Guided Reading…When you’re new at it, it can be challenging. Even when you’re NOT new at it! We primary teachers are constantly looking for that secret guided reading tip that will help our groups run more smoothly. We dream of having students who: Well, I may not have all the answers, but I can give…
Whew! It’s done! After taking almost one year to create… My Targeted Phonics Bundle is finally ready for you! My phonics bundle has over 2,000 pages of targeted assessments, instruction materials, seatwork (Must Dos!), and centers (May Dos!). See some of our favorite activities below, but first, let’s talk about must dos and may dos! Two of…
At the beginning of every school year, I have a small gift bag for each student waiting at their seats for Meet the Teacher. In it, I put a welcome message, some candy, a mechanical pencil (oooohhhh…so exciting!), a cute eraser, and one of these adorable FREE bookmarks! When I saw that my favorite clip…
Why is it so important to prompt and guide? Too often we teachers go home feeling like we have read hundreds of books, written dozens of essays, and solved pages and pages of math problems. By ourselves. It’s because we’ve done all the work…so exhausting! No wonder we are exhausted by the end of the…
I’ve had teachers ask me, “How do you get all of that reading instruction into 15 minutes?” and I tell them it’s because… Every Minute in Guided Reading Counts. Not only is it amazing what you can teach in one minute, but I’m going to show you how to do this. In one minute with…
Sight words, letters, sounds, word families, syllables, prefixes and suffixes… There’s a FLUENCY SPEED DRILL for that! And 2 minutes a day is all it takes. We all know the benefits of getting our 1st graders proficient with their sight words. For years, our team used flashcards, games, sentence strips, and everything we could think…
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