Financial literacy is an important skill that children begin to learn at a young age. They quickly pick up on things they see their parents...
Characteristics of kinesthetic learners, tools, & educational activities to support hands-on learners. Activities for math, literacy, and social-emotional learning.
Go over the German alphabet with your kid, learning together how to pronounce each letter.
I am back with a freebie! There are so many different instances in which a comma should be used. I have just released a handy student reference chart that students can attach inside of their student notebooks or place inside of a folder.Click Here To Access It.
Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.
Hello, everybody! And happy summer! In this post, I am going to show you how to teach some basic critical thinking skills to young ch...
Learning to read is such a fun and special time: it's a valuable skill, and sparking an early love of reading can make it become a lifelong passion. In order
Free Consonant Digraphs Posters for immediate download and print. Laminate and hang these in your classroom or homeroom setting for great visuals.
**These activities are included in my complete Compound Words - Worksheet Pack**This freebie includes the following: Students write the two words that were used to create the compound word in the picture. Students write the compound word that can be made using the two pictures. This resource include...
Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.
5 key reasons to teach students to analyze differing perspectives
When some students are asked to explain whether or not an author has fully defended the ideas written in text, some students do not know what to say. This chart will help. It lists and describes the different types of fallacies that writers and speakers make.Click Here To Access This Freebie
Here’s an archive of our downloadable activities so far- feel free to download and print off any of these to use yourself or with your club / group / scouts troop / evil supervillain society&…
Vowel Teams are tough! In fact, many kids can’t successfully decode and encode (read and spell) until they understand these higher-level concepts. The problem is that many teachers never had explicit instruction in phonics themselves. The result is we have an ambiguous, co
Looking for fun and educational resources to help your child learn and practice beginning sounds? Look no further! We are delighted to offer...
Do you hate to teach poetry? Do you want your students to learn and enjoy poetry? Try these simple ways to learn how to teach poetry...
Need some fun, active learning activities for teaching prepositions in Kindergarten, first grade, or second grade? This post has 5 ideas to get you started!
Check out these fun activities from Award Winning Author/Illustrator Jarett Lerner to do at home or in the classsroom. Includes comics, drawing, and more.
Are you required to teach a list of vocabulary words each week? Check out this list of vocabulary activities for little to help teach students to read!
File folder phonics teaching plurals is fun for our first graders! Plurals are a grammatical marker that tell a reader there is more than one of something
Need a creative idea for teaching money to kids? The Money Game is a fun hands-on way! Inspired by the Beth Kobliner Book- Make Your Kids a Money Genius
Nothing makes my heart happier than watching my little ones develop a love for reading and storytelling. As a first-grade teacher, I have seen the difference it makes when children begin reading and telling stories at a young age. I love to see their little imaginations at work as they pour through books and retell the stories they have read. By instilling a love of reading at a young age, your child will be set up for lasting reading success. I am so excited to share some of my favorite tips
Try these 9 EASY strategies and tips to teach the alphabet to your toddler! Every parent needs to hear and absorb tip #9!
Help students learn the alphabet with over 15 FREE letter activities. These activities will make learning the alphabet more fun and are great for centers!
I am always looking for new ways to teach the alphabet. We use songs, poems, slideshows, books, pocket charts, and so much more. I creat...
Train Track Word Building- Fun and easy literacy activity inspired by the book Old Tracks New Tricks. Great preschool or kindergarten activity for teaching sight words, phonics, or CVC words to beginning readers.
Gotta an active kid who won't sit still for learning time? They'll love learning to read sight words with this ball toss game! Sight words are a huge part of kindergarten reading that continues into first and second grade. I wouldn't stress about sight words unless your child is being assigned them by a teacher
Here are the BEST phonics youtube channels for learning, reinforcing and practing reading skills we're learning in the classroom!
Preschool age kids should be spending plenty of time in play but these FREE beginning sounds letter worksheets for early learners are....
These DIGITAL Practically 1st Grade Digital Reading Comprehension Passages were created for you to use in Google Classroom. There are 120 Digital Passages
Pool Noodle Spin & Spell is such a fun way to repurpose pool noodles at the end of summer into a fun learn-to-spell game!
Wondering about the order for teaching letters to your little ones? I'm on it! I feel as though I am always writing about waiting to teach letter recognition. Wait and let little hands get strengthened by other activities. Wait until little minds have had ample time to hear different words and sounds. But a day
This post shares 7 different learning journal activities for preschoolers who are working on practicing recognizing, spelling, and writing their names. Activities are all low-prep, and include writing with different types of utensils, finding and circling your name, building your name with snap cube
Share Wildflower Ramblings!Every child learns to read in their own unique way. They all learn at a different pace and timing. Our job, as parents and educators, is to create an environment where they are immersed in literacy and to create experiences for using their literacy learning. Children can begin learning sounds with Montessori alphabet objects. {this...
I'm a reading teacher that scoured the Internet to find the very best (and free) phonics websites for kids where students learn by playing games!
Find fantastic resources for mastering Phonological Awareness in the classroom. Featuring ideas like mini lessons, activities, anchor charts, and more.
Learning The Alphabet - 20 Different Simple Hands-On Activities To Try At School or At Home | you clever monkey
