This word family activity is a great way to focus all of that warm weather daydreaming on an important reading concept: word families!
Get a set of FREE decodable books that teach short vowels and simple digraphs! These are perfect for beginning readers!
In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]
Hello, friends! I'll be doing a series of several posts this week all about Guided Reading! Today's post is all about how Guided Reading ...
Learning to read and spell silent letter words can be tricky for kids. Learn teaching tips and tricks that make this concept easy and fun!
Do you use anchor charts in your classroom? The kids love anchor charts, and they are a great way to practice reading skills! I created th...
Are you ready for the month of March? We are all geared up for some fun learning this month! Our March NO PREP packets are done and we are ready to go!
Are you concerned that your students are not getting the most out of your phonics instruction? It's easy to become frustrated and feel like we're not doing
Engaging sentence building activity to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers.
Learn about an easy routine for decoding multisyllabic words in 2nd grade text. Free tools included!
Today's blog post will be a quickie. I was just so excited about my latest Target find, I had to share it with my teaching friends! So let's get started with our build a sight word fun! I knew it was going to be a good trip because this was the first thing I saw when...
1st Grade English Worksheets are a great way to get your little ones off to a great start in reading. Worksheets are fun and perfect for little learners. We have all kinds of fun themes to keep them interested. Help them with reading comprehension, spelling, word sounds and more. Print all all of our worksheets […]
Lots of ideas and pictures of ways to teach reading skills using phonics centers to make learning fun and promote fluency in reading skills.
If you have been following me for a while, you will know that I LOVE teaching young ones how to read, and the alphabet is where it all starts! Truly one
Pass them on to your first grade teacher friends!
There is a small group of rule breakers called Wild Old Words. When teaching wild old words make it fun! Recognizing them right away creates fluent readers.
Planning your guided literacy time is bout to get so much easier. I get asked a lot about how to tie reading and writing together, while focusing on fluency, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, writing, etc. I create this resource to get kids excited about reading and writing, and to make planning
1st Grade Math and Literacy Printables - October This is a set of 25, 1st grade math and literacy printable worksheets is a No Prep, fun way to continue to enjoy fall and celebrate the month of October. All of the sheets are ready to be copied and passed out. I created them in black and white to sa...
I am so excited to share that first grade no prep packs are here! This resource makes it so easy to teach the first grade standards for math, reading, phonics and writing. No more searching for high quality, engaging worksheets and activities.. they are all here. Plus I am sharing thr
This skill builder book has gotten a major overhaul (as of 1/1/15) with new concepts, new skills, new graphics, new font, and a better layout! The older version is still in the file. This is a no-prep book that will help your classroom run smoothly! Check out the preview for examples of everything...
Learning to read and spell silent letter words can be tricky for kids. Learn teaching tips and tricks that make this concept easy and fun!
Lots of ideas and pictures of ways to teach reading skills using phonics centers to make learning fun and promote fluency in reading skills.
These literacy centers for first grade can help you teach your students how to build and write sentences, and develop reading fluency and word work skills.
Each set has six packs that cover the following sounds:ALPHABETSHORT VOWELSDIGRAPHSBLENDSLONG VOWELSDIPHTHONGS
1st Grade Math and Literacy Printables - February This is a set of 25 Math and Literacy worksheets for February. The printables are all created to be an easy, no prep, addition to your lessons. Most of these worksheets fit in with a Valentine's Day theme, but there is also a winter theme going on a...
Check out these science of reading centers ideas to help give your kinder and first grade readers authentic practice during literacy centers.
K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
K-1 POETRY UNIT I love teaching poetry to kindergarten and first grade students! Even though I have this labeled as Unit 8 in my Writing Series , I actually teach poetry throughout the entire year. We follow the same routine and students look forward to our poetry week every month.
Do you need new phonics activities? These Short U Phonics Worksheets give students practice reading and writing short u CVC words by word family. In this teaching resource, there are 18 different phonics worksheet templates with multiple pages for each template to accommodate all of the short u CVC words taught in kindergarten and first grade. This is a great no-prep printable for kindergarten word work centers.
Check out these free blend words matching mats that will enhance your literacy activities with little prep but are sure to engage your class!
