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…
This is a sight word caterpillar that I made for a little girl who I am teaching to read. The caterpillar is VERY hungry and the more sight words he learns the BIGGER he grows!! This goes great with our current caterpillar/butterfly study. We have now included our sight word caterpillar into our Ready2Read…
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…
Here is the third minibook in our word family minibook series, the -ug family. There are two pages to print that make an 8 page mini book to read. A cute story about a red bug and a slug! The sight words needed to read this book are: look, the, and, find, red, a. The…
Here is the second printable minibook in our word family minibook series, the -an family. The book has a total of 8 pages when assembled. Sight Words needed to read this book: I, see, a, the, red, has, is, to, blue. We colored and reviewed any sight words needed to read this minibook. Cut out and…
As an elementary school teacher, I saw many children struggle to read. It was painful to watch them as they attempted to read aloud with utter embarrassment and a mindset of failure. There are too many reasons to list as to why kids struggle to read. Needless to say, I want Audrey and Sophia to…
I was extremely excited share these Word Family Slides. These are proving to be a wonderful addition to our early reading journeys. They have already helped correct some mistakes with short and long vowel sounds. One recommendation that I have is to somehow identify the matching slide and word slip. I used different colored stars for…
