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...
Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary
These five fun word games will have your students practicing vocabulary terms without even realizing it! Check out this list for instructions for play.
Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.
Orienteering is a great activity to do as a family and teaches your kids map reading skills. There are also places you can easily give it a go. Read more.
Are you looking for fun creative ways to practice spelling words? Read on for 10 spelling activities your students will enjoy that you can do with any word list.
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Are you ready to teach phonics in a FUN way? Explicit and systematic phonics instruction is so important for beginning readers. I am excited to share with
These fun reading games are quick to make - and so effective for learners in kindergarten and first grade! Such a great addition to your language arts instruction. #teachingreading #kindergarten #firstgrade
Once my beginning English language learners have built some vocabulary and are able to decode their emergent level books, it is time to tackle the skill of retelling. It truly is the basis of reading comprehension. Plus, it's an excellent way to build their oral language skills! My upper elementary newcomers have been in school here for seven months. They've been busy building their knowledge of basic (and content) vocabulary, focusing on spelling patterns in Word Study and learning many sight words in context. It is now officially spring (YAY!), and the school year is on a fast downward-slope. To get my beginning ELLs ready for their end of the year reading assessment, the one that measures their reading progress for the year, they must learn how to retell a fictional story. Over the past few months I've been introducing and reinforcing the various parts of a story. My students have learned about "characters" and "setting," and we've talked about story "problems" and "solutions." The next step is to retell a story from beginning, middle and end. Depending on my students, I may need to scaffold the activity by using picture cards. They use these cards to sequence events and recall details. Although I am giving them the important events in pictures, they will use their oral language skills to recount the events. Once I feel that they have a solid grasp on retelling a story, I have a couple more questions that I need to teach how to respond. Students have to be able think beyond the text, so I want them to be able to 1- describe their favorite part in the story and explain why it's their favorite, AND 2- make a meaningful connection to the story. This usually doesn't take much more than me modeling for them. Usually;) During this past quarter, each time we finished a guided reading book, I'd ask them to orally share their favorite part and explain why, AND make a connection to the story. Sometimes they share whole group, and other times they turn and tell a partner. My "newcomer group" practices the skill of retelling frequently, but we do it in different ways in order to keep it fun, engaging and challenging. An additional activity I like to use is this "Read and Roll" activity. They love it, I think, because they get to roll big dice! Once big dice enter the picture, somehow it turns into a game! I love it too because it gets them talking about the various parts of their book. I'm always looking for ways to get my students TALKING about their reading. I know that this solidifies their understanding AND builds their oral proficiency skills, plus they get a lot out of hearing their group members talk about the story too. My students also love these retelling cards. I pass one or two cards to each student and they take turns asking each other questions about their story. A super easy way to get students talking about their books is by creating a "Discussion Starters" anchor chart. Sentence starters are a great support for your beginning ELLs. When I first introduced the chart, I asked the questions, but once they had some practice with it, I turned it over to them to ask each other the questions. They always start with the person's name they are directing their question to. The person responding always starts their response with the person's name who asked the question. For example... Angie - Student 1: "Michael, tell me about your favorite part." Michael - Student 2: "Angie, my favorite part is..." Since Michael was the one who just answered a question, he is the one to ask the next student a question. I'm telling you, they love this! I'm going to be honest here... I had zero time to prep a detailed lesson on this day, so I grabbed a bag of books and off I went. Luckily, I always have big and small post-it notes in my caddie, so I grabbed these BIG neon colored post-it notes and wrote a B-M-E on them. Viola! My students slapped these into their reading notebooks and we were all set! Sometimes, lessons off the cuff turn out to be really good lessons, right?! I also like to use a Story Map graphic organizer to help students organize the parts of their story. They use this to "share out" at the end of our lesson. Usually I'll have each student pick one part to share out. They might share out to the group, while other times they might share out with a partner, depending on the time. FREEBIE There are lots of ways to develop retelling skills, and I recommend using different strategies and methods to get students comfortable with the various components of this skill. For beginning ELLs, of course they are just learning this new language while simultaneously learning the skills needed to orally retell a story, so lots of scaffolds and supports along the way are a must. We know that the achievement gap can be great for beginning ELLs, and that their reading comprehension skills moving forward will depend on their ability to recall and retell stories, and other types of texts. Focusing on this skill from the get-go is essential in getting our newcomers to where they need to be in a few short years. As soon as they have enough vocabulary to talk about their emergent level books, start explicitly teaching and reinforcing "how to retell." Here are some of the resources I use to teach retelling skills. (My intermediate ELLs love the Retelling Practice for Fiction cards and the Read and Roll activity as well.) Retelling Practice Cards Story Elements Retelling and Sequencing Cards Read and Roll Fiction and Nonfiction Credit: the "dot dudes" graphic in the title is by Sarah Pecorino.
