A Primary Teaching Blog
I’m always asked what graphic novels my beginning readers can read besides Dog Man. I’ve searched high and low for the best graphic novels for beginning readers. Here’s my top 10. please note that this post contains Amazon affiliate links & I do not own the copyright to these covers A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse… Read More
Scholastic Book Clubs has changed my life. I remember getting the book flyer every month in elementary school and visiting the book fair once a year when it came by my school. Honestly, one of the first things I did as a new teacher was join the Scholastic Book Clubs! I couldn’t wait to get books for my library and… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
