A Primary Teaching Blog
I love to begin my phonics block with videos/songs. Songs are a great way to learn and remember new things. Here are a few of my favorite YouTube videos for teaching phonics. If you’re looking for YouTube channels for the primary classroom, check out this blogpost! Note: I try to keep this updated, but know sometimes YouTube videos are removed… Read More
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
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
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
I love things that are free, fun, and no-assembly required! I have a quick little idea for you that is all of these things! We in first grade THRIVE on phonics. As much as I have drilled and killed patterns into my babies’ brains, nothing gives me more delight than when they read a word and say “LOOK IT’S AN… Read More
