19 free financial literacy games for high school students to add engagement and FUN to teaching personal finance. Financial literacy & budget simulations, too.
Farley is hosting her monthly Linky Party! Check out Currently February: As many of you know, I'm preggers (due in April). Therefore, my hubby and I are staying in a lot more than we usually do and watching lots of TV! We've watched Breaking Bad (all five seasons) and Homeland (just starting season two). We also watch lots of documentaries on Netflix. We found a great one the other night that I'd like to recommend. It's called "American Teacher" (2011), and it follows the lives and experiences of four teachers. It's only about 80 minutes long, so check it out if you have some free time! Matt Damon narrates the documentary so enjoy that! =) Photo courtesy of IMDb. On another note, did you hear about the Sunday Super Sale over at TpT!?! Everything in my store will be on sale for 28% off! Yippee!! I know I'll be shopping for lots of activities for the month of February, spring time writing activities, more clip art, and some center activities! Last but not least, I just added a great resource to my store called Sweet Sentences Mega Pack! It's only $4.00 and contains 56 pages of grammar and writing activities to help young writers grasp the concepts of complete vs. incomplete sentences. There are posters, activities for literacy stations and small groups, printables for independent practice, and whole group lessons. Check out a few examples below: {CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1j and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f} Leave a comment below about writing instruction in your classroom (also include your e-mail), and I'll choose a few lucky winners to receive the Sweet Sentences Mega Pack for FREE! :)
Best places to find ESL worksheets for adults on the web. We also have over 40 free resources for teachers to choose from for beginner to advanced learners.
Free Consonant Digraphs Posters for immediate download and print. Laminate and hang these in your classroom or homeroom setting for great visuals.
Teaching morphology can be a great way to help students with understanding unknown words, decoding multisyllabic words, and spelling.
Have you heard the term Structured Literacy? What exactly is structured literacy? I’m so glad you asked! Let’s explore what it means and why it’s an important to know about it. *This post contains affiliate links. What is Structured Literacy? Structured literacy refers to a specific way or method in which literacy skills and strategies ... Read More about What is Structured Literacy?
It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllable words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]
Teaching schwa-A vowels can feel tricky, but it really isn't! This article will help you discover some useful ways how to teach schwa
Hello darlings! Do you teach vocabulary to your students? I think this is one thing we are missing in the upper grades and we are doing a disservice to our students. As they move up levels in reading, the thing that I notice that holds my students back the most is the challenging vocabulary they ... Read More about Adding Vocabulary to your ELA Block
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
Do you struggle with finding interesting ways to teach ESL listening skills? Maybe you have an activity or two already but you want to be able to mix it up and keep things interesting. By the end of…
When sounding it out doesn’t work, curiosity can.
Beat the overwhelm of teaching an absolute beginner with this downloadable checklist
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!
Teaching regular past tense form is one of the very first morphemes (fancy word for a unit of meaning) that we teach our young readers and writers.
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...
Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.
This 2018 post demonstrates how to teach students how to evaluate websites during the research process. It's suitable for kids in primary school right up to high school students. Includes a free printable flowchart for your classroom.
Looking for a fun way to engage adult ESL learners in learners their alphabet, letter sounds and letter formation? I plan to cover all thos...
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
The Giving Tree is the perfect story for integrating literacy and economics for first grade. We use this trade book to learn scarcity, cost, resources, and more!
Grab a set of printable contraction puzzles to use in your next grammar lesson for kids! There are 84 awesome grammar contraction puzzles in the set!
Help your students master their phonics by integrating daily word work activities. This blog also includes 88 free phonics cards!
Let's discover science of reading aligned centers. You will be able to fully integrate science of reading into your literacy centers.
FREE printable CVC cookie words literacy activity for pre-k & kindergarten classes to work with while practicing letter sounds and early reading skills!
This post shares a list of free literacy apps for elementary students that can be used for different ELA concepts + a FREE Google resource.
Roll a silly garden sentence and work on reading and writing skills. It's more fun to laugh while learning and these silly sentences will get them laughing.We are still going strong with gardening "week". I've been trying to plan the garden (with assistance) so I hope we can go get materials for our garden soon!
Lots of ideas and pictures of ways to teach reading skills using phonics centers to make learning fun and promote fluency in reading skills.
5 meaningful phonics centers for the structured literacy classroom- Use repetition, review, relevancy, and ready to go set-ups for all literacy centers!
Hands-on, engaging, and systematic phonics for beginning readers! This beginning blends packet is part of the Phonics Made Fun Level B Bundle! Included in
Use the FREE literacy manipulatives to create a literacy toolbox for kinder, first, & second grade for small groups, centers, or at home.
Hi, friends! Today, I'd like to talk about phoneme segmentation. Stretching out CVC words can be such a tricky skill for some of our little learners. You all know what I mean! Sometimes, identifying each
Before we ever pick up a book for comprehension purposes, we focus on print awareness. I like to begin the school year with 10 days of lessons that
During remote learning, it's still important to help your students keep up with their reading skills. For K-2 students, the summer slide is real. Don't start summer early. Keep sharing phonics activities for remote learning to help them continue to grow as readers. Whether they are reading new books, working on fluency skills, or reviewing sounds, your readers will enjoy these phonics activities shared remotely.
Get your students excited about language review with these FREE grammar activities for 3rd grade! Hands-on, collaborative, & fun ELA review!
Start your science of reading journey with the scripted Guided Phonics + Beyond Curriculum. Videos and helpful tips included.
Science videos for kids to use in a primary classroom. My favorite YouTube Science channels to find educational videos for kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade!
Lots of ideas and pictures of ways to teach reading skills using phonics centers to make learning fun and promote fluency in reading skills.
Diphthong Sort: This center encourages students to read words with diphthongs and then sort them. The bags give so much novelty that students thrive on!
Learn about the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. Then get a FREE resource that provides you with actionable steps for bringing Science of Reading-aligned instruction into your classroom.
Learn how to set up your literacy block while aligning with the science of reading, and grab my sample literacy schedule.
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
Hands-on, engaging, and systematic phonics for beginning readers! This short i packet is part of Phonics Made Fun Level A Bundle! Included in this bundle
Check out these interactive phonics mats® with digraphs!First grade or ready kindergarten students will have fun trying to guess the flow of these fun stories while practicing digraphs in context. Included in this set are sh, th, ch, ph, wh mats with help, without help, and in color. This set is inc...
