Teaching Kindergarten

Do you need a fun phonics activity to help your students improve their reading? These activities are a great way to add engagement to your phonics lessons!

Sentence Trees are a great way to build confidence with beginning readers. There are four separate sets for Sentence Trees available.

As kids learn letters, sounds, phonics patterns, and sight words, they really start to unlock reading. However, knowing how to decode words and reading fluently are two different things. This Fluency Passages for Early Readers bundle pack works on combining word recognition and fluency to build up your early readers' skills! *You can grab these fun fluency passages right now in our shop, or hop on over to purchase them on Teachers Pay Teachers! Fluency Passages for Early Readers BUNDLE With…

Welcome to my 2019-2020 classroom reveal! This year I made a few changes from last year. If you want to see the “before” click here to see last year’s grand reveal. All of the changes that were made were centered around student choice while making my classroom more organized and functional for myself and my […]

Do you need a fun phonics activity to help your students improve their reading? These activities are a great way to add engagement to your phonics lessons!

I have to admit that I have an organized classroom. AND I hope I have a few tips to help you set your room up for success. This summer linky party is the perfect what to get inspired to get o…

Short A is usually the first phonics sound you teach in kindergarten and first grade so I figured it'd be a great sound to show you teaching...

Grab a FREE copy of our Word Family Books for short vowels. Each printable book comes with a few extra freebies from Learn to Read as well!

When teaching kindergarten students how to read, two of the MANY skills that we focus on are the alphabet and sight words. Kindergarten s...

When I saw this project on the HomeGrown Traditions blog , I knew this was a perfect storage solution to our overflowing and disheveled board game closets. Yes, that’s plural. We have two closets that house our large collection of board games. Normally, I’d say everyone can benefit from an o

PRIMARY PHONICS - UNIT 4 I love when we get to Unit 4 in our primary phonics program. We have so much fun working with CVC words and becoming fluent with word families. I just can’t believe how far my kiddos have come… and so quickly! Providing so much sequential scaffolding has helped the

What do you tell your students who finish early in their activities? These Flip & Create STEM books will get their brain gears rolling!

Today, I’m sharing some free IT Word Family freebies from Unit 3 of Learn to Read. If you’re following along with my entire Learn to Read curriculum, this is lesson 11. If you’re looking for the free word family readers, all of them can be found here. *The free download link can be found towards the END ... Read More about Learn to Read IT Word Family Reader & Activities

Feeling the itch to get crafty? Take an old filing cabinet from your classroom and spruce it up with some of these awesome ideas.

Looking for fun ways to teach CVC Words? Kids will love decoding and reading words with these fun, hands-on centers and no-prep worksheets. Beginning and ending sounds as well as medial vowels.

If you use Daily 5 or Readers Workshop in your classroom you know the importance of having individual book bags or boxes for your students. I have found that book bins are essential for a successfu…