This is a fun worksheet to practice the weather with your beginner ESL students. Have your students read the sentence and draw the correct weather accordingly.
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
Check out this free parts of the body preschool worksheets. Learn the parts of the body for kids on your next homeschooling lesson with this free download.
This is a fun and different way to read a text with an interesting topic. Would you be able to live without money? Read and find out how this person managed.
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These six free printable Human Body Worksheets contain activities to keep a child entertained while also teaching them everything they need to know about the human body. The human body is so important to learn about!
Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,
In our classroom we have been learning all about prepositions. I usually hate teaching grammar, but these hands-on reading units have made it so much more fun! Pinterest I started off by introducing prepositions with a song… These songs were PERFECT!! If you play them, be prepared for a classroom of little singers that will […]
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In first grade reading comprehension is something new, challenging, and difficult to teach because even though they’re all 6 or 7 they’re developmentally so different. Head over to my blog to get this comprehension page. Depending on what grade you teach it’d be great for: homework individual assessment small groups partners intervention challenging gifted students ... Read More about Reading Comprehension
Read and Color & Read and Draw Inside you will find: * 10 Read and Color pages. * 10 Read and Draw These comprehension activities are ideal for students in kindergarten and first grade. Use this as a listening comprehension activities for your kindergarten students, or have your first graders read the passages and work independently. These are perfect for literacy centers, independent work, morning work, fast finisher, homework and more. Take a look at the freebie to determine if this set will fit the needs of your students: FREE Reading Comprehension Activities This is a part of a GROWING BUNDLE: GROWING BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities You may also be interested in: Reading Comprehension Check GROWING BUNDLE Reading Comprehension THE BUNDLE Reading Fluency and Comprehension THE BUNDLE If you have any questions, please email me at: [email protected] before purchasing *************************************************** Follow my stores for more AWESOME FREEBIES and GET UPDATES on my NEW PRODUCTS!! Connect with me: Teaching Biilfizzcend Instagram Teaching Biilfizzcend Pinterest
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Here are some animal reading passages. Guess who? Animals in these passages include mouse, giraffe, elephant, dolphin, kangaroo, squirrel, fish and cow. Click image to see full size before saving. Teacher Fun Files is a website that provides FREE educational resources to help learners, parents and teachers all around the world in learning and teaching pre-school and grade school concepts. Posters, flashcards, English reading materials and worksheets are available and great for blended learning (online class, classroom-based and homeschooling). However, these materials are NOT for COMMERCIAL USE. Images are either made or under creative commons. If any of the images are offensive or under any copyright, message us to get it removed. Thank you for visiting Teacher Fun Files.
Reading passages about fruits. Fruits passages include banana, apple, watermelon, orange and grapes. Read and have fun with these colorful fruit reading passages. Click image to see full size before saving. Teacher Fun Files is a website that provides FREE educational resources to help learners, parents and teachers all around the world in learning and teaching pre-school and grade school concepts. Posters, flashcards, English reading materials and worksheets are available and great for blended learning (online class, classroom-based and homeschooling). However, these materials are NOT for COMMERCIAL USE. Images are either made or under creative commons. If any of the images are offensive or under any copyright, message us to get it removed. Thank you for visiting Teacher Fun Files.
English reading exercises with CVC's and basic sight words for kid's reading practice. Use it as reading chart for your remedial reading ac...
Free reading comprehension materials that can be used to practice reading skills. Included here are different stories followed by comprehen...
English reading exercises with basic sight words for kid's reading practice. Use it for your remedial reading activities. Practice comprehension and enhance reading speed. Free to click, save, print, cut and laminate. Click image to see full size before saving. Teacher Fun Files is a website that provides FREE educational resources to help learners, parents and teachers all around the world in learning and teaching pre-school and grade school concepts. Posters, flashcards, English reading materials and worksheets are available and great for blended learning (online class, classroom-based and homeschooling). However, these materials are NOT for COMMERCIAL USE. Images are either made or under creative commons. If any of the images are offensive or under any copyright, message us to get it removed. Thank you for visiting Teacher Fun Files.
