If you have found this post, chances are you are a first grade teacher using the HMH Into Reading curriculum….
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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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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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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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Fun Activities for Teaching the Alphabet
From letter recognition to letter names and sounds teaching the alphabet to our youngest learners requires a lot of repetition…
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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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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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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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R-Controlled Vowels with Bossy R
One of the hardest things about teaching kids to read is all of the exceptions to the phonics rules. Just…
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Word Family Anchor Charts
I’m sure you’ve heard this saying before, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach…
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