We all know how important those first few days and weeks can be. I designed this pack with the busy (and exhausted!) First Grade teacher in mind. It contains a good variety of beginning First Grade skills, like phonics work, basic letter and number practice, adding and subtracting, classroom rules, as well as “getting to know you” types of activities and icebreakers...and I know it will make your life a little easier those first few weeks! All printables are titled with an "I Can" statement. Included you will find: Getting to Know You *I can tell about myself! -–Personal information (1) *I can write about school! -–Hopes for 1st grade (1) *I can write about my feelings! –-Feelings about new school year (1) *I can meet new friends! –-Icebreaker/Get to know you activity (2) Class Rules *I can tell about our class rules! –-Writing and drawing class rules (1) Phonics/Literacy *I can write capital letters! –-Letter writing practice (1) *I can write lowercase letters! –-Letter writing practice (1) *I can identify consonant sounds! –-Writing missing consonants in words (1) *I can identify short vowel sounds! –-Cut and glue vowel sounds (1) *I can write CVC words! –-Writing words (1) *I can write word families! –-Writing words in families (5) *I can identify vowel sounds! –-Sorting short and long vowels (5) *I can identify vowel sounds! –-Writing short and long vowel words (1) *I can write sight words! –-Writing sight words (2) *I can write complete sentences! –-Editing sentences (2) *I can identify R blends! –-Cutting and gluing R blends (1) *I can write words with R blends! –-Writing R blends (1) *I can identify S blends! –-Cutting and gluing S blends (1) *I can write words with S blends! –-Writing S blends (1) *I can identify L blends! –-Cutting and gluing L blends (1) *I can write words with L blends! –-Writing L blends (1) Math *I can write numbers! –-Number writing 1-25 (1) *I can write numbers! –-Number writing (1) *I can count a set! –-Counting and selecting number (1) *I can count and match! –-Counting base-10 blocks (1) *I can put numbers in order! –-Ordering numbers (3) *I can add numbers! –-Addition using pictures (2) *I can subtract numbers! –-Subtraction using pictures (1) *I can solve word problems! –-Addition and subtraction (2) *I can identify shapes! –-Naming 2D and 3D shapes (1) Please download the preview above to see what is included! Thank you so much for looking! ****************************************************************************** Want a stress-free 1st day of school? Check out this resource for the first day of First Grade: First Day of First Grade Lesson Plans You can check out some other Back to School products here: Interactive Math Notebook for 1st grade BUNDLE Back to School Printable Pack for the First Weeks of First Grade Ultimate Printable Phonics Pack Ultimate Printable Phonics Pack: 2nd edition My A to Z Poetry Notebook ************************************************************************** And Kindergarten Back to School here: Back to School Printable Pack for the 1st weeks of Kindergarten Kindergarten Name Activities for the beginning of the school year Pre-K & Kindergarten Basic Skills Sticker Book Back to School Fun with a Bingo Dabber Magnetic Letter BUNDLE: A Year of Word Work Centers My A to Z Poetry Notebook Kindergarten Math Resource BUNDLE
FREE sight word recognition activity for kids to read sight words while feeding bones to the dog. Fun and motivational literacy game for pre-k, kindergarten and first grade kids.
Are you looking for engaging grammar centers? These parts of speech activities are perfect. Here are 7 noun centers for teaching grammar.
These compound word puzzles are an easy way to bring some fun learning to your literacy centers! Pair them up and watch a word appear!
Are you looking for engaging grammar centers? These parts of speech activities are perfect. Here are 7 noun centers for teaching grammar.
Teach CVC words the fun way with 5 easy and engaging activities. Get ready to watch your young learners blossom into confident readers!
Cute ending punctuation activities for first week of school! Print worksheets, cut into pencil strips. Add marks to punctuation exercises.
These free Spring CVC Word Puzzles are perfect for spring literacy centers or small groups in Kindergarten or 1st grade!
Hi friends! I'd love to show you my favorite digraphs activities for first grade and kindergarten that you can use to teach those tricky dig...
Are you wondering how to teach sentence structure? Grab some free sentence building activities here. They are perfect for little learners!
Last Updated on May 13, 2022 We have prepared a list of worksheets on “rhyming words” for 2nd grade. It contains 6 pages. It includes answer key. You can download the PDF below, Download: Rhyming Words Worksheet for 2nd Grade
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.
We have officially completed Ready2Ready Level 2 Unit 8! I can't believe we are already this far into our reading program. Audrey continues to do so
