a blog post about poetry read alouds Hello book lovers and friends! My name is Alisha and I blog over at Missing Tooth Grins. I love reading all of Jen’s blog posts (she is seriously so creative!) and I feel so honored to be able to write a post on her blog about my favorite things-books! As I’m sure you… Read More
Retelling and Sequencing Puzzle
A blog post about retelling A major kinder and first grade standard is retelling literature they have read or that has been read to them. I have found this to be a difficult skill for my English Language students especially, but as we’ve been practicing orally, they are getting better and better! Here is a fun way my students like to… Read More
Picture vs. Text Evidence
An article about Picture vs. Text Evidence Finding evidence in the pictures versus finding evidence in the text is a skill we are working on in first grade (RI 1.6). It is important to tell where you are getting your information. Eventually, this standard builds into using the text and pictures to tell more about a character, setting, or event of… Read More
Picture Books for Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension can be a touch skill to teach, but with picture books, things come alive! Teaching with picture books has been one of my favorite things about firs grade! I love to pull out a great book, read it for pleasure, then get back into the juicy stuff I need to actually teach with my kids. Here are some… Read More
Fluency Activities
Let’s talk about reading fluency! I have a confession…I am a phonics girl through and through. It is by far my favorite subject to teach, which is probably a good thing since I teach first grade. I honestly do not remember how I was taught to read, I may have been in the transition of whole-word into the explicit instruction… Read More
Fluency App-Sock Puppets
We have been working on our fluency here in first grade! It’s about that time of the year that we can all read, but we REALLY need to work on our intonation and fluidity! Enter this AMAZING APP Sock Puppets! First we PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! We love to use these Reader’s Theater Plays from A Teeny Tiny Teacher! Here’s an… Read More
23 Ways to Use Target Dollar Spot Erasers
I’m obsessed with Target Dollar Spot erasers. Aren’t we all? We walk in, get sucked in right away to the Dollar Spot, and what do we see? These sweet little baggies full of cute erasers. Do we know what do to with them? No. Do we care? No. I thought to myself, I probably have AT LEAST 3 baggies per… Read More
Books Teachers Love: The Ugly Pumpkin
Happy FALL! I wish wish wish we had fall weather here in Southern California, but hopefully soon! We are back for a new set of BOOKS TEACHERS LOVE! Let’s talk about “The Ugly Pumpkin”… If you are joining us for the first time, you should definitely check out previous months: August Edition September Edition October Edition Let’s talk about books… Read More
Wishlist Wednesday: Phonics/Grammar Readers
Back for another Wishlist Wednesday with Jen from Teacher by the Beach!If you missed last week’s Wishlist Wednesday, you can still see my Fluency Roll & Reads in action. This week’s deal is one of my FAVORITE classroom products, GRAMMAR READERS! Let’s take a peek inside one of the readers: They are organized by phonics pattern {each book has the… Read More
Roll & Read Fluency & Freebie
Fluency. A dreaded word at times. But here’s a super fun way to practice your phonics pattern as well as reading sentences. Grab dice (I use both these small foam dice or these large foam dice-affiliate links) roll it, pick a sentence, read it to a partner, & color it! Whatever pattern we are working on, we take… Read More