I have really enjoyed helping Ruby learn how to read these past three weeks. The growth that I have seen since week 1 until now has been AMAZING! If you would like to see the progress of her journey, follow the links: Week 1 Week 2 Here are the activities for week 3: Sight Words…
This is our 2nd week of reading instruction and Ruby is doing GREAT! She has mastered 12 sight words and is coming along nicely with her phonics skills. Here is a look at our week #2 activities: Sight Words: We started out with reviewing our sight words: look, see, funny, come, is, big, jump, run,…
I am starting a new series of posts that will be called “Reading with Ruby.” I have the privilege of helping my good friend’s daughter learn to how read. She is 5 1/2 and has shown all of the reading readiness signs needed to move forward. She is: *Familiar with print and books * Recognizes…
Here is an update on the progress of our caterpillars: Growing bigger and bigger! We decided to look closely at the caterpillars and draw what we saw. I even learned that it is NOT called caterpillar poo-poo, but “frass” is the official name! Audrey drew what she saw in the jar and I labeled it…
This is the fourth minibook, the -ad family, in our word family minibook series! When assembled, the minibook is a total of eight pages. The only sight words needed to read this book is: is! The rest of the word are either decodable or in the -ad family. Also, check out these CVC Word Family…
As a teacher, I was always assessing my students. Assessments allow you to see where children are having difficulties or where they are succeeding. It forces you to examine your approach and make changes when necessary. I made an assessment sheet for the pre-primer sight words to go along with my sight word color by…
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