The holiday season is here, and the Preschool December Morning Bins are sure to bring some cheer! This month is packed with hands-on activities to teach letters, shapes, name practice, rhyming and so much more! Most preschools have a scattered drop-off time, so mornings can be chaotic. Therefore, it’s crucial to have a consistent plan…
The 1st Grade Reading Comprehension: Quarter 2 is here! Teaching foundational reading comprehension skills at an early age is a vital part of overall reading success throughout a child’s school career. Therefore, I’ve been working hard to create a First Grade Reading Comprehension Curriculum to help maximize reading understanding and minimize the teacher’s workload! Throughout…
Unit 3 of Pathway to Fluency is here, and it’s filled with effective and fun activities to teach reading! Unit 3 continues the systematic approach of reading instruction. To begin, in Unit 1 students learned to identify letters and the sounds they typically make. Then in Unit 2 of Pathway to Fluency, students were introduced…
Back again, this time with the 2nd Grade November Morning Bins! As the year progresses, I’ve made sure that your students will continue to have a good start to each day. These morning bins offer hands-on practice for previously introduced skills. Is your morning routine a bit chaotic? Do you feel like you are wasting…
As we gear up for the holiday season, the Preschool November Morning Bins are a must-have! They are hands-on, educational, engaging and FUN! Furthermore, they offer a wide variety of language and math skills, along with fine motor, social/emotional, and my personal favorite, dramatic play! Most preschools have a scattered drop-off time, so mornings can…
While teaching first grade students how to decode words to become better readers, reading comprehension in first grade often gets less focus in the classroom. Teachers frequently find it difficult to implement quality reading comprehension strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts. Nonetheless, teaching these reading comprehension skills at an early age is a vital part…
Unit 2 of Pathway to Fluency is here, and it’s packed! Unit 2 is where you really start seeing all of the hard work of teaching phonological awareness, letter sounds and heart word practice pay off! Students can begin taking the basic phonics skills practiced in Unit 1 to start decoding and encoding CVC (Consonant,…
