn’t something that comes naturally to students. Sure, they can tell you who some of the characters…
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Character Traits Anchor Charts
Getting your students to understand and identify character traits within a story isn’t always easy. In fact, sometimes it’s downright…
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Author’s Purpose Anchor Charts
How do we get our littlest learners to understand the concept of author’s purpose when we teach reading? By involving…
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